Mud and mould are not the only issues facing those returning to their homes after major flooding on the New South Wales Mid North Coast. Clybucca resident Julie Botfield was evacuated by boat with two ...

A woman is warning Aussies to check their swimming pools before diving in them after discovering not just one but four venomous spiders in the water of her pool. Lynda Smith, who lives on NSW's ...

Brown Recluse Bite Diagnosis. When you go to the doctor, tell them about what happened and what your symptoms are. If you saw the spider, try to describe what it looked like (a picture may help).

Spiders are beneficial to the environment. Fear of these insects is common, but—believe it or not—most spiders cannot hurt humans. However, the brown recluse spider is a dangerous exception.

Brown recluse spider bodies (not including their legs) are no more than 0.375 inches (1 centimeter) in length. (Image credit: Oxford University) ...

Brown recluse spiders hunt for food at night, so during the day they often hide in shoes and under clothes that are left on the floor and crawl out at night to search for food, Whitworth said.

Any spider can disturb a quiet night or a piddly daytime chore around the house. But the words “brown recluse spider” can elicit an even higher level of anxiety and even fear. The brown ...

Lustman, a pop and R&B singer based in Atlanta, Georgia, doesn't know when or how he was bitten, but said doctors confirmed it was a brown recluse spider, a species predominantly seen in the south ...

Brown widow spiders, which are invasive to North America, are wiping out black widow populations in the U.S. by aggressively attacking them for no clear reason, a new study shows.

Black widow spiders (right) are commonly being displaced by the brown widow spiders (left), a fellow species in the same genus, Latrodectus. The Images are not shown to matching scale and thus do ...