A Mediterranean recluse, a spider related to brown recluses, bit the ear of a young woman visiting Italy. The rare bite resulted in the woman losing part of her year.

In 2012, doctors in China found a spider that had been living in a woman's ear for 5 days. And in 2007, an Oregon boy complaining of a faint popping sound "like Rice Krispies" ended up having two ...

Susie Torres went to the doctor with what she thought was water sloshing around in her left ear. But water doesn’t have eight legs, pincers and a venomous bite.

Doctors later told her it was a highly venomous brown recluse spider. Luckily, after a checkup, doctors told her the spider did not bite her. "I never thought they would crawl in your ear or any ...

A dime-sized, venomous brown recluse spider was found in a woman's ear. ASSOCIATED PRESS. By . The discomfort in Susie Torres’ left ear felt like the water that can get stuck there after swimming.

For being “terrified” of spiders, one Missouri woman kept impressively calm after she found out she had one in her ear. Kansas City resident Susie Torres said she woke up one day this week ...

Susie Torres thought she had water in her left ear. When it would not go away, she went to see a doctor and was in for quite a surprise when a medical assistant found a brown recluse in her ear.

The dead tissue made it clear to doctors that the woman had been bitten by a Mediterranean recluse, a spider whose bite is known to destroy skin and underlying fat, causing "sunken-in" scars or "a ...

They extracted a dime-sized, venomous brown recluse spider from her left ear. Torres luckily did not receive a bite. Brown recluse spiders, most commonly found in Midwestern and southern states ...

One woman's Italian vacation took a turn for the worse when she woke up with pain in her ear one night. She had no way of knowing then that she'd just been bitten by a Mediterranean recluse spider ...