> > I would have squished it..... looks like a really big brown recluse to me.
>
> It's not. It looks like a wolf spider, almost, although they tend to be
> hairier and more grey. A brown recluse has an abdomen much larger than its
> thorax (this one the thorax is slightly larger), it tends to be a more
> perverse brown-grey-green, and there's no fiddle marking. I mean, the fiddle
> marking really does look like a fiddle, at least from the ones I remember
> seeing in camp showers as a kid (shiver -- that'll put some paranoia in you).
Er, I mean, brown recluses have fiddle markings and this one doesn't (just
that blackish-grey diamond mark).
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Received on Fri Jun 28 2002 - 08:27:23 BST