What is this spider?
What is this spider?
Sorry for poor picture quality. Found in France. Never seen anything like it.
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Where do you live?
Very few spiders cover the whole world, but that looks close enough to a brown recluse that you should've killed it immediately if you're anywhere that could even potentially have them.
They're not normal spiders, if you get bit by one it will fuck you up bad. A bite could result in dead tissue almost a foot wide within days, and take months to heal even with medical treatment. They're not going to run at you and attack you, but you don't want these roaming around you house.
If the body has that light brown with dark brown in it, they get squashed. And not with a paper towel or tissue, take the time to go get a shoe or a hardcover book. It ain't worth the risk.
But again, they're pretty much only in a chunk of America that isn't really densely populated, so it really matters where you're at.
Thanks for the answer. Living in France. I didn't hear of dangerous species of spiders here. But this one had me look twice.
if you're in France, than it's probably this one ☞ https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tégénaire_géante
En dépit de sa taille impressionnante, la tégénaire géante est totalement inoffensive pour l'Homme.
Il n'existe pas d'article scientifique ni de publication médicale faisant état d'un cas direct de morsure d'une araignée du genre Tegenaria sur l'Homme. Les accusations sont portées a posteriori, à la suite de la découverte d'une tégénaire dans la maison d'un patient souffrant de lésions de la peau. On trouve pourtant d'autres explications médicales bien plus plausibles (virus, champignons, eczéma, maladie de Lyme...),.
Particulièrement craintive et docile comme sa cousine Tegenaria domestica, Eratigena duellica cherchera toujours à fuir en cas de dérangement. Eratigena agrestis ne partage pas la même réputation pacifique, mais semble tout aussi inoffensive.
please be more careful with their legs next time. Looks like 3 are crushed
it may as well be this one too ☞ https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tegenaria_domestica
Thank you for your reply. I think this is it. It was indeed not aggressive. Now that I know it's inoffensive, I will be more careful in the future
Yeah. I have no idea what spiders are in France.
A good way to figure it out is find a website with a list of dangerous spiders for your area, and ideally the most common spiders confused for them.
Chances are you'll see something like yours on the list.
we don't have dangerous spiders here 😅
Oh look, yet another "ERMAGERD BREN RECLERSE" shit-for-brains on a spider identification post.
As blurry as the picture is, it's still INCREDIBLY clearly not a brown recluse.
God damn the internet for giving idiots who never learned to keep their stupid mouths shut a platform to herp all of their derps on.
Hairy legs = not brown recluse
Dark prosoma with light marking or stripe in the middle = not brown recluse
Have you been banned for a month and only came back today?. Or simply been inactive and this pissed you up so hard that you just had to react?
I delete everything I post about a day after I post it, just to confuse and infuriate creeps like you that want to go digging for ad-hominem material because they can't find anything actually wrong with what I have to say.
Go ahead, just try to deny it. "This guy seems like a real piece of work... I bet I can find something from his past that's completely irrelevant to the current topic but will make him look even worse if I bring it up!"
I just wanted to see if i could find a reason why you are overreacting like this. I guess there isn't.
But again, they’re pretty much only in a chunk of America that isn’t really densely populated, so it really matters where you’re at.
Have fun acting like that tho
I don't even know what you're trying to say. Spiders can end up anywhere because humans and their things that spiders like to ride on can end up anywhere. You also apparently missed the OP saying France? So you didn't even read, you saw a picture and jumped to a wild stupid-assed conclusion.
And that wasn't even the point. You're still the dipshit going "OHMYGOD SQUISH IT! BROWN RECLUSE!!!" Over a spider that couldn't more obviously be NOT a brown recluse if it had a wet nose and a wagging tail and went "ruff!".
Dude just calm down. You could make your point without being so hostile and condescending.
I could. But every day there's another idiot repeating the same stupid shit they picked up from other idiots, and it's exhausting.
I understand. But just because someone can't recognize a brown recluse spider doesn't make them an idiot. All you have to do is be like hey, actually it's not a brown recluse because of xyz. No need for the ridicule
No, not being able to properly identify a spider doesn't make someone an idiot.
The ridicule is for opening one's damn fool mouth when it's better used for shutting the hell up when the subject is something one has no useful knowledge of, and actively promulgating misinformation and harmful fearmongering. That is, ridiculous. Worthy of ridicule.