Have you seen that picture of a bite on a thumb? I’ve heard that they get worse every day for a while.
I was at a friend’s house and pulled a bowl down from a cabinet. There was a brown recluse in it about the size of a half dollar in the bottom that couldn’t get out. The sides were too slippery. It’s the only one I’ve ever seen (I’ve seen a lot of black widows, but I’m not really worried about them). It was oddly very pretty. And then I killed it.
I’ve heard it’s hard to kill them with chemicals because they don’t clean themselves and, therefore, don’t ingest them.
BTW, my friend was a very “back to nature” family. Their cabin was home built and there were big spaces between the floorboards. We were in a band together and during practice it was not unusual to lose a guitar pick through the floor.
I once killed over 300 Brown Recluses twenty-years ago in Arkansas. The old place we bought was infested with them - the stuff nightmares are made of. Everyone of them shook all its legs like crazy after I squashed it like it was infected with its own venom. They are truly creepy.
Have never been bitten by one, so far. I hope I never am.