This article was originally published on Critter Science.

The brown recluse or as it’s sometimes called the ‘fiddleback’ or ‘violin’ spider, because of the violin-shaped marking on its dorsum, bites can cause ulcerative lesions that can lead to septicemia. The majority of times the bites are rare and harmless. These spiders live throughout the midwest, but can literally […]

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