The brown recluse typically lives up to its name: The spider is quiet, shy, and really just wants to be left alone. Despite nearly every U.S. citizen feeling certain they’ve seen the spider in ...

NORTH JACKSON, Ohio — An Ohio man is warning others after he was bit by a brown recluse spider recently. According to WKBN, Jim Wilson was cutting trees when he thought he had been stung by a ...

(WKBN) — There have been some reports circulating about the poisonous brown recluse spider that can be found in Ohio. The Mahoning County Public Health Department says this spider is the most ...

The brown recluse is known to occur in a range from southeastern Nebraska to southwestern Ohio, south to northwestern Georgia and into Texas. Occurrences outside that range are exceedingly rare.

Not since the campy 1955 film "Tarantula" struck fear in the hearts of Americans with the sight of a giant spider tearing up a city and gobbling up humans have spiders been the object of so much ...

Tracking a Medically Important Spider: Climate Change, Ecological Niche Modeling, and the Brown Recluse (Loxosceles reclusa). PLoS ONE , 2011; 6 (3): e17731 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017731 Cite ...

The brown recluse spider is tan or dark and very small, ... Typically the spider is found in the Central Midwest from Ohio to Nebraska and south through Texas and Georgia, ...

While I am sure you do get a number of false reports concerning this spider, I am fairly confident that this is indeed a brown recluse. I am aware that this species is not native to Pennsylvania.

None of the brown recluse spiders that have been found in Michigan walked here from Arkansas or even southern Ohio for that matter; they were brought or carried here in suitcases, boxes or some ...

“Even talking about brown recluse spiders or somebody brings it up, they go, ‘Oh God, I’m glad we don’t have them.’ And now I say, ‘I bet you 100 bucks I can go to your house and find ...