Cellar Spider (commonly known as Daddy Long-legs)

Dark, damp, and undisturbed locations such as basements, crawl spaces, cellars, wall voids, and behind debris.

Carnivorous; feeds on insects, mosquitoes, flies, and other spiders (including potentially dangerous species like Hobo spiders or Redbacks).

They build messy, irregular tangled webs (cobwebs) in corners. When threatened, they often vibrate rapidly in their web to become a blur, making them harder to catch.

Benefits: highly beneficial for pest control within the home. Risks: Harmless to humans; their fangs are too short to easily penetrate human skin and their venom is not medically significant.