by Pok 7's » Tue Sep 25, 2007 8:08 am
I generally don't mind spiders, although insects that can either screw you up or any other insects that live off of drinking blood (ticks, leeches, mosquitoes, etc.) have no purpose in my world.
I've seen some shows about Black Widows (don't have them in my area) and aside from an exterminator what I've gathered is there's very little you can do. There was one guy who hated them so much he went as far as going out in his yard every night with a flashlight and a shoe and looked for them. Mostly they hang out on their webs at night, days are usually spent in some type of hiding place the web is attached to . Getting rid of one without making the hiding place less attractive will often have another one taking it's place in the future. For example if there is one in your slider look to see if there's an area where it might crawl into to hide during the day and plug it up after you get rid of it.
If you can't reach 'em with a shoe you can try mashing them with something longer (stick, broom handle, etc.) Or you could just grab a vacuum cleaner and suck 'em up, and then put the bag in the garbage outside, burn it etc.
That's at least for the inside, outside you'll probablly never rid your yard of them.