black widows

[aussieheelr]

ortho home defense spray. Spray it all around the base of your house around all windows and doors top to bottom. Do this inside and out (there is a spray they say is safe inside and out) it says to do this once a year. We do it at spring and fall just to CYA. I can't handle spiders I see one yell for DH and freeze!

 

[ellieroo]

Black widow spiders are having a banner year at our place! Five inside and several outside.Turned the buckeyes loose in the yard.Buck and the Buckettes to the rescue, I hope!

But then the camel spiders showed up .. check them out on google! Not as big here as in Iraq but big enough thank you! Turns out they eat spiders so left them alone. Bad year for bugs all around!

 

[thespinningcottage]

Black widows are very prolific in summers with intense heat. In our area we have the brown widows also, whose webs and egg sacs are identical (to me) to the black widows. We kill them all and spray around doors and windows constantly. It's a regular spider-fest around here in the summer. Just be vigilant, keep your house cool if you can (they loooooove the heat) and spray, spray, spray!

 

[Frogdogtimestwo]

I have noticed a huge decrease for us this year by going to HD and getting the bug spray by the gallon that state will kill them and making sure I spray all the eaves and around the doorways outside, then along the baseboards inside the house. I do this once a month now and I have only had 1 sunspider and 1 black widow in the house this year compared to countless last year. I am not willing to pay what the darn exterminators around here charge for the monthly service

 

[wildorchid053]

ugh i looked up camel spider.. if i ever saw one of those just bury me cause i would have had a heart attack.. they are huge!!!! and they are in our deserts not just in iraq

 

[stethomps]

Your chickens will eat the spiders with no problems. The neurotoxin black widows carry is only harmful if bitten. If ingested it is just some extra protein. But I agree, you don’t want them in places you are going to inhabit. It can be a nasty & painful experience to be bitten by one. They are very difficult (next to impossible) to exterminate, but like others have suggested. Spray around their areas; eliminate their food, then they will leave.

 

[Frogdogtimestwo]

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We call them sunspiders or wind scorpions here. Every year they greet me at our back door. They are actually beneficial to have around your house they eat the bad spiders, scorpions etc.
here is a small one

here is a huge one that was in our bathroom this spring, it's guts squished out the back. It was about 4 inches long when alive and it attacked the broom when I tried to kill it. YUCK!

Hence the starting of spraying every month!

 

[ellieroo]

Thanks for putting up the pics! After finding one in the bath tub(how) it requires a loud chant "they eat the bad spiders" many times each time I see one!