Once I arrived there, he told me that I’d been bitten by a brown recluse spider. He “excised” the area of the bite (that’s doctor talk for cutting the damaged tissue away), gave me an ...

If you happen to live within the venomous brown recluse's range, attempting to tell this very real threat apart from its ...

Also worth noting: “These are nomadic spiders that don’t spin webs to catch their prey—they hunt them down,” says Howard Russell, an entomologist at Michigan ... brown recluse is a brown ...

Brown Recluse spider photographed by Kevin Wiener. The brown recluse spider, also known as “the violin spider” due to a distinctive violin-shaped marking on its cephalothorax, prefer dark ...