A newly published study co-authored by University of South Florida alum Louis Coticchio and USF integrative biologist Deby Cassill challenges long-standing assumptions about the brown recluse spider, ...

“This research shows that brown recluse spiders aren’t the boogeyman that everyone makes them out to be,” Coticchio said.

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) – A spider bite may be nothing to blink at, but for one North Carolina man, it led to a much more serious diagnosis that gave him only days to live. Now, he says he’s ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) – A Moyock man was bitten by a spider, but it led to a much bigger diagnosis. He wasn’t in the hospital long before they told him he had leukemia and was given days to live.