PG> with you, except that if I remember right, the brown recluse is really
 PG> a lot more dangerous than the black widow.  Fewer than 50 people have
 PG> died in the US total (not per year) from black widow bites.  The brown
 PG> recluse won't kill you, but the venom sort of makes your flesh rot off
 PG> near the bite.  Yuck. 
My mother is a nurse, she has been for about 20 years.  And in that 20 years
she has seen 2 people die from brown recluse bites.
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