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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
 

Thanks to the commentator who provided an uncensored version - have a bonus meme

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[–] AnalogAllamma@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

At one point in my life I was living in a dank California basement room, spending 99% of my time in bed due to a severe mental health crisis, 2 years straight.

One night I saw a spider chilling at the bottom of one of my bedposts. I took a picture of it and went back to bed.

8 years later I used image search to identify what kind of spider it was.

It was a brown recluse the size of my hand.

[–] remon@ani.social 21 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

The problem with that story is that there are no brown recluses in California. They have some desert recluses in the south-east, but they barely interact with humans.

It was a brown recluse the size of my hand.

They also don't get this big. You most certainly misidentified some other brown spider.

If you still have the picture feel free to send it to me or post it to !spiders@lemmy.world and I'll take a look.

[–] AnalogAllamma@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] remon@ani.social 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I'm not getting a very good picture of the actual spider here but I have to agree with the first AI suggestion from what I'm seeing. Reluctantly. Definitely not a recluse, though.

[–] AnalogAllamma@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Apparently it's either a False Wolf Spider or a Southern House Spider, the former often confused with the brown recluse according to the Google image search result and my own personal experience lol.

Looking at it again it's probably not nearly as large as my hand, but still quite large of all the spiders I've seen myself IRL.

Wolf Spider

[–] remon@ani.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

Poor thing lost a leg on the left! But yeah, Titiotus is a very good suggestion, checks all the boxes ... it kind of annoys me because I probably wouldn't have thought of Zoropsidae, because we only have the one here in Europe.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Actually, it bit you and you died. Welcome to hell.

[–] ProfessorHoover@infosec.pub 2 points 3 weeks ago

If we're all in their hell it explains why things went downhill so much faster 8 years ago.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

Let this be a lesson in not trusting overconfident bullshit machines haha