Google image search for brown recluse before you tell me this isn’t a brown recluse. And then go look for some information on its likelihood to bite and how likely it is for that bite to be dangerous instead of going by what your mama told you. The spider IS about the size of a quarter. That cricket is a very small, baby cricket I got from the pet store to feed my tarantula. It is a brown recluse. This is the third brown recluse I've found in my bathtub. Before I set this one free in the yard like the others, I wanted to see if it would eat this tiny cricket I got the other day when I bought crickets for my tarantula. Apparently the recluse was too stressed to eat or the cricket was too big. I don't know a great deal about brown recluses except that there are a lot in my house, and that there's a slight chance their bites can get pretty bad, and that they bite even less than their bite is lethal. Yes, their bites can be lethal, but it's rare, and it's also rare that they bite. They didn't get the name recluse because they're aggressive. Humans are a thousand times more dangerous, so if you think I should kill this spider, I might as well go kill my neighbors too. I set both the cricket and the recluse free in my front lawn. I'd call the fight a draw or a stalemate, but, to paraphrase Homer Simpson, if there's no winner, then they're both losers. The container I have the recluse in is a small travel enclosure for my tarantula. The brown stuff on the bottom is substrate/dirt.