American House Spider

Class: Scorpions, ticks, mites, harvestmen, and spiders    Order: Spiders   

Family: Tangled-web spinners

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The American House spider is NOT venomous.

bulletIt is called the American House spider because it lives in American houses.
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It's not even venomous to the creatures it eats.

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An American house spider is helpful to humans because it eats the pesky little insects that "bug" us. If American house spiders didn't eat the insects, your house would probably be full of insects.