The Boy Who Put On A Sock That Had A Spider In It 

"the spiders get bigger the higher up you lived" - that finally explans correlation between Spider Man and skyscrapers

when I was living in Death Valley I would shake out my shoe and my leg before putting them on. On one morning I shook out my prosthetic leg and a giant hairy scorpion. This species can grow to 5.5 inches (14 cm) and this was a big one. Their sting is not usually lethal but they are extremely painful and cause quite a lot of swelling. The damn scorpion nearly landed on my bare foot, but I pulled it up onto my bed quick.

I expected the freezeframe at 7:09, and I got it. Never change, doctor.

The first time I went to Florida to visit family I was setting up my bed and saw a gigantic spider run across the room. I ran out of the room and yelled about the spider. My great aunt said, "Oh honey, that's just a _house_ spider!" I didn't sleep well in that house.

"In general, we know that spiders are synanthropic, meaning the more people there are, the more spiders there are, they happen to live _among us."_ GET OUT OF MY HOUSE GET OUT OF MY HOUSE GET OUT OF MY HOUSE GET OUT OF MY HOUSE GET OUT OF MY HOUSE

Just a point of order from an entomologist: There are technically hundreds of venomous spider species in the U.S. The only two medically relevant ones are the brown recluse and black widow though. Most spiders venom is mild and meant to kill insects and are essentially harmless to us.

This video about (spider) bites reminded me of a topic that has fascinated me for a while: rabies. More specifically, I've always wondered about the "Milwaukee protocol" treatment for symptomatic rabies that's been used multiple times with limited (but seemingly real) success. Would you be able to talk about the current state of research on this kind of symptomatic rabies treatment and why it may or may not be recommended? EDIT: For the replies: yes I know there are pre- and post-exposure vaccine courses. That's why I specified symptomatic rabies. There's always going to be those few isolated cases where someone realized too late that they could've gotten rabies in a forgettable encounter with an animal.

Just wondering if global warming will cause the recluse spiders to migrate northward. It seems that fire ants are spreading. I remember seeing "lightning bugs" in North Carolina in the 1960s, but not in Michigan. Now they're ubiquitous in lower Michigan. Yeah, I know that this is somewhat off-topic, but it may be relevant down the pike. I have received a few spider bites and one ran across my face while I was lying down. And my house wasn't a laundry dump of dirty clothes! At any rate, this video is informative and well-presented, per usual! Be well, Dr. Bernard! Thanks! 👍

A coworker got a bite that became necrotic and the doctor said it was a brown recluse bite. We found another spider and he said it was the same kind. It was a hobo spider. I've heard of a lot of people getting necrotic wounds from hobo spiders but their venom doesn't cause it. I wonder if they have dirty mouth parts or if their bites tear the skin in such a way that makes infections likely.

I appreciate these videos as someone who has a more than passing interest in medicine. I trust and respect you, and you illustrate perfectly why people go to school for so long to properly practice it.

Im an Australian invertabrate breeder that specialises in spiders and there arent any Loxosceles sp but we do have Latrodectus hasselti among a few highly toxic mygalamorphs such as funnelwebs and mouse spiders. there are always going to be discrepiencies on location data and mature females of any spider produce hundreds of young and are more often than not gravid to begin with, there are going to be areas where Brown recluses are common completely away from their supposed range. What I have found with huntsmen is basically anywhere over aus where the conditions are the same for a certain species, there will be more. For an example, theres a species of small huntsman spider, Beregama cordata which are common throughout the far north rainforests but the same conditions (albeit localised) of rainforest on the central east coast which these spiders thrive. It always better to look at the conditions like max and min temperature and humidity, altitude and biome.

Even when my room is clean as a hospital, I still find spiders that have gotten in. Luckily, I've never been bitten though.

Thanks again for referencing Vetter's work and showing the range map. If you listen to the local tall tales, brown recluses are everywhere waiting to bite humans at every chance. So much overblown hysteria!

I know this is contrary to the point of the video, but it made me remember when I went to a doctor for a suspected spider bite that was getting a bit gross looking. He said it was merely a foot fungus thing and sent me home with a topical steroid cream. 3 days later I was back with a now huge pus-filled lesion on my foot. A different doctor cut it out, and upon having a dig around in the wound (big ouch) I hear: "ah yes, I think I can even see the original fang marks from the spider here!". I live in Australia.

You know, with all the invasive species hitching rides in shipping containers, it's possible for non-native recluse spiders to appear anywhere on the North American continent.

Hey Emu, thank you for the effort and making 2 videos, the extra explanatory videos are truly awesome.

Spiders follow food, as all good predators do. If you have spider food living in your house then your going to have spiders. If you don’t provide free food and shelter for the food, then they won’t live with you and spiders will stay out. As another note: the notorious “hobo” spider that crawls across you floor/wall/ceiling, is probably actually a male giant house spider on the hunt for the ladies. He has absolutely no interest in dining on human today and is definitely more scared of you than you are of him.

This video causes way less fear of my own bed/socks than the chubbyemo one! Plus, I love the in-depth breakdown of the underlying biochemistry of it all.

I live in Arkansas and the Brown Recluse is extremely common in our area. I have seen a few of the bites, but nothing as severe as what's displayed today, though I have heard anecdotal stories of people's family members passing from Brown Recluse bites. Be mindful of your environment, keep your home and work areas clean, and check your shoes/other clothing for pests, especially during warmer months. Be safe put there guys.

My ultimate fear. Once as a child I put on a shoe that had a centipede in it. It came out of my shoe when I got to class of all places. This is why I hit my shoe against a pole over and over again before putting it on. But what if I just knock the insect unconscious... and then it wakes up in the middle of me driving?! Oh no...

Also for the European viewers, the European cousin of this spider, Loxoscelles Rufescens (also a small brown spider with a violin pattern on the cephallothorax) has a much weaker bite, it shouldn't develop into anything unless you live in the South of the Mediteranean bassin in a warm country, temperature tends to make the venom more potent.

Question! When talking to the arachnologists, instead of the medical practitioners, do they notice the spider habitats moving northward due to climate change? It does seem like something likely to occur at some point, but I don't know if it has actually been observed yet by those seeking out these types of spiders.

please keep doing videos on this channel. I thoroughly enjoy how in depth you go. KNOWLEDGE

Me: frantically punching all the socks in my sock drawer while my cats watch on with indifference.

A high school classmate of mine died from a spider bite a few years ago. I can't remember if it was a brown recluse or black widow, but his father told me that by the time the family realized the bite was serious enough to require urgent medical care, it was too late. Even after being hospitalized he just wasn't able to recover. It was devastating for everyone who knew him, partly because it caused such a rapid decline to his health in so little time.

I said I wanted to live in a penthouse as my dream home but now I’ll stick to a house ON GROUND

What has to go wrong in your life for you to have a rock in your shoe and instead of thinking, “I should get this rock out”, you just changed the way you walk entirely.

Grasshoppers have wings. They can fly. That's how they got up there.

I found myself doing laundry while watching this video. Wonder what might have triggered it

Thank you for making these videos and giving such an deep analysis and explanation of what is occurring. You are succinct, concise, clear, direct, and absolutely wonderful to listen to. I would hope that all upcoming doctors in the world took a page out of your book. Please continue to share your wisdom and knowledge with everyone.

I got a hobo spider in San Jose CA, bite caused necrosis. Saw the spider, mild sting. Long recovery.

really love the in depth videos. certainly puts the main video in perspective :)

My cousin and I live in Utah she often leaves her clothes on the floor. One day she noticed a wound on her thigh. The wound wasn’t healing instead it was growing bigger and getting worse so she decided to go to the doctors. The doctor looked at the wound and told her it was a brown recluse spider bite. Of course all of us were skeptical because brown recluse spiders don’t live in Utah, do they?

Bro I am petrified of spiders, and now this is just gonna make me straight up paranoid lol

Your video clip at 4:09 got me all **shudders*** But wait! Spider venom has in it hyaluronidase? I’m surprised Aesthetics hasn’t turned it in to some kind of filler. We’ll stick a neuromodulator in your scalp, but I often wonder what would happen if I just emptied the syringe down my throat. 🤔 God I hate spiders.

"brown recluse bites are overdiagnosed" that's just what Big Spider(tm) wants you to think

I love unpopular takes. Thank you for posting this. I believe, like you, that the take on spiders is fear based, this causes errorneous reporting.

The spiders in your apartment were probably just very well fed orb weavers. They aren't gonna hurt you, they just want your flies and mosquitoes.

Chicago here - your mystery spider is very likey Achaearanea tepidariorum, also known as the common house spider. They're extremely common here, and get H U G E! But, as you say, are completely harmless.

I can say for a certainty that brown recluse, while rare in Chicago and neighboring communities, are in fact present in the area. A family member who has lived in that area for 30 years has only ever found 1 brown recluse in their basement, so it is very rare. The more commonly found spider is the yellow sac, which can be often mistaken for the brown recluse. I have the photo my relative took of the brown recluse and can tell the difference. He threw a large book at it and sent it to its next life.

How dare you hit me with the Amogus.

The title reads like that of a children's bedtime story

if I saw a spider as big as you did in that Chicago apartment I would have moved out

Ok i totally hear what you are saying about the location of these spiders. But i think you forget that goods and végétal materials are transported daily for the southwest to the north. All it takes is one pregnant female to find their way into the goods and that girl and her babies will live a very nice life un your temperature controlled house. The state of Michigan warned people i. The early 2000 about them. They aren't endemic. in fact they're rare. But they are there, from time to time.

"If you live north of I-80" I live both north AND south of I-80 😭 **cries in Des Moines**

I grew up in the pacific northwest where there are hobo spiders. They were thought to be venomous and dangerous back then, so we were all always worried about them! Looked it up after you talked about black widows and brown recluse being the only recognized venomous spiders in the US and sure enough the CDC stopped recognizing them as venomous in 2017.

Just fyi, i grew up in mid Michigan, a friend of ours in our church was bit by a brown recluse. He almost lost his arm. Also my father worked in heating and cooling. So he was in crawl spaces a lot. He has seen brown recluses and the state of Michigan warns people working in those spaces about their presence. They're rare. I wouldn't call them endemic, but they're there and you can get bit if you cross one.

I know that the brown recluse is a skilled tagalong. Don't know who it rode with, but it's been confirmed in 10 counties of Michigan since up to 20 years ago. One tore my friend up when it got into her underwear drawer. Efforts to keep it from getting rooted have been pretty effective, fortunately. Especially in Wayne county, we get a lot of visitors from the southern states where brown recluses live. Most of our population has origin in those states. I'm thinking that's how they made it there.

yeh my son used to pile up dirty laundry on his bedroom floor. then i bought him a $5 laundry bin. mfw parents give lectures but offer no tangible solutions.

Those spiders the size of your palm live here in Washington too. They're called the giant house spider. They look like hobo spiders, except with one difference: they're way bigger

Can anyone tell me why someone would not check their sock that they just put on for a rock instead of just wearing it all day? Like that's the most annoying part for me.

Spiders are also larger by the lake. Plenty of potential food sources use the Great Lakes as a breeding ground like mayflies and midges. The more food the bigger the spiders. We had some monster wolf spiders when I worked at Cedar Point because of the smorgasbord of available bugs.

Grasshoppers fly. That's how they got to the 40th floor.

I’ve never taken for granted the fact I live in New Zealand where the worst spider you could ever find is a white tail the size of a jelly bean.

There are definitely brown recluse spiders here in Jacksonville FL and are fairly common.

Spiders have always spooked me terribly, but I should probably be grateful that I live in Scotland and we don't have any poisonous spiders here, at least I don't think we do?

I'm not disagreeing with anything you said on this video, just voicing my personal experience. I grew up in Tucson Arizona and studied wildlife biology, I even volunteered at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum in the early 1970's, and I've seen LOT'S of our arachnid brethren, black widows included. As I understood it, it was impossible for them to live in certain environments. In the mid 1980's I moved to Seattle, definitely not part of their range. I saw my first wild, mature female widow in a friend's basement in 1987, I remember because it wasn't supposed to be possible. I've seen dozens since, all indoors, and many with their unique egg cases in the web, along with the dessicated bodies of the male, so there were at least 1/2 dozen breeding individuals that I saw with my own eyes and did not misidentify. During this period, a lot of people moved from the southwest to Washington State, often to Seattle. My guess is that the spider's hitched a ride, and found that, at least indoors, they could survive.

I grew up in middle-northern Georgia, and it was only made apparent that the brown recluse had migrated or had been imported into my home state after one of my camp counselors got bitten and recovered the spider after her wrist started experiencing that red, white, and blue tissue coloring. We found nests of them in different parts of the woods and burned them before they could hatch. They aren’t native to the area. Sadly, that was 20 years ago, and they’ve spread all over the state. She taught us all the importance of recovering the snake or spider that bit you if it was safe to do so, but that was before everyone had phones to take pics of the snake instead of taking it to the hospital with us.

Theres actually a great vid about Brown Recluses by Travis McEnery who has a series about "The Spiders in Your House". I think it really gives an insight not only into the spider, but also where they live (low) and the map you show'd, but also how least likely it is to actually get bitten by one--the 2k Brown Recluses found in the home where no-one was bitten by one. There's also lots of other info about the Brown Recluse, its an hour long, but really good insight from collaberations fo spider scientists.

This case just reminded me of the time when I found a massive wolf spider in my tent while we were out in the field during basic at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri. I never ran so fast or screamed so loud while getting out of that tent. I couldn’t sleep at all and that was on the 1st of the 4 days we were out there

New fear unlocked

I live in Missouri and I have never lived in a house or apartment without brown recluses. I have also never been bit or had one on me. They are called recluses for a reason, they tend to hide and only come out late at night. If you are generally clean and have your home/apartment treated for bugs on a regular basis they most likely won’t be an issue for you.

Black widow found here in MD. Just feet away from where my geo metro stayed parked living it's previous life of 23 years in Southern California. Two years in storage before being towed to MD (twilight zone music)

The Wendler quote just made me lose my shit, sometimes I forget Bernard used to be a powerlifter

I am in the far northeast corner of the brown recluse’s range and can say I have never seen one. I’ve seen masses of grass spiders, wolf spiders, crab spiders, jumping spiders, cellar spiders, castleback spiders, and one time saw a black widow (my one brother has seen lots of them). Never saw a brown recluse. People around me tend to panic over cellar spiders and grass spiders being brown recluses because they’re large, brown, and have markings (tan jumpers are itty bitty little things that I often pick up in my yard), but neither has anything fiddle-like on their abdomen.

Would there be any difference in symptoms or a higher risk if the patient already had an underlying blood disorder such as Thalassemia or other types of anemia?

People move across the country all the time, and they often bring unwanted passengers along with them. It is NOT unreasonable to think that a person from the south brought a brown recluse or two north, and that the spider found a hospitable home there. Sometimes, people bring dangerous animals with them as cool pets. I lived in Green Bay, WI and my friend had a collection of black widows! Don't sit there doubting the possibility. I'm SURE there are circumstances where some dangerous spiders are in the north, due to humans.

Another tour de force of the narrator's art. Bravo!! This is Dr. B. doing what he does best: making medical terminology accessible to lay persons not in the medical field.

note: if you are scared of spiders please remember that spiders are more scared of you then you are scare of them

I was bitten by a black widow as a child. Paralyzed me from the waist down, projectile vomiting for like 4 hours, and they knocked me out with ketamine I guess. I don’t remember any of it.

So fascinating. I got bit by a brown recluse here in Texas. It seemed like a normal spider bite at first. But then it went from swelling into an ugly, white ulcer on the skin. I went to a clinic and they said that a brown recluse was the likely culprit. They said I caught bite before the necrotizing had gotten "real bad," whatever that means. 😆 Either way, I got some medicine, the severe symptoms went away in a few days, and the bite turned into a scar after a few months. And now I want to escape from Texas, because screw getting bit by one of those things again.

My dad got bit by a violin spider I believe it was. It wasn't noticed in time and the doctor told him he'd lose his finger. A native American coworker of his gave him a cream that he said was a remedy from his tribe. My dad used it and while they did have to remove one of the small muscles on the side of his finger, he still HAS that finger. The muscle they removed was also a minor stabilizer muscle so losing it did not significantly effect the movement of that finger. I guess the guy quit like, the next day or something so my dad didn't even get to thank him properly.

In the US we also have a red widow in the lower south eastern states.

Also we have a joke among entomologists. Whenever you find a spider you shout- “ITS A BROWN RECLUSE!”

I've been bit my brown recluse several times before... They're not fun... first time started out as a rash then spreads and to a large inflamed area, then a dime sized area of necrosis within a couple hours... however, every time I've been bitten since the reaction is slightly less... My treatment for it has been soaking a rag in hydrogen peroxide and leaving it on the spot for a couple of hours... at this point, I'm pretty much immune to the little bastards. I'm in Missouri BTW. those violin backed little bastard infest everything here... lol

The worst thing about this story is that he pees in the shower.

I live in NY and I have been bit by Brown Recluses multiple times. I dont know if somehow there is a freak area where they are common here or what. There are several cases I know of that have been confirmed to be Brown Recluses bites due to the spiders being brought in when the person reported the bites. 2 of the 5 times I was bit I did have the spiders with me. I have a weakened immune system so I did react badly to 2 of the bites and ended up with having to go to wound care. The 1 bite I had to have surgery to remove the affected area as result of secondary issues due to the bite. I do know there was a person that loved to keep all sorts of spiders and would breed them. When they got an overpopulation of any type they would just let them go outside so maybe that has something to do with it. All the Brown Recluse bites in this area are within a certain range of the different places that person lived. Once they were out of the area for a couple years the reports of bites died down. In my case the infectious disease department ruled out other causes especially with the fact I had the spiders that bit me with me when I got it checked out.

It’s important to remember that L. Reclusa is a frequent traveler well outside of its assumed range. The spider is very docile, timid, and, of course, reclusive. They love plastic tubs and cardboard moving boxes that are often set aside in quiet, undisturbed places. A friend who flips storage units finds a specimen at least once a month. Goodness knows how far they travel, even if they never establish themselves.

I live in eastern North Carolina and know at least 4 people who have been diagnosed with brown recluse spider bites. Is that possible? Are they traveling?

You legitimately motivated me to get on the pathway towards medicine. I started watching a couple years ago when you just started diving into fascinating toxicology courses. Now I’m in college, working towards med school, and absolutely fascinated by organic chemistry. Of course this goes out to the whole comment section as well, but would the field of anesthesiology be a heavy organic chemistry field, or should I more focus on pharmacology?

Personal/performance details contribute positively in all episodes across your three channels Good to see you looking trim, healthy, Dr Bernard

In the south we are taught early on to shake out every and any shoe before putting it on!!!! Lol But I would like clarification please …. I was taught in trauma nursing specific for Louisiana (in 2003) that all spiders are venomous however in the US only 2 indigenous spiders (widow & recluse)are able to inject venom into the subcutaneous layers to warrant emergency treatment. Is this still true? out of date? Just wondering b/c I no longer work as a RN. AND…..Thanks and I JUST LOVe your videos ……the nitty gritty detail and the way you explain the scientific principles down to the chemistry and physics . Great JOB. You are an amazing teacher, a talent not all geniuses like you are blessed to have. (Just because a Dr or RN are super smart, this does not necessarily make them a great mentor or teacher!!!! 🥳

i own three spiders but i live right along I32 on the bluff of the mississippi and because i have very severe mental illness i too live in a room covered in mixed clothes and i even somewhat frequently find these spiders in my house and gently put them outside and basically despite dearly loving spiders like a psycho i am absolutely petrified of my bedroom right now, thank you!

We have both recluses and black widows in Arizona with some odd (read: SCARY) visual varieties for each that help them blend into the terrain (desert/Arizona recluses and brown & Western widows). There's also some aggressive jumping wolf spiders - they aren't technically venomous, but it certainly doesn't feel good and they love infiltrating Tucson garages. There's definitely useful house spiderbros and orb weavers about that are catching blame for infected tick and mosquito bites, but for bites that fester, however unlikely, I am going to cast some aspersions of guilt towards those shifty and venomously bitey hooligans, too.

I have not seen any comments on this or the main Chubbyemu video from someone like me who lives with brown recluses and has been bitten by one. I was sitting at my computer desk one summer evening a few years ago. I felt something coming up my leg, under my pants. My immediate thought was that it was a tick, since I had been outside in the yard earlier. So, I pressed down on the spot where it was, keeping it in place so I could roll up my pants leg and remove it. It was not a tick, though; it was a brown recluse that I jabbed into my own leg. I was a little concerned since, though I am relatively well-read about spiders and the natural world, in general, I had never been bitten by a venomous spider before. But I am not the type to rush to a doctor or emergency room, despite the fear-mongering I saw online on various sites saying that my leg was basically going to rot off due to necrosis, if I did not die from the spider's venom first. Luckily, Dr. Rick Vetter's brown recluse site appeared relatively high in the search results, with its advice to apply ice to the bite, elevate the area, and avoid introducing any bacteria to the bite by scratching the damaged tissue. That last part is key, since my bite started itching several hours later. I avoided scratching my bite by wearing thick pants, even while sleeping. Although a small, slightly sunken, red circle appeared on my leg, I did not experience any necrosis or other signs of loxoscelism. Within about ten days, the red lesion disappeared. Has my bite or any of the horror stories online changed how I deal with brown recluse spiders? No. I have had hundreds of sightings of brown recluse spiders in my house since I moved into it nearly a decade ago. They are just a presence that I can expect to see regularly. I could try and get rid of them, but my neighborhood in North Alabama is an old one, filled with historic houses, and is well known in the area for having a high concentration of brown recluses. Having spent some time in my neighbor's basement woodworking shop, I can say that he has more of them than I do. So, if I managed to rid my house of my brown recluses, more would just come over from the neighbors' houses to take their place. Spiders, even venomous ones, are not something to be afraid of or act irrationally about. P.S. The spider in your Chicago high-rise photo looks like some sort of orb weaver. They get big and make large webs. The eaves of my house are filled with them in late summer, though if houses and high-rises were not around, their webs would be up in trees. They do not stay suspended in their web during the day; if they did, birds would eat them. You can find them hiding nearby in a crevice or other hiding spot.

I live in the suburbs above Chicago and was bitten by a brown recluse. Luckily it didn’t get into my bloodstream so I was ok but it took months to heal and I will have a scar on my hand for the rest of my life.

There are more than a couple species of Loxosceles in the US, several along the Mexican border, and the black widow genus has several species across the US. I'm not sure what species of Latrodectus is in your video with the red stripes on its abdomen, but it is not the typical northern or southern black widow.

I have such a fear of spiders I can't even force myself to watch this vid. I'd love to know the info but can't do it. Love your vids anyway & always, thanks ❤

I was in Quincy, CA working for a ranger station about 7 years ago. On one particular day, the crew I was with was working to clear mountain fire roads of excessive brush and undergrowth to render them passable for fire trucks in the upcoming fire season. At one point, near mid day, something had crawled up my leg and bit the left side of my right calf, just above my sock line. I smacked my pants and a long legged beady eyed spider 🕷 fell out. I stomped it and kept working. A few minutes later the spot it bit began to itch. Then itch really bad. At lunch I pulled my pant leg up to have a look and the spot was very red and starting to swell. A little while later I checked on it again and it's diameter had doubled and now it was painful to touch. When I got back to town that evening the bite was bigger round than a quarter and the center was starting to puss. The next day there was crater in my leg that seemed to be getting bigger and deeper. I didn't really have any avenue of medical attention available to me at that moment so I did what any good hippy would do and put a couple drops of tea tree oil on it and a couple drops of cinnamon leaf oil as well. The progress of the necrosis stopped. The redness and swelling went down, and over the course of a couple weeks it healed up. But now, I have a craterous scar. A dimple. You can clearly tell by feeling it that there was once a hole there. I don't know if it was a brown recluse bite, but whatever it was, was starting to necrotize my flesh.

dont worry, you can't make me afraid of spiders, I'm already deathly afraid of them

I got what was probably a rather minor black widow bite on my leg, earlier this year. I did not notice it until well after the fact, and have been dealing with some highly localized issues for 5 months since then, mostly bruising in a quarter sized area around the bite, it had a scab that turned into a pit the size of a .22cal round ball (think airsoft pellet sized), which has since mostly healed. There is still some local bruising on the yellow end of the color scale, and i can feel a sort of indentation under my skin in my muscle, as if that small area got digested and absorbed, but it stayed in the cutaneous layer, and i'm a bigger guy, so fortunately there is no muscular damage! It didn't get infected either, it's just taking forever to heal because i have also been dealing with some pedal edema in both legs due to my health, which i've been doing cardio and stretching to alleviate. I'm actually looking to follow some of your weight loss philosophies and i'm looking for a nutritionist in the SF bay if you have any recommendations. RU-vid probably isn't the best place for you too see this and reply, but such is life

In the Chubby Emu video you mentioned there are only two US spiders that are venomous. All spiders are venomous, but not all bite humans or have fangs long enough to penetrate skin. Their venom is used to digest their food.

Here in Chicago i have seen some brown recluses. It's not super common but it is above I-80. That is an invisible line that can be crossed

IT'S NEVER LUPUS, Until it's Lupus! 😉

Speaking of insects getting up high....when I first started taking flying lessions I was shocked when a Grasshoppper went SPLAT on my windshield at about 1500 feet.

Every mom should save this video to show their kids! Lol

BRB, I'm off to pick up my room.

Fun fact some rural areas of Kentucky have both black widows and brown recluse

Where is this man? He's been mia the last 8 months. Its so odd & confusing. Such loss . I'm hypobummed. 😢

The first and only time I came in contact with a brown recluse was on a mission trip in one of the southern states. We were working under a trailer and when I turned to reach for a tool I saw a creepy crawly prowling around. Makes me glad I live up in Pennsylvania