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Spider infestation
Posted on 6/27/23 at 1:34 pm
Posted on 6/27/23 at 1:34 pm
Got into a bad situation where my contractor opened up a portion of an attic that had been sealed off and he found a gigantic spider nest which he suspects to be brown recluse spiders.
He’s deathly afraid of spiders so he didn’t stick around. He just hauled arse.
Says the complex needs to be tented and treated.
Anyone ever had to deal with this?
He’s deathly afraid of spiders so he didn’t stick around. He just hauled arse.
Says the complex needs to be tented and treated.
Anyone ever had to deal with this?
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Posted on 6/27/23 at 1:42 pm to SlidellCajun
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Got into a bad situation where my contractor opened up a portion of an attic that had been sealed off and he found a gigantic spider nest which he suspects to be brown recluse spiders.
He’s deathly afraid of spiders so he didn’t stick around. He just hauled arse.
Says the complex needs to be tented and treated.
Anyone ever had to deal with this?
no experience there, but I do believe Brown Recluse spiders tend to be solitary creatures. I doubt it is a tent and. treat situation either way.
People identify brown recluses the same way Louisiana people identify cottonmouths. 95% of all snakes are cottonmouths. 100% if near water
Posted on 6/27/23 at 2:03 pm to SlidellCajun
If it were me, I would spray some Talstar or Suspend SC on the nest and boards in the area and go back up there in a week or two to check for spider annihilation. You could also set off some bug foggers for good measure, but any insect or spider that walks across a board that has been sprayed with Talstar or Suspend SC should be dead pretty quick.
This post was edited on 6/27/23 at 2:08 pm
Posted on 6/27/23 at 3:43 pm to 98eagle
Agree.
If you think it’s a brown recluse situation I’d bug bomb the attic, then spray talstar throughout the house, wash all sheets and check mattresses, then bomb again in three weeks kill any that hatched from eggs.
If you think it’s a brown recluse situation I’d bug bomb the attic, then spray talstar throughout the house, wash all sheets and check mattresses, then bomb again in three weeks kill any that hatched from eggs.
Posted on 6/27/23 at 5:31 pm to SlidellCajun
By contractor, I assume you mean building contractor. At the risk of sounding a little snarky, I would say since you didn't call an exterminator for your building needs I wouldn't expect you to take the advice of a building contractor about a spider infestation. Call an exterminator.
Posted on 6/28/23 at 9:47 am to mdomingue
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advice of a building contractor about a spider infestation. Call an exterminator.
No doubt
Exterminator has been called.
I expect them to recommend something over and above what could handle it.
Posted on 9/1/24 at 2:10 pm to SlidellCajun
I have brown recluse spiders in my attic. Occasionally they make it downstairs and end up in sticky traps. I put a sticky trap out off the bed on a baseboard and ended up with several in the trap. I guess I'm asleep when they are on the move. When it gets cooler I'm going up in the attic and spraying all wood surfaces with Fastcap Onslaught. I hope but does the trick. They are amazing little animals being able to live in a 120 degree summer attic all summer long.
Posted on 9/1/24 at 2:19 pm to SlidellCajun
If you really have a recluse infestation, it will take months to a year to resolve. They are super hardy, their bodies don’t drag surfaces, and they don’t “groom” like roaches - so many chemicals just don’t work.
Suspend and Demon Dust work well, and dust applied via a duster is pretty effective. The females secluded under insulation won’t die, they’ll just hang out and eat their offspring. So you’ll kill mostly male hunters.
You need another opinion, or at least throw down some glue boards to validate species.
Source: I had a major infestation that took a full year to resolve
Suspend and Demon Dust work well, and dust applied via a duster is pretty effective. The females secluded under insulation won’t die, they’ll just hang out and eat their offspring. So you’ll kill mostly male hunters.
You need another opinion, or at least throw down some glue boards to validate species.
Source: I had a major infestation that took a full year to resolve
This post was edited on 9/1/24 at 2:29 pm
Posted on 9/1/24 at 2:47 pm to SlidellCajun
he found a gigantic spider nest which he suspects to be brown recluse spiders.
He’s deathly afraid of spiders so he didn’t stick around. He just hauled arse.
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When you're scared of spiders, they ALL look like deadly ones.
He’s deathly afraid of spiders so he didn’t stick around. He just hauled arse.
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When you're scared of spiders, they ALL look like deadly ones.
Posted on 9/1/24 at 2:51 pm to SlidellCajun
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Says the complex needs to be tented and treated.
For just about any spider, I would think this is unlikely. They are pretty solitary
Posted on 9/1/24 at 3:50 pm to aTmTexas Dillo
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They are amazing little animals being able to live in a 120 degree summer attic all summer long.
People are oblivious to what is actually living around them, in their homes, on a daily basis.
LINK
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In end they wound up with around 10,000 specimens. Out of about 550 rooms, only five—four bathrooms and a bedroom—were completely free from arthropods. Both the researchers and the homeowners were caught off guard by the sheer ubiquity and abundance of organisms.
“Homeowners were extremely surprised, and some were appalled,” Bertone says. “But basically, that surprise goes to show that arthropods really don’t bother you.”
Bertone and his colleagues then set to work identifying the species they found. Individual homes contained 32 to 211 species covering 24 to 128 arthropod families. Flies, spiders, beetles, wasps and ants made up nearly three-quarters of the average room diversity. Cobweb spiders, carpet beetles, gall midges and ants turned up in 100 percent of homes, closely followed in prevalence by book lice and dark winged fungus gnats.
Posted on 9/1/24 at 4:00 pm to LegendInMyMind
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People are oblivious to what is actually living around them, in their homes, on a daily basis.
Somehow in the 14 years I've lived here we've found three scorpions in our house. I have no idea how they get in. I've never seen them outside.
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