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Habits Brown Recluse spiders are primarily structural pests, living inside and
around buildings. These spiders move from attics to wall voids into the
living areas of homes starting in late April and May. This movement
coincides with their breeding season. Young spiderlings can be found
moving about in June.
Often homeowners are not aware of these infestations because Brown
Recluses are active mostly at night. They over-winter outside in unheated
buildings under the bark of trees near houses as well as inside homes.
Brown Recluse are more active April through October, but may be seen
crawling any month of the year.
Ordinary retail aerosols and liquid sprays do not effectively control this
pest. Many insecticides are repellent and do not affect spiders. as they
do insects. Brown Recluse spider control requires help from professional
pest control firms. An entomologist or qualified professional should make
a detailed inspection and draw up a service plan for treatment. |
Brown
Recluse Spiders, sometimes called
"fiddleback spiders",
are so named because of a dark fiddle marking on top of the head. Even
young spiders have this mark.
Habitats: Brown Recluse live in ceiling voids,
attics, wall voids, under tack strip carpets, crawl spaces, cardboard
boxes, drawer wells, closets, storage rooms, base shoe, doors, windows and
ceiling trim, and sub-cabinet voids. They also may be found behind wall hangings, under wood shake shingles,
roofing, guttering and many other places too numerous to mention.
Prevention:
Homeowners
can reduce harborage areas by removing all empty cardboard boxes and
sealing all storage boxes with masking tape.
Control of this venomous spider requires extensive preparation by the
homeowner and extremely thorough structural treatment of cracks and
crevices, voids, room perimeters, garages, attics, basements, crawl
spaces, exterior treatments and treatment of out buildings. Such treatment
may require several hours to perform, using techniques developed by Parker
Pest Control Inc.specifically for this pest.
If you suspect a Brown Recluse infestation, Parker Pest
Control Inc.'s qualified professionals can make the proper identification,
examine the structure, place spider traps and monitor any spider
population in your home or office and make recommendations for treatment.
More than fifty percent of the homes in Oklahoma have Brown Recluse
infestations, to one degree or another.
Parker's quarterly service and monitoring program is scheduled after the
initial services to make certain that the spider population is completely
eliminated.
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instructions for initial treatment |
