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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Brown Recluse Spider. The brown recluse spider, also known as “the violin spider” due to a distinctive violin-shaped marking on its cephalothorax, prefer dark, secluded areas, such as closets ...

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.

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 ...

Brown Recluse Spider. The brown recluse spider, also known as “the violin spider” due to a distinctive violin-shaped marking on its cephalothorax, prefer dark, secluded areas, such as closets ...

The brown recluse is small and light brown to yellow in color. The primary key to identification are the three pairs of eyes. Because so many spiders are brown, the brown recluse spider has become ...

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.