3:37 they actually go through the look-alikes

I wish he'd talked more about the Spitting Spider. They're truly awesome little creatures.

I live in Eastern Pennsylvania and I have found three (3) over the last two months. So, the "range" is not entirely accurate

If you'd like me to send you some i know of a property in north alabama that is infested with them...in the thousands. Homeowner still lives in the house and has never been bitten. Pull beds away from walls, make sure clothing isn't touching the floor, put out some sticky traps, and reduce clutter in closets and you can pretty much live with them with zero issues. They tend to stay along baseboards (they hate being out in the open), they suck at climbing (brass bed frames is a plus), are cannibalistic scavengers (which is why sticky traps work so well), and they tend to only move around a lot at night.

People need to realize there are other recluse spiders, they show it on the map of their habitat. In Cali we get 4 kinds but none of them are the brown recluses, the desert recluse always gets mistaken for one.

Cellar spiders are so funny. They are nervous little guys. Whenever I have to relocate one from inside my house, it cracks me up how they get into their defensive "vibrating" mode.

Map is no longer valid - there has been bites in Ontario Canada in a PARK! My friend almost lost her leg because doctors didn't think we can have them here so she was misdiagnosed for a long time. Only a specialist from the States was able to identify what's going on.

Uhhhh those are every where in my house I have plenty of glue traps and 90% are brown recluse

Holy shit... Now I'm absolutely sure that the spider I flushed down my toilet was indeed a brown recluse.

What they called a 'house spider' is in fact a brown widow spider... They obviously had no idea what it was. The brown widow has spread over the southern half of the country in the last 10+ years. It proliferates extremely fast and its venom is apparently as toxic as a black widow's, though it isn't as aggressive.

We have them in Massachusetts my buddy had one in his house it freaking huge for a New England spider ! And we have wolf spiders here as well

I wanted to share about how good that Golden Guide is: "..Their Kin" includes sections on ticks, mites, centipedes (including the common-but-creepy 'house centipede'!) and millipedes. ~Sometimes this particular Golden Guide is a harder one to find- which seems odd to me, as it's clearly among the most practical: I actually asked for this for my birthday a few years back, and it did not disappoint! 🕷🕸 *It's a sad day when people are ridiculed for pronouncing words correctly. ("Recluse" is being used as a noun here, guys- the people in the clip got it right.)

Thanks for this video!

That was helpful, i was about to start having a panic attack found a brown in my bed when I woke up. EEEEEEK! straight to Google i went to try and identify its after scanning my entire body with magnifying glass. LoL

I had a terrible spider bite in 2004, a 12" rash and .75" wound that took nearly a year to heal. It was very severe, though it was only painful for around a week or so.

A reck-loose spider... lol. You mean RECLUSE. You wouldn't be reck-loose-ive. Wow. That short haired guy in the blue shirt is hilarious.

Mark on the body and 6 eyes = brown recluse They are usually hidden and bite if you disturbed them. (think home gutter cleaning ) We have them out West as well- it’s too dry here to have toads who like to eat critters. And bats aren’t very favored lately either.

Um, yeah, I live in California (central coast) and yes, there are brown recluce spiders here. I know because I have see them around my house &one bit my husband when he worked tree service. The bite started to rot his skin really fast, had to go to ER and get a special shot to stop the venom from spreading.

Where I live, many people confuse the male Kukulcania genus (Filistatidae) for Brown Recluse. I would say that, at a glance, the male Kukulcania is most similar to the recluse out of the spiders shown in this video.

thanks for the zero information on all those spiders..

I've never seen the fiddle before this picture shown here. i always thought it was in the shape of the abdomen and thorax, and I just thought it was silly. i finally see it partially because you refer to the cephalothorax so i took the head into account and saw the color was the fiddle on the fiddleback. thanks. I knew what they were already, i live down south and see them too often, but i finally understand that name

Wow! I can see from the comments: people hate spiders. I made some Creepy Crawlies videos. The third highlights two live Brown Recluses. We have them in our house in NE Texas. No bites, so far. Thankfully.

Okay! We live In WV & trust me we have brown recluse. My husband spent 7 days in hospital, we didn’t see the spider but he had all the symptoms pain, meds for 2 weeks. Happened in July & he is pretty much over it. Maybe brn recluse are normally here but it was!

I'm from the coast of South Carolina and there are recluses all over the area everywhere

Gotta tell ya, the recluse is not so recluse down here in Tennessee. Got them all over my garage. They run like hell, and after looking at them compared to the funnel web spider, those two do not look enough alike to mistake once you have seen a recluse in person.

My friend was bit by one in Central Michigan it blistered , deep too came in on a shipment of firewood

I found a brown recluse in my wood pile in Louisa, VA.

When you are saying "our area" you do not say where exactly you are. In your future episodes, please state exactly "where" you are.

OMG, stop interrupting him.

most spider bites are actully yellow sack spiders . they are everywere. their bite resembles a recluse bite. people who think they are getting bit by recluse spiders are actually getting bit by yellow sac spiders .

What about the hobo spider?

I am pretty sure that I saw one yesterday in my garden. Was weed-wacking around some large rocks. Was trying to wack the grass in between the rocks and suddenly there it was on top of one of the rocks. I checked him out very closely for about 5 minutes and saw the brown mark on the top part of his body. I tried to remember if the wolf had that or the brown recluse since I was reading about them last week but I couldn't remember. But it was solid, NOT opened up with light marks in between, a solid darker brown marking and afterwards I went in and told my son I may have just seen a brown recluse but can't remember who has the fiddle on his neck. One solid brown spider. I had shoo'd him off (OMG!!) b/c I do welcome spiders in the garden and I had to finish my work. But I would swear that was a brown recluse ... and now I am really afraid of my garden. This area where I saw him is secluded (or a mini garden) so part of me wants to go looking for him to catch him to have him looked at. I normally don't wear gloves when gardening and generally, any spiders near will just scamper off while I go about my business in the garden. But now I am really scared. I don't like the feel of gloves when gardening. Is the brown recluse in NW Indiana now or not? I am in Hammond area.

I've been bitten 4 times by a recluse spider to bites were significant and the other to just a bruise . and the other thing about spider or snake bites is each time your bitten your body naturally builds an immunity to the venom meaning your body naturally heals itself without medical intervention

Vacuum cleaner to remove,Windex to stop them in their tracks..and liquid spray soap

I guy got bit up here in Western PA, he was hospitalized.

We have them in South Eastern Michigan. Their map seems a little off.

The Funnel Spider, we call Wolf Spiders over here

My sentiments exactly... They are trying to act as if identification is hard and I don't see that at all. Additionally, the Funnel Weaver class in general is where lots of poisonous spiders come from, so just because it isn't a brown recluse exactly means nothing.

Thought I'd come here to ease my worry concerning the fact that I've been seeing this spider that appeared to be a recluse taking cover from the recent cold in my car door in northern West virginia. Looking at the look-a-likes only make me all the more certain that it was was a recluse, the legs were to thick to be the look-a-like. I've been seeing quite a few of adults in the past 2 weeks.

We have them here in PA.

Michigan, we have em

In Pasco county too!

southern house spider really looks like them.but harmless.i do have brown recluses in my apt.they can have the place.im moving.

YOUR MAP IS INCORRECT WE HAVE THEM IN VA.

The dreaded Brown Recluse. For those of us who DO have them in our regions (midwestern U.S.) there's some good news. Wolf spiders eat them/kill them, one of the few that do, so stop killing Wolf spiders. Yes they're fast, creepy looking & sometimes very big but would you rather have a Wolf or a Recluse?

They're in Chicago

I got bit on 2015 by a spider while I slept and that morning seen a half a golf ball sized bump on my neck. And it was kinda dark orange color. It took about a week to get it all out. I don't remember any pain with it tho.

What kind of map is that? We have them in California and Washington lol

In Oregon it was verified that the Brown Reclucse. They where studying the cross bredding. I dont know what the finding was Oregon.

Nv wasnt in that but we DO have em in reno

Im from Oklahoma and we have those freaking spiders everywhere!!

That map was way off, even in 2011, here in western NC Ive seen plenty, and Ive known plenty of people who have been treated for bites

Where is "here"

There are 3 kinds of brown recluse spiders. The 3 look a little different. I’m here in Washington state, they are everywhere. Depending on where you live in the USA, some are darker, some are slightly bigger. Proven!

I'm not getting close up enough to c if a spider has 6 or 8 eyes to identify it.

When I was kneeling down on my bathroom floor (don't ask why) I felt something crawling up my leg. I shook off a very small reddish brown spider with short legs and a fat body. Is it a brown recluse? I live in Destin, right outside the range.

What about the clear white ones i see in my home? Ive been told their brown recluse but i live in canada

I like cellar spiders being in my room but they moved into the bathroom and now there's a different spider I'm not really comfortable with it being in my room lol

Hun lemme clear this up. I lived in Huntington wv 15 years. No brown recluses. I moved across the bridge to proctorville Ohio. We're infested. Black widows as well.

If there is a damn brown recluse spider in my house I'm burning my house down -.-

I think I have a bite because it hurts if I move my arm in a sertent way but we have meduim and small size ones in Kentucky

480P resolution on a video used to classify a poisonous spider... makes perfect sense.

Brown recluse spiders are a big problem here in KC.

nothing but the last spider looked anything like a recluse to me

Naw, it's bad. I got bitten and it's horrible. Went to doctor, he did nothing basically. Friend heated a needle, poked hole and squeezed out infection, painful and funky bc of infection. No way of knowing until bitten especially if you never even seen the spider beforehand...unexpected.

I was bit 3 months ago while I slept on a sofa, didn't wake me . the bite is between my eyes. . my leg went numb. I have a lifelong scar, doctor gave me amoxicillin..

He is somewhat amiss in saying that most BR bites don't need medical attention. I'm familiar with 3 cases that ended in death.

What state is this in???

I was bitten by one when I was four dang it hurt :( I'm 10 and ok now I just have HUGE aracnaphobia

I killed a spider on my bed and it was brown but had like black dots on its legs? Can anyone identify this from the information i gave if its a brown recluse or not

2:33 hundreds of them in their home

that is the spider funnel weaver spider

uhm you didn't say what your area is, or did you? I missed it.

im in the same situation :O

here there are alot in srilanka

3:47 i would say thats a recluse.

I have lived in Florida .Colorado and a more places do to a travel job I had .iv seen them in Colorado Florida.

I know someone in NYC that was bit and he had a huge hole in his leg.

your range is wrong we are on the top of IOWA and they are in MN

This information is incorrect! Brown reclouse live in the state of va. They are common I've seen many. My husbands dad lost his leg due to a reclouse bite in culpeper va. I know three other people with scared holes in their flesh from a bite.

I live in chicago illionois so im safe. That is in the edge

It doesn’t look like a violin to me it looks like two lungs on the outside. What’s a violin shape anyway??

5:52 i have that one on my fence i have 3 total

Welp, I never want to get that close to a spider to see what pattern or how many eyes it has. There's this thick dark brown spider in Virginia that's in my house and crawl super fast doesn't climb walls or spin webs & is about 3 inches, I killed about 10 of them since summer ended. Before that I had a house centipede problem, now I don't see them anymore. TBH after seeing these spiders, house centipedes don't seem so bad anymore.

Just killed 2 today in the house. I have them every year. We live in Missouri.

Vince Gresham is a hottie! ^_^

I have them in my shed and house. I live in southern Indiana and they are pretty bad. I kill 5 or more a day.

I have seen two. Killed 2 one today was killed, I'm in Missouri.

is it really" Ra cluse"?

Brown recluses love to hide in wood and rocks (in nature) and cardboard/ crowded places (indoors)

wrong....about 25 medically significant spiders in north america

Colorado has them bad

The Chad Arachnid expert vs the Virgin Arachophobia.

I just found one in my house 😦

actually many sicariidae could be called violin spiders because of that mark on cepholatorax - just like many species of venomous snake genus bothrops are called fer-de-lances... And many sources in internet refer to brown recluse as violin spider...

I am a simple man, i see a spider, i'll use MORTEIN and BLAST every place!

I am in boston, i have killed three in the the last week. confirmed.

4:49 *finds a spider* Is it a brown recluse lemme count it’s eyes *gets bitten* Welp turns out it was I mean seriously how is someone going to pick it up and count it’s eyes without being bitten

I’ve seen 2 in Los Angeles wich is where I live

Guys... This was 4 years ago! The brown recluse is worse this year than any year so they have spread!