###Useful Links 👇
Brown Recluse range map:
https://spiders.ucr.edu/spiders-map
ID guides and further information on Recluse spiders (Loxosceles):
https://spiderbytes.org/recluse-or-not/
https://spiders.ucr.edu/how-identify-and-misidentify-brown-recluse-spider
https://usaspiders.com/loxosceles-reclusa-brown-recluse/#Map_of_other_Loxosceles_species_in_the_United_States
https://entomology.ca.uky.edu/ef631
How to live safely with Brown recluse in the home:
https://spiders.ucr.edu/how-avoid-bites
Articles that explain their exaggerated reputation:
https://www.wired.com/2013/11/poor-misunderstood-brown-recluse/
https://animals.howstuffworks.com/arachnids/brown-recluse-spider-bite.htm
In-depth information into their living habits:
https://academic.oup.com/jipm/article/9/1/4/4818303
Treatment of Brown recluse bites:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK537045/#:~:text=Venom%3B%20The%20brown%20recluse%20spider,tissue%20at%20the%20envenomation%20site.
Managing populations indoors + General info:
(newly added) https://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7468.html#AMERICAN
(Authors: MKG733, ----\_____--_____----)
When you get bit you should go get checked by a doctor, bring the spider with you if you can (it doesn’t have to be alive). A lot of the time the bite won’t actually cause necrosis, so you may not need treatment. If you do need treatment just take whatever medication the doctor prescribes and you’ll be fine. While recluse bites can be dangerous, dying to recluse bites is actually very rare.
ETA: brown recluse are very uninclined to bite, they only bite if you put pressure on their entire body, so your odds of getting bit are very low. Most bites happen when people either put on clothes with a brown recluse in them, or when picking something up and accidentally grabbing the spider
I sat a recluse once and it bit me on my lower back right where it connects to my rear end
It freaking sucks. The bites aren't fun but they are definitely manageable if necrosis doesn't happen. But for all that is holy get some itch cream and keep an eye on it to make sure it doesn't get worse
My friend's uncle sat on one when he was getting into his car. Came to our job the day of and told us all about it and brushed off everyone's advice of getting it checked out...
He now has a hole in his butt cheek🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
There is no hospital treatment. Not nitro. Not dapsone. Not any of the other things that have been tried work. There isn’t much to do for a recluse bite that simply has cutaneous manifestations. Occasionally you’ll see people with systemic symptoms that might require more urgent attention, but it’s pretty rare. As you noted, most bites are sub-clinical.
Place ice over the bite location for a period of time - but not enough to compromise the tissue. The ice likely breaks down a portion of the venom. Other than that, there is not much that can be done about a recluse envenomation. Just watchful waiting. I have this conversation a lot with patients in the ER (I am an an ER Doctor). Also. Please don’t bring spiders and snakes into the ER. We believe you.
Yes this is people confusing arachnid/bug bites with mammal bites. If you get bit by a bat, bring it with you to be destroyed properly and have it tested for rabies. If you don't bring it in, you'll have to get rabies shots and you'll be happy you did. (Rabies is 100% fatal)
If you get bit by a spider, they will treat you the same either way.
Your gonna feel like your dying the next day but your not. It's ok. When bitten, wash with warm soapy water really good and put some ointment on it. Keep putting ointment on it a couple times a day and washing it. It's gonna look gnarly. And your skin will stuff away. A big hole will appear and it may leave a scar and it may not. If your good about keeping the ointment on it it probably will just be a little scar. It's really not necessary to see a Dr if you take VERY good care of it.
> Your gonna feel like your dying the next day
Whaaaaaa? You mean really ? Incredibly horrific gut pain? Kidney stone level pain? Pain like "dying" is terrible.
I don't remember hearing that from anywhere, but I don't have original thoughts, or any thoughts in general, so I'm not going to claim any credit for it.
A Google search reveals nothing to me, so I'm not sure where it came from. Probably from here.
Yup... did the same. I'm terrified of spiders, I will never stop being terrified by them, but I love how people talk about them like they're puppies. Learned quite a bit about them aswell.
You should be able to mute the sub. If you’re on mobile, go to the main sub page, click on the three dots in the top right and there should be an option to mute. You shouldn’t see anything from this sub anymore after closing and reopening the app.
When viewing a post from this sub, or any sub fed to you this way on your home page, you can click the three dots at the top right and select "show fewer posts like these". It make take a couple times to hit different categories, for example doing so to this post should prevent you from receiving ID requests like this one, but you might still see other types of posts blow up from here, such as people sharing videos from youtube for discussion, or images of their own pet spiders.
But yeah, i like the points the other commenters made. Nobody starts out loving spiders. it's a very lizard-like fear, deep inside your brain. We learn from repeated exposure that there is really nothing to fear, and about how much they actually do and provide for us. Even the ones we fear the most, such as these recluse spiders, or black widows.
[Video if interested c=](https://youtu.be/xGtSDqoM5As?si=8ko3uLmI9udV8Hyo)
It's only an hour and a half, no big.
What is it with Missouri? We lived a couple years in Springfield growing up, and my kindergarten ass was outside from sun up to sun down and I never had to deal with this. Was I just lucky in the 70's?
It's largely due to climate change over the years, warmer and wetter climate is leading to more spiders/ticks etc coming around. Living in Maine sporadically; as a kid we never saw ticks 30 years ago, now you can't walk out the door without getting 40 on you.
The ticks in NE now are nuts! I’m from NH originally, never once did I wind up with a tick anywhere on me despite constantly playing in the forest and creeks. Last summer I was back there visiting and found them on me at least three separate times that trip
I grew up in Kansas City and one day I pulled 31 ticks just from my little Yorkie’s paws, between her pads. I bet with more brown recluses there will be fewer ticks!
Brown Recluse range map:
https://spiders.ucr.edu/spiders-map
ID guides and further information on Recluse spiders (Loxosceles):
https://spiderbytes.org/recluse-or-not/
https://spiders.ucr.edu/how-identify-and-misidentify-brown-recluse-spider
https://usaspiders.com/loxosceles-reclusa-brown-recluse/#Map_of_other_Loxosceles_species_in_the_United_States
https://entomology.ca.uky.edu/ef631
How to live safely with Brown recluse in the home:
https://spiders.ucr.edu/how-avoid-bites
Articles that explain their exaggerated reputation:
https://www.wired.com/2013/11/poor-misunderstood-brown-recluse/
https://animals.howstuffworks.com/arachnids/brown-recluse-spider-bite.htm
In-depth information into their living habits:
https://academic.oup.com/jipm/article/9/1/4/4818303
Treatment of Brown recluse bites:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK537045/#:~:text=Venom%3B%20The%20brown%20recluse%20spider,tissue%20at%20the%20envenomation%20site.
Managing populations indoors + General info:
(newly added) https://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7468.html#AMERICAN
(Authors: MKG733, ----\_____--_____----)
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Just out of curiosity, do people check the older posts in this sub before posting? I feel like almost every single post I've seen from this sub recently have been brown recluses needing an ID, but if the poster would just scroll down a few posts in the sub they could see other posts to compare to...
My late parents lived in Stockton Missouri and had so many I had to trap them before I could sell the house. If you were gone for more than a couple days you couldn't move anything on the floor without one running out. I caught over a thousand on sticky traps over the course of a couple months. I don't mind spiders but that was horror film creepy.
After they passed, we started throwing out knickknack stuff and had a front room full of empty boxes, for a couple weeks, and I'm pretty sure that's where they came from. A friend is an exterminator and said that recluses love the humidity and dampness that a cardboard box provides. My brother got bit throwing the boxes out to the fire. Ended up with a nasty hole in his hand for a while.
If it’s in my house and it can hurt my kids, it’s dead. If it’s outside minding its own business, we are cool. I have both kinds of venomous spiders around my house. The black widows kill the wasps and the brown boys get most things on the ground. We have an understanding I think. I have found two black widows in my house in the past 5 years. Nothing else.
###Useful Links 👇 Brown Recluse range map: https://spiders.ucr.edu/spiders-map ID guides and further information on Recluse spiders (Loxosceles): https://spiderbytes.org/recluse-or-not/ https://spiders.ucr.edu/how-identify-and-misidentify-brown-recluse-spider https://usaspiders.com/loxosceles-reclusa-brown-recluse/#Map_of_other_Loxosceles_species_in_the_United_States https://entomology.ca.uky.edu/ef631 How to live safely with Brown recluse in the home: https://spiders.ucr.edu/how-avoid-bites Articles that explain their exaggerated reputation: https://www.wired.com/2013/11/poor-misunderstood-brown-recluse/ https://animals.howstuffworks.com/arachnids/brown-recluse-spider-bite.htm In-depth information into their living habits: https://academic.oup.com/jipm/article/9/1/4/4818303 Treatment of Brown recluse bites: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK537045/#:~:text=Venom%3B%20The%20brown%20recluse%20spider,tissue%20at%20the%20envenomation%20site. Managing populations indoors + General info: (newly added) https://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7468.html#AMERICAN (Authors: MKG733, ----\_____--_____----)
Turn the lights off, carry him home
Don't do it. His love is a life taker.
i can’t confront him… i never could do…
That which might hurt him, so try and be cool…
Na-na-na-na-na-na
I will not go.
Mrs Spider left him roses by the stairs.
Turn the lights off, take off your clothes, and move about frantically for a good time!
It is, a male one to be exact. It’s really not much to be alarmed about. Just carefully move it outside.
Heebies equal jeebied
My aunt used to say something along the lines of “well that really heebied by jeebies!” And I always thought it was the funniest thing I’d ever heard.
Where did you find him?
How can you tell the difference between the male and females?
The pedipalps are large and fist like. To a lesser degree, and with less certainly, it also has a lighter colored, smaller body than the females.
Never shake hands with a male spider - you don’t wanna know where those hands have been…
I thought that was "never smile at a crocodile".
oh great now the right is gonna call the spiders gay /j
The reproductive organs sticking out the front
[Kindergarten Cop](https://images.app.goo.gl/Dp5hBKyxzPfJg1238)
Love that movie 😂😂
Hear ya, never gets old. 😂
It doesn’t and that one movie with him he’s like a toy robot or something and he saves a kid .. don’t know if that makes sense lol )
Ohh I found it it’s called jingle all the way .. loved that movie too
LoL I kept looking, couldn't figure it which you might be referring to. 👍
It’s a good movie check it out if ya havnt yet
The male try’s to hump your index finger.
What if it bites you? Then what is best protocol?
Bite it back to show it that getting bitten hurts. Then tell it not to bite anyone again.
This is the correct way. STREET JUSTICE!
Then wander off to a corner somewhere and adios?
This is how i handle most animals!!
When you get bit you should go get checked by a doctor, bring the spider with you if you can (it doesn’t have to be alive). A lot of the time the bite won’t actually cause necrosis, so you may not need treatment. If you do need treatment just take whatever medication the doctor prescribes and you’ll be fine. While recluse bites can be dangerous, dying to recluse bites is actually very rare. ETA: brown recluse are very uninclined to bite, they only bite if you put pressure on their entire body, so your odds of getting bit are very low. Most bites happen when people either put on clothes with a brown recluse in them, or when picking something up and accidentally grabbing the spider
I sat a recluse once and it bit me on my lower back right where it connects to my rear end It freaking sucks. The bites aren't fun but they are definitely manageable if necrosis doesn't happen. But for all that is holy get some itch cream and keep an eye on it to make sure it doesn't get worse
My friend's uncle sat on one when he was getting into his car. Came to our job the day of and told us all about it and brushed off everyone's advice of getting it checked out... He now has a hole in his butt cheek🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
I’d also bite if someone sat on me
There is no hospital treatment. Not nitro. Not dapsone. Not any of the other things that have been tried work. There isn’t much to do for a recluse bite that simply has cutaneous manifestations. Occasionally you’ll see people with systemic symptoms that might require more urgent attention, but it’s pretty rare. As you noted, most bites are sub-clinical.
All the comments are so educational. I guess I don't know much about that spider. And I hear conflicting info.
Place ice over the bite location for a period of time - but not enough to compromise the tissue. The ice likely breaks down a portion of the venom. Other than that, there is not much that can be done about a recluse envenomation. Just watchful waiting. I have this conversation a lot with patients in the ER (I am an an ER Doctor). Also. Please don’t bring spiders and snakes into the ER. We believe you.
Thanks for reply! Is the pain localized to bite area? Or does it give you a fever or more pains throughout your body??
Most bites are localized to the skin and just causes localized tissue damage. Rarely people have a systemic reaction with flu like symptoms and a rash
Yes this is people confusing arachnid/bug bites with mammal bites. If you get bit by a bat, bring it with you to be destroyed properly and have it tested for rabies. If you don't bring it in, you'll have to get rabies shots and you'll be happy you did. (Rabies is 100% fatal) If you get bit by a spider, they will treat you the same either way.
See a doctor, first and foremost. Most bites end up not being problematic if kept clean, but you’ll want to continue to monitor it just in case.
Clean it and keep an eye on it. Go to the doctor if it starts looking gnarly, but most of the times it won't.
The best protocol is to ignore it as around 85% of people have no reaction whatsoever
I never knew that. It is like an immunity where they can be bitten all over and over and no problem?
Your gonna feel like your dying the next day but your not. It's ok. When bitten, wash with warm soapy water really good and put some ointment on it. Keep putting ointment on it a couple times a day and washing it. It's gonna look gnarly. And your skin will stuff away. A big hole will appear and it may leave a scar and it may not. If your good about keeping the ointment on it it probably will just be a little scar. It's really not necessary to see a Dr if you take VERY good care of it.
> Your gonna feel like your dying the next day Whaaaaaa? You mean really ? Incredibly horrific gut pain? Kidney stone level pain? Pain like "dying" is terrible.
You're gonna hurt everywhere. Just an overall feeling of sick. Malaise.
With or without the mission impossible incidental music playing in the background? I think it might help.
Are males not as bitey?
No difference as far as I’m aware. This species is not bitey to begin with and its reputation far exceeds the actual danger it presents.
It's so.
Damn it you beat me to it
It is what it is
Thank you. Exactly what I thought it is
Scoop it, don't boop it.
We need this on a sign with a picture of a spider.
Spider Awareness Month banners
We at least need Spider Day
Love this!!!
I don't remember hearing that from anywhere, but I don't have original thoughts, or any thoughts in general, so I'm not going to claim any credit for it. A Google search reveals nothing to me, so I'm not sure where it came from. Probably from here.
The early lore of a very humble copywriter.
Claim it!!!!! It’s yours!!! 🫶🏼🕷️
It is, but I can tell you it's not.
Yeah please. I would really appreciate that
Your druuug, is a heartbreaker.
I was waiting for this one lmao
Your spiiider is a brooown recluuuuse
My love is a po-ta-to!
Say it ain’t so, my love is a life taker
Right so i clicked on a post from this sub 2 months ago and since then my feed has been filled with big spiders. I'm afraid of spiders.
I did the same about 3 months ago. I still can’t cleanse my algorithm of this sub. However, it has done wonders for my arachnophobia.
This though. I'm out here touching grass spiders and stuff now. Never woulda thought
Same and I just gave in and joined the Sub. 🕷️
Yup... did the same. I'm terrified of spiders, I will never stop being terrified by them, but I love how people talk about them like they're puppies. Learned quite a bit about them aswell.
😂 “talk about them like their puppies” is so accurate. Also still very afraid of spiders.
You should be able to mute the sub. If you’re on mobile, go to the main sub page, click on the three dots in the top right and there should be an option to mute. You shouldn’t see anything from this sub anymore after closing and reopening the app.
When viewing a post from this sub, or any sub fed to you this way on your home page, you can click the three dots at the top right and select "show fewer posts like these". It make take a couple times to hit different categories, for example doing so to this post should prevent you from receiving ID requests like this one, but you might still see other types of posts blow up from here, such as people sharing videos from youtube for discussion, or images of their own pet spiders. But yeah, i like the points the other commenters made. Nobody starts out loving spiders. it's a very lizard-like fear, deep inside your brain. We learn from repeated exposure that there is really nothing to fear, and about how much they actually do and provide for us. Even the ones we fear the most, such as these recluse spiders, or black widows. [Video if interested c=](https://youtu.be/xGtSDqoM5As?si=8ko3uLmI9udV8Hyo) It's only an hour and a half, no big.
Me too! But I can’t look away. And I’m learning new things every time.
Same
What is it with Missouri? We lived a couple years in Springfield growing up, and my kindergarten ass was outside from sun up to sun down and I never had to deal with this. Was I just lucky in the 70's?
It's largely due to climate change over the years, warmer and wetter climate is leading to more spiders/ticks etc coming around. Living in Maine sporadically; as a kid we never saw ticks 30 years ago, now you can't walk out the door without getting 40 on you.
The ticks in NE now are nuts! I’m from NH originally, never once did I wind up with a tick anywhere on me despite constantly playing in the forest and creeks. Last summer I was back there visiting and found them on me at least three separate times that trip
I grew up in Kansas City and one day I pulled 31 ticks just from my little Yorkie’s paws, between her pads. I bet with more brown recluses there will be fewer ticks!
When I was a kid everyone burned their fields I'm upstate NY lifer...now live in the ADKs. The process was stopped and now you see the reprocussions
Ahh hah. So they recently moved into town. That makes sense. Thanks!
I found a female Recluse yesterday and I'm trying to trap her before she has babies.
I know in Eastern MO we’ve had them pretty regularly since the early 2000s. Before that idk because I wasn’t here.
Oh it is very, absolutely, undeniably so
What is it?
Brown Recluse
It isn’t so. But that is a handsome recluse you have there.
"it isn't so" Except it is.
Sorry. It’s definitely a galactic space spider.
Brown recluse lox
Brown Recluse range map: https://spiders.ucr.edu/spiders-map ID guides and further information on Recluse spiders (Loxosceles): https://spiderbytes.org/recluse-or-not/ https://spiders.ucr.edu/how-identify-and-misidentify-brown-recluse-spider https://usaspiders.com/loxosceles-reclusa-brown-recluse/#Map_of_other_Loxosceles_species_in_the_United_States https://entomology.ca.uky.edu/ef631 How to live safely with Brown recluse in the home: https://spiders.ucr.edu/how-avoid-bites Articles that explain their exaggerated reputation: https://www.wired.com/2013/11/poor-misunderstood-brown-recluse/ https://animals.howstuffworks.com/arachnids/brown-recluse-spider-bite.htm In-depth information into their living habits: https://academic.oup.com/jipm/article/9/1/4/4818303 Treatment of Brown recluse bites: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK537045/#:~:text=Venom%3B%20The%20brown%20recluse%20spider,tissue%20at%20the%20envenomation%20site. Managing populations indoors + General info: (newly added) https://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7468.html#AMERICAN (Authors: MKG733, ----\_____--_____----) *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/spiders) if you have any questions or concerns.*
I can tell by the abdomen
Can’t believe you saw a brown recluse in outer space
Male recluse from the looks of it.
Joe, please, it is indeed so 🎶🎵
I will not go Turn the lights off Carry me home
Low key thought. Fucking space spiders now. Why didn’t I think of that
Ew and what if they were all venomous
"Oh ooo woah woah!"
Yeah its so
I thought this was a spider in space at first
Tis
Is that just a wierd angle or does that one leg look insanely long?
it is his only leg that is fully extended
Lol, lmao
[Said the scorpion](https://imgb.ifunny.co/images/d981b9218975a70589fc6694592c6348ba5bc51f096d972d0816b2c4a720f599_1.jpg)
Why is he in outer space?
Downvoted for a joke? Whatever I guess.
Outer space in my kitchen sink
Yep it’s a recluse spider 👀
It is so
Well, as someone who doesn’t live where these guys are, I’m glad I’ve learned what they look like from this sub if I ever travel.
🎻
It’s a recluse. If you live in Missouri, they are present in every single house whether people realize it or not.
The worst spider name EVER. If they're so damn reclusive, why do people keep seeing them everywhere?!
Just out of curiosity, do people check the older posts in this sub before posting? I feel like almost every single post I've seen from this sub recently have been brown recluses needing an ID, but if the poster would just scroll down a few posts in the sub they could see other posts to compare to...
Yeahp
it isn't so
just Dab each other and go your separate ways.
The males have less of a marking? I don’t see the violin shape mark
It is so. That be a fiddle back.
Brown recluse
Johnny, rosin up your bow.
Central MO? You better get used to seeing them.
This sub should just change its name to r/isdisabrownrecluse
Central mo ganggg 🤙🤙 also yea it’s a brown recluse man
Hey fiddle fiddle
🎻⚠️
NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Always fucking MO, lol.
I hate it here 🙃
I know, I just found a female Recluse and she hid before I could trap her.
I was in Knob Noster, and we constantly had them.
My late parents lived in Stockton Missouri and had so many I had to trap them before I could sell the house. If you were gone for more than a couple days you couldn't move anything on the floor without one running out. I caught over a thousand on sticky traps over the course of a couple months. I don't mind spiders but that was horror film creepy. After they passed, we started throwing out knickknack stuff and had a front room full of empty boxes, for a couple weeks, and I'm pretty sure that's where they came from. A friend is an exterminator and said that recluses love the humidity and dampness that a cardboard box provides. My brother got bit throwing the boxes out to the fire. Ended up with a nasty hole in his hand for a while.
Hmm, indeed. We have examined the evidence and we make the determination as follows. Yes
No it definitely is
If it’s in my house and it can hurt my kids, it’s dead. If it’s outside minding its own business, we are cool. I have both kinds of venomous spiders around my house. The black widows kill the wasps and the brown boys get most things on the ground. We have an understanding I think. I have found two black widows in my house in the past 5 years. Nothing else.
Make it so
Oh yeah….
It is!
Carefully evict!
mature male brown recluse. idk if this works but: lox
“Get those lights off!”
Take this thread as I walk away
I WILL NOT GO TURN THE LIGHTS OFF CARRY ME HOME
Your drug is a heartbreaker
So what is it
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It is there, you have to zoom in mate