Some of the most feared spiders of the arachnid world seem to be the brown recluse, or Loxosceles reclusa, which live throughout 16 states, primarily in the Midwest and South. Like their name ...

The site of the wound may start to develop necrotic (dead) tissue called eschar, though this may develop earlier. It looks like a big, black scab covering the wound area. Most brown recluse bites ...

1,213 Broadway, Williamsburg, which for nine years have been occupied by William Wilberforce Mann, 70 years old, and a recluse who was found dead in his kitchen on Friday night, were yesterday ...

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

Brown recluse bites are known to take some time before ... a skin graft can help remove the dead cells before replacing them with new, healthy skin. If this is not done, necrosis may spread.