Seeing a spider in your home or garage is unsettling for sure. But if you see one with such a scary reputation, like the brown recluse, how do you know what to do next? Here's what Mississippi folks ...

Brown recluses are kind of like the monster under your bed: Most of the danger is in your head, some scientists say. “Recluse spiders are disproportionately feared by the public relative to their ...

In 2017, a group of us decided to tackle the ever-present problem of spider misidentification by creating the Twitter account @RecluseOrNot. Focused mainly around the eponymous recluse spiders – ...