Oh god I can't even sleep with a normal harmless spider around. Hope she keeps to herself.

Generally you will be fine and easly have enough time to call emergency to get ahold of some help before the venom will do anything too bad to you.

unless you are SEVERELY allergic to it at which point...

I hope you don't live alone.

Don't worry to much, they say if you are bitten by a black widow to seek medical attention if symptoms persist. The spider you need to worry about is the "brown spider", if bitten medical attention is required as soon as possible. The reason being is that the venom breaks down muscle and fat, causing possible loss of small limbs (finger, toe,etc ) if gone untreated. I believe they only live in British Columbia, but could be wrong.

you referring to the brown recluse spiders? cause those live all over the midwest and a good portion of the other US as well, and form necrotic ulcers that... yeah can force amputation of the bitten appendage if small. anfd if the venom gets into the bloodstream cause severe hemorrhaging.

Yea, that is the one. I had to learn about them while taking Forest Fire Training, I am not a Forest Fire Fighter by the way to save a reply. I just had to take the training to become a Forest Technologist. They only spoke about them in B.C. since that was where we would likely encounter them. Thanks for the clarification.

hate those little buggers, hid in our electrical boxes back at our old house, but as long as you dont bug them in their web they shouldnt do anything to ya i think.... id still take a bottle of windex to the thing to get that thing outa there.

Just leave her be, or, if you're really uncomfortable with handling her yourself, call your Dorm advisor, they're the ones that are supposed to make damn sure the dorms are a safe place to live. If they wont do anything, Windex is a good way to get rid of them, but if you prefur the humanitarian approach, a cup, a piece of paper, and lightning reflexes will also do the trick. You just have to be REALLY careful not to stand too close to where you set them loose....