and I haven't found any "spiders of michigan" kind of books yet, no time to look much but the libraries books on spiders are very vague, mentioning some from around the world but the wierd looking spiders I've noticed around here are never mentioned.
We don't have many poisonous creatures this far north so we're lucky.
Last week or two there has been a lot of "daddy long legs" around (actually not a spider but close I hear, not the right amount of legs).