Ewwwww....
The reason that the guy from
http://spiders.ucr.edu/avoidbites.html is so patronising is because he lives in California. Not to say that people in California are asses, but Brown Recluses aren't native to California. Though I didn't see him mention that on his page, so it's his fault for assuming that only people that live on the west coast would read his website. Apparently according to
this site there have been fewer than 10 individual spiders that have ever been collected outside of the mid and south western states. In Missouri there are definatly Brown Recluses and like
pinkie said people do die from them.
Now when that guy said that there weren't any PROVEN he's right technically because as of right now there is no way to detect the Brown Recluse venom. So the only way to prove that you've been bitten is to have the offending spider in custody. Which is usually rare. But just because you can't chemically detect the venom doesn't mean that you can identify the effects of a bite, just look at that nasty image
pinkie posted.
And
Rodney that spider submission challenge is only for people that live in Calif. Because Brown Recluses aren't supposed to exist there. They definatly live in Missouri so it wouldn't be much of a challenge.
I'll have to get ahold of a digital camera and show you guys what I found in my bathroom.
*edited because I'm a retard