It likes to live in attics, closets, and garages. Outside, they stay under piles of rocks, wood, and leaves. The bite doesn't hurt much, but if you think you've been bitten by a brown recluse, go to the doctor immediately. If you don't, in 2-4 hours, you will be in serious pain. The really big and dangerous ones live in Arizona, not Florida.
Scorpions look like a lobster with a sharp stinger on the end of their long, skinny tails.
They hide under logs or rocks during the day. Brown Recluse Spiders. Peterson Field Guide to Venomous Animals and Poisonous Plants . Houghton Mifflin Co., 1994. Hey, A Brown Recluse Spider Bit Me.