How can I find a Brown Recluse?

Steven,

Since our friend Sam wants you to believe that

Brown Recluse spiders are six-gun toting aggressive

bad guys, and that he got this nonsense from some-

thing or other - pedia, please allow me to give you

an adjunct to Sam's wisdom:

Brown Recluse spiders are just that: recluses.

Do you have a rocker-recliner, or some other piece

of furniture that can be turned on it's side ?

Look under there. Have your container ready, because

they do not like to be around Human Beings.

A Brown Recluse is a temperate zone fellow.

His totally favorite food is the the common mini-

crustacean, the "Roly-Poly" pill bug. If you ever

see the dried husks of little pill bugs, you'll know

that there are, or have been, Brown Recluse on your

premises.

The Brown Recluse is a guy that will migrate, at

night, looking for

a: FOOD

b: a MATE

They don't target people to envenomate. Their venom

is precious.

What happens, is, they cause people to slap them, or

otherwise mess with them as they travel across people

when migrating. So, they bite. They have fangs. and

their bite causes a number of medical symptoms,

include a hot, itchy, wound, with visible fang marks.

Sometimes after the bite, an hour, to eight hours, the

bite will develop a painful lump under the skin. There

might be nausea, fever, dizziness, malaise, flu-like

symptoms, and shaky nervous type of symptoms

Also, their venom can raise blood pressure, to dangerous

levels. You treat the bite of Brown Recluse spiders with

antibiotics, like Keflex, Doxycycline, and others, and with

antiinflammatory drugs like Prednisone, and Methyl Prednisolone.

In very small children, sometimes shock is a result.

Different varieties of Brown Recluse have venoms of

different toxicity.

Brown Recluse are known to be aggressive only when

a female is protecting an egg sac.

Find images of this species on Google Images.

Britt

Well first before I tell you where they would be hiding I would feel bad if I didn't warn you that these spiders are recluse they are aggressive in nature and have pretty potent venom and they are usually in numbers. Recluse tend to make their webs in more human made habitats they tend to have lairs in dry places that are usually undisturbed cellars, sheds, piles of junk in your garage or a closet, usually though when you have them in your yard I would check a fire wood pile if you have it that is a good place to find them. Again these are dangerous spiders.

Oh ok, well I just googled it and there are stories of recluse attacks in houston and there are a good number of pest control agencies that protect from recluse, I'm not really an expert but it is probably because the scorpions live in remote dessert areas, and they aren't like recluse, the recluse can hide and be undetected, but especially you being from that area it is hard not to spot a scorpion so the more populated areas probably killed off the population of the scorpions.