They mainly eat ants, particularly the carpenter ants ... a characteristic that often leads to confusion with the brown ...

If you happen to live within the venomous brown recluse's range, attempting to tell this very real threat apart from its ...

Those areas have plenty of rodents to eat and water from the Sacramento River ... relate stories in which they or someone they know was supposedly bitten or they have had a physician diagnose them ...

"It got to the point where I couldn't walk, I couldn't eat, [and] I was nauseous ... There, he learned that he was bitten by a brown recluse spider. "I came in at a very, very lucky time ...