LOCAL SPIDER ROUNDUP CORRALS FIRST RECORDED BROWN RECLUSE.(VIRGINIA BEACH BEACON) From: The Virginian Pilot | Date: February 9, 1997 | COPYRIGHT 1997 The Virginian Pilot-Ledger Star. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of the Dialog Corporation by Gale Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: Mary Reid Barrow

The first brown recluse spider ever recorded in the Hampton Roads area turned up in the big spider roundup that followed a story in The Beacon in December on the search for the poisonous arachnid.

It was identified by entomologist Peter Schultz, director of the Hampton Roads Agricultural Research and Extension Center. Shultz, who has been at the center for 25 years and has never seen a brown recluse in the area, has frozen the specimen...

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