I have an old truck in my garage that was in a field for awhile. It has been in my garage for the last 9 months. I know it had black widows in it so I had the pest control people spray the house and garage. The last spray was about 4 months ago. All spiders were killed. I just saw two rather large one tonight while taking stuff to the garage. How do you guys keep those types of pests out? It wouldn't be that big of a deal if I didn't have a 6 and 9 year old with outside toys in the garage. I really can't do anything with the truck until I have a title for it.

 

Bug bombs...

 

what he said, if there is nothing there for spiders to eat.

 

Spiders are difficult to control. My pest guy says that unless you spray the poison right on them, store bought insecticide usually has no effect. There are products available that prevent spiders from building webs as well as professional insecticides that may help. See the following websites: http://www.invisiblegardener.com/nat...l/imspider.htm
http://www.pestproducts.com/spider.htm

 

I used Bayer Advanced Home "Home Pest Control," from Lowes over two weeks ago. A couple of days later I vacuumed up the dead bugs, and spiders. Yesterday I noticed it is still killing spiders. I also have a sensitivity to some bug sprays, but had no problem with this product, and it didn't affect my Marine Aquarium with corals in it.

 

Thank you. I will go to lowes tomorrow. I need to call Base housing so they can have the pest guy come out but I hate having to wait for him to show up.

 

I used to live in northern Calif and had to make the crawl space under my house larger to get it approved for a VA loan. The underneath of the house was filled with black widows, brown recluce spiders, large crickets, and misquitoes. I really was not looking foreward to spending a month under that house digging out all that dirt with all those bugs under there. I used Spectracide's Bug Stop (Walmart) and it worked very good. When I had to repair the plumbing under there 7 years later...there wern't any bugs at all. Now I used a more concentrated form of Spectracide's Carpenter Ant & Termite Killer. It has Permethin as it's main ingredient. This is the only thing that kills misquitoes...it attacks their nervous system...lasts for months....and once dry, is not harmfull to pets or people. I mix it 4oz/gal of water in a hand sprayer. I use it in my dog's running areas and bedding, let it dry, then put my dogs back in. They have never had ticks or fleas. I don't have any flying bugs around my outside night lights and don't have any spiders around my house. I don't use the product that attaches to your garden hose...I think it gets too watered down to be effective. Just my solution. I hope whatever you use works.

 

spiders. Dursban works pretty good , but it is awful nasty stuff. Used it for a couple of years and it took care of most insects & spiders. i decided
there had to be a better way than spraying insecticides every few weeks.

first thing i did was to get rid of all vegetation close to my foundation.
12" minimum. the wife almost killed me when i sprayed her monkey grass.
cut down shrubs and bush's & put a strip of white rocks to make it look
better for the wife.

second thing. i work in my 2 car garage every nite 365 days a year.the
shops lights attract a lot of insects. i switched from incandescent bulbs to
fluoresent. it seeemed to help a little. they are not as bright but i can live with that.

thirdly. i think this is the biggest reason i don't have many insects around.
I LEARNED TO LIVE WITH SMALL BROWN HOUSE SPIDERS. i don't know what they are called, but they suck up insects and other spiders like a
vacuum cleaner. they are very small, but i have watched them attack
huge halloween spiders 10 times their size.

i try to keep my shop clean, but i also keep a small number of these small
spiders close to the entrance of shop doors and windows. i will admit their
webs look nasty,but it beats spraying every week. every two weeks i go around and vacuum up excess spiders and the remaing carcass's of
unwanted insects....dbrice

 

I keep a dead Black Widow spider in a Mason jar of alcohol in my garage. It scares the others away I guess since I have never seen a live one in there. Of course the one I have in there came from Mississippi and there aren't BW's in Massachusetts, but why take chances.

 

Move to vermont we have nothing crawly up here of any consequence...LOL

 

I was also thinking move. lol I'd hate to have to worry about something biting me when I am working outside all the time.

 

Try boric acid, think you can get it at any hardware store...

 

I live in base housing and it's only 2 years old. It was 4 months old when I moved in. creepy crawlies are a problem down here. The scorpions and rattle snakes can get real bad sometimes. I'm going to town to look and see what is available according to your recomendations. The pest control guy will be here in two weeks.

 

The old timers around here swear by mothballs, Iv'e tried it and it works . We have a lot of copperheads around this area , when we moved into our present house
the yard was full of them & the house full of spiders , put mothballs in the basement & turned the cats loose , soon no more snakes or bugs . Put some mothballs in that old truck to drive them out.
Good luck HOTWRENCH

 

You mean, besides mosquitoes?