Fact: Unless you live in the south-central USA (see map, right), where Loxosceles reclusa actually lives, human bite cases are reported from your area because of the incompetence of those reporting them, not because of actual spiders biting people.
No software development analogies here, just sharing from a very cool spider site.
Why was I looking at spider sites? Found a few to take some pictures of this week, and got sucked in.
The first two are almost certainly from the genus Phidippus. The metallic blue/green mouthparts are typical of Phidippus spiders. Kinda hard to tell, but from trolling a bit online, it could be Phidippus Asotus or Phidippus Otiosus.
Before we put the landscaping in the back yard, we used to get a lot of Phidippus Californicus spiders. They're known to hunt crickets and grasshoppers, so I'm all for having 'em around.
Oh, and I should mention, the other big give-away that this is probably a Phidippus is the eye arrangement. (Phidippus spiders are visual hunters).
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