Talk:Brown recluse spider
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It is brown and usually has markings on the dorsal side of its thorax, with a black line coming from it that looks like a violin with the neck of the violin pointing to the rear of the spider resulting in the nickname "fiddleback spider" (not to be confused with the violin spider).
Yet, the Violin spider article says that "violin spider" is a nickname for the brown recluse. Which is it? Triped 22:55, Feb 8, 2005 (UTC)
Violin spiders are Italian and Fiddle Backs are English right :D whicky1978 04:00, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Where?
No information on where this spider is most often found? (i.e. which parts of the world?)
Hopefully one day a german article about this will exist - then the name should be "de:Braune Einsiedlerspinne" - I just wanted to note this here, because on the one hand I'm not able to write an article in german about this, but on the other hand I'm interested in this spider, so probably someone is happy about the information how the german article will be named ;-) Because if someone wants to make "interwiki-links", it is not very easy to know the spider's name in each language! -- 212.119.140.165 20:51, 30 July 2005 (UTC) (de:Benutzer:Otto Normalverbraucher)
Violin spiders are Italian and Fiddle Backs are English right :D whicky1978 04:00, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Пожалуйста
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[edit] Contradiction?
- Death may result, likely to happen with young children, however, there have not been any recorded deaths to date.
If death has never been recorded, how can it be said to be "likely"? Loganberry (Talk) 00:13, 10 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Citation
The first footnote is unavailable to anyone without a subscription of some kind. --Jacqui M Schedler 01:16, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
Scary looking spider how much venom???
is this the real brown recluse? http://www.ssc.nasa.gov/environmental/resource_mngmnt/natural_resources/poison/brnreclu.jpg it looks fake..Maoririder 19:31, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] A bit of myth-squashing
This article is better than most in giving accurate information about the spider rather than the common myths, but a bit too much emphasis is given to some things, like the "fiddle-back." Read [[1]] for general information, and [[2]], about identifying it. And about the "most are too small to bite through the skin"--I don't really know the truth about this, but look [[3]].
[edit] Picture of eye pattern?
Since the eye pattern is characteristic, does someone have an appropriate picture that can be used in Wikipedia? I'll post it in Wikipedia:Requested pictures if no one has one handy. Thanks. Catbar (Brian Rock) 10:24, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Coin Caption
Could someone edit the caption of the shot of the spider on a coin so that the caption mentions the type of coin? Not everyone can look at the "heads" side of an American coin and determine the denomination (including me).
I added to the caption for you. I agree that not everyone in the world will know what a quarter looks like or what a quarter is for that matter.The Real Stucco 21:03, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] What?!
The article states that the spider is not usually found west of the Rockies? We have them all over the place in California.
Also, I have a hard time believing that there have been no recorded deaths unless they were called something else because they are thought of as the worst spider in California. That is including Black Widows.
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We have them all over the place in California.
No, you don't. There are no brown recluses in California.
We also have them here in flordia as well we have them in rather large numbers in south alabama...as well however we on the otherhand can spell "florida"
