- cross-posted to:
- spiders@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- spiders@lemmy.world
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This looks more like a jumping spider, than a brown recluse.
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)
The trick is, if you see it, it isn’t a recluse.
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!
Godwin’s law (of spiders)
Yeah Jumping spiders are cute and harmless. Brown recluses are like somebody tried to optimize a scorpion and abandon the stinger concept.
well, it is brown and it is alone…
Jumping spiders are the tigers of the mm scale. They jump and pounce, they stare at you and stalk their prey, they carefully plan their attack from a strategic vantage point, they are cute, furry and pettable…so long as you are at least twice as large.
so long as you are at least twice as large.
Which really isn’t that much of a challenge considering the largest jumping spiders are 2.5cm in length.
Aww, it’s Lucas!
