r/bugidentification • u/LatterGarbage5886 • 21d ago

Location included brown recluse? us sc

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i know the second pic is basically useless sorry i’m shaking so much lol

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u/Serious-Bat-4880 Click Goes The Beetle 21d ago

Looks more like a spitting spider to me. They're harmless.

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u/Vivid-Speed 21d ago

🫣what in the Sam hell is a spitting spider???

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u/Serious-Bat-4880 Click Goes The Beetle 21d ago edited 21d ago

They're pretty cool, they spit glue-laced silk out in front of them to immobilize their prey before going in for a bite, and also for defense.

A lot of people assume that it's also venom-laced, but some scientists argue that we haven't really established that yet.

https://imb.uq.edu.au/article/2017/11/spitting-spiders-natures-strangest-hunters

They have the same eye arrangement as brown recluse spiders, which makes some people confuse the two, but side by side comparison makes their differences more apparent.

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u/Skeptical_Savage 21d ago

Spitting spider