spiders - best way to deal with them?
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Your first step should be to find out if the spider is a dangerous one i.e. hobo, brown recluse, or black widow, most other spiders are actually an assett to have, although I have to admit they creep me out too. If its a basement that the critters are getting in your best bet would be to spray around and in your window wells where black widows and hobos like to hang out. Any outdoor doorways too.
Go to Lowes or Home depot or such and choose an insecticide that suits you. I would try and find one that says its safe to use around pets and kids but has a residual effect so the spiders stay gone awhile. Plus some spiders move indoors if you have sprayed around the outside of your house.
Other answers:
I like spiders. They eat mosquitoes. I would just leave them alone myself!
I like spiders. They eat mosquitoes. I would just leave them alone myself!
send them down the garbage disposal
BOOT!
Ask Ron Weasley
Go to the drug store and buy Black Flagg Fogger. This fumigates and kills all kinds of insects and spiders. Follow the instructions on the can and you are all set up. I recommend you do this every 3 months.
If you spray ammonia in the area they don't like it..
I have the same problem. Try sealing any holes in your walls and seal your windows with clear tape. Also, get a fly swatter and for those hard to reach places-- spider RAID. :-D
By the way, if you spray the door sill and window sills with this spider repellant it will keep most of them away for 3 or 4 months.
Spiders are the most sensitive creatures to chemical weapons--but the chemicals can have some nasty long-term side effects for us humans also. If they are not poisonous and aren't epidemic I would just leave them be and let them eat the misquitos, flies and other little creatures that you also don't want.
If they are poisonous then squash the little goobers and mount a chemical assault. (Just not around little kids.)
Spiders have eight legs.