[nathanm]

You gotta love the internet.  Find a spider crawling across your mousepad, pick it up and put it in a jar, forget your camera, release it back into the Wild and later plug a plain text description of said beastie into the interwebs and find out exactly what it was.  Then find a really gorgeous macro of one on Wikipedia and decide to leave the spider photography to the professionals anyway.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kaldari_Phidippus_audax_01.jpg

[charmerci]

Boy, those eyes sure jump out at you!

[Elizabeth]

Looks like a friendly guy.
Spiders love me. If there is a spider in a room, it will try to bite me.
I know others allow spiders in thier homes, but i cannot, as they will find me and bite me. Mosquitos do not bite me much, just spiders.
The worst was i am sleeping.. I wake up and stuff feels like it is crawling on me.. I turn on the light, and thousands (seems like anyway) of tiny baby red spiders are pouring out of the ceiling light fixture down tiny silken strands onto me.
I did not get to bed for hours..... The mother load of spiders right over my head.... really happened to me.. back in the 1980s.

[Peter J]

Looks like a friendly guy.
Spiders love me. If there is a spider in a room, it will try to bite me.
I know others allow spiders in thier homes, but i cannot, as they will find me and bite me. Mosquitos do not bite me much, just spiders.
The worst was i am sleeping.. I wake up and stuff feels like it is crawling on me.. I turn on the light, and thousands (seems like anyway) of tiny baby red spiders are pouring out of the ceiling light fixture down tiny silken strands onto me.
I did not get to bed for hours..... The mother load of spiders right over my head.... really happened to me.. back in the 1980s.

You know Elizabeth, I may be one of those "who cares" people when it comes to spiders...but that story is truely creepy. If it happened to me, I'm guessing my ambivilance might well change.

[mcgsxr]

The only rule I have about spiders in my home, is that if I see them, they made a fatal error.  My little girls are now trying to save them, and release them - which I am cool with if they were an outdoor spider to begin with.

The only room I let them have their way in, is my cold room under the front porch.

[nathanm]

Boy, those eyes sure jump out at you!

As does the rest of the spider!  This guy was really jumpy, I'm surprised I was able to catch him.  My run-ins with spiders have been very few, but the annual war on ants has begun.  So much perfectly good land for them  outside, but nooooo…

[werd]

get the wee bee jee bees yet?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axDpsLPhYSg&feature=related

[charmerci]

As does the rest of the spider!  This guy was really jumpy, I'm surprised I was able to catch him.  My run-ins with spiders have been very few, but the annual war on ants has begun.  So much perfectly good land for them  outside, but nooooo…

Yes - I made that comment because it is a jumping spider. 

The ant solution is easy - just eat outside!

Actually, I found the easiest way to stop ants from coming inside - I assume it's the kitchen - is to sweep the floor every night after you have finished eating. No crums - they won't invade early in the morning.