How to Get Rid of Brown Recluse Spiders (4 Easy Steps)

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See how to get rid of brown recluse spiders! This video will show you how to identify brown recluse spiders and how to kill them easily.

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First, it is important to identify and confirm that you have brown recluse activity. The brown recluse can be found across the southern to midwest United States.

Though they pack a powerful bite, they are relatively small - measuring around a fourth to half an inch long. As their name suggests, they are uniformly brown and reclusive. They are nocturnal and nest in dark, secluded corners or in clutter. If you can, look at their eyes -- a brown recluse only has six eyes arranged in pairs. Also note the marking on their back. It will look like a violin or fiddle -- this is why the brown recluse is sometimes referred to as a fiddle-back spider.

To get control of the brown recluse, first reduce clutter in and around your home. Brown recluse spiders like to hide in cluttered storage areas like attics, basements, or garages. They can also be found outside in yard debris like wood.

Next, keep them out by filling or sealing off any voids, cracks, or crevices around your home or structure. This will help cut off points of entry and hiding spots.

After that, it’s time to move on to chemical control.

Use Reclaim IT insecticide with a pump sprayer. Reclaim IT is a powerful liquid concentrate with a long lasting residual. Mix with water in a sprayer following label instructions. Spray baseboards around the home and in closets, in and around garages, around windows and doors, and any other voids that brown recluse spiders may be entering or hiding. You can also use a product like Pyrid aerosol for quick contact kills.

Also use Catchmaster glue boards to trap hard to find spiders. This is a board with a sticky surface that will trap the spiders and other crawling pests. The spiders will walk across the boards and get stuck and can then be disposed of. Place these in garages, closets, and storage areas.

Finally, use a combination of Bifen LP insecticide granules and the Reclaim IT concentrate outside. Bifen LP is a powerful granular insecticide with a two to four month long residual. Spread the Bifen around your lawn and flower beds or mulch areas. Activate the granules by spraying the Reclaim over the treated area. Also use Reclaim to create a barrier around your home by spraying two to three feet up the structure and two to three feet out.

These professional products and steps not only will help eliminate brown recluse spiders, but many different types of pests, which also diminishes the spiders’ food source for effective long-lasting control.

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Me: hang on let me look at its eyes to identify if it is a brown recluse (proceeds to get on eye level with spider and expose my face)

sunshinehurricanemix

They are quite intelligent. I find that if I put up a bunch of posters saying how good the bug hunting is just down the road they all leave. You have to include some testimonials, of course. And a few pics of satisfied arachnid customers. Bug shots, if you will.

sassulusmagnus

Glueboards are probably the most effective way to kill them

michaelmerck

I have a house that gets them bad usually in spring and summer. You have to use delta dust to dust your attic and around baseboards and behind plug boxes and switch boxes. The spray is only really good for on contact kills. Delta dust is a water- resistant dust that last up to 8 months before you have to dust again. It does help control their population. If you have them, congrats because you will never get rid of them fully.

jamesd.

The best way I have ever found to kill Brown Recluse Spiders is a plastic box or old cooler without a lip around the outside. It Should be at least 12 to 18 inches deep. Remove the top and place the box in a dark corner of the attic or basement. Walk away and forget it for a month. For some reason the spiders can get in but they can't get out. Seems if you catch one more will join that one till the floor of the box is covered. A large empty can works too, the deeper the better. One day I caught one Spider to show to someone who had never seen a Brown Recluse. I put it in a small, sealed ZipLock bag and laid it on a shelf in the garage, a couple months later I noticed the bag and picked it up to throw away the Spider I thought would be dead. Just the opposite the very angry Spider charged around the sealed plastic bag. The poor thing had had No Food, No water and no air for well over a month, I gently laid it on the floor and stomped on it. That's another method to kill them. Good luck and be careful

bettyhorton

I've been infested the past 3 years and have done the following:
1. Clean and vacuum, remove as much clutter as possible
2. Filled in any exterior holes in foundation.
3. Cleared brush from the sides of the house.
4. Spray demon max cypermethrin around exterior every month of spider season.
5. Used delta dust inside and out in cracks and crevices.
6. Bought big glue traps from amazon that I placed every 5 feet around baseboards.
My first year I caught around 30 in the traps. Last year I'd say I caught half as much. Hopefully this year will be even further diminished, but we're coming to the heart of the season here in May and June in Kansas. Fingers crossed.

karlhungus

You had me until you told me I had to clean.

pyscobrand

They like moisture, and paper base boxes, replace all cardboard boxes with plastic ones!! Sticky Mice trap works great put 1 in every corner of your bedroom. I guarantee you'll find 1 stuck withing a week or two weeks!

iloveburittos

THERE ARE SO MANY IN SOUTH FLORIDA NOW!
I grew up doing Landscaping at my dad's company whenever wanted some extra cash & never saw them. Now if you go to any of the parks around here, look through a pike of leaves or another hiding spot of see AT LEAST ONE OR MORE within a Diameter of 3 Feet and that's not an exaggeration! They're little stealthy m fers to that Love to hang out in cloth such as your clothes, boots, bookbags etc etc
At Night they often jump off of branches n stuff because I guess to save time n effort.
Their low center of gravity probay helps them with the fall impact on top of making them super stealthy to hide in nooks & crannies.
They seem not like the color white for some reason. I think it's because they have problems camouflaging themselves to it which they do change the color tone of their bodies to fit in with their surroundings.
The Other Week
I Got bit by one over 20 TIMES while sleeping. If you get bit you got to push that poison out of you. To me it felt like a very heavy poison that remained primarily in the lumbar that was bit. Anyways where the bite occured a blister will form. You need to methodically massage around the bite towards the blister which will also prepare the Blister to pop(if not use a sterilized sowing needle to assist). Once popped then continue with another round or to pushing out the poison.
The more poison you push out the less it will swell. For me took about once a day popping all 20 bites and massage the poison out for 3 days.
Keep it ice pack and ice handy for reducing swelling.
Clean thoroughly the area especially after you massage the poison out of you sessions

thesilenthunter

They are also unfortunately found in Michigan too. One of my neighbors was bitten by one. :(

michigan_supercars

Last weekend (on my birthday) I thought I had a hair caught in the collar of my shirt. I'm bald, so I felt it immediately. I reached around behind my head to grab the hair, and it started moving. It moved onto my head. I turned around and asked my wife if there was something crawling on me, and the horror in her voice let me know that it was not good. It turns out to be a brown recluse crawling up my neck, back down my neck into my shirt, across my shoulders, and down my elbow. My wife slapped my elbow, making the spider fall to the ground, and slapped it as hard as she could with one of her slides. She was disgusted.

youtubeTrole

“1/4 to 1/2” lol mine usually have a leg span of a quarter. The larger ones can be almost two times the size

mrwaddlewertz

This video was excellent and really showed how to identify the spider. Is that spray safe for pets?

aliciabrillante

Thank you for this, I have a small infestation in my condo. Seems like the only spider i ever see in my place is brown recluses. going to try the granules and spray for sure. Tried to go the natural route and get rid of them with mint and tea tree but that didnt work.

xxfarleyjdxx

I live in Connecticut. Last year, just before vacation to New Hampshire, I was unknowingly bitten on my toe by a Brown Recluse that was hiding in my slipper. When I got to our hotel room, I noticed that my whole body was swollen so badly that I couldn't put my watch or ring on. At the time, I thought I was gaining weight. I started to have achy joints too. When I returned 4 days later back home, I noticed that my big toe had turned bright pink. After a few days, it turned red. A few more days later, half of the toe turned black. A scab had developed where the bite was. A few days later, I was bitten again twice near the first bite. I took some antibiotics that we had lying around the house and that seemed to work. Within a week or so, the toe returned to normal.

I saw this spider in the Winter before I went on vacation. It was on my bed. I took my dustbuster and sucked it up and emptied it outdoors. I figured it just died.

Fast forward. Last week, I was unknowingly bitten again while sleeping. It bit me three times on my leg. Before I noticed the bite, I started to notice a strange and very loud grumbling in my stomach. Almost like hunger pains but, much louder. On Friday, all hell broke loose. PAINFUL stomach cramps developed which were horribly strong. I had a fever, chills, dizziness. I vomited for two days straight. I even threw up water. Sometimes, I couldn't even make it to the toilet and had to vomit in the sink. It is early Monday morning now and I am finally able to hold down some food.

Later today, I intend to get an Exterminator in for an assessment.

waynejohnson