Spider Control?
by paco on Saturday, October 17th, 2009 | 3 Comments
Our garage seems to have an endless supply of spiders no matter how often we vacuum and clean it. I know they come from the outside and in some ways are beneficial but I was wondering if there is a product that we can use to control them over a period of time? SPrays seem to only kill them on contact and we have used something called spider ban it alomost killed us too.
I use foggers inside my house when I see a lot of spiders and it works great. You can use them in your garage too, if you can close it up. Just be very careful to follow the instructions, and if your garage is attached to your home, I would also be out of the home.
Start with moth balls. Dissolve them in very warm water and pour a barrier around the outside perimeter of the garage. Wait a week, and buy the granules that you can sprinkle around the perimeter. You’ll hate the smell for about a week of the moth balls but it will remain and deter rodents, insects, etc. for a long time.
Keep the vacuum handy. Spiders are indeed beneficial to the enviornment, but I do question black widows and brown recluses…that’s stretching beneficial. Try sealing up the garage better, weather stripping, caulking around windows, etc. Since spiders can move on air currents by throwing out a thin silken thread until it catches something, there’s hardly anything that will work. They don’t have to contact walls, floor etc for any residual pesticide…….as if there were any left on the market anyway.
If you are vacuuming them, squirt a dab of aerosol bug killer into the nozzle so the spiders will be killed in the bag. Back when we had Shell No Pest strips, we could break off a piece and put it in the bag.