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Help Me Get Rid of Spiders?

  • I live in a very spider-friendly area. Near a forest and river buzzing with gnats, mosquitoes, box-elders, and just about everything else. Mostly cellar spiders, house spiders, and a few wolf spiders and some funnel webs outside. The cellar spiders are my real issue. We moved into this house about 3 years ago and it had a very old, damp, dirt-floor basement. As you can imagine, they made themselves very happy in the boards up above. We rarely go down there unless we have to flip switches on the power box, because the old webs and dead spiders (as well as the living) are gross. (We don't have the money to renovate or re-do our basement, so please don't ask). Of course, they're happy up on the main floor as well, and I could vacuum up 5 or 6 webs and spiders every week. Doesn't seem to help, because after a few weeks the same area has a web and a fresh cellar spider waiting for a meal. I've found them in my cups (nearly drank one once). And the wolf spiders and funnel webs in the yard have proven to be an issue, sending me to the doctor just a few months back with my foot swelling twice its usual size. What can I do? Nothing I try seems to help and the entire area is swimming with spiders. I don't hate spiders, they hate me. We just can't co-exist. Any tips?

  • Answer:

    spiders, not being insects are not effected by the residual from most products you would use, they don't groom themselves as insects, so don't ingest the products so reapplication often would be needed...for the cellar spiders a vacuum with an extension hose would be as effective as anything...placing out the flat sticky traps against the baseboards will catch a lot of the crawling type spiders

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No one likes to kill common spiders, as long as they are outside your home. As the moment, they enter your home as unwanted guests, it is the time to take action against them and make your home pest and spider free. The house spiders can be eliminated by adopting the following methods; *Clean dust and web build-up in the eaves, around windows, and on the underside of doors with a long-poled duster. *Traps can be an effective way to kill spiders in your house. The big benefit to killing spiders with traps is that you don't have to deal with the spiders directly. *Kill spiders using sprays. A good spray can kill spiders with excellent efficiency. Make sure to use a liberal amount in order to kill spiders, since they are bigger than other common household pests. Kill spiders with a spray and you won't have to come into direct contact with the spider. *There are also special sprays that deal specifically with spider eggs, a more hands-off way to kill spiders. With these special sprays you can lay down coats around the edges of your house, and then allow the spray to kill spiders, without ever even having to see one!

Jikaus

Rid -x put it all over your basement because the ones in your house are mouse likely starting from the ones in the basement, also there's an even stronger chemical for spiders in the yard but do some research and see if it's pet - kid friendly if you have either.

Im really Tall account two

Just kill as many as you can and eventually the population will dissipate. I hate the way they bounce around when you go near them that freaks me out.

Crazy Cupcake

Mosquitoes? Gnats?

Doglover

Try a dehumidifier to reduce the moisture in the sellar. When you have enough money, have the cellar dug out and at least 6 inches (15 CM) of clear 3/4 crushed limestone place over the ground with weeping tile going to a hole 32" X 32" X36"deep(80CM X 80CM X 90CM deep) . Make a plywood box no top or bottom with the external dimensions of 24" X 24" X 36" deep (60CM X 60CM X 90CM deep) cut holes for the weeping tile to go through. Place this box into the hole so that the space between the box and the earth is equal on all sides. pour concrete in the space between the box and the earth. Have 3" to 4" (7.5CM to 10CM) concrete poured over the gravel - do not fill the hole in with concrete but 2" or 3" (5CM to 7.5CM) can be poured in the bottom of the hole. Place a sump pump into the hole; preferably a submersible, and set the switch so it will keep the water level at least 12" (30CM) below the surface of the concrete floor. This will further keep the moisture level lower in the basement and now you will have a dryer basement instead of a damp cellar. Run the discharge pipe from the sump pump out through the wall to a location at least 30 feet (10 meters) from the house - preferably underground and into a ditch or drywell (A hole filled with gravel to disperse the water.) Put a check valve to prevent the water fro flowing back into the sump hole when the sump pump shuts off. Less spiders and easier to keep clean. you may still have to use the dehumidifier

Comp-Elect

I know people hate spiders but they are for the most part very beneficial. They don't eat our food but they do eat other bugs that do eat our food and pass on diseases. Spiders do for bugs what cats do for mice. So spraying would be killing the thing that helps keep bugs out of the house and spiders don't impact the environment. They don't poison our pets or us. Rarely they bite humans and cause a problem. But unless they were all black widow or Brown Recluse spiders you should find a way to live with them.

Steven

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