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)
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!
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
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.
I’m similar, spiders and the centipedes with the creepishly long antennas…. You’re good as long as you stay over there.
Though I have to admit, the spiders that set up shop on the patio are incredibly considerate- they probably don’t want to keep rebuilding their webs when we take them down, but they’ve learned where it’s a “nope” and build them out of the way.
Cross orb weavers are cool.
But…
(which is good, what with that name; they’d be failures if I’d seen them),
For the record brown recluses are typically seriously venomous. Like. They’re on par with black widows. Here, they’re rare enough, but them and the northern black widows are the only two that are potentially deadly.
In my house spiders are terminated on sight. No exceptions. I could not give AF about the bugs they keep out, I’d rather have 20 flies that I’d have to kill myself than (knowingly) let a single spider live here.
For me it’s strictly based on “does this thing make me want to scream like an old horror movie victim”
smol spiders i don’t give a shit about unless it looks like a tick in which case NOPE.
For larger spiders it depends entirely on what kind it is, stuff like orb weavers get a polite relocation to my balcony where they can hopefully set up shop to catch yucky flies and we can proceed to merrily ignore each other, jumping spiders get an actively friendly relocation to the balcony mostly so i don’t accidentally squish them, and basically anything else gets the boot and tissue.
Orb weavers really are the platonic ideal spider, you can literally just put two sticks on a plate and they’ll make a web there, then as long as you feed them they just keep sitting there indefinitely.
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.
Aww, it’s Lucas!
That’s not a brown recluse, though, is it? Looks like a jumping spider.
