If they're in the rainforest, how would you be able to warn someone about spiders from here? Do they have internet there already? ;)

You'd be surprised.

@thread starter: Once you spot them never let them out of your sight, now you're stuck looking for them and it's very possible you ate at least one of them in your sleep. If these are wolf spiders (they look like it) they don't build webs, they find a nest on the ground or just stay on the go.

Hopfully these aren't female, or you'll face the problem I had. Last year around this time my room was full of baby spiders, it took weeks to get the problem under control on my own, lucky for me they just ate the bugs ;).

I always have one or two spiders in my room, there is one above my window sitting in the same spot he has been in for weeks. He catches the bugs before they bother me, and honestly I'd rather have a few spiders then a 20 or so bugs.

Buy a snake and the spiders wont bother you........

I don't want to be the one to scare you, but if the original attached image is the spider that's in your house, it looks like it may be a Hobo spider.

Hobo spiders are very dangerous. They tend to be very aggresive as well, running after you in order to bite. Their bites are quite poisonous, but they only inject venom about 50% of the time. Most of their bites are "dry" bites.

If this is the spider you've got, and there are more than one that you have seen... then I can only recommend that you get rid of them immediately.

I don't recommend getting your home sprayed because the single most effective deterrent against the hobo spider is the presence of competing spider species; if such competing species are eliminated by indiscriminate spraying, the reinfestation of the hobo spider is virtually guaranteed.

http://www.edenpest.com/images/hobospider_med.jpg

the spider above looks nothing like the one he posted. Is the one above at all relevant to your post?

More than likely what she has are Wolf spiders which do get very large and can pose an infestation problem in rare cases. I still say...SQUASH EM!!

Yeah? How so? I completely see it. Take a closer look. The main features of a Hobo are all there.

Very true. Wolf spiders are commonly mistaken for Hobo's.

I guess they could be the same. The fact that one is orange and one is black threw me off.

Ah, well that does make sense. But I believe the first image is a silhouette of some sort. The oranger color probably means that it is an older male, which is the more dangerous one if I recall correctly.

They were both black. AFAIK I still have two living here. But I found a pile of 4 legs this morning in the bathroom. I guess the cats had a go at either one or both of them in the night and got some legs from them.

Just a heads up:

If they are wolf spiders, be prepared for a lot more than just two! I get infested every year by them. To the point where I have to get rid of over five a day.

That's when I move out :)

Get a tarantula. I'm dead serious. Not only do they make great pets (seriously), they often work to get rid of "competing" spiders. I, too, am terrified of spiders, but I love my pet tarantula. Go figure.

The average human swollows 8 spiders in their lifetime at night while they sleep.

that number increases when you live in a wilderness setting

just thought id add that bit of info <gleeful evil chuckle>

I think I would know if I swallowed one of these!

I'd say so too, you don't swallow giant spiders without feeling it.

Wrong ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_Paralysis

He didn't say the adverage human swallows 8 huge spiders in their lifetime while sleeping at night.