[backhoe]

Oddly enough, my late first wife nearly died from a brown recluse spider bite, back around 1978. The only people I've seen sicker, died.

[windchime]

There are certainly valid reasons to fear them. I had a friend who was bitten on the arm by a brown recluse when she put a jacket on on a cool summer night. She was in the hospital 8 days and sustained huge scars on her arm.