Hey kay-kier, i know where you are as far as spiders are concerned (i hate even saying the word) as i too am terrified of the pesky beggars, but i think you done the right thing with looking up all the different types of them as you are going to need to tell them apart, i've done it and it took me ages to gather the courage to do it and oh boy did i get the heebie jeebies for months, but now i know which is which as it became a sort of fascination for me, but i will feel a tinsy winsy bit safer when i have my first experience of one (unless it's a funnel web then the whole street will hear me scream) .

A true fact is that some people keep lizards in their garages etc. and they have a field day eating the spiders.

It's the huntsmen that do it for me lol