[nonnahs55]

There are two brown recluse spiders that are native to the desert SW: L.deserta and L.arizonica.

In the summer, Las Vegas emergency rooms get 2 to 3 brown recluse bite victims a week. (Brown Recluse Spider :: Brown Recluse Spider Bite Treatment :: Testimonials Scroll down to General Information).

I know a number of people here in Vegas who have been bit by the brown recluse.

Do your research before answering questions, people.

[JackieB23]

I didn't see a recluse for my year in Las Vegas. When I lived in Mississippi and Missouri and Virginia, I'd find at least one in the tub or on a wall at once a week. I actually only saw one Black Widow (in a friend's garage) and never spotted a scorpion.

While we may have recluses in LV, it isn't the big problem it is in other parts of the country, based upon personal experience.

[olecapt]

Originally Posted by nonnahs55

There are two brown recluse spiders that are native to the desert SW: L.deserta and L.arizonica.

In the summer, Las Vegas emergency rooms get 2 to 3 brown recluse bite victims a week. (Brown Recluse Spider :: Brown Recluse Spider Bite Treatment :: Testimonials Scroll down to General Information).

I know a number of people here in Vegas who have been bit by the brown recluse.

Do your research before answering questions, people.

You are wrong. The brown recluse does not live in Las Vegas except perhaps as a transient.

Not only that you should do your research. Particularly before such a pompous post.

See

UCR Spiders Site: Myth of the Brown Recluse

[bascat348]

Yes there is recluse spiders here.I got bit by one 15 years ago and it wasnt any fun.

[dynimagelv]

he's dead by now brascat

[Jfrlasvegas]

well sorry I have killed them in my yard and around the house. I know AZ has them because I have been bitten twice by them. I look for them for that very reason. They are not afraid to be close to the black widows. Sorry but like I said I go out around 11 pm or so and look for all spiders. Some I do not kill they have a reason to be here.

[ScoopLV]

Originally Posted by Jfrlasvegas

well sorry I have killed them in my yard and around the house. I know AZ has them because I have been bitten twice by them. I look for them for that very reason. They are not afraid to be close to the black widows. Sorry but like I said I go out around 11 pm or so and look for all spiders. Some I do not kill they have a reason to be here.

You may have killed some version of a Loxosceles spider. It may have even had a violin pattern on it somewhere. But the chances that it was a recluse are about the same as the chances of me winning the Lion's Share jackpot.

Whenever doctor's can't identify an insect bite, they write-in "recluse bite" and treat for that. They're doctors, after all, not arachnologists.

The odd specimen brought in from areas that DO have recluse spiders aside, there is no population of these spiders anywhere in the desert. None. Zero. Nada. Zilch.

And even in areas where recluse spiders do live, bites are very, very rare -- even though there may be dozens and even hundreds of them living in a home. And even then, the spiders are misidentified much of the time.

Recluse spiders are only a big deal in areas where they don't live, apparently...

But the short answer; the executive summary: We don't have brown recluse spiders in Nevada.

[BadBeat]

Originally Posted by Jfrlasvegas

... They are not afraid to be close to the black widows ...

This got me to wondering, who who win in a death match between a brown recluse and a black widow?

[macgeek]

The only thing Vegas has is recluse millionaires

Jonathan

[NLVgal]

Well, we now have camel spiders, courtesy of Nellis AFB troops and gear coming back from Iraq. Google them if you like nightmares.