Pisaurina mira
(Nursery Web Spider)

Picture ID 60807

Comments & ID Thoughts

can someone please tell me if this is a brown recluse

Submitted by:
soladylike81
Submitted: May 16, 2019
Photographed: May 16, 2019
Spider: Pisaurina mira (Nursery Web Spider)
Location: Barto, Pennsylvania, United States
Spotted Indoors: Other
Found in web?: No
Attributes: Lateral

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TangledWeb

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May 16, 2019 9:08 pm

Definitely not a brown recluse! This looks like a Nursery Web Spider, Pisaurina mira. They are in the same family as Fishing Spiders. They aren’t dangerous, they mostly stay in one spot all day and one nearby spot all night. They ambush large insects that don’t notice them.