For this reason, the brown recluse is sometimes called the “violin spider” or “fiddleback spider.” Brown recluses have six eyes instead of the usual eight. These eyes are arranged in a ...

The good news is that identifying a brown recluse is fairly easy if you look for these things: Three pairs of eyes in a semicircular pattern Uniform brown coloring on the body of the spider Silky ...

Almost all spiders are venomous, but there are few, at least in North America, that have venom powerful enough to injure a human. One of them is the brown recluse spider, whose venom can be fatal.