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PostPosted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 5:45 pm 
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Need an organic solution to the brown recluse spider
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I don't think there really is one. The best advice is to know how they live and be careful.

They like dark, undesturbed areas. When moving items that have been sitting for a long time, put on latex gloves. The spiders can't bite through hardly anything. I guess they also like "clean" areas because I have heard you will find more recluse spiders around new construction.

Also spiders are looking for a meal. Eliminate that food source and you will not invite them to stay. Do some research on their diets, I'm not sure.

Finally, I have done some research about the toxicity of the brown recluse. A brown recluse spider bite and black widow is a lot like a bee sting in that they are only dangerous when the person biten is highly sensitive. Most people wouldn't know that they were biten by a spider becuase it doesn't hurt and there'd only be a red itchy area around the bite for a few days.

I get very frustrated with people that use bug bombs for spiders because those chemicals are way more dangerous to people than spiders.

Finally the best way to keep yourself safe around creatures is to know them. This goes for horses, bears, wasps, bees, scorpions, etc.

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There absolutely is an organic control for brown recluse and black widow spiders. You need to encourage mud dauber wasps to inhabit your sheds, garages, and other dark places. They will fill their nests with spiders for their young to eat after they hatch.

You encourage them by not destroying their nests when they build them.

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Dchall_San_Antonio wrote:
There absolutely is an organic control for brown recluse and black widow spiders. You need to encourage mud dauber wasps to inhabit your sheds, garages, and other dark places. They will fill their nests with spiders for their young to eat after they hatch.

You encourage them by not destroying their nests when they build them.


They will not bother you if you do not bother them.

I was out in my yard last summer with my 5 year old stepdaughter. A bee came and landed on my leg. I said,"Look Cerena, see this bee?" Her eyes got real big. :shock: "Uh-huh", she relied. I told her the bee did not sting me because I did not swat at him. :) If I were to brush it off of me, I would most likely get stung. I was very happy to have had such a great opportunity to teach her this important lesson. I also told her that without bees we would go hungry, and that we should let them bee <g>.

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