Nobody wants to find a brown recluse spider in their yard, garden, or house. Sadly, there's something you're doing that is ...

Editor’s note: This is a reprint of a Wichita Eagle article first published in 2022. You could be seeing one of two venomous spiders native to Kansas more often in your living space as it gets warmer ...

If you suspect you’ve been bitten by a recluse and the area becomes increasingly red, swollen, blistered, or painful over ...

The best way to diagnose a strange skin bump is often to decide what it's not. So say the researchers who have devised a mnemonic device useful for determining that the lesion or lump isn't a bite ...

Black widows, infamous for their shiny black bodies and the red hourglass pattern seen on adult females, deliver a painful ...

A bite from a brown recluse spider, or Loxosceles reclusa, can be mild or severe and may require medical attention. The toxins from this spider’s bite can cause tissue death. Bites from the brown ...

Spiders are beneficial to the environment. Fear of these insects is common, but—believe it or not—most spiders cannot hurt humans. However, the brown recluse spider is a dangerous exception. The ...

That's the general consensus among arachnologists about spiders in British Columbia. Even the most dangerous local spider ...

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Three Mediterranean recluse spiders were discovered last month in a non-public basement storage area at the University of Michigan's Shapiro Undergraduate Library. Staff suspect the venomous spiders ...

Craig Campbell turned to social media to share a gruesome photo after he got bitten by a brown recluse spider. Or, at least, that’s what he thinks happened. “I’ve seen 2 practitioners so far and the ...

The discovery of Mediterranean recluse spiders at the University of Michigan prompted a two-day closure of one of its libraries. Brown recluse spiderCredit...Getty Images Supported by By Christine ...