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There are nearly 3,000 spider species in North America alone, making identifying a common house spider difficult. Is it just a harmless little guy? Or a venomous predator waiting to pounce?

A woman with a crippling fear of spiders sleeps in a tent on her bed ... of arachnids and was horrified when she saw one in her room in her flat in Clapham, London, last year.