arethinn | (Reply)

Oh yes. They are quite common in rural areas and they do get pretty large. I've seen ones with bodies nearly the size of the pad of my thumb. Fortunately it is pretty uncommon to find them in houses unless it's been sitting vacant. They like dark, quiet places. You usually find them occuping the corners of sheds, spaces underneath people's decks or stairs, stuff like that. They're pretty distinctive even if you can't see the red hourglass; their bodies look very fat and very black and shiny like armor, and the legs are sharp and black and smooth, not hairy. They *look* like dangerous spiders. Also the webs they make are tougher, not cobwebby.