[Uni-Poster]

I can't think of any off hand. Sleep deprived! LOL

Here is a link to a good article on them.
http://spiders.ucr.edu/myth.ht ml

[2sheep]

While the author of your link, an entomologist, makes a strong case for "There are no brown recluse spiders in California!" there appear to be brown recluse spiders elsewhere and something is going on in L.I., N.Y. The author is an entomologist writing to protect spiders, like a herpetologist writes to protect snakes.  They write with an emotional bent like an Animal Rights Wacko protecting ravenous grizzly bears patrolling a kindergarten.  While I respect their right to their career choices, I despise their subjects.

[2sheep]

I referred to the author of your link as an entomologist, however, he more particularly describes himself as "a highly volatile arachnologist who is bloody tired of everybody claiming that every little mark on their body is the result of a brown recluse bite and who believe with a religious zeal that brown recluses are part of the California spider fauna despite the incredibly overwhelming evidence to the contrary. The tone of this article is purposely crafted to mimic the hyperanxious state of the paranoid public because many of them have trouble listening to boring cold scientific presentations (of which this may still be guilty despite my intentions) when their beliefs are solidly based on erroneous general consensus."

Thanks for the link.  I really enjoyed it.  I'll save it for whenever I think scientists are too stuffy and I'll go away laughing...as I look for my can of RAID.