Nope, it's a Brown Widow. Trust me.
Brown recluse and wolf spiders are hunting species that don't live in webs.
Anyone know what kind of spider this is?
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Nope, it's a Brown Widow. Trust me.
Brown recluse and wolf spiders are hunting species that don't live in webs.
Not a brown recluse I had a close personal acount with a recluse that bit my ankle and I darn near lost my foot. Still have a huge black spot on my leg 3 years later. NOT brown recluse.
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Vicious_Fish is dead on. One will not find a Brown Recluse in a web on a porch and I believe Wolf spiders are more of a terrain dweller and are much much bigger and are fuzzy.
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Petluvr knows first hand. That sucks. The recluse is a carnivorous spider with flesh killing venom, in a way much like a staph aureus infection. The dead muscle must be cut out and the cavity kept clean to make sure not bacterial infection starts in the wound.
I've been bitten by brown recluses also - 3 times - when I lived out West. The only thing I remembered is they had really long legs. Same as wolf spiders. I still have scars from where I was bit. I was told I'd need a skin graft, but I dont think the scars are that bad.
I've seen a black widows close up, but not brown widows.
I had to go through 2 surgeries (if you can call then that) where they scraped out all the dead crap. Talk about pain OMG. The place I still have is DEAD no feeling what-so-ever.
Definitely not a wolf spider... here's a pic of a wolf spider, living by my back door, that I took over the weekend.
Here's another one (that I didn't take) of a momma wolf spider out for a walk with her young 'uns. Kinda cute.
The mom pic reminds me of Stephen King's "The Mist" when all those baby spiders came out of the dude.
