How can I keep these webs from reappearing daily? What do I do?
2007-09-04 18:50:40 · 12 answers · asked by memyselfi 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
If you can live with it awhile longer, they will be gone when cold weather comes. These spiders aren't harmful to us but they are great bug catchers--and right now they are very active all over the country. This is their time to make hay and they are doing us a favor by taking care of bugs.
Another answerer had good advice. They are going to build their webs where the food source is--so if you don't want them on your porch, leave the light off so the bugs and moths don't congregate around it.
It amazes me that some folks are so willing to kill creatures without knowing anything about them. Those of us who have lived here in Florida forever and have such a bad mosquito problem appreciate what spiders do for us--as well as frogs.
So, just give them some space for a little while longer and then they'll be gone.
2007-09-12 18:01:45 · answer #1 · answered by Bromeliad 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Spider Webs On Bushes
2016-11-04 00:53:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is an unbelievable year for spider webs! I, too, have them all over the yard, in the trees and shrubs, everywhere! I take a pressure wash nozzle, which is small and made to screw onto the end of a garden hose, and I blast them out of all the plants. It is not good to leave them in the plant, as the spiders or spider mites, whatever is causing the webs, can really screw up your plants. The plants appreciate the bath, especially if it is dusty where you live. And they benefit from having not only the spiders, but all the other bugs washed off. I go around and do this about once a week. It takes awhile, but it is my "therapy" and the plants love it. For delicate plants, you can use a gentler spray nozzle.
PS - avoid the poisons at all costs. They all are hazardous to your health and to animals, and frogs and toads (which eat a lot of pest insects).
2007-09-04 20:38:57 · answer #3 · answered by galacticsleigh 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like you might live near a lake. Or maybe you have a porch light on at night near your plants. Or both. The root of the problem is not the spiders, but their insectile food source. Get rid of the insects and you get rid of the spiders. Don't leave a light on near the plants at night. That's my first guess. But if it's not light then water your plants with a systemic insecticide. That will make it unsavory to bugs. But I really would bet that it's a light issue.
2007-09-04 19:04:57 · answer #4 · answered by kelly d 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
These are spun nocturnally by orb weavers, which are plentiful this year. Orb weavers will trap and eat insects such as mosquitos which would otherwise feast on you.
Yes, it's scary walking into an orb-weaver web. These spiders are large and scary, but they will run from you if they can.
2007-09-05 13:05:33 · answer #5 · answered by july 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ignore them. Would you rather have flies all over your house? Or give your children and pets cancer by spreading poison everywhere?
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2007-09-04 18:58:57 · answer #6 · answered by Kacky 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why do you want to do it? Spiders are beneficial insects which eat flies and other nasties.
2007-09-04 18:56:22 · answer #7 · answered by Andrew L 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Spray poison to kill the web builders.
2007-09-04 18:57:54 · answer #8 · answered by The Shepherd 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
insecticides for gardening.put it in a sprayer,connect to a hose.spray away.
2007-09-04 18:59:13 · answer #9 · answered by martinmm 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not a whole lot you can do , as this is their season.
2007-09-11 15:20:17 · answer #10 · answered by jmada05 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋