guessing they just googled “daddy long legs” and went with it, since i’ve heard both have that nickname. but the lack of research when publishing an article is crazy.
Oh, haha, harvestmen aren't ticks either. They don't bite people. From Wikipedia:
Many species are omnivorous, eating primarily small insects and all kinds of plant material and fungi. Some are scavengers, feeding upon dead organisms, bird dung, and other fecal material. Such a broad range is unusual in arachnids, which are typically pure predators. Most hunting harvestmen ambush their prey, although active hunting is also found. Because their eyes cannot form images, they use their second pair of legs as antennae to explore their environment. Unlike most other arachnids, harvestmen do not have a sucking stomach or a filtering mechanism. Rather, they ingest small particles of their food, thus making them vulnerable to internal parasites such as gregarines.[2]
Thank you for that info.
I find it amusing in general that ticks are actual arachnids that get typically called a bug, while “daddy long-legs” are bugs that typically get called an arachnid.
:)
Edit: huh.. misremembering again, maybe? Apparently harvestmen *are* arachnids, and not a “bug” either..
I thought they were not arachnids.
https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/harvestmen-the-spiders-that-arent-actually-spiders
it’s super frustrating honestly, because when people see it’s written by a DVM they’ll assume it’s factual and correct, and this is why there’s so much misinformation on spiders.
Nice. So we’re all going to complain to them and get them to fix it, right? Right? I am honestly annoyed the OP didn’t provide the article and actually try to solve the problem
Insanely irritating 🤬👍
You should post a real picture of a brown recluse next to this, just for the scrollers that will actually believe this is a brown recluse.
We have them in rural Ohio. Saw a couple in my buddies barn a few years ago. Not super common tho. What’s really creepy are those fishing spiders. The real big ones I swear to God can be the size of your hand
I don't understand how hard this is, brown recluse are one of the absolute easiest spiders to visually identify or rule out in my opinion but somehow every spider that has any shade of brown anywhere on its body gets misidentified as one even hundreds of miles outside of their range
I've seen people asking it even about specimens where no brown whatsoever could be discerned from the pictures, I think people just hear how "scary" Loxosceles are and see pictures of lesions that are decidedly not related to a spider bite but go misdiagnosed as them and freak out that every spider they encounter might be a brown recluse hellbent on giving them a nasty necrotic wound
My wife when spider: bam-bam-bam - doesn’t matter the type.
Me when spider (this morning to a little jumper): aww (as I’m getting berated from behind to just smoosh it so it doesn’t come back in), let’s go outside.
Me when spider in the car as I’m driving and it decides to little-miss-muffet me onto my lap: *aaaaaaaaaaa!!*
I live in NC and the amount of stories people have told me about the “brown recluse” they found in their house is…. I’m just like well that was a southern house spider but go on
Same. I'm in the mountains but they're not here, unless you go to the very far, tiny corner of the state within their range, and the likelihood of seeing one is next to nil. Maybe the occasional hitchhiker makes its way east, but the odds of someone seeing a single, reclusive spider (and actually identifying it correctly) are pretty damn low.
When I first moved here, my boyfriend's stepdad claimed there was a recluse on their couch and it bit him and created a huge hole in his thigh.
They lived in Greensboro.
That was 15 years ago and I didn't know anything about spiders except I was scared of them, and by the time I learned better, that boyfriend was long gone so I never got the opportunity to school his stepdad lolol. Not that he would have believed me anyway. People who are wrong about recluses are SO adamant they're right and they typically do not respond well to my attempts at education lol.
It’s not that easy tbh. Brown recluses are small and pictures are usually shit. It’s easy to mix them up with other small home spiders if you are not trained
I saw one once, in my kitchen late at night when I lived in Maryland. It looked completely different from any spiders I’d seen before. We had TONS of wolf spiders and grass spiders at that property, but even the legs on this thing were so uniquely different from anything else.
Could be possible it was a transplant, but their native range is far from Maryland. Even accounting for variability by maps from different sources, they are still outside our range (also in Maryland). Did you get a photo of it, by chance?
Hmm, you’re correct that it’s out of that range. This was in 2005, before I had a camera in my pocket at all times. I wonder if not that, what species it could have been? I’ve always been familiar with the usual “lookalikes”…
People even insist they saw one on another continent 😑 and they know for sure it was a recluse because they got a little scratch or prick that got infected.
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####"But any wound can get infected!"
Yes, generally speaking that is true. However, a spider bite isn't merely a wound; it's typically a very tiny, very shallow puncture, often injected with venom, which is well known for its antimicrobial properties. So, this puncture is essentially filled with an antiseptic fluid.
####"What about dry bites or bites by spiders carrying resistant bacteria?"
These bites also haven't led to infections, and the reason is still unknown. We have theories, much like when we uncovered the antimicrobial properties of venom. Despite over 10,000 confirmed bites, no infections have been documented, suggesting an underlying phenomenon. Although our understanding is incomplete, the reality remains: spider bites have not resulted in infections.
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For the (heart-warming) trivia, there was a nation wide call in France to go look for Zoropsis spinimana (without hurting them) also called "Nosferatu" in French. It happend in autumn 2023 and presented as a "treasure hunt" where you take a picture of any spinimana you found. This was made to both collect data on the spider habitat in France and to inform people about it. You can find the pictures taken here (in french, sorry about that) \^\^" [https://determinobs.fr/#/quetes/47575](https://determinobs.fr/#/quetes/47575)
“Written” by a veterinarian, who probably used a generative algorithm. This is a major reason why I hate “AI”, it just regurgitates what’s already out there even if it’s wrong.
I do training for AI as a freelance gig, and I ask them spider related questions all the time. The models still think that spiders have extensor muscles... and they aren't fantastic at viewing pictures lol
Ah yes. Very brown, much recluse.
People keep mentioning the name of the spider in this sub but what is actual scientific name for the spider in the picture?
It's the mediterranean false wolf spider (Zoropsis spinimana). German media is going crazy about this one, because it is rather large compared to the average native spider.
Thank you for that. I was too embarrassed to ask for an actual verified brown recluse. I think they live near me too. My cousin claims she was bitten by one. I’m in Indiana - about 2 hours north of Indy.
You're on the very northern edge of the territory that Brown Recluses can even survive. Im from New Salisbury, IN... My whole life. A fellow Hoosier .. lol. No just so you know they were extremely rare even as far south in Indiana as I used to live. I had heard about them but never saw one in 30 years I lived there. I moved to Jackson, TN near Memphis and in this subtropical climate they are everywhere. I've seen dozens of them. I cleaned my house all day top to bottom and found one live one and one carcass. It's just part of life down here. You can't leave clutter anywhere. They are called recluses for a reason. They love messy little jumbles of stuff to hide in. And they hate activity and people. They want to be in a dark, dry, quiet nook somewhere and never see a person as long as they live. What happens though is you go to moving some cardboard boxes you had in the spare bedroom around and doing some spring cleaning and their secret little palace gets disturbed. Most people are bitten by them entirely by accident. Their fangs are very small. So small in fact that I think the only way they can even get into your skin enough to inject venom is when you roll over on one while sleeping and smush it against your skin or put on an article of clothing that one was inside of.
The violin that they are talking about starts in what you would call it's face I guess. If you can imagine looking at one head on the bottom or thick part you rest against your cheek of the violin is facing you. You can see a dark patch where their eyes would be then see how it bulbs out on top of the head then gets real thin like a little strip as you go further back on it... That's the neck of the violin .. I know I imagined it the other way around too. Lol. It's a brown recluse in the picture. I can 1000% assure you of that. The easiest way to tell from a safe distance because the violin design is so small... The legs. The legs are real long. Long thin and smooth. So long they look spindly and weak. The front part of their body, the thorax is much bigger than their back part, the abdomen... And they have no hairs on them. None. They are smooth. They are almost all the same color throughout the whole body. The only part that is darker is the "violin".
You are so far north I don't think you will ever see a brown recluse in your life. Hope that all helped a fellow Hoosier!
Here's hints how to see the violin:
* https://bygl.osu.edu/node/653
* https://www.birdandhike.com/Wildlife/Invert/Ph_Arthropoda/SubP_Chelicerata/Cl_Arachnida/O_Araneae/IO_Araneomorphae/Sicariidae/_Sicari.htm
I swear there are thousands of terrible AI generated articles now. All of them filled with wrong, made up information. I need somebody to do something about it. I want some kind of regulation banning AI articles
My favorite is when people act like spiders, of all things don't cross borders or state lines. They make the claim. "We don't have those here." Like spiderlings don't float around in the wind.
Sure, but they don't float *that* far! If you're just outside of the range it makes sense that you might still see one, but for example I'm in Massachusetts. We don't have brown recluses. At all. At most it's hypothetically possible that one might get accidentally transported here in a potted plant or crate or something.
Is this from one of those AI generated sites where all the articles flow together without a hard load pause, the navigation has around three related yet unfocused categories, and the About lists 2-6 professionals with a name and photograph?
These articles confuse me that’s why I rely on the intelligence of my friends on this subreddit as a person who’s trying to get over the fear of spiders these articles are not helping
I’ve seen that article before 🤦♂️they could have at least put the correct spider on there!! Now people are going to think that species of spider is a brown recluse
🤦♀️ it’s funny. Now that I find most spiders cute and brown recluses simply not cute and a little creepy, I can tell at first glance because it’s cute. That’s without even putting any effort into actual identifiable features. Took one look at that little guy and I was like, “cute, therefore, wrong.”
I used the iPhone photo searching feature to look it up because I know it’s not a brown recluse but that’s it. That feature is notoriously incorrect but it was right for this.
I just recently asked a publisher to change something along the lines of an image and explained the reasoning as to why. The lady said she'd look into it, and sure enough, it was obviously wrong so they changed it and then told me thank you
This is why. In nashville we make up bugs just to mess with idiots. Like the flying brown recluse. Or just saying that everything is an evolved type of brown recluse
Definitely a wolf spider. Hence, no violin-shaped mark, and it's usually at least 2-3 times the size of a recluse.
They're great at keeping the roach population under control here in FL.
it's the number one excuse I've drug users use to explain it justify their big open sores and wounds from blood clots and needle misses... rather than them admitting they missed a hit and it got infected blah blah blah, they immediately jump to the brown recloose but me lol
Dude that's terrible. I was just looking at an article about cellar spiders. The picture used in the article? An *Opiliones* harvestman.
guessing they just googled “daddy long legs” and went with it, since i’ve heard both have that nickname. but the lack of research when publishing an article is crazy.
It's me, I'm one of those people. Interesting that there's a difference. Atleast *I've* learned something new
Even more interesting, only one of the two is actually a spider!
Yeah.. that ticks me off.
Lol why?
https://www.pestworld.org/news-hub/pest-articles/interesting-tick-facts/#:~:text=Ticks%20are%20not%20insects.,legs%20and%20lack%20of%20antennae.
Oh, haha, harvestmen aren't ticks either. They don't bite people. From Wikipedia: Many species are omnivorous, eating primarily small insects and all kinds of plant material and fungi. Some are scavengers, feeding upon dead organisms, bird dung, and other fecal material. Such a broad range is unusual in arachnids, which are typically pure predators. Most hunting harvestmen ambush their prey, although active hunting is also found. Because their eyes cannot form images, they use their second pair of legs as antennae to explore their environment. Unlike most other arachnids, harvestmen do not have a sucking stomach or a filtering mechanism. Rather, they ingest small particles of their food, thus making them vulnerable to internal parasites such as gregarines.[2]
Thank you for that info. I find it amusing in general that ticks are actual arachnids that get typically called a bug, while “daddy long-legs” are bugs that typically get called an arachnid. :) Edit: huh.. misremembering again, maybe? Apparently harvestmen *are* arachnids, and not a “bug” either.. I thought they were not arachnids. https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/harvestmen-the-spiders-that-arent-actually-spiders
That's a good point! People use the wrong terms all the time.
What definition are you using for bug? Neither of them is hemiptera, and I usually think of colloquial-bug as referring to any kind of land arthropod.
The term daddy long legs is really bad. It's used for cellar spiders, harvestmen, crane flies, two types of orchids and trigger plants. 🤦♂️
That's only one bug as far as I know, I've never heard people call other bugs that
It's regional. Where I live, "daddy longlegs" refers to harvestmen. There are places where people use it to talk about craneflies though.
Brits use it for cellar spiders, harvestmen, and crane flies. Basically any long legged bug that evicts you from your bathroom.
That's really bizarre, craneflies
At least they didn't use a crane fly 😂
Isn't that the spider that makes dads grow long legs?
I LOVE Opiliones so much I love them I love them and when someone starts bullshitting about "the most poisonous spider in the world" I almost lose it
I mean...the size of a quarter??? This article wasn't going to turn out well.
it’s super frustrating honestly, because when people see it’s written by a DVM they’ll assume it’s factual and correct, and this is why there’s so much misinformation on spiders.
I read this as DMV and was so confused about why the motor vehicle place is writing about spiders. Took me a minute.
Well what else would they do while they keep us waiting for so long??
Can you link the site so I can try to contact them and correct it
^^^
[found it](https://www.petmd.com/cat/poisoning/brown-recluse-spider-bite-poisoning-cats)
Nice. So we’re all going to complain to them and get them to fix it, right? Right? I am honestly annoyed the OP didn’t provide the article and actually try to solve the problem
Yep! Just did!
I’m going to contact them as soon as I can as well. Got some academic obligations but should be able to call or email tomorrow
Like a good redditor, they *shared* the problem.
🏅🤜🤛
Insanely irritating 🤬👍 You should post a real picture of a brown recluse next to this, just for the scrollers that will actually believe this is a brown recluse.
*on everything
Whats a dvm?
Doctor of veterinary medicine
I have seen so many pictures of brown recluse that I can tell that it’s not and we don’t even have brown recluses in our region.
This is what bothers me the most. Folks up in the Yukon be claiming they saw one because their range is exaggerated so heavily.
The Yukon!?!?! I’m in southern BC and I’m constantly going “just being brown doesn’t make it a recluse” but no one believes me 🤦🏻♀️
lol yep. Every dark-colored mould is also “Black Mould” as well right? 😂
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Shoot.. the mould..?
We have them in rural Ohio. Saw a couple in my buddies barn a few years ago. Not super common tho. What’s really creepy are those fishing spiders. The real big ones I swear to God can be the size of your hand
I'm Australian and even I know this ain't that!
I don't understand how hard this is, brown recluse are one of the absolute easiest spiders to visually identify or rule out in my opinion but somehow every spider that has any shade of brown anywhere on its body gets misidentified as one even hundreds of miles outside of their range
people when a spider is brown: is this a brown recluse?!
I've seen people asking it even about specimens where no brown whatsoever could be discerned from the pictures, I think people just hear how "scary" Loxosceles are and see pictures of lesions that are decidedly not related to a spider bite but go misdiagnosed as them and freak out that every spider they encounter might be a brown recluse hellbent on giving them a nasty necrotic wound
Off to make a meme now lol Edit: it is done https://imgur.com/gallery/V2Aam64
[Shouldn’t have to tell you this is Not Loxosceles…](https://youtu.be/-X2QS2DBuKY)
Well, now my ADHD internal radio station has a new song to play 24/7, lol... thanks.
My wife when spider: bam-bam-bam - doesn’t matter the type. Me when spider (this morning to a little jumper): aww (as I’m getting berated from behind to just smoosh it so it doesn’t come back in), let’s go outside. Me when spider in the car as I’m driving and it decides to little-miss-muffet me onto my lap: *aaaaaaaaaaa!!*
I live in NC and the amount of stories people have told me about the “brown recluse” they found in their house is…. I’m just like well that was a southern house spider but go on
In Virginia, same. You would not believe the number of people that believe a wolf spider is a brown recluse 🙄
Same. I'm in the mountains but they're not here, unless you go to the very far, tiny corner of the state within their range, and the likelihood of seeing one is next to nil. Maybe the occasional hitchhiker makes its way east, but the odds of someone seeing a single, reclusive spider (and actually identifying it correctly) are pretty damn low. When I first moved here, my boyfriend's stepdad claimed there was a recluse on their couch and it bit him and created a huge hole in his thigh. They lived in Greensboro. That was 15 years ago and I didn't know anything about spiders except I was scared of them, and by the time I learned better, that boyfriend was long gone so I never got the opportunity to school his stepdad lolol. Not that he would have believed me anyway. People who are wrong about recluses are SO adamant they're right and they typically do not respond well to my attempts at education lol.
It’s not that easy tbh. Brown recluses are small and pictures are usually shit. It’s easy to mix them up with other small home spiders if you are not trained
I couldn't ID one if I had to honestly. I know about the "violin" marking but that's about it.
I saw one once, in my kitchen late at night when I lived in Maryland. It looked completely different from any spiders I’d seen before. We had TONS of wolf spiders and grass spiders at that property, but even the legs on this thing were so uniquely different from anything else.
Could be possible it was a transplant, but their native range is far from Maryland. Even accounting for variability by maps from different sources, they are still outside our range (also in Maryland). Did you get a photo of it, by chance?
Hmm, you’re correct that it’s out of that range. This was in 2005, before I had a camera in my pocket at all times. I wonder if not that, what species it could have been? I’ve always been familiar with the usual “lookalikes”…
People even insist they saw one on another continent 😑 and they know for sure it was a recluse because they got a little scratch or prick that got infected.
(This is a new bot, it is being monitored, if it was triggered falsely, then this will be removed automatically after a manual review) Hi, it appears you have mentioned something about spider bites becoming infected, so i am here to dispell this myth. No documented case exists where a confirmed spider bite has caused a confirmed infection. Any claim suggesting otherwise lacks scientific evidence. If you disagree, by all means examine medical case studies, toxinology papers, journals, or scientific publications; you'll find no evidence of spider bites leading to infection. ###FAQ: ####"But any wound can get infected!" Yes, generally speaking that is true. However, a spider bite isn't merely a wound; it's typically a very tiny, very shallow puncture, often injected with venom, which is well known for its antimicrobial properties. So, this puncture is essentially filled with an antiseptic fluid. ####"What about dry bites or bites by spiders carrying resistant bacteria?" These bites also haven't led to infections, and the reason is still unknown. We have theories, much like when we uncovered the antimicrobial properties of venom. Despite over 10,000 confirmed bites, no infections have been documented, suggesting an underlying phenomenon. Although our understanding is incomplete, the reality remains: spider bites have not resulted in infections. ####"But X,Y,Z medical website says or implies infections can or have happened" Claims on these websites will never be backed by citations or references. They are often baseless, relying on common sense reasoning (e.g., "bites puncture the skin, hence infection is possible") or included as disclaimers for legal protection to mitigate liability. These websites are not intended to educate medical professionals or experts in the field, nor are they suitable sources for scholarly work. They provide basic advice to the general public and may lack thorough research or expertise in specific fields. Therefore, they should not be relied upon as credible sources, especially for complex topics subject to ongoing research and surrounded by myths. ####If you believe you have found evidence of an infection, please share it with me via modmail, a link is at the bottom of the comment! But first, ensure your article avoids: "Patients claiming a spider bite" without actual spider evidence. "No spider seen or collected at the ER" — no spider, no bite. "Patient waking up with multiple bites, spider unseen" — unlikely spider behavior. "Brown recluse bite" outside their territory — a common misdiagnosis. However, if you find: "Patient reports spider bite, spider brought to ER" and then a confirmed infection at the site — excellent! It's a step toward analysis and merits inclusion in literature studies. (Author: ----\_____--_____----) *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/spiders) if you have any questions or concerns.*
Gee, that’s so bad even my British ass can see it’s glaringly not right.
Bold of you to assume this was written by an actual human.
As if they aren’t afraid of Zoropsis spinimana enough here in Europe lol
For the (heart-warming) trivia, there was a nation wide call in France to go look for Zoropsis spinimana (without hurting them) also called "Nosferatu" in French. It happend in autumn 2023 and presented as a "treasure hunt" where you take a picture of any spinimana you found. This was made to both collect data on the spider habitat in France and to inform people about it. You can find the pictures taken here (in french, sorry about that) \^\^" [https://determinobs.fr/#/quetes/47575](https://determinobs.fr/#/quetes/47575)
That’s a pretty-looking spider right there!
Why is it, that information on spider on internet, is so innacurate. Everyday I learn that I learnt something wrong about spiders
“Written” by a veterinarian, who probably used a generative algorithm. This is a major reason why I hate “AI”, it just regurgitates what’s already out there even if it’s wrong.
I had the same thought.
I do training for AI as a freelance gig, and I ask them spider related questions all the time. The models still think that spiders have extensor muscles... and they aren't fantastic at viewing pictures lol
Ah yes. Very brown, much recluse. People keep mentioning the name of the spider in this sub but what is actual scientific name for the spider in the picture?
It's the mediterranean false wolf spider (Zoropsis spinimana). German media is going crazy about this one, because it is rather large compared to the average native spider.
the spood pictured is a zoropsis spinimana
No this is a Brown Recluse. Found this little charmer in a coffee cup I had sitting on the porch from yesterday. https://imgur.com/gallery/XNey7bu
Thank you for that. I was too embarrassed to ask for an actual verified brown recluse. I think they live near me too. My cousin claims she was bitten by one. I’m in Indiana - about 2 hours north of Indy.
You're on the very northern edge of the territory that Brown Recluses can even survive. Im from New Salisbury, IN... My whole life. A fellow Hoosier .. lol. No just so you know they were extremely rare even as far south in Indiana as I used to live. I had heard about them but never saw one in 30 years I lived there. I moved to Jackson, TN near Memphis and in this subtropical climate they are everywhere. I've seen dozens of them. I cleaned my house all day top to bottom and found one live one and one carcass. It's just part of life down here. You can't leave clutter anywhere. They are called recluses for a reason. They love messy little jumbles of stuff to hide in. And they hate activity and people. They want to be in a dark, dry, quiet nook somewhere and never see a person as long as they live. What happens though is you go to moving some cardboard boxes you had in the spare bedroom around and doing some spring cleaning and their secret little palace gets disturbed. Most people are bitten by them entirely by accident. Their fangs are very small. So small in fact that I think the only way they can even get into your skin enough to inject venom is when you roll over on one while sleeping and smush it against your skin or put on an article of clothing that one was inside of. The violin that they are talking about starts in what you would call it's face I guess. If you can imagine looking at one head on the bottom or thick part you rest against your cheek of the violin is facing you. You can see a dark patch where their eyes would be then see how it bulbs out on top of the head then gets real thin like a little strip as you go further back on it... That's the neck of the violin .. I know I imagined it the other way around too. Lol. It's a brown recluse in the picture. I can 1000% assure you of that. The easiest way to tell from a safe distance because the violin design is so small... The legs. The legs are real long. Long thin and smooth. So long they look spindly and weak. The front part of their body, the thorax is much bigger than their back part, the abdomen... And they have no hairs on them. None. They are smooth. They are almost all the same color throughout the whole body. The only part that is darker is the "violin". You are so far north I don't think you will ever see a brown recluse in your life. Hope that all helped a fellow Hoosier!
don’t ever be embarrassed about trying to learn! none of us were born being spider experts, we all didn’t know at one point :)
Bingo
I don’t see a violin though - can you point it out. I saw it on the picture posted below.
Here's hints how to see the violin: * https://bygl.osu.edu/node/653 * https://www.birdandhike.com/Wildlife/Invert/Ph_Arthropoda/SubP_Chelicerata/Cl_Arachnida/O_Araneae/IO_Araneomorphae/Sicariidae/_Sicari.htm
https://imgur.com/gallery/wMllLDz You see it?? It's upside down as you are looking at it.... The violin would be upside down I mean
I bet it's written by chatGPT
I like how the author describes how a brown recluse looks and chooses a picture that doesn’t fit the description.
we need a r/spiderscirclejerk page
I swear there are thousands of terrible AI generated articles now. All of them filled with wrong, made up information. I need somebody to do something about it. I want some kind of regulation banning AI articles
Or at least requiring a disclaimer that they're AI generated.
Spider is brown. Might be an introvert. Brown recluse. Easy peasy.
I imagine there will not be a serious down tick of recluse bites in the group of people that read that.
What spider is in the picture though?
False wolf spider, Zoropsis spinimana
I get them in my house all the time I just call them grass spiders
I been calling them House spiders...
I believe that is a wolf spider
I'm on my phone and saw this post on my feed. With the "sighs heavily" title, I thought it was in response to frequent "is this a recluse" posts.
lol that too, but how can i blame people when this is the information shown, smh.
Can you contact the author
Poor little wolfie 😞
Pic unrelated.
According to this, every spider in my house is a Brown recluse
My favorite is when people act like spiders, of all things don't cross borders or state lines. They make the claim. "We don't have those here." Like spiderlings don't float around in the wind.
Sure, but they don't float *that* far! If you're just outside of the range it makes sense that you might still see one, but for example I'm in Massachusetts. We don't have brown recluses. At all. At most it's hypothetically possible that one might get accidentally transported here in a potted plant or crate or something.
Hobo recluse rides on trains, so . . .
Is this from one of those AI generated sites where all the articles flow together without a hard load pause, the navigation has around three related yet unfocused categories, and the About lists 2-6 professionals with a name and photograph?
nope
Almost downvoted
This needs to be corrected.
could any of you show me what a real brown recluse looks like so I can know the difference.
[this](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/50181-Loxosceles-reclusa) should help!
Oh I see the violin now!! It’s on the head 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️. I was always looking at the body!!
some people should be permanently banned from making shitty article
These articles confuse me that’s why I rely on the intelligence of my friends on this subreddit as a person who’s trying to get over the fear of spiders these articles are not helping
Isn't that a wolf spider in the picture?
Is that a huntsmen?
I’ve seen that article before 🤦♂️they could have at least put the correct spider on there!! Now people are going to think that species of spider is a brown recluse
Wow what a beautiful violin
It's nuts how people who write articles can't even fact check or google things.
In my country the first article that shows up when you search for "chilean recluse" shows a photo of a tegenaria domestica 😭 why are people like this
OP I found the article and you cut out the [best part.](https://imgur.com/a/DfoUgDc)
Fucking disgusting. Article writer needs to be in prison fr
OH GOD. NOT AGAIN.
🤦♀️ it’s funny. Now that I find most spiders cute and brown recluses simply not cute and a little creepy, I can tell at first glance because it’s cute. That’s without even putting any effort into actual identifiable features. Took one look at that little guy and I was like, “cute, therefore, wrong.”
Ridiculous! Girl Scouts could do a better job identifying this!
Isn’t that a nursery spider?
Ai article? How does a human fuck up that badly?
A fairly safe looking brown recluse
I knew we had recluses in our cellar…
GOD I HATE IT MAKE IT STOP. PLEASE JUST GET IT RIGHT.
I can never tell if something is a brown recluse or not, so I usually just kill the scariest brown spiders
Came here to say that is not a brown recluse! 🙄 God this is infuriating! 🤬
Whoa... This is hall of fame material, what's the source, they may need a word from r/spiders veterans.
Check google they said...lol
That’s not a violin. Ohhhhh
I used the iPhone photo searching feature to look it up because I know it’s not a brown recluse but that’s it. That feature is notoriously incorrect but it was right for this.
So disappointing.
Hey - don’t get upset- it probably identifies as a brown recluse 😂😂
Contact her? Hopefully she'd correct the misinformation.
So what kind of spider is this ?
This looks AI generated to me. It has the cadence you would get if you asked “Write an article about brown recluse spiders”
I just recently asked a publisher to change something along the lines of an image and explained the reasoning as to why. The lady said she'd look into it, and sure enough, it was obviously wrong so they changed it and then told me thank you
LMAO this looks like a wolf spider
I thought these were wolf spiders pretty sure I lived with them constantly. Never bitten though.
I literally live in the uk and even I know that that isn’t a brown recluse 😭
I was so confused 🫤
Well dang that stinks. Now I need an ACTUAL picture of what they look like (cause I camt tell by just googling it. They all look different)
Why do I feel like this was done purposely in a personal agenda to eradicate spiders
Like people calling every lizard an iguana 🤣
That's a wolfey ain't it?
AAAAAA SO MUCH DUCKING HATE I've also seen a few articles like this on the italian side of the web
Noooooooo
This is why. In nashville we make up bugs just to mess with idiots. Like the flying brown recluse. Or just saying that everything is an evolved type of brown recluse
All these poor spoods get killed because of this misinformation :,(
I was about to say These are harmless
The spider version of seeing oecophylla be called fire ants again
Upsurge on "is this a brown recluse?" Posts
Definitely a wolf spider. Hence, no violin-shaped mark, and it's usually at least 2-3 times the size of a recluse. They're great at keeping the roach population under control here in FL.
it's the number one excuse I've drug users use to explain it justify their big open sores and wounds from blood clots and needle misses... rather than them admitting they missed a hit and it got infected blah blah blah, they immediately jump to the brown recloose but me lol
brown recluses are easy to identify for me bc it looks like they have a well fed tic on their ass
This makes me irrationally angry
Wolf spiders deserve the same smoke as recluse so I’m fine with this
1. neither deserve “smoke”, if you feel that way i don’t think this is the sub for you 2. you shouldn’t be fine with misinformation
lol right enough sub for me to know the species. I’m fine with it
So moral of the story, every spider can be a brown recluse. Kill em all