Brown Recluse facts

Appearance

  Do you know what a Brown Recluse looks like? A Brown Recluse has a brown body with fangs. They can grow up to 1 in. long. They have 8 legs made to jump, run, and climb. All spiders have an abdomen at the back of them. They have 6 eyes on their cephalothorax. This is what a Brown Recluse looks like.

                                               This is a Brown Recluse on a towel.

Habitat

There are lots of places a Brown Recluse can live. They can live in U.S.A., Ohio, Alabama, and Louisiana. They also live in Sahara and the woods. You have a better chance of finding them at night because they are nocturnal. These are some of the places you can find them.

Diet

What do Brown Recluses eat? they eat cockroaches, moths, and bugs. Their predators are birds and praying mantis. Brown Recluses can get extremely hungry! This is what it eats and what eats it.

Interesting Facts

There are way more facts about them, here are some of them. They are loxosceles that are very poisonous. They can lay up to 50 eggs in 1 day. They have tiny claws on the bottom of their legs. These are other cool facts about Brown Recluses.

Glossary

Cephalothorax- Front part of a spider

Fangs- Something to inject venom

Loxosceles- Group of venomous animals

Nocturnal- Awake at night

Predators- An animal that eats another animal