Treating the Spiders

摘要

When I moved into a home that had a moderate brown recluse spider problem, i realized it would give me an opportunity to experiment a bit to see how each part of the control process might affect the numbers of spiders being seen or captured on traps.This article details some of my observations.INITIAL SURVEY. When my wife and found this house, we fell in love with the layout and the room it afforded us for our comfort and hobby interests. My wife could have her own project room and i now have good-sized room to serve as my lab and photo studio. During the initial walk through of the house while we were deciding to buy it, i noted a couple of live re-cluse spiders in the bathrooms. i found a few more in the attic spaces, which is not surprising given that the vast majority of a recluse infestation resides in the periphery of a house — the wall voids, attic and crawlspace/basement (if present).