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.

"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 ...