Spiders in/around garage

[harleycontracter]

How do I get rid of spiders? They are only bothering the garage. They are inside a little bit and around outside lights and siding. They leave droppings that are tough to remove.

Need help spring is coming again

 

[kevin47]

Spiders...? Are you kidding me...? Worry about your wife your life and how to pay your bills...Spiders are okay...Quit messing with the balance of nature...Geez...I wish I had such trivial problems...

 

[malibu101]

I was once bitten by a brown recluse. Let's just say it wasn't nice.
I never liked spiders, but now I hate and kill all spiders like they are mortal enemies.

Look at this thread as there was a pretty long discussion about this awhile ago.
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=181875&highlight=spiders

 

[randomtwinkie]

I've heard that sticking a few osage oranges around will repel them. i'd leave em sitting ontop of a grocery bag for easy cleanup

 

[theoldwizard1]

Inside is easy. By a 6 pack of bug bombs at HD. Let off 2 and close the door. Stay out until tomorrow. Probably need to do it twice a year.

If you really want to kill them outside, get a propane powered fogger. With a gallon of "juice" it will cost you more than a C note but you have enough for several years, even if you do it once a month. Make sure it is near dead calm when spraying.

 

[freedomgli]

Who doesn't love spiders?

 

[4xdog]

I'm a bit of an arachniphobe, so even though I love the role of spiders in nature, they irrationally give me the willies.

My old garage in my first rental here in St Louis was infested with brown recluses. Dozens and dozens of the in the garage every year. The landlord took the doors off the garage to ease maintenance and that didn't help. I'd find them in the basement or bathtub, too. Yuck.

I had a very strange bit one time on my thigh -- a hard, ulcerating red welt that took a month or more to go away. Quite possible a brown recluse bite.

My house now has a detached brick garage that isn't sealed tight. Keeping spiders and insects of all types out is an ongoing process of "control". I keep the corners open and clean. I bug-bomb twice a season. I regularly spray corners, windows, door openings, rafters, etc with Ortho Home Defense Max (or the Raid equivalent from Costco sometimes) to put some sort of barrier in place.

I don't have a problem, but the place is never quite sterile either.

Don

 

[General Geoff]

Spiders don't stick around unless there's a stable food supply for them. Keep the insect population down, and the spiders will be few and far between.


I don't mind having spiders in the garage or even in my house, as long as they stay out of the way. If I see them in plain view I'll catch and relocate them outside. I don't really LIKE spiders per se, but I dislike the insects that they eat a lot more.

 

[84944Redline]

Spiders don't stick around unless there's a stable food supply for them. Keep the insect population down, and the spiders will be few and far between.

I don't mind having spiders in the garage or even in my house, as long as they stay out of the way. If I see them in plain view I'll catch and relocate them outside. I don't really LIKE spiders per se, but I dislike the insects that they eat a lot more.

Yeppers - just like when people ask how to get rid of scorpions...void them of any source of food! I've had good luck using whatever home defense type insect spray I find on sale. It doesn't last the 6 months or whatever they claim, but spraying more often in the summer months keeps my garage pretty clear of insects. And when I do find a few here and there, they're at least dead!

Keep the spiders outside so they can catch insects before they get inside.

 

[harleycontracter]

No food source in the garage. They keep making spider webs inside and outside espicially aroung the outside lights Of witch I have 8. They leave a residue that will barely come off.

 

[Big-Foot]

The only good spider is a dead spider....

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Ask me how I feel about snakes!

 

[Air_Cooled_Nut]

Who doesn't love spiders?

That's an early VW Squareback a.k.a. a Type Three (BTW ), not a spyder.

Spiders don't stick around unless there's a stable food supply for them. Keep the insect population down, and the spiders will be few and far between...

Yeah, people say this but don't explain how to keep the insect population down! Also, there isn't much to eat in my shop nor in the house but the spiders don't know that while they're exploring the territory. I certainly don't like being on my back, up to my waist or deeper while under my cars and only inches between my face and the body, when a spider decides to look for prey on the other side of the shop with me in the way of his/her "short cut"

Keeping the insect population down is even more difficult when you live in rural areas so, yeah, "keeping the population down" doesn't really help AT ALL. So I highly recommend what I posted here <click me=""></click>. The stuff works. As soon as the weather dries up I'm going out for another run as the little itsy-bitsy-baby-waby spiders are starting to show up...