Dark Fishing Spiders

 Outside I have a lot of wolf spiders, and on rare occasion I see one inside.  Sometimes they can be large.  Back at my old house, I recall sometimes shining my flashlight into the back yard; because of the angle of the light to the slope leading away from the house, the grass would be filled with brilliant little gem-like reflections of the wolf spider eyes.  Not always--but sometimes--particularly in late summer.

Wolf spiders are not troublesome, and they perform a good service in hunting insects.

Dark fishing spiders, on the other hand, are a bit of a different issue.  They're much larger.  I had never seen one before moving to my new house, and I've seen two or three in the house over the course of three years.

Their size can be attention-grabbing.  This is the biggest one I've seen, and it was not a welcome sight--I don't really care how many bugs it can hunt.  Something like this won't work in the house.

I go after spiders in the house routinely, mainly because if they set up a web, their droppings will soon litter the floor.  I don't always remove them immediately upon sight, but do try to keep up.  I don't see all that many, but one variety (not wolf or fisher) is relatively common.  While I might let some slide for a day or two, this one required immediate attention.

Below is a picture in better light after I dumped the body outside.

 

While one could argue it's not necessarily unattractive, relatively few people would probably like to have something like this running loose in the house.  The few who might like that would probably also be comfortable with an uncaged tarantula inside (some people have been known to do that; it was even something of a fad back in the 1980s...)