Editing Brown recluse spider (section)

==Life cycle==
Adult brown recluse spiders often live about one to two years. Each female produces several egg sacs over a period of two to three months, from May to July, with approximately 50 eggs in each sac. The eggs hatch in about one month. The spiderlings take about one year to grow to adulthood. The brown recluse spider is resilient and can tolerate up to six months of extreme drought and scarcity or absence of food. On one occasion, a brown recluse survived in controlled captivity for over five seasons without any food at all.<ref name=lowrie>
{{cite journal
 |vauthors=Horner NV, Stewart KW
 |year=1967
 |title=Life history of the brown spider, ''Loxosceles reclusa'' ({{small|Gertsch & Muliak}})
 |journal=[[Texas Journal of Science]]
 |volume=19 |page=333
}}
</ref>

As part of the [[haplogynae]], brown recluses do not [[Ballooning (spider)|balloon]], which limits their ability to widely [[Biological dispersal|disperse]] geographically.<ref name=Vetter-2015>
{{cite book
 |last=Vetter |first=Richard S.
 |year=2015
 |title=The Brown Recluse Spider |edition=1st
 |publisher=Cornell University Press
 |location=Ithaca, NY
 |isbn=978-0-8014-7985-4
 |pages=43–44, 57, 63, 67
 |url=https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801479854/the-brown-recluse-spider/#bookTabs=1
 |access-date=1 January 2020
}}
</ref>{{rp|style=ama|p= 63}}
The brown recluse will, though not habitually, [[Cannibalism|cannibalize]] another if food becomes [[Scarcity|scarce]]; especially during its typical [[mating]] season from June to September or when an unreceptive female encounters an [[Aggression|aggressive]] male.<ref name=Vetter-2015/>{{rp|style=ama|pp= 43–44, 67}}