Is this a brown recluse?

[espy59lc]

Saw this crawling across the floor....I've never seen one before, this one looks black not brown, but from some pictures I looked up it looks pretty close to one other than color

 

[M. Sage]

... it's not even brown.

Pro tip: The other name for the brown recluse is "fiddle back".

 

[RstyShcklfrd]

Doesn't look like it to me.

 

[espy59lc]

Sketchy either way

 

[RstyShcklfrd]

Burn the whole house down.

 

[pvtsnowball82]

I don't care what it is, if it ain't sitting still on a web somewhere out of the way, I smash it.

 

[jake75]

Spray it with brake cleaner!

 

[Stukaman]

 

[Capt.hollis]

Like one said above it ain't a fiddleback "brown recluse ". On there back they fiddle shape.

 

[Dawico]

It looks more like a Black Widow but it is neither.

A Brown Recluse has a fiddle shaped mark (don't remember the color but you know it when you see it) on it's back and is obviously brown.

A Black Widow has a red hour glass mark on the underside of it's abdomen and is obviously black.

 

[chris211]

A cracker and a little Louisiana Red Hot, it's a snack.

 

[M. Sage]

It looks more like a Black Widow but it is neither.

A Brown Recluse has a fiddle shaped mark (don't remember the color but you know it when you see it) on it's back and is obviously brown.

A Black Widow has a red hour glass mark on the underside of it's abdomen and is obviously black.

Both species tend to leave you alone unless you mess with 'em somehow, too. I've lived in both spiders' territory. In Michigan, I had a lot of close encounters with black widows, never was bit. Now I'm in Texas with the recluse and I'm not worried about it.

 

[winchster]

Who cares what species it is.

 

[M. Sage]

Who cares what species it is.
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Bugs or spiders; your choice.

 

[Dawico]

I have seen way more Black Widows around here than I have seen Brown Recluses. Too many of both though.

 

[winchster]

Bugs or spiders; your choice.

LOL, I know, I just absolutely can't stand spiders. I leave the wolf spiders alone though, and I have plenty of them.

 

[deafdave]

Saw this crawling across the floor....I've never seen one before, this one looks black not brown, but from some pictures I looked up it looks pretty close to one other than color

That's a spider.

 

[AKM]

Gee thanks deafdave lol

 

[Jakashh]

That's neither brown recluse, wolf, nor black widow. We have a few wolf spiders here, and we either capture and let them go or kill them. Once I tried to chase one out of my house through the front door, but all these babies dispersed off it's back that I didn't notice before. Needless to say, a massacre ensued.

That's a spider.

This is one of those times I REALLY wish we had a like button still.

 

[AcidFlashGordon]

Just remember....

And, nope. Yours isn't a brown recluse. I've been bitten by 2 of them.