The brown recluse spider, in a group called ‘fiddleback spiders’, lives in the southern US from Texas to Florida. The occasional spider can be accidentally carried to other states in moving boxes or similar.
These spiders are from .25-.75 inches long, and have unpatterned legs/abdomen (butt segment). Their head has a darker brown fiddle or violin shape, with the neck pointing towards the abdomen.
Brown recluse spiders are considered to be docile, because they have lived in houses for years with no incident. as the name suggests, they are reclusive and prefer to hide out in woodpiles, boxes, or other similar things. Most incidents, the bitten people have few or no symptoms.
When they do bite a person who will react, usually a child or elderly individual, the flesh around a bite starts rotting within 12 to 24 hours. The bite becomes a multicolor lesion that can last for three weeks. Theoretically, people can die from the venom, but fatal bites are considered highly unlikely, and more than 90% of recluse bites heal without complications Some bites, normally in children due to smaller size, can leave permanent scars.
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