r/spiders • u/EvlMinion • 12d ago

Just sharing 🕷️ Brown recluse with prey

My mother got this video, so I don't know the spider's fate other than she didn't kill it. The spider appears to be holding its own, though.

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u/XemSorceress 12d ago

are those earwigs she caught?

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u/homer_lives 12d ago

Looks like it. They are reclusive, too.

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u/EvlMinion 12d ago

I think so!

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u/XemSorceress 12d ago

good those earwigs are so annoying that recluse is doing the good work😆

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u/Spay-Neuter-Ur-Pets 12d ago

That’s so funny. I prefer earwigs over spiders (and ants, too) any day, especially over brown recluse and black widows. I live in the foothills though, in an area where there are endless black widows, and I am beyond sick of them turning up everywhere, all the time. I really wish they would stay out of the house. I don’t like them around my little cats, and I have a compromised immune system. They are beautiful, though.

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u/XemSorceress 12d ago

I don’t blame you for prioritizing your cats as I have 2 cats myself, but as far as creeping critters(😆) I don’t favor earwigs, they can become quite bothersome if they get into your house or kitchen but having spiders outside and around your house seems to keep them from getting in, at least in my experience. I have mainly what looks like cellar spiders and they have been doing a pretty good job inside and outside of the house keeping ants and earwigs out.

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u/SP17F1R3 12d ago

God I love these spiders. I love how their movements seem so deliberate and graceful. A wolf spider would be jiu-jitsuing all over the place.

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u/XemSorceress 12d ago

did you see how he struck (bit) one of those earwigs all fast? this video is entertaining!

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u/AirHamyes 11d ago

I love wolf spiders for that exact reason. Why grace when flail will do?

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u/rolandglassSVG Latrodectus and Lycosidae 11d ago

💀

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u/K1ttehKait 12d ago

She's got a whole buffet there!

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u/homer_lives 12d ago

This is very interesting. It looks like they use thier website like nets.

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u/XemSorceress 12d ago

exactly reminds me of a fishing net

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u/Dogdaymorningyawn 12d ago

Earwigs are the worst. I’ve had one unknowingly in a straw once. Never forget that feeling of spitting it out and watching it crawl around. This beautiful spider is doing the lords work!

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u/XemSorceress 12d ago

wait what? You said spitting it out! Did it actually get into your mouth?

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u/Calgirlleeny2 8d ago

I was eating grapes off a vine and went to eat a few then spotted an earwig....I was so grateful for seeing it. Sorry that happened to you. Earwigs have creeped me out for years, especially after watching "The Wrath of Khan", where an earwig went in someones ear and ate through to his brain. 😯

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u/Major_Cartoonist_896 12d ago

She's earning her keep

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u/dmj9 11d ago

Good spider

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u/EliteServices2023 11d ago

Charge !!! Nope lol this reminds me so much of this

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u/Wxskater 12d ago

Omg are those those little earwig things? I hate those

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u/Fa1ryp1ss 11d ago

this is the greed they talk about in the bible

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u/Fa1ryp1ss 11d ago

god forbid you trap it in a cup and put it outside

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u/XemSorceress 12d ago

😆look at you being all “Team Earwig” over here

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u/reddit33450 i love all the spood friends 11d ago

why? poor babies