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.

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 ...

they may do special surgeries to release pressure and remove dead tissue. The risk of life-threatening complications due to a brown recluse spider bite is very small, as are your chances of ...

Brown recluse bites also may develop an area of dead skin tissue called an eschar that eventually sloughs off and leaves an ulcer behind, Levoska says. However, bites from black widow spiders don ...