Stop blaming brown recluse spiders for your horrifying flesh wounds

That weird, swollen, oozing bump you’re worried about? It’s not a bite from a brown recluse spider, a bug scientist and skin doctors say in an article aimed at combating misdiagnoses. For starters, brown recluse bites are usually flat, pale at the center, and don’t really ooze — unless they’re on your eyelid or toes, that is. The world is full of things that can kill you
The problem is that brown recluse bites are so attention grabbing that even doctors can see them