Brown Recluse

Google image search for "brown recluse" before you tell me this isn't a brown recluse. And then go look for some information on its likelihood to bite and how likely it is for that bite to be dangerous instead of going by what your mama told you.

The spider IS about the size of a quarter. That cricket is a very small, baby cricket I got from the pet store to feed my tarantula. It is a brown recluse.

This is the third brown recluse I've found in my bathtub. Before I set this one free in the yard like the others, I wanted to see if it would eat this tiny cricket I got the other day when I bought crickets for my tarantula. Apparently the recluse was too stressed to eat or the cricket was too big. I don't know a great deal about brown recluses except that there are a lot in my house, and that there's a slight chance their bites can get pretty bad, and that they bite even less than their bite is lethal. Yes, their bites can be lethal, but it's rare, and it's also rare that they bite. They didn't get the name recluse because they're aggressive. Humans are a thousand times more dangerous, so if you think I should kill this spider, I might as well go kill my neighbors too. I set both the cricket and the recluse free in my front lawn. I'd call the fight a draw or a stalemate, but, to paraphrase Homer Simpson, if there's no winner, then they're both losers.

The container I have the recluse in is a small travel enclosure for my tarantula. The brown stuff on the bottom is substrate/dirt.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• brown
• recluse
• cricket
• spider

[chiandroses]

Your comment is dangerously misleading. Although brown recluse spider bites are rare, they are not to be taken lightly. These spiders will bite if enough pressure is applied, so as shy as they are, you better hope you don't roll over one in your sleep. And if there's really 'a lot in your house', I'd worry alright.

Also, comparing killing a brown recluse to killing your neighbors is just bizarre. You didn't seem concerned about killing the cricket, so what are you talking about?

[HailPretender]

@PremiumWater yeah.. i have no idea whats up with your comment, but brown recluse bites are definately not ones to be messed with. theyre one of the most poisonous spiders in the US. My dad got bit and the doctors said if his mark got bigger than a dime he'd have to have surgery. So you're definately wrong.

[TheAnarchist11]

@danmckee lmao.. 

[danmckee]

UNLEASH THE FURY !!!

[HatesStupidPeople194]

these are the spiders you shouldnt set free, kill them with fire

[watertower7]

I was bitten by one of these a few years ago. I was doing work in my basement, and I counted nine of these. The bite is so painless that i had no idea i was bitten until my foot had a crater in it 2cm wide the following morning. Don't take these lightly. They are more poisonous than a black widow, just not as aggressive.

[chiandroses]

@LilShaggy82 That's hilarious. That's cute. How about you go shove some brown recluses in your eye sockets, sweetie. They're harmless. Hahaha.

[LilShaggy82]

@chiandroses you're a dick man the only reason their bites get lethal is because people dont know how to wash right and it gets infected leading to complications. also some people are allergenic and like anything some one is allergic to can die from it.... stupid ass. though i do have to agree him comparing the life of a spider to a human is just sick.

[polarisedelectrons]

Normally I don't kill any living creature, not even flies or cockroaches, despite how icky I feel they are. But if there's a potentially harmful spider in the house, I will kill it. Not because they're 'more creepy' than the other bugs, but because they're more dangerous. Never take a venomous animal lightly, no matter how 'rare' it is to be bitten; you're only 50% likely to actually be injected by venom from a rattlesnake bite too, but that doesn't mean you mess around with one.

[themrawesomeness1]

its also known as a violin spider

[vaugier7]

Are they really fast!

[MidShipCivic]

Kill that shit.