UC IPM Illustration

Statewide IPM Program, Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of California
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This map shows the established areas of six species of recluse spiders in the United States. The brown recluse spider, Loxosceles reclusa, is the most widespread, living in the southcentral Midwest from Nebraska to Ohio and south from Texas to Georgia.