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| What is the most effective spider killer?
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| Hooligan 2005-06-16, 2:33 pm |
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GARY wrote:
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> What is the most effective spider killer?
You'll get alot of different answers to that question, and alot will be
right. I prefer Suspend SC and glueboards. Glueboards are a very
effective way to monitor and control spiders that go along the floor.
Place them in corners and on each side of the doors, next to piled up
junk in the basement. Where ever their is harborage.
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| In article <21290-42914362-327@storefull-3336.bay.webtv.net>, GARY35619
@webtv.net says...
 What is the most effective spider killer?
Assuming you had a BR show up inside and you mean treatment by a home
owner, I would go with the glue boards/sticky traps (that lie flat
rather than a box) placed along the baseboard in out of the way places,
which are the places BR recluse will travel at night while hunting. If
you seem to have an indoor population flip over the the furniture and
you can hit the spiders with any insecticide spray to kill them.
Carefully clean out any areas of clutter such as closets and corners
where they may live/hide. Professionals will use products that are a
micro encapsulated formula, that will have good residual/effectiveness
on indoor spider control.
--
Lar
to email....get rid of the BUGS
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| PCOpug 2005-06-16, 2:33 pm |
| The brown recluse is a soft-bodied and secretive species found in homes and
other outbuildings. The adult body varies from 1/3- to 1/2-inch in length,
with the arrangement of the legs producing a larger overall size of 1 inch
diameter or greater. The body is yellow to dark brown, and has a rather
distinctive darker brown violin-shaped mark on the top of the
cephalothoraxes .
The spider has been widely reported in the southern, western, and midwestern
United States, and is a particularly serious pest in Oklahoma, Missouri, and
surrounding states. It is usually found indoors, particularly in bathrooms,
bed-rooms, closets, garages, basements, and cellars. In homes with forced
hot-air heating and air conditioning and often above-ceiling ductwork, brown
recluse spiders are commonly found harboring in or around the ductwork or
registers. They may also be present in attic areas or other locations above
the ceiling. They are also commonly found in cluttered closets or basements,
and in out-buildings where miscellaneous items are stored. The web is not
elaborate and is best described as an off-white to gray, nondescript type of
webbing. The spider is not aggressive and usually retreates to cover when
disturbed. Most bites occur when a person crushes the spider while putting
on old clothes that have been hanging in a garage, or by rolling on the
spider while asleep in bed.
Control of spiders indoors may involve nothing more than vacuuming up the
spiders, their webs, and egg sacs. Removal of clutter, or other sanitation
steps directed at conditions favoring spiders, will help reduce spider
problems. Thorough inspections will be necessary in order to find all these
spider harborages for later sanitation, removal, or insecticide treatment.
Space treatments of synergized pyrethrins or especially synthetic
pyrethroids are often useful for cleanouts and for eliminating outdoor
species which may be found indoors. Long-term residual control of spiders is
very difficult to achieve. If spiders are breeding indoors or if outdoor
species are migrating indoors, residual insecticide applications of
cypermethrin, cyfluthrin .
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