Brown Recluse Spider ID

Newbury, OH

Beware of cleaning your sheds and wood piles and other enclosed areas. With the cooler weather in the Northeast, brown recluse spiders may hide there and instead of the usual May arrival, these may go into July due to the cooler weather and be more predominant. They deliver a nasty bite and you will develop necrotizing of the skin and possibly lose parts of your body. Spiders are light brown, thin body's not unlike the common daddy long leg variety, only they have stripes (usually) on the legs. The only spider I do not like more than this one is the hobo spider. Look them up on google so you get a good look at their appearance which may subtly vary according to location and climate and age of spider.

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Sinks Grove, WV

There is a lot of misinformation about this spider online; many harmless spiders are misidentified as brown recluse spiders, and even where they are abundant, proven bites by this species appear uncommon (necrotic skin lesions can have many causes other than spider bites). Also, risk in Ohio appears limited to the extreme southwestern part of the state - see http://tinyurl.com/gtgg, http://tinyurl.com/d2r8dx, and http://tinyurl.com/72r57 for detailed information. BTW, they do NOT have any stripes on their legs.

Winter Haven, FL(Zone 9b)

I live in florida. Fore years I have called the infamous brown spider with stripes on his legs a brown recluse... UNTIL i was proven wrong by a 13 year old. For the longest time we never had Brown Widows here in Florida, I had never heven heard of such a critter. But Apparently the spider that I thought was a brown recluse with black bands on his legs was indeed the Brown widow. Supposedly they have had a huge outbreak in the past several years. Anyways, they are all over my property and i can't stand them!!!! They freak me out.

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