Over several months, researchers found and killed over 2,000 Loxosceles reclusa in the "highly infested" home.

Are you afraid of spiders or have arachnophobia? If the answer is yes, living in Florida isn’t the best place for you. From Black Widows and Brown Recluse to Wolf Spiders and Hobo Spiders, plenty of ...

What they look like: The brown recluse is a brown spider with a distinct “violin-shaped marking” on the top of its head and down its back, ... Hobo spider. Tas3 // Getty Images.

5. Hobo Spider. Often mistaken for a brown recluse, the hobo spider is light to medium brown with oblong bodies and faint markings. Known as the "aggressive house spider," its bite can cause painful ...

His point: Black widow and brown recluse bites are so different, they could never be mistaken for each other. But the bites of common household spiders, hobo spiders, and other domestic varieties ...

The hobo spider’s diet consists of insects and other smaller spiders. ©Randy Bjorklund/Shutterstock.com. The hobo spider is a brown spider often confused with the brown recluse. The hobo spider is not ...

Hobo spiders have a brownish color and have patterns on their back, a characteristic that often leads to confusion with the brown recluse spider. Sporting a variety of brown tones, hobo spiders ...

We have hobo spiders, and they can bite, but they are not venomous to people. The brown recluse spider is another that I feared growing up. It is venomous, but they cannot live in our climate.

In reality, about 10% of brown recluse spider bites cause severe skin damage. If the bite looks like it’s getting worse, call your doctor. You might need a skin graft to treat the wound.

A hobo spider has the unfortunate problem of often being mistaken for a brown recluse spider. Both arachnids are similar in size and brownish, but that’s where most of the similarities end. The hobo ...

In the 1960s, people in the Pacific Northwest who displayed necrotic bites blamed them on the brown recluse spider. However, the brown recluse isn't found in the Pacific Northwest.

From the innocent daddy longlegs to the harmful brown recluse, here are the most common house spiders, how to identify them, and when to worry about a bite, according to entomologists.