ID this bug please

in Los Angeles…
almost spider like… just want to know if it’s beneficial or a pest.

could it be a jumping black spider?

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A spider. He eats other insects. He’s an ambush spider so he won’t build a web. Might build a nest, but should be beneficial.

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Thanks @oldmarine !

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Yep I leave alone and they get to be the size of a quarter…baddest dude in the garden (almost)

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Wish I had a hundred of those, they eat everything and in a strange way will get comfortable with you and can get to be very social.

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Looks like a good one to me. I’d let him hang around.

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I have a “tree spider”…is what we call em :man_shrugging:t2:…in one of mine currently:

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