If you happen to live within the venomous brown recluse's range, attempting to tell this very real threat apart from its ...

Subsequently, brown recluse spiders are also likely to lurk inside ... Read the original article on House Digest.

Brown recluse spiders are found mostly in the South and ... Remove firewood, bricks, boards, tarps, or vegetation up against the house, which shelters insects that provide food for spiders ...

which did not immediately appear to be a run-of-the-mill house spider, was caught and sent as a precaution to an entomologist for identification. There were concerns it was a brown recluse spider.