I saw this cute little guy when I was doing a cabling job at Home Depot.

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Sun 24 Jul 2011, 16:29,
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brown recluse are the ones you need to worry about in these parts
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Sun 24 Jul 2011, 17:19,
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At first I thought it was a pencil, and thus he's only a little fella.
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Sun 24 Jul 2011, 17:35,
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will bite if captured, but not considered harmful
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Sun 24 Jul 2011, 17:41,
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EDIT: and true, the cord is not much more than 125% the diameter of a pencil, so it is a bit small.
When it was in my mouth, the legs would only reach from the left molars to just about 1/2-way across my tongue