The Brown Recluse
Where are they found?
• Brown Recluses are found from East Texas to Western Georgia and North to Southern Illinois.
• They are sometimes found in garages, boxes, old closets, and attics.
• They are also found in old clothes.
What do they eat?
• Brown Recluses don’t eat all insects.
• They eat silver fish.
• After their prey is captured, spiders have digestive juices from their intestinal tract that covers it.
What kind of webs do they make?
• They make their webs out of sticky gum footed silk.
• The web looks careless and hopeless, and has no definite shape.
What happens when a Brown Recluse bites you?
• Almost all spiders have glands of venom and the Brown Recluse is one of them.
• When a Brown Recluse bites you, the poison takes off the skin tissue.
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Resources
• http://school.eb.com/elementary
• http://go-passport.grolier.com
• http://www.fofweb.com