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Spider's no mystery, so be careful what you find

Having traveled all over the world on the Web after my spouse was bitten by a brown recluse spider, I have little confidence in our local entomologists - a lot more in our medical doctors.

Eric Day who manages the Insect Identification Lab at Virginia Tech could have provided more specific information (Dec. 8 Beacon) than the brown recluse spider has ``six eyes.'' This spider has three pairs of eyes arranged in ...