Kitchen Helper
My guess is that this is an American House Spider (Achaearanea tepidariorum). Here it's bagged a silverfish in our kitchen sink.
Our sink is awaiting replacement and its water is turned off, but in the meantime it's provided our helper with a home and some goodies and us with some "natural insecticide." We get along fine. Usually the spider rests out of sight inside a cloth draped around our nonworking faucet.
The American House Spider ranges throughout the US and Canada and produces what we commonly call cobwebs: irregular webs made of sticky strands.
This spider can be seen with what I believe to be a male, in "Waiting for the Pitter Patter of Little Spiderlings" -- and also with young, in "Spiderlings!"
Kitchen Helper
My guess is that this is an American House Spider (Achaearanea tepidariorum). Here it's bagged a silverfish in our kitchen sink.
Our sink is awaiting replacement and its water is turned off, but in the meantime it's provided our helper with a home and some goodies and us with some "natural insecticide." We get along fine. Usually the spider rests out of sight inside a cloth draped around our nonworking faucet.
The American House Spider ranges throughout the US and Canada and produces what we commonly call cobwebs: irregular webs made of sticky strands.
This spider can be seen with what I believe to be a male, in "Waiting for the Pitter Patter of Little Spiderlings" -- and also with young, in "Spiderlings!"