Is there any natural way to get rid of spiders? Anything that doesn't involve poison?

Question

Is there any kind of lizard (used for a pet) or anything else, that would eat spiders?

Answer 1

I'm with you on going organic & not using any toxins or pesticides.

Go to your local garden center (I love ACE) & get some pennyroyal & basil plants & grow 'em in pickle pots.

You can use the dried leaves to sprinkle around any ports of entry where spiders may appear.

I've also heard that hedgeapples (also known as osage oranges) work really well. You can put one of each in the places where spiders enter.

I just got a nasty spider bite a couple of months ago, and then discovered a brown recluse AND a black widow in my apartment. Since using these herbal remedies, I haven't seen any (there's an Orb Weaver outside but she's harmless).

DON'T use those ultrasonic pest repellent devices you plug into the wall. The high-pitched noise only pisses the spiders off & they bite you faster.

And make sure you dust & vacuum often (& remember to flip & rotate your mattress & boxsprings in your bed).

Answer 2

I quite often step on them with a shoe. I dont propose barefoot because the spiders squoosheeness could gross you out, main to a feinting spell where you might turn out to be collapsing within the internet of the very spider you laid to relaxation. And that could be doublesquooshees. So, do not pass barefoot, use a shoe. If you wish to peer anything beautiful cool although, placed the deceased arachnid for your fish bowl/tank and notice what the fish do to it. Your youngsters could like this too, above all if they're boys. I noticed a lizard devour a spider as soon as, and that used to be beautiful cool....

Answer 3

Have you considered co-existing with them? They kill many bugs that are worse than them. There are few spiders that are truly harmful. Brown recluse and Black widows are worth going after. Good housekeeping will keep the number down. Example vacuuming under furniture and closets to eradicate the eggs. Remember any poi sen you use will get on you too. Plus the only way to kill a spider using poison requires direct contact, and soap will do the same.

Answer 4

I by and large step on them with a shoe. I dont advise barefoot as the spiders squoosheeness would gross you out, main to a feinting spell where you could turn out to be collapsing within the web of the very spider you laid to relaxation. And that would be doublesquooshees. So, don't go barefoot, use a shoe. If you wish to see whatever lovely cool although, put the deceased arachnid on your fish bowl/tank and spot what the fish do to it. Your children could like this too, specially if they are boys. I noticed a lizard eat a spider once, and that was once pretty cool....

Answer 5

I see no reason to get rid of spiders, as they eat alot of pesky bugs that would drive us nuts. Be glad for the spiders, because if they weren't here, you would get eaten up more by bugs like mosquitos.

Answer 6

Vacuums work. Very large books, or a flip flop or shoe will work too. Screaming your head off doesn't help much, but it can distract you from your general fear of the arachnid.

Answer 7

i think one of the only enemies to the spider is the scorpion...lol i wouldn't want either one

Answer 8

why do you want to get rid of them, have they done any thing to you, don't you think they have as much right to live at this world as you do, I am glad at least you don't want to use poison.

Answer 9

Natrupel with geraniol, it comes from flowers, they don't like it, but it doesn't kill. And it smells good.

Answer 10

If you sleep w. your mouth open you will occasionally get one.