I caught this guy in my basement last Tuesday. My first assumption was that it was a wolf spider, but when I looked through wolf species none of them paired up with 'Harvey'. A fellow arachnohobbyist friend of mine said that the markings were creepily similar to a brown recluse which kind of makes me more nervous. I live in Saskatchewan, Canada though, and find it unlikely that our environment would be able to support potentially harmful species like brown recluse. Anyway, I was hoping someone could tell me whether it was or wasn't a brown recluse, and if it's not hopefully guide me in the proper direction to identifying exactly what species it is.
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Potential Brown Rec.?
Spidery
May 14, 2005 10:28 AM
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Spidery
May 14, 2005 10:29 AM
Another picture to better show the markings aforementioned.
phwyvern
Jun 02, 2005 09:33 PM
>>I caught this guy in my basement last Tuesday. My first assumption was that it was a wolf spider, but when I looked through wolf species none of them paired up with 'Harvey'. A fellow arachnohobbyist friend of mine said that the markings were creepily similar to a brown recluse which kind of makes me more nervous. I live in Saskatchewan, Canada though, and find it unlikely that our environment would be able to support potentially harmful species like brown recluse. Anyway, I was hoping someone could tell me whether it was or wasn't a brown recluse, and if it's not hopefully guide me in the proper direction to identifying exactly what species it is.
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No it is not a recluse. Not sure what it might be...could be a wolf or something in a similar family.
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