we had Brown Grey Fishing Spiders which i guess look similar to Brown Recluse- they are huge, and one actually woke me up one night when it ran across some papers in my room- i thought it was a mouse- Nope- A huge spider- carrying it’s brood in a sack. Had the dang thing crawled on my face, it’d have looked like the Alien Movie creature-
The brown recluse in TX is about the size of a dime.
You want to hear about incident from 70 years ago which still gives me nightmares? My parents house in India had a water tank with an electric pump to fill the 3rd floor tank. The pump was old and the foot valve leaked so at age 12 or so I would climb up into that dark pump room, sit on a shallow wooden seat and fill the suction pipe with water and then the pump would start pumping water to the 3rd floor tank. One day while doing my daily chore, corner of my eye caught a movement and I figured it was a cockroach or something. I stood up and saw it was a black scorpion! I dived out of there and called our house boy servant. He killed the scorpion with a stick, and the baby scorpions on mama scorpion’s back.
Soon all the people from house gathered to see the dead scorpion. Our cook lady said to me, you were so lucky it did not sting you, because a scorpion that size would cause horrible pain and could even be fatal. So here I was sitting on a shallow wooden seat for several minutes, and the mama scorpion was parked right under me!