So, I am just throwing this out there. How do YOU kill a black widow? I was not thrilled when one of my smart little gymnast pointed out that I had two black widows in my window well. Lucky for me there were "outside" but way to close to my house to get to stay alive. The only problem is that I don't like to kill little spiders the size of a pin head and these spiders were about the size of a quarter and black widows. I told Paul that I had two spiders that I really needed him to kill for me when he got home from work.
Well, he got home checked the bug spray that we had and it said that it did NOT work on black widows. So, the spiders lived another day, and I had a very hard time getting to sleep. Every time I closed my eyes all I could see was this spider and I believe in my head they were getting bigger.
Come the next day I finally came up with a solution. We could suck the spider up with my rainbow vacuum. This way we would be able to drown them in the water and once they were caught we could dump the water making sure they were dead.
It worked not only did we get the two spiders, but also a few white sacks that appeared to be holding lots baby black widows. I am sure there is probably a more common way to get rid of black widows, but for now at least our home safe from a couple of bad spider bites!
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That is too funny that you had to drown them. I think that rubbing alcohol works on almost all insects, but than again who wants to get close enough to dump it on them.
I found one in our garage and I couldn't find our spider bug spray. I did have wasp spray though and used that. It worked, though not as fast as I'd like.
We found a HUGE black widow in our window well the other day - Gregg caught it in a water bottle and suffocated it...and I called ACCURATE Termite & Pest control to come spray - - we have had just too many spiders for our own good lately! You're much more imaginative than me. Those rainbows are good for lots of purposes.
Girl, you're supposed to call our neighbor Matt...
http://imadhis.blogspot.com/2009/10/sometimes-i-hate-it-when-im-right.html
I don't like using the vacuum because sometimes bugs get stuck on lint and ridges inside the vacuum hose, and I don't want to risk bringing the thing in my house or into another part of the house.
Did you make sure every critter you sucked up ended up in the water reservoir? Also, check your garage; that's where most of our neighbors have found their black widows this year.
Sleep tight!
We have some spray that works. I don't think it gets black widows but it kills all the things they eat and then they die. Window wells here are really bad. there are always tons of them in all the ones in our neighborhood. Oh and by the dryer vents outside. Ours is on our front porch and I have killed a few there until we sprayed. I will check in the morning for what kind of spray we have.
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