What kills brown recluse spiders?

[Wolf-Kim]

I agree with a previous poster. Please call a professional exterminator.

If you think you do not have the money to afford a professional just imagine those medical bills once you or your family or friends are bitten. They aren't deadly bites, but they are NASTY! It causes the area to rot, many times they treat a bite by amputating the flesh. So now, put both the money and pain spent to fix a bite and opt for professional exterminator instead.

-Kim

 

[citrusdreams]

My exterminator told me that most times people get bitten because they smack the BRS when they are crawling on them, which pushes their fangs into the person. He said that spider has a curved-in fang, and hitting it will result in a bite. You should sweep/brush it off yourself.

 

[RuffTuffCreampuff]

As a recent brown recluse victim I can tell you this:
1. Shake out shoe/boots before putting them on.
2. Put work gloves on the ground and STOMP on them. My spider was in the finger of my gloves. Plus, it softens a stiff leather glove.
3. Brown recluses are shy of the light. Any clothing item tossed onto a chair can harbor them. (Admit it....some of us don't carefully hang our pants up each night)
4. I have the habit of eyeballing any dark and/or shady corner or nook before introducing my hand into it. I live in Texas...lots of critters that bite, and some of them really hard. Everything seems to either sting, stick, or stink. It just makes good sense.
5. Cowboy boots are great for getting spiders in a corner.
6. Outdoor spiders don't bother me..I'm fascinated by them. But then, I'm a huge nerd biology teacher, too.
7. Organic control...stomp or swat recluse or black widow spiders in the house or outbuildings. All other spiders get a free ride outside in a cup.

John

 

[Wolf-Kim]

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Maybe it's just me, but if I have ANYTHING that closely resembles a spider on me it gets a knee jerk hilarious and comical reaction out of me. A face of horror, a high pitched scream/neigh like sound and a strange seizure like bodily reaction. I have chills just thinking about it!

As much as I'd like to say I could calmly stop and think how to react to a poisonous spider crawling ON ME, I don't. React, scream, and run, returning much with a scared sheepish grin, nervously shinnying around any possible hiding spots, and armed to the teeth with boots and anything else that could possible kill a spider at a distance.

 

[Chicks_N_Horses]

I always check me shoes

Last week found a giant centipede in my boots! YIKES!

 

[NotTheMomma]

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Can I come with you? I'm getting the heebie jeebies just reading this thread.

Sure! Lets run away...

Take me with you!!! I'd have an exterminator out ASAP! Only when I knew the house was cleared of ALL creepy crawlies would I move back in! UGHH!

 

[mdbokc]

Link to the sticky spider traps we use...have used this type for insects as we live in the semi-rurals ...we have bugs! There are other manufacturers that use phormones to attract them to the trap. Just google sticky spider traps.

http://www.quittobacco.com/spidertraps/

 

[Emzyyy]

I heard crab apples keep them away?
My brother was laying on the couch and watching tv and I was sitting on the chair we had just been joking about the brown recluse on the ceiling above him falling. When I look over on a commercial the spider is gone and sitting on his head he hadn't even noticed. I said "Eric don't mooove..." and wacked it with my hand and yelled because I hit him. I told him it was on his head and he shut up.

 

[citrusdreams]

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Maybe it's just me, but if I have ANYTHING that closely resembles a spider on me it gets a knee jerk hilarious and comical reaction out of me. A face of horror, a high pitched scream/neigh like sound and a strange seizure like bodily reaction. I have chills just thinking about it!

As much as I'd like to say I could calmly stop and think how to react to a poisonous spider crawling ON ME, I don't. React, scream, and run, returning much with a scared sheepish grin, nervously shinnying around any possible hiding spots, and armed to the teeth with boots and anything else that could possible kill a spider at a distance.

Yep...that's me too

Though I have gotten better. I swear I have.

Now, after I dance the jig, I go for the vaccum cleaner and extend the telescope way far away from me and suck up the offending beast.

And outside in the garden I'm better too. I still startle easy, but I don't run away. Unless it's after me

 

[Judy]

I think you will find that exterminators do not guarantee any results for spiders, or just tell you they have nothing that eliminates them. We are on our own here.