The bite from a brown recluse can be serious, but that doesn't mean it's always life-threatening. This is what to do if you're bitten.

Brown recluse bites often start with mild redness followed by pain and itching. The bite is usually flat, though it may develop a small blister. Sometimes, a bull’s-eye pattern with a blue or ...

If you happen to live within the venomous brown recluse's range, attempting to tell this very real threat apart from its ...

On the other hand, experts do worry about spider bites about bites from venomous spiders, particularly black widows and brown recluse spiders. A bite from one of these types of spiders can cause ...

Loxoscelism symbolizes dermonecrotic lesions and systemic manifestations incurred by the brown recluse spider bite (Barretto, Soeiro Prestes, Figueiredo Fonseca, & Achucarro Silveira, 2007).