Brown Recluse spiders are very common where I live and I've known countless people who have been bitten by them and ended up with a necrosis wound. Unfortunate

Brown Recluse spiders are very common where I live and I've known countless people who have been bitten by them and ended up with a necrosis wound. Unfortunately the Brown Recluse spider looks very similar to many harmless spiders, so if there is a brown spider I usually don't take any chances unless I can positively identify it. Supposedly Black Widows are in my area also, but I've never seen one. I do let these guys stay in my house most of the time: http://www.spiders.us/species/pholcus-phalangioides/ http://www.spiders.us/species/pholcus-phalangioides/ I'm not sure how I feel about this though: http://www.spiders.us/files/pholcus-phalangioides-5.jpg http://www.spiders.us/files/pholcus-phalangioides-5.jpg Spiders don't creep me out at all, but a large group of spiders would, even though I've heard that their fangs cannot pierce human skin. BTW, changing the original articles main layout table (15 year old site I'm guessing) to 1800px makes the article much more readable. I found it hard to read the 270px wide article with 1 foot of white space on each side.