The brown recluse spider is common in Southern states. Its bites can be life-threatening. Harold G. Scott/Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images. Earlier this week, a seven-year-old girl in Arkansas ...

NASHVILLE — An increase in spider-bite patients at Vanderbilt University Medical Center here has created some concern — but not about an influx of brown recluse spiders in garages, attics or ...

Turns out, the spider was a brown recluse, which is typically harmless and prefers to flee rather than fight, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health. Fortunately, for Torres, the ...

William V. Stoecker, Richard S. Vetter, Jonathan A. Dyer. NOT RECLUSE—A Mnemonic Device to Avoid False Diagnoses of Brown Recluse Spider Bites. JAMA Dermatology , 2017; DOI: 10.1001/jamadermatol ...

Two recently reported brown recluse bites -- one in Lelanau County and one Ottawa County -- did not recover the actual spiders, so don't make the map of confirmed sightings.

Georgia-based singer Gabe Lustman spent five days in the hospital and nearly lost his leg due to a brown recluse spider bite. Here's what to know about symptoms and treatments.

Actual brown recluse spiders, Loxosceles reclusa, live in the southern US, in the area shown on the map below. The top map is a good rule of thumb; the four lower maps are from in-depth studies ...

Purdue's guide says a mature brown recluse spider's leg span is about the size of a half dollar. Its color ranges from light tan to deep reddish brown, and it has a darker contrast fiddle-shaped ...

The venomous brown recluse spider, whose bite can cause reactions ranging from minor irritation to flesh-killing necrosis and even death, may be finding in Michigan a more comfortable home than ...

The black widow and brown recluse are the only spider species in Kentucky of medical concern to humans. Here’s how to keep away from them.

Brown recluse: Don't fiddle with danger. Only one species of recluse spider, the Brown Recluse (Loxosceles reclusa), is found in our area of Texas and Oklahoma. A common name of this species ...

image: A UC Riverside researcher has published a paper about skin conditions that are often misdiagnosed as brown recluse spider bites. view more Credit: Rick Vetter.