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'the Brown Recluse Challenge, a 4½-year project. "I got tired of people telling me that brown recluses are all over the U.S and Canada, and I said, 'Send them to me and I will identify them,'" Vetter said.
One thousand, seven hundred and seventy three spiders later, it was clear that any brown, eight-legged insect was at risk of misidentification as a brown recluse – 79 percent of the specimens he received from people across the country were not of the species Loxosceles reclusa, Vetter told LiveScience. '
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/04/28/guess-whos-coming-dinner-brown-recluse-spiders-expand-reig
n-north-america/
I'm from northern california, i could have sworn as a kid ive seen missing chunks of flesh while the person was telling me 'brown recluse bite' after returning from the hospital. We're they bitten by something else?
One thousand, seven hundred and seventy three spiders later, it was clear that any brown, eight-legged insect was at risk of misidentification as a brown recluse – 79 percent of the specimens he received from people across the country were not of the species Loxosceles reclusa, Vetter told LiveScience. '
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/04/28/guess-whos-coming-dinner-brown-recluse-spiders-expand-reig
n-north-america/
I'm from northern california, i could have sworn as a kid ive seen missing chunks of flesh while the person was telling me 'brown recluse bite' after returning from the hospital. We're they bitten by something else?
