Is the brown recluse in your state? Probably not. (Map Credit: Burke Museum, University of Washington)
Chesire is helping to demystify one of America’s favorite scapegoats (or scapespiders?): Loxoceles reclusa 101 (brown recluse)
Here in California, we don’t even have any brown recluses, but occasionally the news sensationalizes them. Since they’re not found in much of the United States, most doctors naturally have never seen one.
I have heard that in parts of the United States, hobo spiders (Tegenaria agrestis) are commonly misdiagnosed as brown recluse bites. Have anyone heard about this? Citations?
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