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Household spiders are generally not dangerous, but to keep your mind at ease, follow this cheat sheet of the most common home and garden spiders.

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From the innocent daddy longlegs to the harmful brown recluse, here are the most common house spiders, how to identify them, and when to worry about a bite, according to entomologists.

Brown recluse spiders are showing up in Missouri homes more often this time of year, but experts say, despite their reputation, most encounters aren’t dangerous.

Brown recluse spiders hunt for food at night, so during the day they often hide in shoes and under clothes that are left on the floor and crawl out at night to search for food, Whitworth said.

You’ll notice the word “recluse” in its name. A recluse is someone or something that likes to live in isolation. True to its name, the brown recluse spider likes to live its life away from us.

Brown Recluse Brown recluse spider. Michigan is not in the native range of the brown recluse, but they have been found in at least 10 Michigan counties as of 2018.

Also, most spider venom is relatively harmless. Allen said there are typically only two spiders that are a problem for humans in the U.S.: the black widow and the brown recluse.

Some of the most common types of spiders that can be found across the Pelican State include a brown recluse, brown widow, common house spider, jumping spider and a wolf spider. Do you know which on… ...