When I was in the service, a white dude got bitten by a brown recluse, they had to cut about a large marble sized chunk out of his back.
Daaaaaamn.
The
brown recluse (
Loxosceles reclusa),
Sicariidae (formerly placed in a family "Loxoscelidae") is a
recluse spider with
necrotic venom. Similar to those of other recluse spiders, their bites sometimes require medical attention. The brown recluse is one of three spiders in North America with dangerous venom, the others being the
black widow and the
Chilean recluse.
Brown recluse spiders are usually between 6 and 20 millimetres (0.24 and 0.79 in), but may grow larger. While typically light to medium brown, they range in color from whitish to dark brown or blackish gray. The
cephalothorax and abdomen are not necessarily the same color. These spiders usually have markings on the
dorsal side of their
cephalothorax, with a black line coming from it that looks like a violin with the neck of the violin pointing to the rear of the spider, resulting in the nicknames
fiddleback spider,
brown fiddler, or
violin spider.
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