Brown recluse spider

Zero resulted in death and only 46, which is 2%, resulted in a major medical event.

Almost all of which were from Black Widows or the Brown Recluse.

And for those who don't know, both of these species are super shy and would much rather flee than bite you.

However, they do really like dark spaces like sheds, wood piles, basements.

If a giant was reaching for me, I'd probably bite him also.

Yeah, hell yeah.

And both of these species, the black widow and the brown recluse, obviously, based on this data, they can cause some major medical events.

But also based on this data, no deaths were caused by them.

Hey, BrainStuff, Lauren Vogelbaum here.

In the United States, the brown recluse spider is one of our arachnid boogeymen.

It is true that the spider's venom can cause necrotic lesions in some people, and it can potentially be deadly for a small portion of the population, but most stories about brown recluses are cases of mistaken identity.

Today, let's separate out some spider facts from spider fiction.

The brown recluse, taxonomical name Loxosceles reclusa, is just one species of recluse spiders, along with some 150 others around the world in the same genus.

The brown recluse is fairly small.

Females can have a body length of up to half an inch or 15 millimeters, with a leg span of just over an inch or around 30 millimeters.

Males are about half that size.

For example, this was a handful of years ago.

I got bit by a brown recluse spider.

Terrible.

Awful.

Um, the one that finally worked for me started off as IV antibiotics and everything else.

That is where I finally started getting better.

But I will tell you that, that, that infection I had from that brown recluse spider bite, and I, knowing what I know about my genetics, I do not detox biotoxins.

So that's mold, bug bites, spider bites, even snake.