Brown recluse spiders are found in the US, in an area roughly centered around Arkansas. They can be found as far north as Iowa, east into Tennessee, south to the Gulf of Mexico, and west into Texas.
The Brown Recluse spider.
A brown recluse can live about six months without food or water. I'm not really sure how long they would live with they things they need, but they live longer in colder enviorments.
you should go to a doctor immediatly espcially if you are certain it was a brown recluse because if it is on one of your limbs you may have to have surgery or lose your limb
the only one i know is the brown recluse spider.
The life cycle of a brown recluse spider starts with an egg sac laid by a mature female. The eggs hatch into spiderlings, which grow through several stages before reaching maturity in about one year. The adult brown recluse can live for up to two to three years.
Yes, I was bitten by one about ten years ago in Stratham nh when I was getting firewood from a stack. After a couple of days of narcosis on my arm I went to the dr. who told me it was a Brown Recluse Spider bite....
Brown recluse spiders are preyed upon by certain predators such as birds, other spiders (like the jumping spider), and some insects. Additionally, some small mammals like shrews and rodents may also feed on brown recluse spiders.
Purpose: To determine whether the number of brown recluse spider bites diagnosed by South Carolina physicians coincides with evidence of brown recluse spiders found in the state.Methods: Brown recluse spider bite diagnosis data were extracted from 1990 and 2004 surveys of South Carolina physicians. This was compared with the known historical evidence of brown recluse spiders collected in South Carolina and derived from various sources, including state agencies, arachnologists, and museum specimens.Results: South Carolina physicians diagnosed 478 brown recluse spider bites in 1990 and 738 in 2004. Dating to 1953, 44 brown recluse spider specimens have been verified from 6 locations in South Carolina.
That dude is a total recluse. He sits alone all day, typing questions into Answers.com. Did you see that kid who was found dead laying on his keyboard? Reports say that he was bitten multiple times by a Brown Recluse. Answers.com apparently didn't give him what he needed to avoid that one.
If you found one kill it before it kills you if you want to freeze it to death just stick it in the freezer for a couple hours then just to be sure squish it A vacant house is infested with brown recluse spiders. During the winter what temperature will kill all the spiders?
Wolf spiders, garden spiders, fishing spiders, and Brown Recluse, to name a few of the more common ones. I will comment on the Brown Recluse statement. If you look on the DNR website for Michigan, it tells you that there has been only ONE (1) Documented case of a brown recluse in Michigan. It was found in a heated building, because they cannot survive in temperatures below 40 degrees F. Most likely, it was brought here by a shipping company from the Southern States.
North Carolina is out of the known range of Brown Recluse spiders. It's always possible that somebody might encounter one that had just been brought in hidden in somebody's luggage or furniture at moving time. Fortunately, any of them that have arrived this way seem not to have had babies.