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Yellow Sac Spider

Yellow Sac Spiders are relatively small (10 mm body length), and are yellowish in color; they are difficult to distinguish from one another.

Habits
Some yellow sac spiders are attracted to the smell of hydrogen oxide in gasoline[citation needed]. An unusual double pipe configuration in the Mazda6 led to a recall of around 65,000 Mazda6 vehicles in the US, Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico from the 2009-10 model years after it was found that yellow sac spiders were building nests in the fuel line of the vehicles.

Habitat
In the autumn the food is disappearing and the yellow sac spider seeks indoor to find food. Indoors it is often seen on walls and around different constructions. If disturbed it drops to the floor. Egg sacs are laid in corners of all sorts. The egg sacs are white and spunk with silk. The female may guard its egg sac one way of the other so one has to be careful removing egg sacs from a yellow sac spider.

During the summer when there's plenty of food the yellow sack spider prefers to live on trees, shrubs, and in low vegetation close to open expanses, such as fields. Occasionally it is found in cotton crops.

Threats
Bites generally produce instant, intense stinging pain, not unlike that of the sting of a wasp or hornet. This may be followed by localised redness, swelling and itching; these manifestations may or may not evolve into a necrotic lesion, but when that occurs healing is usually complete within eight weeks. Side effects may include chills, fever, headache, dizziness, nausea, anorexia, and sometimes shock.

Prevention
To protect your house from yellow sac spiders you can install tight fitting screens on windows and doors. You can also seal any crack or crevice a spider can fit into or get access to your house through. Installing yellow light on your front and back porch might also attract fewer insects, which are food for most if not all spiders.

Information courtesy of Wikipedia and the National Pest Management Assn.