Brown Recluse Spiders - What You've Been Told is Totally Wrong

[@DanTheBugMan]

Thanks for watching everyone! 🕷️🕸️ Who here has arachnophobia?! 😅 Let me know if you have found BR in your state!

[@kaileyrenae7169]

I have arachnophobia so bad that I talk with my therapist about it. Every time I clean I find a brown recluse and it's quite traumatizing.💀💀💀😂😂 thank you for being so brave with these very identifiable creepy Critters!❤❤ much love from Colorado!❤

[@Gabriel.1985.]

I got bit by one when I put on my uniform for work, I could feel it crawling on me and a pinch, a week later the bite mark was black in the middle and about the size of a golfball, I had to get it cut open, drained and anti biotics. I'm not 💯 percent sure it was a BR spider but talked to lots of people and that's what they all thought.

[@bigdonniebrasco]

I found 23 LARGE ones in my garage in 10 min

[@aibhilin1211]

I'm in SW Missouri, I just killed one crawling from below my coffee table to the water bottle on top. I have entire Ziploc bags filled with them. I used to be terrified of them, but knowledge is power. My rental house is 85 yrs old, drafty and surrounded by woods, so-yeah. I'm fastidious with shaking out everything; clothes, towels, shower curtain, bedding, etc. I check before I sit down everywhere. I'm a CA native, 10 yrs of the Ozarks and ticks, copperheads, wasps, water snakes, assassin bugs, mice, rats 🤮 I miss summers at the beach with 70ish temps, no humidity, no bugs. It's too hot to even enjoy the outdoors. But I'm here and trying to make the best of it. I was definitely unprepared for the bugs and rodents that thrive in these woods. Thank you for your informative video, I'm definitely decluttering, clearing shrubs from exterior and looking forward to getting regular professional treatments done. Impressive that you're running your own business so young!

[@OwdeeTeeTee]

We have brown recluse spiders in Michigan. I just treated for them yesterday as a matter of fact

[@stevenpike7857]

I love how young and motivated you are running your own business.

[@RedGummyBears-g3g]

Hey Dan, when I was stationed in Missouri 35 years ago and those Recluses were everywhere.

[@mebreevee]

Can confirm

[@CWRU]

Pretty certain I just had one pop out of some wrapped up items I got out of storage. It happened in the area of Charleston, WV, but the box was in storage in NE Ohio. The box had been on the property for some time so the spider could have come from either region. There was a baby in the box as well. I killed both and after emptying the box, burned it and the wrapping paper in case there were any eggs. I know spiders and this was no grass, wolf, house or cellar spider. The only other possibility would be a yellow sack spider, which is native to NE Ohio, however the color was a much darker tan and the marking on the carapace more pronounced (it was moving quick and I had to use my knife to kill the large one before I could positively ID the fiddle). That all notwithstanding, thank you for a very informative video and best of luck to you in your business!

[@stormwarden1287]

In my 33 years of life, living around mid-Northern Indiana, I've never seen a single one. I feel people (not all) identify them improperly.

[@lakeerielove8068]

Northeast Ohio. I got bit by one last week! So painful! Living on antibiotics.

[@YoursUntruly]

I live on Cape Breton Island Canada. My buddy’s dad got bit on the foot by one after lunch when he put his work boots back on. Had a red line slowly moving up his leg. Hsd to go to the hospital. They’re extremely rare, though.

[@ellieeveritt]

My old home had an infestation. I was in my late 20s after having my first child, and had moved in with my mom for a couple of years. I killed one in the bath tub. This was in Houston, Texas. My mom didn't believe me that it was a recluse, but I took a picture before killing it. She still didnt think it was one. About a month later, I caught one in a shopping bag in the closet that had party favors for my daughter's birthday. I put the spider in a zip lock bag and called pest control. They confirmed it was a brown recluse. We put traps down and caught maaany more. That house wasn't even cluttered! My next house had a brown WIDOW problem in the garage. That was crazy because I found a beautiful female with 20 spiky egg sacs in one spot!!

[@stelthy100]

I LIVE IN ILLINOIS AND I WAS BITTEN BY A BROWN RECLUSE SPIDER I HAVE THE SCARS AND HOSPITAL IDENTIFICATION OF SAID SPIDER AND THEY ARE NO JOKE IF YOUR BITTEN BY ONE

[@Germ1993]

Yeah I’m a plumber in Michigan and I’ve been in a decent amount of crawl spaces, yes we have them here as well lol. Yeah I don’t see them as often, but I do see them.

[@rossdevin9799]

Yes, I live in Wisconsin and I live in the south central part of the state, about 2 hrs from the border of Illinois. We found them on the farm alot. I set sticky pads up in the house and so far haven't caught any but outside is more common.

[@deadshallriseagain8513]

Yes, warm and dry, buy the area in total geographic wise is warm and moist weather...but they will live in dry warm places, alot of older houses with loose molding, or old wallpaper

[@paulbrowniii7919]

My mom was bit by one in Maryland so it’s not just in central areas. She got bit and nearly lost her leg was swollen and almost decaying at the bite area.

[@DARK_KATACLYSM]

Yeah I think they are everywhere

[@g-man5809]

Your knowledge is spot on.

[@debrabessette2699]

I live in upstate New York and am recovering from a spider bite behind my earthat caused necrosis. Had to see a doctor gor treatment. I dont know how I was bitten, but I think it was in my ball cap that I keep on a clothes tree with my equestrian clothes. Or, I was bitten in bed. I had a temperature of 102, and was very ill . I've heard 2 other people have had bites with severe reactions in a nearby town. I haven't even seen a spider anywhere!

[@djkid22]

They are all over the place in Tennessee. I could probably find 50 in my house and garage. We rarely see one out in the open but occassionally one will scurry across the floor. Like Dan said, they are normally behind something or under it. I'm sure the attic is full of them but I literally never go up there. I will look into the recommended chemical treatment! Thanks!

[@deadshallriseagain8513]

I do know that people will exaggerate about the recluse, with states in North America and other places will mistaken the recluse with a spider that looks similar like the brown wood spider, common everywhere, the recluse is akin to a more of a tropical type environment, my uncle R.I.P was bitten in Vietnam by a recluse, he had to doctor that bite for years after eating flesh, but they are a tropical environment type meaning warm moisture..

[@adamwilliams2679]

I imagine if their bites caused a narcotic reaction that a lot more people would be trying to get bitten... Lol it's okay. I know you meant necrotic. And the problem there isn't the scarring so much as the bite causing a much larger wound that many times does not want to heal, remaining an open sore. I remember seeing one poor guy getting his bandage changed out and pretty much one whole side of his back was just open and bloody. I grew up in Wyoming and I know there were some out there. When I lived in Maryland, my financial advisor actually was bitten when one was unfortunately trapped as he was putting a glove on. Thankfully his only reaction was being deathly ill for a week versus the necrotic one. I think the myth about them being extremely aggressive comes down to their numbers and fear of their bite. One other spider that gets a bad rap about aggressiveness is the black widow. It normally takes a lot to get bitten by one. Didn't stop my ex from getting that job done though lol. She definitely had a lot of nerve pain on her left side and nausea for a couple days after that.

[@DanTheBugMan]

Hahaha words are hard okay! Yes that's very true. I knew someone that was bit and they didnt have a necrotic reaction, just a big red spot

[@awolfv]

Another risk is that in children the bite wound may be minor but internally cause organ failure, clotting, seizures and death.

[@RedGummyBears-g3g]

If a male is bitten by the Phoneutria (Brazilian Wandering Spider) he will get and erection that lasts for days but I don't see wives and girlfriends stashing them in their guy's underwear drawer.

[@marcat3900]

although they can occasional be out side there rang if they hich a ride in a box they dont move out side the new house in other-words could be pockets but they dont spread.

[@yeahexceptno]

We just saw one of these beauties in our condo in Mexico! So pretty. The condo building does fumigate regularly so it did not survive, sadly but very cool spider.

[@Hazel-Eyed-Italian]

I live in Coastal NC and we have them… and most people get bit due to putting on a shoe that one happens to be in… or if one is in your clothes that you put on and don’t realize it’s there… my dad got bit by one and it was nasty!

[@ROBSOLUTELY]

We have them in Pennsylvania. I've taken pictures of them so many times. It's not like they are out walking during the day, but they do hide in dark areas of the home or in basements.

[@DanTheBugMan]

Yes I believe it! Why do these maps say differently?!

[@ROBSOLUTELY]

@@DanTheBugMan About 5 years ago I got bit by a spider and they thought it was a Brown Recluse bite. So I had someone like you come to my house to get ride of spiders. They found a bunch of Brown Recluse in my attic. They look similar to smaller Wolf Spiders and I think people don't realize the difference. We have some BIG Wolf Spiders around here, but typically the Wolfs stay outside in rock or wood piles, where the Brown Recluse were in my attic. I also saw a Black Widow in Pennsylvania, which is really rare.

[@ROBSOLUTELY]

Love your videos!

[@keonwashington2904]

My mom got bit a while left a huge hole and her leg but yeah in Florida we see all the time

[@melissahinkley7629]

I watched a video the other day with a wolf spider vs. a brown recluse. I was surprised to see that the wolf spider killed the brown recluse. I guess the wolf spider is an aggressive hunter. When my ex-husband was out in the field while in the Army in TX, he was bitten by a brown recluse on the side and palm of his hand. Necrosis did set in and his hand turned a purplish-brown. It took awhile for his hand to heal, for the dead skin to fall off, and new skin to grow back.

[@DanTheBugMan]

Yes for sure! The BR may have a more toxic bite, but the Wolf spiders are so much bigger and stronger than the BR spiders. And dang ouch! I've never witnessed a BR spider bite reaction but they seem brutal.

[@DARK_KATACLYSM]

@@DanTheBugMansix eyed sand spiders have some of the same type of venom a brown recluse has, but far more dangerous.

[@RedGummyBears-g3g]

When I was stationed at Fort Wood Missouri in 1980 we lived off post. I would wake up in the middle of the night when they would run over my face. I would turn on the light and they would be on the bedspread. was a medic so I collected one and took it to the entomologist on post for a positive I.D. They were Recluses. I was never bitten that I know of but we had so many we moved back on post.

[@jonathancoutts7775]

They're definitely in Maine as well.....black widows too. They say they're not here but they are cause I've seen them both

[@erinshayoseaghdha3236]

In Central Virginia and we have them. I have been bitten 2xs. Last bite 9/10/24 Very painful! Living on antibiotics now and hopefully no skin grafts. I had a friend who was bitten on the face while at VA beach and she had to have skin grafts.

[@mebreevee]

I lived with a basement infested with them for 9 months. Not my favorite, when I wanted to walk barefoot but otherwise they were more unsettling than harmful. Currently, in my new habitat, I think renovations on an adjacent apartment are stirring them up.

[@marywikstrom3756]

3 different patients of mine bitten in Iowa and Nebraska

[@davidhinesNA1995]

Thanks for the content Dan your the man.I'm north Carolina at the north Carolina South Carolina and Tennessee border and I promise we have brown recluse spiders in my childhood house attic which my dad still lives. My step dad got bit and it ate a hole in leg and he brought it to the ER. It was a brown recluse bite but only a fraction of people react in this way.

[@beemer345]

I got bit by a Chilean Recluse over the summer. Had to get a life flight. Almost lost my right thumb. And of all places happened in MA

[@TownGirl04]

I have seen them in a shed, a garage and outside cottage (which you wouldn't know until spraying the outside for spiders). Haven't seen an infestation. You asked where: Ontario, Canada. What I don't like is the garden spider... they get HUGE 😮

[@donhamm8740]

Can verify by fiddle back marking on middle abdomen they are in extreme eastern North Carolina along costal waterway

[@The_sinner_Jim_Whitney]

I was bitten on the wrist by a brown recluse putting on a jacket for the first time of the season. It sucked, got pretty nasty, but wasn't such a big deal in the grand scheme of things and healed completely eventually with almost no scarring. They 100% live in the tri-state area (where, WV, OH, and KY border one another). I see several a year. They aren't aggressive at all. If you're a little bit cautious, they pose no real threat to you.

[@DanTheBugMan]

Ouch! I'm lucky to never have been bitten. That's always the case with bites they get stuck in clothing or a bed/couch. Yes I believe it! Ive lived in ky my whole life and they are infesting everywhere around here. Even my own childhood home

[@moonstar68jr]

What are the spiders that carry their babies on their backs?

[@The_sinner_Jim_Whitney]

@@moonstar68jr I know the big fuzzy ones (people call them wolf spiders, but I don't think that's what they really are) do, probably others, too.

[@RedGummyBears-g3g]

When I was an Army medic in Missouri in 1980 we saw one morning on sick call a drill sergeant who had one purple leg from the knee down. It seems his wife washed and pressed his uniforms and hung them in the closet. He rarely got down to the last set hanging before his wife would so the laundry and rehang fresh uniforms. His wife went to visit family so he made it down to the last pair wherein these things had nested in one leg. He said he never really felt a bite but felt them crawling around. We had to send him to a major med center for skin grafts.

[@The_sinner_Jim_Whitney]

@@RedGummyBears-g3g Sometimes their bites get REALLY bad, I don't know if it depends on the spider or the person or both or what. I've known people that had super serious bites and ones like mine that were really no big deal.

[@ayamusic21]

Love your content! Great info on BR spiders but how do you treat a Wolf spider problem in the house?Thank you!

[@Bob-q4x7e]

Try south east Kansas and yes they are in Texas they are a very common spider 🕷️

[@n0b0dy-imp0rt4nt]

they love dry areas. i worked in a counter top shop and saw them daily. to think they dont travel is just insane. spiders are very formidable. they can feign death.

[@DanTheBugMan]

They are very hardy creatures

[@SP_33333]

Yes. Have found a few in our basement in SLC, Utah. I took a pic w/my insect app., BR came up. Yes. They did have the fiddleback marking. Also, there are tons of large black widows inside & out here. I purchased 12 of the insect/mouse traps you recommended. Wolf, black widow, 3 brown recluse (no mice) were caught. Thank you. Will be calling pest control soon.

[@chuckjackson1814]

Michigan. Lansing. We have them. I know three people who have been bitten had to have tissue removed emergency. Also had a nurse that purchased bagged wood chips from landscape co , wood was clean up after a hurricane and sold commercially. She opened a bag had the bag against her body as she was spreading it and a brown recluse next was inside the chips. She received several bites.

[@lakeerielove8068]

Hey neighbor. Ohio has them bad as well

[@ChrisRennie-l9e]

Just got out of the hospital from a Brown recluse spider bite, bucks county Pennsylvania

[@edgardopereles9966]

Greetings! Add Puerto Rico in your list. Also for black widows too.

[@DanTheBugMan]

Thanks for watching! Wow that's a new one but I believe it

[@intheshell35ify]

Many people mistake wolf spiders for brown recluse. Most wolf spiders have bands on their legs and are a bit longer than they are wide. If in doubt get a magnifier and count the eyes..the recluse has 6. After a while you can quickly differentiate between the two. Fun fact...wolf spiders actively hunt brown recluse.

[@christopherracine6261]

I live in New Castle, Indiana i wonder if we have them here?

[@August_Underground_6669]

Yeh we got them in Canada lol! We have black widows too! I’ve seen both but black widow at least five times!

[@gordonbell580]

i live in charlotte been doing pest control 11 years never seen one but there are many in western tip on the tennessee border

[@b-2466]

I know multiple people that have been bitten by then here in eastern Kentucky (4 total), all of them but 1 bitten while sleeping. One of them will always have a hole in her hip because of waiting too long to get medical help. As an hvac tech who is in attics and crawlspaces every day. I don't ever want to see one.

[@kt323]

One of these was trapped in my sink & couldn't get out. I put on kitchen gloves, moved my hand towards it, it walked on to my hand calmly & stayed there until I took it outside, it never tried to attack me. I think most bites happen when ppl accidentally crush them

[@user-vt3vo1yd3v]

They literally cannot bite a human without pressure being put on them, ie rolling onto them in bed, putting your foot on them when they’re inside a shoe. They do not have fangs that are big enough to pierce our skin.

[@eduardocanales3483]

Yea right, one bit me through my long sleeve shirt while i was working in the backyard. Bit me then it spider webbed onto the ground, crawled onto the fence and just sat there looking at me. I let him live though. ​@user-vt3vo1yd3v

[@DARK_KATACLYSM]

@@user-vt3vo1yd3vWRONG

[@mebreevee]

@@user-vt3vo1yd3vNot quite true sadly. They can, they just usually don’t unless threatened.

[@carmyopteryx]

Killed a huge pregnant one a couple weeks ago, got up in the middle of the night and she was climbing up the wall behind the fridge. Told my husband we need to spray immediately as she was probably not the only one around. We have TONS of other spiders here too including some giant black widows. I'm in Salt Lake City UT. One thing that I think contributes to the issue is we have a home with a cedar exterior. I think there are TONS of places for bugs to hide under the wood slats that have bowed slightly. We also have lots of trees.

[@dragonking8085]

Ironically enough if I remember correctly cedar is a natural arthropod repellent

[@nhdjoseywales]

I wouldn’t call them aggressive but you can spray them in the face with raid and they stand there looking annoyed. I personally never saw them in the Mississippi delta but Memphis Tn is full of them.

[@roxyrain1]

PA has them!

[@felipeybarra7426]

Excellent Info on Brown Recluse👍Thanks Dan.

[@DanTheBugMan]

Glad it was helpful!

[@TruthWins...]

Tell the recluses in Kansas they aren't aggressive because they didn't get the memo

[@SHETTERBUG]

I lived in Gloucester va when I saw brown recluse spiders inside my house ( eastern Virginia)

[@michaelhilliary4916]

Im certain that brown recluses have been in every state.. they love boxes. Boxes are used to move.. they get moved.. do they live for generations beyond that is the question

[@michaelharrington75]

A lot of people saying they found brown recluse are misidentifying the spiders. Test have been done, and on one test the majority of spiders sent in as brown recluse from each State were not brown recluse spiders. One state sent in over a hundred spiders, and 0 were actually brown recluse.

[@billwhitmer7544]

Northern va I’ve been bit had to go for surgery so I know they are here

[@bigshawn99t]

Definitely in Chattanooga TN and the surrounding areas.

[@Bob-q4x7e]

The map in red is wrong Fort Gordon has the Fort Stewart GA has them for a fact 👍😊

[@tropiclush89]

We definitely have these in South Jersey. Also, i never seen the like button flash. Awesome!

[@greatnorthernviews3052]

I got bit by a brown recluse spider. Around Labor Day. It was a terrible experience. I have an auto immune disease. Which is bad enough. I have a big scar on my back and now I have high blood pressure. I had an infection that turned in to an abscess. I went to the doctor to get the wound cleaned. Was on antibiotics for two weeks. I’m better now. I figured that it got under a baggy t shirt and was stuck and I bit me. I shook my shirt off and it fell in the lawn. I killed it and identified it as a recluse spider.

[@greatnorthernviews3052]

This was in Wisconsin.

[@idontcare1481]

I have tons of Crossfire. Will that get rid of them and wolf spiders? I have them in my garage.

[@DanTheBugMan]

Yes. Crossfire is strong! Meant for bed bugs

[@brendacox6198]

They are in oklahoma

[@ELJAY7SCSU]

Definitely in Wisconsin. I had a bite that made me have to go to the ER after primary informed me they couldn't help with it (and spiders don't bite) fast forward 2 years and I caught 2 in containers and brought to my primary to look at with his ear scope with light magnifier thing and definitely 100% without a doubt they were identified as brown recluse. Next time he won't question me when I tell him about a spider

[@RedGummyBears-g3g]

That's strange they would tell you that,. I say this because part of my career was spent as an urgent care nurse in Temecula California. Every bite we saw was treated as a spider bite as medicine felt at that time 90% of the bites you get will be spider bites. All docs have differing opinions though. One doc I worked with said "it doesn't matter what bit him, the treatment is the same." Almost all winged stinging insects are formic acid (bee's, wasps etc.) we react differently due to the different proteins floating in the formic acid. Those are what causes the localized reactions (histamine) and systemic reactions (also histamine).

[@sydosys]

@@RedGummyBears-g3g The difference is that you live in Temecula, where the Desert Recluse natively lives. Wisconsin doesn't really have medically significant spiders.

[@Shane-ii1ql]

What’s crazy is, insect and arachnid identification is not part of medical education in the US, so unless he studied it for fun in undergrad, he wouldn’t be able to identify it any better than the general populous.

[@idontcare1481]

I have seen them in Maryland for sure.

[@Eniral441]

I've seen them in Wyoming and was bitten there (SE corner of the state). The Dr confirmed it, but the guy at Weed and Pest said the doctor didn't know what he was talking about because there weren't any in Wyoming.🙄 Then again, this area has a railroad and lots of tourists that may bring in hitchhikers. I was treated for the bite pretty quick, so the worst part for me was a whole body raised, burning rash from the waist up. (I'm also allergic to spider bites.) It lasted for days. I would rather just deal with a bite site.

[@keeranimal8]

Definitely have positively ID’d them here in Florida…pretty rare, but it has happened! The male southern house spider gets confused for them a lot, but I definitely knew what I was observing lol

[@DanTheBugMan]

Oh wow! Yeah I think a lot of research shows that areas like florida are too humid for the spider's liking but I don't see why they wouldn't be in FL

[@keeranimal8]

@@DanTheBugMan Yep…definitely rare…most likely stowed away on shipments from other areas of the country. Even though I have definitely seen them and even captured them every so often, I have never seen them gain a foothold in the area. Probably just one-offs. Let’s be honest, Florida is too humid for most of our liking! Lol.

[@tupelodrifter05]

Not that there’s any argument but we have them all over MS. I leave them alone unless they’re inside the house. I will say the ones here tend to be a little larger than average from what I’ve read. I’ve discovered some at least an inch and a half (including the legs of course) in diameter if not bigger. I’ve also found black widows about 2-2.5 inches in diameter pretty regularly. Usually outside in wood piles. Never found one indoors except in abandoned and dilapidated houses.

[@SocialShifters0]

Great video and I’m in the New England area and I can say for sure I’ve seen these spiders in Connecticut on several occasions.

[@nicholasdean3467]

Where? Are you looking for the greatest hiding spots at 3 am?

[@jennymills5644]

My cousin was bitten by one in Nebraska.. had necrosis too

[@KXCvin-W]

Actually They rein everywhere. Ive seen them in northern Cal, And Northern Nevada has the desert brown.

[@CarlosBaez-h4o]

I’ve been bit in Horsham PA almost lost my foot

[@gt1man931]

I was recently bitten by what I am pretty sure was a recluse, thankfully no nightmare reaction that a rare few people have, but that itch and burn was seriously strong for a week, along with some swelling and some small watery blisters like seen in some photos. I still have a big red blotch bullseye on my arm and it itches but no longer burns and it is 10 days later I'd guess. I am on the IL/WI border Those little guys are no joke. For most they aren't the nightmare as claimed, but still not a great time. I'd rather not be bitten again.

[@kgs2280]

I got bitten by a brown recluse (in San Diego) on my toe during sleep. I never saw him, but after a few days I knew what it was because of the severe reaction I had, very typical. I went to the doctor - twice - who completely blew me off, like saying “meh”. But it took at least 3 or 4 months to heal (it was really bad).

[@DARK_KATACLYSM]

Thats not a dr thats an a hole

[@bigdonniebrasco]

You were NOT bitten by a Brown Recluse in CA

[@jonmacdonald5345]

​@bigdonniebrasco they're in California seen a couple in the North Bay!

[@sydosys]

@@bigdonniebrasco no, probably a desert recluse. same genus, different species and different range. similar bite. they natively live in california, specifically near the southern border (LA and SD)

[@sydosys]

@@jonmacdonald5345 north bay is a bit of a stretch. on iNaturalist (site where people submit spider pics and get them identified, one of my personal hobbies cause im a spider nerd) there has not been a single sighting of a recluse spider in the SF area. however, go down to LA and SD and you'll find plenty of desert recluses, which are a very closely related species of recluse spider. i can imagine some might hitch a ride and could survive for a bit up there, but they don't have any established populations that far north. you might have seen one, but without a picture, im more inclined to believe it was a different brown spider.

[@JHPine]

After seeing many spider hunting House Centipedes in my home over the years, all spiders have disappeared!

[@RedGummyBears-g3g]

My buddy married a Panamanian girl. When he went to Panama to meet the family he stayed in their home. One morning he woke up and their was a spider about two feet from him on the wall above the headboard. He said it was hairy, black and bigger than his hand. Of course he freaked out and ran out to the kitchen yelling their was a monster in his room. They laughed and said don't bother it. It's our house spider and he keeps other bugs out.

[@vha3742171]

They are in North Carolina.

[@jacobkeith7211]

we have them in Mississippi

[@kaileyrenae7169]

I feel like they are being moved there when the humans move from place to place..

[@DanTheBugMan]

Yes definitely possible! they travel in boxes just like other pests

[@kaileyrenae7169]

@@DanTheBugMan 😬

[@bethanybouley2990]

These spiders are native to and extremely common all over the southwestern united states where i live.

[@LawrenceHanson-b9s]

We have them in Palmdale and Lancaster and Calif. They actually run after you and they jump and I’ve been in the hospital for six hours or two IV bags they do hurt they get him to cardboard boxes and get shipped all around the world.

[@TheOther12523]

The way you describe them, they actually seem quite likeable.

[@jonathanritchie1047]

Everyone i have listen to and everything i have ready says brown recluse are not aggressive. I do believe this to be true for most part. Me and my wife been infested in our one bedroom apartment for months now. They have spayed once for them few weeks ago. She has not been bit the first time. We have small dog he has only been bit once. Sure he swallow it and it got him in throat it was bad and close call. I have seen and killed mg self not counting traps atleast 10. So they here all different . How ever they are highly aggressive toward me. I can’t figure out why. I can’t find another person who has experienced what i have, still am. Does not make any since to me at all. Everyone I have saw except 2 where running straight at me. And I have been but not over 30 times. They like to get in my ears: I got two fresh bites in my left ear right now. That makes 4 total I have had in my ears. They hurt bad there. I have been bit in the head, stomach, thigh , behind my knees, carb, wrist, waste, top my forearm, side of my forearm . About every where. Like I said my wife not been but first time. She don’t even pay them no attention. I don’t walk barefoot now. I shake everything out. At night I don’t move with out flash light. They eat me up. This is truth I can show u the scars and and fresh bites: pics of one’s I have killed and caught in traps. Can u tell me why? I do have a theory of why. This place is small. My sleeping is bad. I go days without sleeping . Then sleep very little when I do. So my theory is where it so small here, and what there nature is, wanting to stay away not been seen, and being nocturnal. Everytime they come out light are on and here this person is sitting there, maybe it itriates them , or make them feel threatened in some sort of way. I don’t know that is my theory. Like I said I can’t find no one else saying anything like this. I tell if has effected my already not well mental health. Can’t take it much more.

[@LawrenceHanson-b9s]

We can’t buy that spray only you can because your license if I call a pest control company it’s a minimum of $100 and up to have them come out and then they want a contract

[@thalmoragent9344]

5:47 Missed opportunity to say "Brown Recluse Spider-Society". 😅

[@DanTheBugMan]

Hahaha YES! I couldn't find the word I was looking for that would have been perfect.

[@kaylaerdman4837]

I am from Idaho and we have them

[@nickhoward8451]

I live in lower Ohio and I’ve only seen 1 living brown recluse and 1 that was dead that my buddy caught a while back 2 in 25 years they’re rare for sure

[@nathanbour1010]

Verified population inside our townhouse in northern VA

[@coriceja6233]

If people visit family and open their suitcases they can of course unknowingly transfer their spider problem into someone else’s home. West TN has one of the highest concentrations of these nasty things and trust me, they can be very tiny and hide inside all sorts of things undetected. It’s also a great way to keep family from visiting 😂😂

[@Southern195]

Arkansas is full of them!!! I know this for a fact!!

[@ztomas1]

Is it just me or is this bug guy cute as hell? 😂

[@thejadog1741]

You better believe they are more widespread

[@xismecwilliams9604]

People scared of these, then I’d suggest you don’t visit the uk. We have house spiders size of your palm, they run extremely fast and will run at you in your own home. One time I was just watching tv in my parents home on the sofa next thing one ran at me on the sofa. I screamed and jumped getting my brother to kick it. 😅 they are also quite hard to kill you can stand on them and sometimes it doesn’t kill them and you can hear them run on wooden floors. This is why I live in a high rise on one of the top floors as they tend not to climb this high up. 😅 we also have brown recluse too..

[@MrDragonballer41]

Wrong we have them in West Virginia the department of agriculture has declared it

[@syitiger9072]

So like I can get high off spider bites??

[@DanTheBugMan]

Hahahaha yes the narcotic bites make me feel amazing

[@guberifgames3698]

​@DanTheBugMan Necrotic not narcotic, necrosis is where the flesh is deteriorated by the venom of the spider bite, pretty nasty look it up

[@habibio4085]

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[@melissavidal2600]

I see them in Arizona 😊😊😊😊in my house

[@loriazevedo5994]

Have them in california

[@DanTheBugMan]

Nice yes I believe it!

[@KC-dr7tv]

I have found brown recluse spiders in Washington state

[@amberbernicke7956]

I'm here in Missouri and we have them bad

[@RedGummyBears-g3g]

When I was stationed at Fort Wood Missouri in 1981 my wife and I lived off post. One night I felt something scurry across my face , I jumped up and turned on the light then abruptly freaked out. There were around 10 Recluses walking across the bedspread. My wife woke up saw them and went running screaming. We moved back on post the next day. The post entomologist confirmed they were Recluses and said for every one you find there are around 60 you don't. We found hundreds.

[@marcat3900]

i would wach the these are the spiders in your house vidio they are the most commonly misidefied spiders,

[@tavonfenwick-yb5xv]

Your eyes are BEAUTIFUL

[@charliefunboy5210]

Okay, I did as you asked... I "destroyed" the like button for you.. Now.. I'd like you to pound and destroy something for me... sigh... lol... love your videos.

[@DanTheBugMan]

Hahaha thank you for destroying it! ;)