Most house spiders are harmless, but brown recluse spiders should be taken seriously in your home. Banish them quickly with a ...

As their name implies, brown recluse spiders are reclusive — Whitworth describes them as shy — and often go unnoticed as they spend their time in places where there is not a lot of human activity, ...

You don’t have to be an arachnophobic to feel utterly unsettled by a rural Texas woman’s story whose frightening rash turned ...

VUMC reports that while the usual signs of a brown recluse spider bite are painful, blistering skin lesions, these bites could lead to a severe illness called systemic loxoscelism. The illness is a ...

Spiders don’t carry diseases, the way ticks and mosquitoes do, and in the United States, where thousands of species of spiders live, there are only a few venomous types that cause concern — notably, ...

Doctors blame a brown recluse spider for causing raging and life-threatening infection in a Georgia woman, Victoria Franklin. Toxologists are suspicious, saying it could be MRSA bacteria instead.

If you are bitten by a brown recluse, make sure to seek medical attention as soon as possible, as the bite can lead to serious tissue damage. To report a correction or typo, please email ...

The spider is golden brown with the fiddle being dark brown or black. This spider is not hairy and the fiddle pattern is often shiny. “They have quite a nasty bite,” Hanft said.

Susie Torres was horrified to learn that a brown recluse spider had crawled into her ear. "Gross. Why, where, what and how," Torres told WDAF-TV.

According to Erin Saupe, a researcher at the University of Kansas, ecological computer models have been able to predict the brown recluse spider’s range in 2050 and 2080.

Have you been seeing more venomous spiders in and around your Mississippi home lately? Here's how to identify them and keep ...