Brown Recluse Spiders – Are They in Your Home?

Everyone has heard the horror stories about brown recluse spiders. To hear most people tell it, a brown recluse will chase you around the house, bite you, and make your leg fall off. The truth of the matter is that the vast majority of people on the earth will never even [...]

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The Scariest Spiders On Earth

Trying to determine the scariest spiders on earth is not the easiest thing in the world to do. It might seem like a no-brainer, but to tell you the truth it depends on who you are and what you have experienced with spiders. Still, I thought it might be fun to make [...]

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Brown Recluse Spider Bite Treatment And First Aid

The brown recluse spider bite can be one of the most invasive and destructive venomous bites in the United States.  The brown recluse is not especially aggressive, but it will bite if it is cornered or perceives a threat.  Most brown recluse spider bites happen when people dig into storage or retrieve items that have [...]

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Identifying Spiders – The Brown Recluse

The brown recluse, or fiddleback spider, is one of the more dangerous spiders found in the United States.  Though the spider has a fearsome reputation, it is actually quite shy and uninterested in human beings.  Still, the brown recluse delivers a venomous bite that can cause massive tissue damage, and in extremely rare cases, death. [...]

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The Cottonmouth – Description and Identification

The cottonmouth, commonly referred to as a water moccasin, is a stout bodied snake that is alternately described as reclusive and aggressive. My personal experience with this pit viper is that it is highly territorial, and not likely to give ground when confronted. That said, the cottonmouth has never exactly been aggressive as [...]

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Avoiding the Bite of the Black Widow Spider

The black widow spider is one of two dangerous spiders found in the United States and is the most commonly encountered. Getting bitten by a black widow spider is not something that you ever want to encounter as it is very painful and in children the elderly, quite dangerous. If you take  the following precautions, [...]

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