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Brown Fiddleback Recluse
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- Submitted: Apr 17, 2024
- Photographed: Apr 16, 2024
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Topeka, Kansas, United States
- Spotted Indoors: Sink or bathtub
- Found in web?: Yes
- Attributes:
Unidentified
Picture ID 194805
Nice photo.
Thanks! Gave my wife quite the start, but had to take a picture before relocating it. Any idea of gender? Was pretty big, probably 1.5-2 inches all told.
Im sure an adult male, a big boi.
Here’s a poem that my husband just found that we both like:
ALLOWABLES
by Nikki Giovanni
I killed a spider Not a murderous brown recluse Nor even a black widow And if the truth were told this Was only a small Sort of papery spider Who should have run When I picked up the book But she didn’t And she scared me And I smashed her
I don’t think I’m allowed
To kill something
Because I am
Frightened
That is nice.
Here is a factoid: The fear of spiders is more dangerous than any spider.
Seen this with my own eyes.
@BugmanDan @TangledWeb When I was in high school, they taught us in psychology that there were three known fears that had genetic links which are present in everyone (to varying degrees, I guess) – spiders, snakes, and diving birds. I think that last one has been amended to any rapidly approaching object. Interesting to see what made it into our genes, but makes sense.
I don’t know if I can agree much with that. Perhaps inate with most from birth to toddler ages. I grew up in a place I call ‘Bug Central’, a small farming community in northern California. My mother, (that feared spiders) told me at 2ish/3ish, I would sit in a corner giggling. I would touch a cellar spider in its web and it would shake. I am still amused by that. 6ish, I think the only thing I feared was yellow jackets. I would pick up and play with anything else. Spiders I much took for granted unil about 10,… Read more »