Help the spiders are attacking me!?

Question

How do you get rid of spiders!? My room is clean most of the time but I still get spiders. I have a cat and two dogs so I want to find a way to do it without poison. :(

Answer 1

Spiders will seek micro climates everywhere.  If they do not find food they will go away or die.  But they don't tell their friends about a place where the pickings are poor so new spiders are always checking unoccupied areas.  Its their way of life and how they go about it.  I minimize the population of spiders in my house by vacuuming the top edges of all the walls whenever I notice cobwebs.  New ones always replace the old so its like moping floors, you just need to do it regularly.  I never spray.

Answer 2

You have to really make sure you clean under and around everything on a regular basis. Also check to make sure you have no place that they can come in easily, ( ripped screen etc) and also check around the outside of your room - do you have bushes against your window etc. do you see any nests hanging, if so crush them. Unfortunately the only way to kill a spider is to either squash them or directly spray bug killer on them, they don't die from just spraying around like other bugs do.  

Answer 3

I applaud you for not wanting to use poison! As for spider control, is your room on a lower level? Spiders often inhabit darker and more humid rooms. I would suggest a thorough cleaning (vacuuming, dusting, etc.) and sealing any cracks/ crevices with a good caulk. Also check window screens for any signs of damage. You're always going to have the odd spider that appeared out of nowhere (usually males wandering in search of females), but you can do things to discourage them. Make sure there are no food sources in your room for them, ie: moths, flies, etc. Remember that spiders are beneficial, so instead of squashing them, catch and release outside. (Far from your room!) Good luck! :)

Answer 4

Actually, you might like to consider removing the animals in  question  from your rooms, the waste material that is on their coats is a likely form of food for spiders, as well as a delivery truck with four legs, for food and spiders alike, but the proper way to deal with spiders are numerous, but some are very effective, you do not say whether you are actually anxious about these "wee fellows", or just excessively house proud.

So I will begin by saying that they do people no harm whatsoever, unless they are a cause of  allergic reactions, and this is very rare !

     Method 1..if you are nervous, you will need a little courage and understanding of the spider types to deal with one this way, spider reactions are dependant on which species you are dealing with, you have given no indication of what type you are troubled by, so here is a brief resume of the problems, first the spiders known as wolf spiders, thin, long body, and often striped, are by their nature hunters, and not web builders, they run extremely fast but  are easy to deal; with by virtue of their response to air pressure changes, ( as a protection from birds they run like the wind if the pressure changes, looking for a place to hide , and they are Olympic standard runners, forget Usain Bolt or the Jamaican team, scale for scale, they are outclassed every time ),

so the solution is, to blow on them, and they will run into a carefully prepared trap, ( more on that,  later ),

     Method 2..if the spider is a web builder, it is likely to be camouflagued, and it will react by "freezing" when blown on, in the expectation that if it does not move, it will not be seen, this is not such a bad idea as the prey species are insensitive to non movement, like T rex, the dinosaur, it can not see you if you stand still, as its manner of hunting is to snatch its prey on the move, it has a "predictive assessment" capability, but it can not predict from nothing, going on...all birds are related to the dinosaurs, believe it or not, they are the remains of these great species, from history, their final adaptation, so to speak.....

In all cases, this "blowing" will produce a change in the air pressure and predictable reactions, now comes the traps, you need,

     The simplest form of trap is the glass tumbler and a piece of cardboard, place the glass over the spider, and slide the card under, the glass, you will be able to see the spider is trapped underneath and transport him/her to an outside location, release, then flee if you are scared, by them.   the better method, and less harmful ,is the collectors method, that is to use an instrument known as a pooter, ( look it up, ), it is a glass tube that is evacuated of the air, by a [plunger/ rod, or a tube to suck on, drawing the spider into the tube, where it can be released from,  outside,

     When storing spiders in  a jar, never pierce the lid, a spider can be safely kept alive for several days with the air inside, but if it is pierced then evaporation will kill it in a few hours, also a bug bottle/ collectors bottle,  can be had from many bookstores, which sell childrens books, as a science book and kit combined, but the idea of ridding yourself, permanently of these creatures, is by cleaning regularly, and harshly, they will always be back in a short space of time, even if you can not see them.

     They and the related species of mites, are the most adaptable on Earth, ( having outlived several mass extinction  events, including the dinosaurs ), and having been found within 45 miles of the south pole,( mites ),  and up Mount Everest ( the Himalayan jumping spider, ), .....so if you relax and realise that they are nearly as myriad as the dust motes in your home, ( W.S. Bristow, the father of research in  the British history of spiders ( The Comity of Spiders, W.S. Bristow ), suggests that there are about 35,000 an acre , as does Simonides, a Greek/ French researcher, into this sort of thing, ( Simonides, Les Arachnides de France, ), you might just be able to live with them doing a little of your house cleaning for you....but you should consider "transport" rather than "killing",  for the spiders, and the environments sake, not just for the benefit of your pets, they really go through a huge amount of insects in their lives, and we would be swamped without them, imagine a new world, where the average level of insects was over 700 times what it currently is , and you will see the problems right away, because that will be the result.....and just by the way, the beetle population  of this world, is larger, in terms of mass, than all the people in the world....now figure multiplying that, by 700.before you start to think of them, ( spiders ), as pests.

     They certainly clean a lot of the detritus of pets in the home, and keep your home safer because of this alone, without them, your pets will be a lot nastier carriers of dangerous bacteria as well  as smellier, from the decaying matter, that these mobile garbage disposal units, /carriers, introduce to your house/home.....