Spinning their sticky webs in shadowy corners to capture mosquitoes, flies, wasps and cockroaches, the American house ... spider resembles a smaller tarantula. Females are between 3/8- and 1-in ...

A large spider with a brown cephalothorax (the fused head and thorax) and a tan-coloured abdomen that often has ... of England and Scotland. Before long, few locations where there are houses will ...