"They really are shy, thus the name recluse," Wizzie Brown, an entomologist at Texas A ... brown recluse spiders during a six-month period in 2001, according to a study in the Journal of Medical ...

Of the over 46,000 known spider ... identification and medical attention should be sought. Only one species of recluse spider, the Brown Recluse (Loxosceles reclusa), is found in our area of Texas ...

The brown recluse spider can be found inside and outside throughout Texas. They are active from spring through the fall outside but can be active year-round in climate-controlled spaces like homes.

at the Texas university's engineering school published a report in a science journal Monday about how their research team was able to repurpose dead spiders as miniature grippers, not unlike the ...

The study was published recently in the journal Oecologia. The brown widow spider, Latrodectus geometricus, is an urban invasive species found in warm climates worldwide. To investigate variation ...