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brown recluse spider

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So I got up from playing Return to Castle Wolfenstein and what should I find sitting in a little plastic tray by the desk but a fat brown recluse spider. It's one of only two poisonous spiders we have around here, the other being the Black Widow spider.

Now the sensible thing for me to do would be to pick up the shoe that's two feet away from it and smash it until it's a hairy, gooey brown mess.

But the first thing that comes to mind is "I hope it doesn't run away before I can grab my camera and get some close-ups of it!"

My mom thought this was totally unreasonable. But I did get my shots.

Note that the spider only has 7 legs! I wonder how it lost one?
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I haven't seen one in person, but I'm told that they are worse than Black Widows. Their bites cause necrosis. Fortunately, I don't think my house has any Brown Recluse spiders, so I guess I'm safe. I once saw two Black Widows under a rock in Northern California, and I assumed that they were playing Thelma and Louise.