New in SW FL I'm told to watch out for these spiders but I don't see anything in bug files about them. I'm familiar with Black Widows & unfortunately Brown Recluse. (Hubby was bitten by each). Please advise. Thanks in advance.
Brown Widow Spider ? Black Recluse?
Thanks irisloverdee but I don't see anything about the 2 I asked about. I appreciate the link though, it's very informative.
Many people I am told by ER here take the Black House Spider as the Brown Recluse just black and it does say so.
I thought that there was also something on that site about the black widow as well
Sorry
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This might do it as it also mentions FL
http://www.badspiderbites.com/brown-widow-spider/
great on spiders of all the widows of FL
http://www.doacs.state.fl.us/pi/enpp/ento/venomousspiders.html
The brown widow spider (Latrodectus geometricus) does occur in Florida - see http://tinyurl.com/2f4qtc4 for detailed information. To the best of my knowledge, there is no such thing as a "black recluse" spider; recluse spiders in general (Loxosceles sp.) are uncommon in Florida (see http://tinyurl.com/br9f4); it appears that most reported recluse spider 'bites' are misdiagnosed/misattributed - see the 'sticky' at the top of this forum.
Thank you both for the help!
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