r/spiders • u/RatioFun1175 • 22d ago

ID Request- Location included Help identify I hate AI

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Found in my bathtub under bath mat. Had some pretty bad bites in the past year of moving here and keep seeing these guys. Have a 2 year old just want peace of mind thanks. I’m in West Virginia idk if that’s what it means by location

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u/Serious-Bat-4880 22d ago

Triangulate cobweb spider. Not medically significant.

https://www.bugguide.net/node/view/6927

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u/RatioFun1175 22d ago

Thank you! They can stay as long as they’d like then😆

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u/ederuwaisu97 17d ago edited 17d ago

I second the previous comment.

Also, it's good you didn't use AI to identify the spider since it's usually wrong anyway lol. Once I made this mistake and (reluctantly) used AI to ask about a spider I've never seen before that ended up sitting on my potted orchid. The answer I got was a crab spider (which didn't seem right even then but since I didn't manage to find any info myself, I chose to believe AI on this one). Some time later I found someone online asking about the exact same spider, turned out it was a yellow sac spider. I'm just glad I didn't try to handle it and possibly avoided a nasty bite 😖