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Brown Recluse Spider — printable fact sheet
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Brown Recluse Spider
Loxosceles reclusa
The brown recluse is one of the most over-diagnosed animals in medicine. The reliable way to identify one is not the "violin" marking on the back, which is variable and is shared by many harmless spiders, but the eyes: a recluse has six eyes arranged in three widely separated pa…
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- Brown Recluse Spiders build irregular, sticky webs only for shelter, not for catching prey.
- Brown recluses can survive many months without food or water, which is part of why they thrive in the dry undisturbed corners of houses. They are genuinely reclusive: bites overwhelmingly happen when a spider is trapped against skin, in clothing pulled from a drawer or bedding. Their venom contains sphingomyelinase D, an unusual enzyme found in very few animals.
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