Wolf spiders not only take care of their young, the female transports them around on her back. This summer I saw one wander past our back patio taking the kids somewhere.
I liked having the tiny jumping spiders around because they would eat flies and other insects. One time I was sitting at my desk when I saw one dragging a dead fly up the window blinds:
Generally speaking, spiders won’t choose to be where humans are. We had a tarantula nest in the front yard in Texas for a while, but it was right on the garden path so after the next time we took the bins out the spider packed up and went somewhere else.
I find I can be more nonchalant about sharing room with spiders than sharing room with any flying insect lol. Spiders don’t attack my face while I’m scrolling my phone in the dark.
Update: Spider’s gone lol. My door was closed overnight, and it’s a fairly big spider, so there aren’t really a lot of places it could be hiding in my room. It was on the ceiling above my bed, so there’s a chance it might have fallen while I was sleeping, landed on the mattress, panicked, and fled between the mattress and the wall.
I don’t keep anything under my bed, so if it makes a home there, then I’m not at risk of disturbing it.
Either way, I’m not too worried, but I’ll keep an eye out for it, because I don’t want to accidentally crush it by moving any objects that it’s hiding near.
EDIT: If it’s hiding under my subwoofer, then it’s about to be very disappointed in it’s choice of hiding spot in 3… 2… 1…
