Coopster, Where does the Northern Brown live? Okay, spiders are one of the few things on earth that make me uncomfortable. I live in Maryland, according to the Brown Recluse maps, we don't have them and there is much species misidentification that occurs.
Brigitte, I'm very sorry you have to go through this again.
Well, everything I've found indicates that it's primary area of habitat is the NW US. But I live in Indiana, and the common name for this spider
is the hobo spider.
I don't recall why the doctor came to this conclusion, as IN is shown as being "brown recluse territory", as it were...