Thank you so very much for responding, and especially for doing it so quick. I appreciate your knowledge and very happy to hear it’s not dangerous to our fur babies and that he/she can stay living behind my pool sign. I assume by your answer it’s a harmless spider which is really all I needed to know. Again, thank you so much, he/she gets to live on because of you.
Yeah, she's basically harmless. If you were to grab her bare-handed, she might bite in self defense, but a bite would not be medically significant. I actually do hand-catch the males with no worries at all, but the females are too dang quick to disappear into their webs! I do have a female that I keep as a pet, but I rarely see her because she spends all her time in her nest. (I do see her legs sometimes, when she comes up to grab a cricket.)
So the screenshots are from a video I took of her after I saw her (I guess you can tell it’s a female) run out from the sign to grab a roach. And to your point, I thought it ran super fast to get the roach, but again I know zero so fast is relative from me. It’s rare we see her because she is always behind the sign. But it’s always exciting when she comes out, far from me because I’m terrified because I am clueless to which are dangerous and which aren’t. Glad to know she’s harmless and we aren’t kicking her out. Thank you so much again, our worry is gone.
You could always switch it to Heidi.
Beautiful, just beautiful. Heidi it is...
It's the mature males that tend to be mistaken for recluses.
Those shots give excellent examples of how kukulcania and loxosceles could be mistaken for each other. Eye pattern is an obvious give away but that means good lighting and up close and personal inspection. A dark violin shape of loxo can make the dyads quite hard to see.
Perfect. Needs to be sticky somewhere. Like How to ID a Recluse. The eye-mind likes contrasts and comparisons.
