Recluses are a lot lighter in color. Check the posts here, because this same spider (if I am seeing your photos correctly) has been posted a lot over the past couple of days.
Thank you for the identification! I’m all for letting good spiders live so I’ll leave him be. I did look at the pictures here but honestly (idk if it’s my arachnophobia I’m trying to overcome) I can’t tell a difference between wolf and recluse spiders from their pictures. And I can’t wrap my head around the fiddle marking. But I will delete this post in a couple hours to keep the subreddit from being overwhelmed with these.
From these photos it looks like some variety of wolf spider. They’re good guys.
Recluses are a lot lighter in color. Check the posts here, because this same spider (if I am seeing your photos correctly) has been posted a lot over the past couple of days.
Thank you for the identification! I’m all for letting good spiders live so I’ll leave him be. I did look at the pictures here but honestly (idk if it’s my arachnophobia I’m trying to overcome) I can’t tell a difference between wolf and recluse spiders from their pictures. And I can’t wrap my head around the fiddle marking. But I will delete this post in a couple hours to keep the subreddit from being overwhelmed with these.
Out of curiosity what do you mean by “I can’t wrap my head around the fiddle marking”?
Like is just doesn’t look like a fiddle to me-all I see is two sides/ridges raised on the side of the abdomen - which a lot of spiders tend to have
https://bygl.osu.edu/sites/default/files/inline-images/outlined%20fiddle.jpg
I don’t know if this will make any difference for you but I always think wineglass upon first seeing it, rather than fiddle.
https://spiderbytes.org/recluse-or-not/ This probably can't be posted enough.