Interesting anecdote here: > In 2001, more than 2,000 brown recluse spiders were removed from a heavily infested home in Kansas, yet the four residents who had

Interesting anecdote here: > In 2001, more than 2,000 brown recluse spiders were removed from a heavily infested home in Kansas, yet the four residents who had lived there for years were never harmed by the spiders, despite many encounters with them. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_recluse_spider#Bite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_recluse_spider#Bite) You're right - they're not harmless - but I suspect they're not as dangerous as folklore might portray them.