Comment on brown recluse

nichtburningturtle@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Contramuffin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’s a joke that every spider, no matter what it looks like, will eventually be called a brown recluse (usually by someone who doesn’t know how to recognize a brown recluse)

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  • Krackalot@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The trick is, if you see it, it isn’t a recluse.

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  • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Travis has an excellent video about the brown recluse. It goes into rather excruciating detail! He even covers the story about all the false attributions, including a map which shows how it comports with the spider’s range. Interestingly enough, people who live inside its range are much better at correctly recognizing the spider!

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  • Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Godwin’s law (of spiders)

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• finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Yeah Jumping spiders are cute and harmless. Brown recluses are like somebody tried to optimize a scorpion and abandon the stinger concept.

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• Shhalahr@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Yep. That’s a jumper.

  This is a brown recluse: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_recluse_spider#/media…

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  • zaphod@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    You can tell by the fact that jumping spiders are cute and recluse spiders are not.

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• ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  well, it is brown and it is alone…

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