spider infestation, help ID please?

[Hankshad]

Hello everyone reading this. I have alot of spiders INSIDE my house, and was wondering if anyone here could help me to identify them possibly. I live in south Mississippi.


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[Scorpendra]

my less-than-expert guess is Kukulcania hibernalis, the Southern house spider.

i wouldn't call it an infestation, though. they're eating your pests, in fact.

[calum]

IMO, having alot of spiders in your house is a good thing. I've breed house spiders a few times just to realease them into my house. I'm always pleased when I see a little spider running across the floor. :)

[buthus]

Kuks dont bite. ..I think ive gotten my oldest girl (hibernalis) to give me a love tap once. But overall, after keeping a couple species of kuks now for a couple years ...gonna declare..in general kuks be none biters. ;)

[Hankshad]

thanks guys, that helped me alot
southern house spider it is

[davidbarber1]

Just be glad my wife and step daughter don't live with you. They HATE spiders and kill anything that moves in the house. Except scorps. That's when they come and get me {D

David

[bhoeschcod]

Just be glad my wife and step daughter don't live with you. They HATE spiders and kill anything that moves in the house. Except scorps. That's when they come and get me {D

David

Are you saying you get scorps in your house:eek:

[davidbarber1]

I do indeed.

David

[bhoeschcod]

um okay *runs and hides in corner*

[LeilaNami]

I get scorps too. The C. vitts are the color of my carpet {D

[tom]

A most interesting spider, and in some collections,they have been kept together alive as a colony.I see them regularly especially in Southeast Georgia where my family still lives now. I have collected them with bare hands but do not squeeze them.I first encountered them in Texas as a teenager, they are quite plentiful in Florida as well.Chile has quite few species as well.The Kulkukania male can almost resemble a Loxosceles male to the untrained eye but the palps are too long and the spider more full in appearance.I have several alive in my musuem office small containers at the museum, they live quite contently for ten years,just like Sicariidae which they are not related to.They are not dangerous to humans.Cheers, Tom