re: Spotted a brown recluse...

I got bit by a wolf spider recently. It is slightly painful and will leave a mark for a couple days. It might be sensitive to the touch as well. It definitely shouldn't do anything more than annoy you.

Brown Recluses are tiny, tiny. Even counting their legs, most shouldn't approach an inch. Easiest ways to tell if recluse:

- Tiny hairs on abdomen/legs
- Legs have knobs at the joints
- Only 6 eyes in a triangular shape
- "Violin" on the torso
- The Torso is normally larger than the abdomen

Honestly, you will need a magnifying device to be able to identify one correctly.

Even then, the recluse gets confused for other spiders very often. I'm paranoid as hell of the little Fers (literally my only phobia, the widow species doesn't even bother me), and I've only seen one after capturing many spiders that initially fit the billing.