Legit though, little homies leave when it’s dry again, so at our house, only the bitey ones get trapped and released. Never seen a brown recluse here (which is good, what with that name; they’d be failures if I’d seen them), but we have a healthy widow population that rarely gets inside.
Spiders is family. They be our bouncers that handle the riffraff.
Exception: crawling on me. Anything on the body is likely to get thumped away, and damn the cost in invertebrate life. Unless it’s a jumper, because them’s homies even on the body. Little guys can set up shop and keep gnats out of my ears if they want. That’s the exception to the exception. Is that an inception at that point? I have no idea, I just like spiders.
nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 1 month ago
This looks more like a jumping spider, than a brown recluse.
Contramuffin@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
The trick is, if you see it, it isn’t a recluse.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
Godwin’s law (of spiders)
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah Jumping spiders are cute and harmless. Brown recluses are like somebody tried to optimize a scorpion and abandon the stinger concept.
Shhalahr@beehaw.org 1 month ago
Yep. That’s a jumper.
This is a brown recluse: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_recluse_spider#/media…
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
You can tell by the fact that jumping spiders are cute and recluse spiders are not.
ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 1 month ago
well, it is brown and it is alone…