You can use the Tomcat flat glue boards to capture spiders and other insects in the home. I place them under beds and around base boards. You will be surprised what you trap.
My sister got bit by a recluse spider and almost lost her leg. I feel safer with them around, to catch the unwanted creatures.
By JB from Cincinnati, OH
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I happen to get quite a few spiders in my house. I hate to find them near my babies' cribs. I found a way to eliminate spiders without sprays. Put double sided tape on an index card or scrap paper.
Need to keep spiders from entering your house? Chestnut essential oil works! Dab onto a cotton wool ball and smear along window edges and doors to stop the blighters from coming inside.
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How do I get rid of spiders? Usually we have had them in the basement only, but we have been finding them all through the house. My daughter is scared of them and I would like to know how to prevent them from traveling everywhere.
By Monika K
There is not much you can do about spiders, and since they usually trap flies and other insects in their webs, they are doing good things for you. I use a broom to get rid of their webs and squish them if they are someplace I don't want them, like my kitchen.
Which would you rather have - spiders or all the other bugs spiders eat? I love to see spiders hard at work. My adult daughter also learned to love them.
I don't care how beneficial spiders are, they scare me silly. I've been find huge ones in my home in the past year and have been sleeping with the light on.
We use sticky traps in our garage for spiders.
I have recently read that if you tale peppermint essential oil and mix with water, then spray it around to create a barrier for whatever room, the spiders don't like it and will stay away. I have not tried this, personally, but I hope this helps!
I live in a 2nd floor apt. and we get a lot of spiders in the summer. My daughter is petrified of them and I'm not too fond of them myself. We always seem to find them on our high ceilings. I have tried using my Swiffer or a mop or broom to smoosh them but it makes them drop on the floor and sometimes run away.
Does anyone know of a better solution to this pesky and a little creepy problem? I was looking at those bug vacuums but they are all too short to reach the ceiling. Any help or suggestions at all would be greatly appreciated!I use my regular vacuum cleaner with a extension. For flies I have a spray bottle with window cleaner mixed with rubbing alcohol. I get close to the fly and spray out a mist.
Ditto on the vacuum cleaner with the extension. If it is late and I don't want to wake anyone up, I use a spray mister bottle with only water in it. I spray in the general area of the spidey, and the water vapor or the breeze of it moves them from the ceiling over to wall where I have a better chance of reaching it and without it falling on me. Bug sprays tend to leave marks on the ceiling and makes them fall down and doesn't always kill them instantly. Ick! Hate the lil' buggers!
I read somewhere (maybe here?) that if you spray them with AEROSOL hairspray it "freezes" them to their spot. Then maybe you could smoosh them or suck them up with the vacuum extension pole? God Bless, Sheila in Cocoa, FL
I use ammonia and water in a spray bottle. Mist ceiling, will kill existing ones and no more will return : ) Works outside too!
Extend your vacuum hose with wrapping paper tube! I do this all the time for my high ceilings and those nasty critters!
Had a spider on our living room ceiling just the other day AND I sprayed it with my aresol Hair Spray & then removed "it" with a napkin that I flushed right away (in case it was still alive). The hair spray stuck him right to the ceiling where I had no trouble picking him off of the ceiling (once I got a chair out to stand on and reached up with).
I beleive I got the idea from here and it works!
If you are my father, you use a broom to flick the spider off the ceiling, and then assume your daughter will be content with having a giant spider loose somewhere in the room if she can't *see* it.
Maybe a better solution would be not to eliminate. Spiders eat and trap all kinds of indoor predators, dust mites etc. I find that they can be as friendly on the inside as much as on the outside. I usually leave the non-intrusive ones and relocate the others so as not to harm any ecological balance. This is not my idea. I learned in Girl Scouts to "kill no living creature" as everything has it's purpose on this earth.
To keep spiders away you make up in a spray bottle 30ml of lemon juice and 500ml of water and spray around the ceiling edges. I haven't tried it but I will.
I spray mine with plain water till they drop. Most won't move too much when wet - after which I take them outside. I find this is the most humane way to treat the problem.
We use shaving cream lol it sticks them there and you can get it with a paper towel and not have to touch it(the spider itself). It works every time, sometimes I flick them away but it freaks my kids out!
Thanks so much for all of the great ideas. I can't just "live" with them in my house...my daughter is way too afraid of them. I wouldn't do that to her. But I will try to use the wrapping paper tube...that's a great idea. I will try the different spray bottle ideas as well.
You could use the lemon juice idea and add salt. Then you could spray the spider with febreze and pour the lemon juice on top of it. Keep spraying until the spider stops moving.
I'm abnormally scared of finding an adult of these baby spiders that keep crawling round my bathroom. This screams 'massive mummy spider somewhere' as there are at least 10 a day that I'm flushing and they're all identical.
Is there any other solution to this or do I need to find a new home?I have noticed an over abundance of spiders in the laundry room in the basement. Is there anything I can do to prevent all of these spiders from getting into the house? Thank you.
By Cindy S.
Those spiders may be from an egg sac that hatched. Or they might be coming in through the dryer vent. Make sure everything is sealed around the vent so if they come in the vent hose they can't get out.
Ortho Home Defense Max works for us. We use it around the perimeter of the house in spring and fall.
My Aunt always used pomegranates (the fruit) lying around in her basement and she said they repelled the spiders?
I am with Lilac. They're probably sneaking in by way of the vent. If your furnace is also in the basement you might want to check those vent seals too.
What kind of spider is this an how can I keep them away?
Having moved a lot of garden rubbish to the tip in my car on the weekend, I now have spiders in the car. One is particularly huge but I am unable to catch it as it is a first class runner. My daughter refuses to get into the car until I can assure her it is gone or dead. Any ideas?
By Kate H
Spiders smell with their feet. They hate Peppermint so if you put a fine patina and peppermint oil in the car, they will run. You don't have to put it on everything...but the carpeting under the seats are probably where they are going to try and hide. I hope this helps.
I have seen white tail spiders in the corner of my 3 month old baby's room, I don't want to use chemicals. I have cleaned up and washed, vacuumed etc., what natural deterrents can I use?
By Ann M
I was told that spiders do not like the odor of hedge apples, the large, pale green, lumpy fruit of the hedge bushes. Just place the hedge apple on a small plate or in a small bowl and set somewhere near where the spiders are. I did try this and it seemed to work, though like most natural solutions, it will take some time. The hedge apple will, in time, dry up and you can discard it. Let me now if this works.
How can I get rid of spiders?
By Karen T
I have had very good success getting control over my spiders indoors by lightly spraying a clean plastic bristle broom with bug killer and chasing the cobwebs with this just be careful if the cobwebs are dirty you may end up plastering them to the wall dirt and all.
I have found that the best way is just to vacume them up using either a hand held vacume cleaner or the hose attatchmentof an upright. The vacume gets the spiders, eggs, and webs all together. The suction tears apart the spiders so they don't climb out to re-infest. That way, you are not contaminating your home with poison sprays.
How do I get rid of spiders in the basement?
By peg fisher from Endicott, NY
Sprinkle Diatomaceous Earth around the area where the spiders invade. You may be able to get Diatomaceous Earth (DE) at Walmart but any pool supply store should have it. DE is used in some pool filters. It is a powder and harmless to humans and animals but to bugs it is like little razor blades.
Spiders eat insects. I would rather have the spiders there then a bunch of bugs.
I have tiny white biting spiders. How do I get rid of them?
I've been told that dryer sheets eliminate spiders and mice? Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
A neighbor recently had her willow tree pruned. This seemed to disturb spiders who have infiltrated my house. I have 2 cats, so am wondering what natural non-toxic things I can use to get rid of them.
By Sharon Y.
As far as I know there is nothing that will keep spiders out. Sweep down their webs and squish the spiders. That's all that can be done, I think.
This is a page about using hedge apples to repel spiders. Hedge apples have a long standing reputation as a spider repellent.
This is a page about keeping spiders out of your house. Since finding a spider in your home is typically not a happy occurrence, finding a way to keep them out would be a great solution.
I have a problem. I have had a new home built. I noticed spiders inside the home (bunches). I asked the contractor what to do? He told us to put moth balls inside the crawl space under the house and it will make the spiders and mice stay away.
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