Like many agelenids, barn funnel weavers are very precise in their movements.

Barn funnel weavers are active and agile hunters, relying on both their vision and movement speed as well as web mechanisms.

Domestic house spiders possess elongated bodies with a somewhat flattened cephalothorax and straight abdomen.

Tegenaria domestica (domestic house spider)

The spider mates with a domestic house spider and makes a nest in Jennings's barn, producing hundreds of infertile, but still deadly, offspring.

The Giant house spider has the same coloration as the Domestic house spider; it has earthy tones of brown and muddy red or yellow.

Domestic House Spider Tegenaria domestica (Clerck) (Mx.

Domestic house spiders range worldwide from as north as Sweden to as south as Greece in Europe and from as north as Maritime Canada to as south as Louisiana in North America.

The spider species Tegenaria domestica, commonly known as the barn funnel weaver in North America and the domestic house spider in Europe, is a member of the funnel-web family Agelenidae and a close relative of the hobo spider.

The Giant house spider (Tegenaria duellica; sometimes also referred to as T. gigantea) is a member of the genus Tegenaria and is a close relative of both the Domestic house spider and the infamous Hobo spider.