8 Effective Tips for Control of House Spiders

Spiders are one of the most-feared of all pests in the home that people want to exterminate. There are more phobias about spiders than any other past, and understandably so. If you get bitten by the wrong spider – a black widow or a brown recluse – and you have a bad reaction to the venom, you can end up in the hospital.

Spider Control

1. Don’t expect perfection in spider control. Chemicals are not very effective against spiders, nor do the spiders readily pick up pesticides. So just spraying is not a great defense against spiders. With their long legs, spiders keep their bellies well above the ground, so sprayed insecticide residue on a surface will only touch their feet. But they don’t have a circulatory system that will carry the insecticide from the bottoms of their feet to the organs in their bodies that would cause them to die.
2. So – you really have to make contact with the insect through a direct spray, a newspaper, a shoe, or whatever is your weapon of choice.
3. There is one exception to #2: If you use a pesticide spray on the surface of a crack that a spider goes in and out of, (such as between a baseboard and the carpet, or a piece of wood trim around a window), the spider’s body will likely contact the spray and the pesticide could be effective.
4. The best way to control running and jumping spiders at home is to control their food sources around the house. Spiders eat other insects, so reducing the other insects around your home will reduce their food sources.

1. So – to get rid of spiders, get rid of your other bugs. Crack and crevice treatment with insecticides provide some control, but you can also use glue boards or sticky traps. These are non-pesticide capture mechanisms.
2. The sticky trap, or glue trap, just captures spiders – if they walk through the trap, they die. But you can’t cover much surface area with a trap, so you have to place them where the spiders are most likely to come to them. The most effective places to put glue traps are in dark, quiet areas. A closet is a good example, or between a bed and a wall, or by any piece of furniture – these are all common spider travel areas.
3. Glue traps also can point you toward the source of the infestation – enabling you to discover how the spiders are getting into the house. If you have 6 spiders trapped on the left side of a glue trap, then look toward the left, along the wall, and check for an opening like gaps around or under a door or non-aligned wall socket. If it’s a crack that you can caulk – do so.
4. Spiders are that they are essentially loners. As predators, they like to operate on their own and not share their food. So it is often just as effective to whack a spider with a shoe or a newspaper as to spray them.

If the problem persists, it’s recommended that you contact a spider exterminator which can find the root of the problem and take care of it in no time.