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> For those arachnophobes, check out this link:
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> http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2061.html
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> Sam's picture doesn't look like a brown recluse.
It's also too large to be a brown recluse. It looks like a wolf spider
to me.
http://mamba.bio.uci.edu/~pjbryant/biodiv/spiders/Lycosa%20sp.htm
Not to mention that there are no Brown Recluses in California, despite
myths to the contrary. (There's an entymologist at UCSD who has offered a
reward of $10,000 for anyone who discovers a breeding population of
Brown recluses in the state. Finding one in a crate of oranges doesn't
count.) ISTR that california does has a population of less dangerous
recluses. Black Widows and tarantulas we got.
Eric
Received on Fri Jun 28 2002 - 17:32:07 BST