animals

Tuesday, May 31, 2005

Loxosceles reclusa

How to identify? Body have 7-12mm long, front part light to medium brown with darker violin-shaped and attention!!! this spider have six, not eight eyes. Abdomen light to dark grey-brown, legs relatively long.

Loxosceles reclusa live to south-central U.S. ( New Mexico east, to Alabama, from Iowa south, Texas and Louisiana). It has been accidentally introduced into some other parts of the U. S. where it lives in storage areas in buildings in an irregular 3-dimensional web hidden under or inside boxes and other objects. The adult male wanders away from its web. People are typically bitten when cleaning a storage area, putting on clothing in which a spider is hiding, or pressing against a spider which has wandered into bedstead.