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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nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 3 months ago
This looks more like a jumping spider, than a brown recluse.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Shhalahr@beehaw.org 3 months ago
Yep. That’s a jumper.
This is a brown recluse: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_recluse_spider#/media…
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
You can tell by the fact that jumping spiders are cute and recluse spiders are not.
ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 3 months ago
well, it is brown and it is alone…
Contramuffin@lemmy.world 3 months 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)
Krackalot@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
The trick is, if you see it, it isn’t a recluse.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 3 months 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!
Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Godwin’s law (of spiders)