Brown recluse??

My dh walked a very heavily wooded lot with a potential homeowner a few weeks ago on a Friday afternoon. By the following day his legs from the knee down were covered with "red bug" (or "chigger") bites and so were the legs of his associate builder. Itchy. Irritating. Painful. He kept them coated with anti-itch hydrocortisone but one place had just gotten worse and worse and this weekend it -- well, it wasn't pretty. Something you'd see on a medical show from a third world country. Yuck. I will not post pictures!! Tomorrow a.m. he's off to the doctor to determine if that spot was actually a brown recluse spider bite or not (a friend thinks it may well be). I've learned more about those and how so many things get mis-diagnosed as brown recluse bites even in states where there are no known brown recluse spiders. An education I could've enjoyed doing without. Anyway, we'll see..... in the meantime, keep those bug sprays handy!! Ugghh... makes me itch to think about!!!