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.
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.
Yep. That’s a jumper.
This is a brown recluse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_recluse_spider#/media/File:Loxosceles_reclusa_adult_male_4.jpg
You can tell by the fact that jumping spiders are cute and recluse spiders are not.
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.
If I only were twice as large I totally wouldn’t pet one
Aww, it’s Lucas!
That’s not a brown recluse, though, is it? Looks like a jumping spider.
