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 ...

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 ...

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.