It can be easily told from the wolf spider, indeed, from most other spiders, in that it has six eyes. Most other spiders have ...

But brown recluses are more easily distinguished from wolf spiders by the number of eyes. They have six instead of eight. Wolf spiders mainly eat ground-dwelling insects and other spiders.

They have eight legs, six to eight eyes ... They likely are the eyes of hard-working wolf spiders looking back at you. • Spiders are beneficial to gardeners; help control insect pest populations.