When I lived in Eastern Washington, they had these hairy brown spiders all over there. The average ones were about the size of a silver dollar, but now and then you'd get one of their granddaddies that was a lot bigger than that. My usual plan when I encountered one was to tapdance on it while squealing like a 9 year old girl.
We get tons of wood spiders around/on our house in the summer here. What makes it worse is that there's a bush on either side of my front door and they often would build webs across the gap between them in the night. I finally learned to lead the way with my messenger bag in front of me. I usually make a trip around the house in the spring, spraying a line of bug stuff on the foundation to keep most of them from getting up to build webs on the house. If not, I'll come home and find a hundred of them covering the house from the eaves down to the ground. Nasty things.
We get tons of wood spiders around/on our house in the summer here. What makes it worse is that there's a bush on either side of my front door and they often would build webs across the gap between them in the night. I finally learned to lead the way with my messenger bag in front of me. I usually make a trip around the house in the spring, spraying a line of bug stuff on the foundation to keep most of them from getting up to build webs on the house. If not, I'll come home and find a hundred of them covering the house from the eaves down to the ground. Nasty things.
