I hate black widows. What are your solutions? They’re everywhere.
Dish soap (dawn!) mixed with water, shaken in a spray bottle.
Call an exterminator
Get a pet lizard
Spiders live where the food is, you don’t have a spider problem, you have a food problem. What insects are attracting the spiders? What is attracting the insects?
Maybe some borax around the house could deter the main sources of food
Turn it into a bedroom. I’ve heard a single person can eat up to 12 spiders a night while they sleep.
The real LPT is always in the comments
I hear it’s pretty expensive to hire Spiders Georg this time of year, though.
What any reasonable person in the same situation would do. You burn the house down.
Or take off and nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
Close all windows and doors, set off the required amount of foggers and wait the recommended amount of time. Repeat again in a few weeks if needed. Most foggers/bug bombs work on most spiders and many are persistent over some time after application.
Napalm? Pretty sure the answer is napalm.
Yep, either napalm or nuke. Depends on how big the garage is.
Use bug bomb(s) first to kill the existing spiders. Then apply permethrin diluted with water to a 0.5% solution, spraying at all entry paths to the garage, edges, and dark areas.
The idea is to not just prevent spiders from returning. It’s also to deprive them of a reason to return by removing their food supply. Permethrin is a wide-spectrum insecticide and repellant. It has very low toxicity to humans, most mammals, and birds. Not good around cats or fish. It has good persistence (6-8 weeks).
I’m sure that you can get pesticide that’ll kill spiders.
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https://www.raid.com/en-us/products/raid-max-spider-and-scorpion-killer
Raid Max® Spider & Scorpion Killer kills spiders, black widow spiders, and scorpions on contact and can be used both indoors and outdoors.
I’d assume that they’re ultimately gonna show up again, though, unless you can eliminate their food source.
Leaf blower? Vacuum? Pay someone $20 to get rid of them so you don’t have to do it?
Lemme guess Australia?
Probably US, Australians usually refere to them as redbacks.
Redbacks are a related bit different spider. But yes, Aussies have redbacks.
It’s just as related as the 3 American black widows or the European one are to each other, they are all species in Latrodectus. And while most Aussies do call them redbacks calling them Australian black widow isn’t unheard off, especially by non-Aussies.
It’s the term “black widow” that’s ambigious here, it doesn’t refere to one specific species of spider.
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burn the
housegarage downCall HawkeyeUse the black widow equivalent of mouse poison.Fire! Kill it with fire!
Set the garage on fire.
I may be revealing that we dont have many dangerous animals where I love… but is it actually a large number of black widows! I kind of hope the e is something called a window spider an that you misspelled.
I mean even one black widow, and id assume you’d call an exterminator to make sure there weren’t any more around the house.
Black widows are common. I don’t think I’d consider paying someone to come out unless I saw more than 5
