That looks likes common black house spider. It's bite can make some susceptible people sick but like almost all spiders they leave you alone if you leave them alone. Every house and yard ha spiders and insects. Just because you don't see them doesn't mean they're not around. Relax. We don't kill spiders around here except for widows we can't safely move.

Heebies jeebies...like you...Patti...I'd be lookin till I found it...

I know I'd sleep with the lights on if I saw that in my tub and didn't know where it went.

Last week I walked by DS's 1st grade classroom. The kids were out for art, so the room was empty, but the teacher was standing outside the room doing a heebie-jeebie kind of wiggle and shudder. She knocked in the door next to her, called out a 3rd grade boy, and sent him into her room to kill a spider. I went to look, it was huge! She said she had picked up her bag and there it was. But the 3rd grade boy stomped on it after a couple tries and misses, then she asked me to wipe it off his shoe, even that was too much for her. She stood in the hall until it was over.

I'm tempted to put a big, plastic spider under her desk. Or when it's my turn to be the story reader, bring in one about spiders. She'd know I was poking fun at her, but the kids wouldn't. She's got a sense of humor, it would be funny to her too. Yeah, I'm scheduled for a couple weeks before Halloween, it'd be great, I could give all the kids plastic spiders!

Stephanie, DD had a HS teacher that was also terrified of spiders. Of course the kids use to leave plastic, very realistic spiders on her desk - especially around Halloween.

Linda

It could have gone back down the drain which it might have come from. I have had a couple of spiders in my bathtub so now I keep my drain closed after a bath.
Lois

We had one in the tub just yesterday, I went to tell ds about it, then it was gone too, hopefully down the drain.

This one was about the size of those spider rings....

I lived in town for over 50 years and NEVER saw anything like that...

I might find them outside once in awhile...but not in the house.

I havent found him yet...maybe I'll run some water in the tub.

If they are in the house I kill them.

patti

I've always been terrified of spiders. One morning, I grabbed my bathroom glass and saw a big black spider in the bottom of the glass . I screamed, dropped the glass and it smashed. But it was just a joke pulled by my DH. The spider was plastic! He apologized and helped me clean up.

You guys are scaring me...dang that thing is pretty darn big. Like where would he go in the time it took you to get a jar? Yikes!!

~Susan

I HATE SPIDERS and I looked!!! LOL!
I read the other day that "no matter where you are, you are never more than 6 feet away from a spider". They are everywhere.
This time of year they seem be more visible around here. I had a run in with a whopper the other day. My skin is still crawling!

I've been running into a lot of spiders lately, 2 of them in my bed, but mostly orb spiders. That was exciting at 3 AM, when one ran across my side and onto my stomach! He didn't make it thru the night, his partner in crime got tossed outside.

Patti, I bet he went into a jet or drain, usually they can't climb the slick walls of a sink or tub.

eww i knew i should not have looked! i would have tried disabling him first w/ hairspray or water since he was in the tub (and closed the drain for 24 hrs lol) after the hairspray comes the birkenstock beating...

unless DH is home then i offer him the chance to save whatever bug it is, he always does...he gets pretty p.o'd if i kill spiders. during tropical storm Fay he moved several potted plants into the lanai and was very proud that he saved several spiders' elaborate webs even thou he moved their plants lol. he'd like to be an entomologist but i steered him to engineering, much more $$ and no bugs lol ~ liz

We had a huge spider in our house last week! Brave middle DS took care of it.

So far we've had no bugs crawl from our jaccuzi tub.

For three days now, I have been seeing a rather large spider crawling across the top shelf of my computer desk. I haven't tried to catch it to put it outside, because grabbing among all the stuff on the shelf would result in a disaster.

It must be difficult to go through life fearful of bugs, spiders, snakes, etc. I don't have that fear, in fact for the most part I find them fascinating, and in the case of spiders, when practical, adopt a live and let live attitude. My mother was the same, as is my sister and my children. But in my husbands family, they all are more fearful. So I am wondering if a persons feelings about such things are inherited or perhaps learned.

Maybe you should have titled this thread, "Don't look if you LIKE spiders." I love spiders, and I'm sorry to hear about all these who have been killed or who are going to be killed.

Gazania, I can tell you this: Fear of spiders and insects can be unlearned. I know, because I went from a truly pathological fear in my youth to fascination and empathy once I started living among them and learning about them. (I give a lot of credit to Annie Dillard's book, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.)

LOL bigfoot liz..sounds like the one, two, three your out,,I would do too. ;)
Then I have to scrub the bottom of my shoe off. ick!

Patti, I have so many cobwebs in my garage this year. It's amazing how fast they are. Gonna try and use my dh's vacuum and suck everything up. NOT my vacuum, his vacuum! No spider bodies twirling in my Dyson!

It's that time of year when they come in looking for a warm place to spend the winter...He's a beauty actually. LOL

I try to save the ones I can...if my boys or hubby find them ..they are goners though...