» The official BROWN RECLUSE SPIDER - LOCATION

The brown recluse spider, as well as other species of Loxoceles, are native of the USA. Nevertheless, other non-native species can be found in reduced areas of the country; for example, the Loxoceles spider rufescens or mediterranean recluse. Brown recluse spider location takes part mainly in the central midwestern states southward to the Gulf of Mexico, specially in Oklahoma, Arkansas and Missouri. Important: Anyway, these spiders can and does spread, travelling inside boxes and packaging.

Inside homes, the brown recluse spider can be found in any of the following places : dark spots within baths, dormitories, garages, closets and cellars, vent and heating conducts, seldomly used clothes/shoes. They can nest in stored clothes, old books, boxes, furniture, toys, carpets, coatings, corners and cracks.

Outdoors brown recluse spider common habitats: storage places, underneath rocks or inside hollow trunks.

These are common spider hidding spots:

For more inside aspects, please read the article below.

Spider Location by Dr. Brenda Gilmore

The Brown Recluse Spider (recluse Loxosceles) is spread all over United States and its bite injects a strong and harmful poison.

The length of the Brown Recluse Spider body or “corner spider” is between 8 and 12 mm, reaching, with its legs stretched, 45 mm. Its colour is brown, its cefalothorax is lighter than the abdomen, it also has a dark stain with the shape of a violin and the base heads forwards.

The male has a similar length but its body and legs are thinner. It has been found in 41% of the urban houses and 24% in rural places.

This spider has a “house” habitat; shy, lonely and sedentary, the brown recluse spider develops its activity during the night. We can find it in human beings buildings, weaving its web in high and dark corners, behind the paintings or closets.

The bite of this spider is just a self defense mechanism. We can find it along the year but most of the cases occur in summer and spring. The bite, in general, is the result of pressing the spider with the skin during the night when the person sleeps (38%), or when the people get dressed (32%) with clothes that has been hanged on walls or closets for a long time. We find the bite, more often, on the face and extremities. The spider is seen in the 60% of the cases but only identified in the 13% of them.

The medical profile caused by the Loxosceles spiders are known as loxoscelism and takes two clinic descriptions:

1 – Skin Loxoscelism (around 90% of the cases) and
2 -  Skin-Visceral Loxoscelism