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Desert recluse

Loxosceles deserta

只是會痛會痛，但不會對你造成嚴重傷害。

咬

The desert recluse is a spider of the recluse family, Sicariidae. It lives in the deserts of the south-western United States and north-western Mexico. Its bite can damage the skin, so it is worth knowing what it looks like and where it lives.1

分布在

Mexico and the United States: eastern southern California, southern Nevada, western Arizona, New Mexico, south-western Utah and north-western Mexico1

北美洲

首頁

It lives in the wild, near native desert vegetation. It avoids towns and cities, and even green lawns. It is especially common in packrat dens.1

長度

2,5 cm (1 in)3

一般成體大小

最高速度

大約 0,8 km/h（0,5 mph）

在陸地上, 粗略估計

Desert recluse 的照片 — Desert recluse。照片：Ken-ichi Ueda。 CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

怎麼認出牠

Belongs to the recluse spider family, Sicariidae1
Found in desert areas of the south-western United States and north-western Mexico1
Often found in packrat dens1

常被誤認為： It is often wrongly identified as L. unicolor, from South America, or as L. reclusa, the brown recluse of the southern and midwestern United States. Neither of those spiders lives anywhere near the desert recluse's range.1

毒液力量

咬

咬的時候，毒液會從毒牙或牙齒出來。

牠的毒液有什麼作用？

Its bite causes lesions, which are damaged areas of the skin. It works through the same mechanism as the bite of the brown recluse.1

牠對人有多危險？

對人的危險: 疼痛可能會非常痛，但幾乎從來不會很嚴重。

Its bite can cause skin lesions, which are damaged areas of the skin.1

如果牠咬人

清洗咬傷處，用冰敷袋冰敷止痛。如果很痛、疼痛擴散或傷者覺得不舒服，要就醫。

一定要先打緊急電話（112、000、911）。這是一般急救指引，不是醫療建議。急救基本知識

注意安全

絕對不要碰、抓或捉弄野生動物，就算是很小的動物，就算牠看起來在睡覺或已經死了也一樣。
給牠空間。如果遇到了，保持冷靜，慢慢往後退，讓牠自己離開。
如果被牠咬了：保持冷靜，保持不動，打緊急電話（112、000、911）或趕快去醫院。記住牠的樣子，有照片會很有幫助。

牠不是想來抓你。牠用毒液來捕捉食物或保護自己，而且牠更想躲起來。更多安全知識

在世界上的哪裡？

非洲亞洲歐洲北美洲南美洲澳洲與大洋洲

牠有多大？

牠有多長？

大約跟一根迴紋針一樣長

Desert recluse 跟「你」比起來有多大？

只是在你的瀏覽器裡做算術。什麼都不會儲存，也不會傳送到任何地方。

牠有多快？

一隻陸龜 大約 0,3 km/h (0,19 mph)

Desert recluse 大約 0,8 km/h (0,5 mph)

一個正在走路的人 大約 5 km/h (3,1 mph)

值得知道

小知識

Its bite works through the same mechanism as the brown recluse's bite.1

It is especially common in packrat dens in the desert.1

It avoids urban areas and green lawns.1

It is often confused with two recluse spiders that do not live anywhere near it.1

破解迷思

迷思： The desert recluse is the same as the brown recluse or a South American recluse spider.

真相： It is often misidentified as L. unicolor from South America or L. reclusa, the brown recluse. Those two spiders do not live near the desert recluse's range.1