No, we have a very very bad Brown Recluse problem.

They know how to conserve the concept of flat.

Toenails is absolutely correct. These things are NOT rare, and they're a hiding predator. If there's a crack or a fold or shadowy, non-illuminated place in a house you do NOT reach in blindly. When we moved two years ago last October we found FIVE OR SIX of these things in furniture throughout the house hiding in the backs of rarely used drawers and whatnot.

Pretty sure the goblin was joshin. keep squashin.

They like dark dank places like basements and seldom used closets. After I sent one scuttling out from underneath a laundry tub, I never reached underneath there again. They're so TINY.

I am in no way concerned about spiders the way I am other living things; they have no problems breeding and keeping their populations up.

My Grandmother once went to bed complaining about a spider bite on her chest, and woke up dead the next day.

The coroner chalked it up to Heart Disease, but to this day the family is convinced she died of a Brown Recluse bite.

I had a very similar mild brown recluse bite. All it did was itch. The only reason I knew it was a spider bite was because I found the dead spider in my bed when I woke up.

A nature video on poetv taught me I don't have to be as scared of something as I was. I....this...uhh...I don't know how to handle this.

Well I'm sure in the next few days this site will show me something more horrible then I could have ever imagined and everything will even out.

No, not all bites have the nectrotic reaction, but at the moment I can't remember if it's a matter of an allergy or weakened immune system.

My mom was bitten by a brown recluse and it nearly killed her. Ever since, she's had a shitty immune system.

I got bitten by something in the neck while I was asleep, which I have always believed to be a recluse. The bite turned into a half-golfball sized, hard lipidous growth. It hurt like hell. I went to a doctor thinking it was cancer, and he lanced it. It was kinda nasty. It slowly shrunk but there has always been a hard fishing weight of fatty tissue right where it bit me. It has only recently vanished.

I was bit 16 years ago.

I said "nectrotic" but what I mean was NECROTIC. My apologies for stupid-ass typing.

Got bitten by one of these once. All the veins and capillaries around the bite became visible and the center had two visible deep purple holes.

It was like a fucking zombie spider or something.

People, why the fuck are you still talking about this spider like it ain't nothing?

Toenails just said his grandmother got bit by one and WOKE UP AFTER SHE DIED.

You sure about that?

I applaud your disguise. Are the spiders fooled?