How to identify and misidentify a brown recluse spider (2005)
This is easy, and doesn&#x27;t even require a website.  Rule of thumb:  All spiders are Black Widows, and those that aren&#x27;t are Brown Recluses.  All spiders are deadly poisonous, and those that aren&#x27;t are deadly poisonous. All spiders hunt and eat humans.<p>Obviously, this is a joke, but I have an irrational fear of spiders that I inherited from my father, and have passed to my now-adult son.  We live in southwestern Virginia (Virginia Tech), and have a nice variety of creepy spiders that all manage to look deadly.  My fear has gotten worse as I have gotten older.  This is actually useful to me.  Thank you to the OP.