Brown Recluse Spider! are limited to a small area of the United States of which we just happen to live in.  We know these spiders live here on the farm and we have killed a lot of them with glue boards.

One Monday morning in early May, after getting orders out and mailed, I went out to the barn to sort through some scrap wood to decide which was worth keeping and the rest to get rid of.   I had gloves on as well as a long sleeve sweat shirt because I knew there were spiders of all kinds in the barn.  Their bite is painless - I did not even know I had been bitten.Some time after the bite, the area started to itch so when I got up at the house I applied some emu oil.  This soothed the itching but the area became inlamed and bubblely on the skin.  Dee suggested I use PRID, a drawing salve alone with the emu oil (as the emu oil was controlling the swelling and the itching).  The bite occurred on Monday and Friday I decided to see our family doctor.  He confirmed it was a brown recluse spider bite but the only thing he could suggest was a cortizone cream that he would have prescribed if I had come in the day of the bite.  Considering that it was doing well with the treatment I was using he told me to continue treatment and only fill the prescription if the condition worsened.