Do any other spiders look like a brown recluse?

[cremator]

I was cleaning my dogs kennel today which is located outside, and I noticed lots of brown spiders. I personally can't remember seeing a known brown recluse in real life before, but I'm wondering if it may be another species of spider. Googles image search shows a wide variety of brown recluses, some look very similar but have much longer legs. I'll get a pic if I see them again.


http://pics.apartment808.com/users/CZroe/spider1.jpg
http://pics.apartment808.com/users/CZroe/spider2.jpg

 

[Atomicus]

Depends on where you live. And no, the brown recluse is very identifiable
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Scroll down to where it tells you how to identify.

 

[bmacd]

where's syringer?

-=bmacd=-

 

[djheater]

Originally posted by: Atomicus
Depends on where you live. And no, the brown recluse is very identifiable
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Scroll down to where it tells you how to identify.

It's the wierd shape (fiddle) on the back that identifies them. If it doesn't have that, it isn't a recluse. My sister freaks out when she sees a harmless wolf spider and is CONVINCED they're a recluse. No amount of instruction in identification has cured her of this...

 

[Atomicus]

Originally posted by: djheater

Originally posted by: Atomicus
Depends on where you live. And no, the brown recluse is very identifiable
Text

Scroll down to where it tells you how to identify.

It's the wierd shape (fiddle) on the back that identifies them. If it doesn't have that, it isn't a recluse. My sister freaks out when she sees a harmless wolf spider and is CONVINCED they're a recluse. No amount of instruction in identification has cured her of this...

i just dropped my ipod after i looked at it

 

[Juno]

Daddy Longlegs?

If so, they are harmless.

 

[Syringer]

:thumbsdown:

 

[RedRooster]

Did you smash that brown spider?

 

[xXped0thugXx]

the fiddle is on their stomachs not on their back, the black widow has the hour glass on its back. However when i was training in Virginia we came across a wood spider that was very similar looking to a brown recluse.

 

[EXman]

Oh Sh!t I Killed one yesterday and a Black widow 2 weeks ago in my yard WTF!!!

I need to find that carcas big mutha tooget the magnifing glass out!

Anyone know if Raid for insects works on this crap!

this is bad I have 2 small children.

Also that wolf spider damn I had one in the house about the size of and old $2 coin and that stinker jumped 2 feet at me when I came up to smash him! :Q those are mean spiders

 

[Encryptic]

Originally posted by: xXped0thugXx
the fiddle is on their stomachs not on their back, the black widow has the hour glass on its back. However when i was training in Virginia we came across a wood spider that was very similar looking to a brown recluse.

BZZZZT! The black widow has the hourglass shape on it's abdomen not the back.

Taken from this page:

Description

The female Black Widow is shiny black, usually with a reddish hourglass shape on the underside of her spherical abdomen. Her body is about 1.5 inches long. Adult males are harmless, about half the female's size, with smaller bodies, longer legs and usually have yellow and red bands and spots over the back as do the immature stages.


AND.....the brown recluse has the violin on it's back, not the abdomen.

Pic

A little Googling helps sometimes, doncha think?

 

[Atomicus]

RAID kills EVERYTHING. It even kills people if sprayed into their mouths and eyes and :music:

 

[EXman]

Originally posted by: Encryptic

Originally posted by: xXped0thugXx
the fiddle is on their stomachs not on their back, the black widow has the hour glass on its back. However when i was training in Virginia we came across a wood spider that was very similar looking to a brown recluse.

BZZZZT! The black widow has the hourglass shape on it's abdomen not the back.

Taken from this page:

Description

The female Black Widow is shiny black, usually with a reddish hourglass shape on the underside of her spherical abdomen. Her body is about 1.5 inches long. Adult males are harmless, about half the female's size, with smaller bodies, longer legs and usually have yellow and red bands and spots over the back as do the immature stages.


AND.....the brown recluse has the violin on it's back, not the abdomen.

Pic

A little Googling helps sometimes, doncha think?

You are correct the Black widow is on the underside I thought it was the back too until we caught the first one. My Father-in-law is a NUT!:laugh::Q

 

[AccruedExpenditure]

Originally posted by: Syringer
:thumbsdown:

:thumbsup:

 

[Encryptic]

Originally posted by: Atomicus
RAID kills EVERYTHING. It even kills people if sprayed into their mouths and eyes and :music:

You have personal experience with this, I trust?

 

[cremator]

Here are pics, I'm guessing its not a brown recluse, but can anyone identify it?

http://pics.apartment808.com/users/CZroe/spider1.jpg
http://pics.apartment808.com/users/CZroe/spider2.jpg

 

[cremator]

Did a google search for common spiders, found "Funnel Weaver"

http://www.surviveoutdoors.com/imgs/reference/spiders/spider12.jpg

Very similar, maybe, hopefully this is it.

 

[cremator]

Can anyone confirm?

 

[Descartes]

Well, I can't quite tell if it's the same as the funnel weaver you posted, but I can tell you with absolute certainty that it isn't a BRS.

 

[EXman]

looks like a wolf spider sorta...

 

[cremator]

Well, as long is it isn't something that could be potentially dangerous for my dog and family, then I'm no longer worried. I get sorta irrational / paranoid about small stuff like that.