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tdubnik wrote:I think I found a solution. I believe my problem stems from the belief that the spiders don't contact the areas that I have sprayed. Even though I sprayed around all of the doors and the perimeter of my basement, somehow some spiders bypassed that path and got in. Once in, they hang around the ceiling, behind cabinets, under equipment, etc. I tear down the webs when I am working but they build them back when I'm gone. We have played this game for a long time and up till now the spiders have been winning.

It seems the solution was to find a way that killed the spiders where they were hiding. I found a product called Raid Fumigator that fills the space with a spider killing fog. I did this about a week ago and haven't been running into new webs since. Don't know how long it will last, but for now it seems my problem is solved.

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I was going to suggest that quite a while ago, but thought it is too "chemical" for the group. I have used it in my IT office twice ... in 25 years. It worked both times and controls spiders and bugs for years.

You done good!

When you were spraying, did you spray around the ceiling?

Spray?? Sprays kill. Why do you want to kill simple spiders. I just let the lizards and the tarantula do their thing and life balances out. I do watch out for the brown recluse and then there are the rattlers but no one said anything about snakes.

JPG wrote:When you were spraying, did you spray around the ceiling?

The product he used is a very fine fog. It penetrates everything including going through cracks into the celing. It is amazing stuff ....

dusty wrote:Spray?? Sprays kill. Why do you want to kill simple spiders. I just let the lizards and the tarantula do their thing and life balances out. I do watch out for the brown recluse and then there are the rattlers but no one said anything about snakes.

And WHAT pray tell IS a tarantula? I do not think they reside in GA.

Nasty "looking" fuzzy critters that live here in the desert. They live under ground and are hardly ever seen in the day time. Spider??? Maybe not (technically) but they are often called spiders. I don't let them crawl on me like some (including my daughters) do but I don't kill them either.

When I find one in the shop I usually remove them. Moving them can be hazardous to the critter. They are delicate. I have some photos of my shop buddies but I can't locate them on my computer. This will do, however.

https://www.google.com/search?q=tarantu ... B720%3B546

Last I knew spiders have 8 legs.

Yup, and so do tarantulas.

dusty wrote:Yup, and so do tarantulas.

Even so!


Tarantulas comprise a group of very large and often hairy arachnids belonging to the Theraphosidae family of spiders, of which approximately 900 species have been identified. Wikipedia

I am not at all a lover of spiders but I am a pretty big "tolerater" of spiders "outside"...
I pay little attention to them in the farm shop but I show them no mercy in the house and thus the woodshop. Even then I'm not fanatic about them. It more like keeping them properly stomped, webs knocked down etc along with the previously mentioned food grade Diatomaceous Earth applications.
I used to hate them in previous wood shops due to web build-up and said webs becoming loaded even with pretty coarse sawdust and hanging everywhere. This shop is easier to keep clean and they are not a real problem.
I love having a Webster handy. It has about a 10" head and a handle that extends out to maybe 6' and I can clear large areas in just a few minutes.
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I also make frequent use of one of those cotton candy looking dusters.
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When it starts building up I just shove it in the end of the 4" dust collector hose and it cleans right up.
Some time this month I want to really fog down the crawl space under the east half of the house with the Diatomaceous Earth powder. We almost never spray in the house except for very local spots since one of our 3 cats was de-clawed when we got her (from the shelter) and has never left the house since we have had her.
I do (carefully) use pesticides... In fact during a lifetime of farming and research work I have sprayed many many thousands of gallons of various kinds of pesticides of all sorts including agent orange... Still I am pretty careful and fussy about what and how much I spray around my house and yard.