Time To Clear The Cobwebs Away And Perform Your Pest Control Techniques For Spiders

If you haven't performed your pest control techniques for spiders in a while you have some of these little pests lurking around your home. And, depending how you feel about spiders, you might feel it's time to do something about that.

I have mixed feelings about spiders. For the most part they help me out by catching, and eating, those flying insects like flies and mosquitoes. If they weave their web in the right place they even catch a few ants.

And those other bugs are often much more of a bother than any spider I've ever encountered.

Almost.

I have to say that the brown recluse spider is an exception to that. And over the past few years those recluse became so abundant around here that I spot one more often than I like.

I can't go into my storage barn without seeing recluse. I do admit that I've got so much stuff stored in there that I can't spray effectively though.

Most spiders are what I must classify as the good guys because they help keep the more bothersome insect populations down.

But their cobwebs do become unsightly after a while don't they?

One pest control technique to keep spider numbers down is removing those cobwebs. Just take a broom and sweep them away.

If you do that often enough the spider eventually moves on in search of a spot where its home is safe from your destructive activities.

Sweeping away those cobwebs also gives your visitors a better impression about your housekeeping skills too. Kind of a double benefit that.

Using that broom isn't necessarily so safe if the web you're brushing away belongs to a brown recluse though. You take a chance of that spider jumping onto your broom, crawling up its handle, and possibly biting you.

You don't want that. Those recluse bites are bad enough that my father lost half of a finger to one. Doctors had to cut it off to stop the poison from spreading across his hand, up his arm, and into his body.

Your more secure method for controlling spiders is with the use of a residual spray. The residual is a combination of poison dust mixed with a liquid. When you spray it on a surface the liquid dries, and leaves the poison behind as a layer of powder.

Spiders walk through the powder, get it on their legs, and lick it off when they clean themselves. Within 30-minutes the spider is history.

Residual sprays are not discriminative though. They take out all spiders - good and bad.

Some spiders help you out, and some threaten your health. If you have brown recluse lurking around you need to take action for your personal protection. It's better to tolerate a few more flies than risk a poison bite from the recluse.

If you don't know how to recognize a brown recluse get some pictures, and study them. Brown recluse have distinctive legs.

Learn how to perform pest control techniques for spiders, and go on the attack if you have a brown recluse problem. Or if you just don't like spiders of any type.

Joseph Jackson is an experienced pest control technician and author of SPIDER RIDDANCE, a how to guide for performing do-it-yourself pest control for controlling spiders.

Find other pest control ebooks by Joe at http://www.bugsmiceratsnomore.com

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Dust Off Your Pest Control Techniques The Brown Recluse Spider Is Active Again

Did you relax your pest control techniques for insects over the winter?

Those brown recluse spiders took to hiding in their crannies, and crevices, for the last three or four months. They lurked in the shadows just out of sight. But they didn't go very far away, and now they're developing eggs. Soon those eggs will hatch, and you'll have a bunch of little tiny brown recluse crawling all over your house.

Yesterday my lady started some spring-cleaning on the patio. She told me when she moved things around spiders went scurrying everywhere. She said there were all kinds of spiders out there.

I didn't say anything about that, and I didn't go have a look see. I know from experience many of the spiders she seen running away were most likely brown recluse. Those things are everywhere in the neighborhood now.

That's strange because just a few years ago we supposedly didn't have recluse spiders in Indiana. Now a days, even though I'm no longer an active pest control technician, I here about brown recluse bites all the time.

I think the main reason people get bitten is because most people don't know what a recluse looks like. Sure the majority of people know about that mark on the spider's back that's shaped like a violin, or fiddle. It's the reason we call the spider the fiddler.

But if you're trying to identify this spider by that mark you're way too close to the insect if it's still living. That violin is so small it's hard to see.

I studied pictures, and got an image of the spider firmly fixed in my head, back when I started my pest control technician days. Now I recognize one when I see it from a distance of a few feet. So I know to be very careful when I approach.

The brown recluse has distinctive legs. They're very long. They angle upward from the body for a short distance, and then turn back downward toward the ground. That turn, or bend, in the leg is kind of like our knee. The body is long, and slender. But it's very small too. That's why the fiddle mark is hard to identify.

These guys have a nasty bite. My father found that out the hard way. A recluse bit him on the first knuckle of his middle finger. He didn't really feel the bite. When you do feel it you only feel a slight pinch. But a short time later his knuckle started turning red, then it began swelling, and an angry wound opened up.

That red started crawling up his finger next. And then the doctors cut his finger off so the poison couldn't spread up his arm, and into his body.

Not fun.

Treating for brown recluse spiders is simple enough if you know how.

The hard part is learning how to recognize this pest. And then you must learn how to take care of it with the proper pest control techniques.

Joseph Jackson is an experienced pest control technician and author of SPIDER RIDDANCE, a how to guide for performing do-it-yourself pest control for controlling spiders.

Find other pest control ebooks by Joe at http://www.bugsmiceratsnomore.com

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