I hate black widows. What are your solutions? They’re everywhere.

    • @BigDiction
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      47 months ago

      How many Widows we talking here? They’re common, but if you can see 10+ in one garage that sounds like an infestation you want dealt with professionally.

      • @ParabolicMotionOP
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        37 months ago

        I don’t know! I just keep finding them. I found three last night. The day before I found two, in a different location than the most recent three.

        • @BigDiction
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          37 months ago

          Sounds like you had a recent hatch in your garage. This is time of year for it. It depends on your risk tolerance. If you have a lot of stuff in your garage that you need to access, I’d probably call a professional. It there aren’t many hiding places for them, I would just vacuum up the ones that I would likely come into contact with.

          • @ParabolicMotionOP
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            37 months ago

            I might call a professional. Unfortunately, with our garage, the ceiling is unfinished, which means it has open rafters and plenty of places for them to lay eggs. The tallest point of the ceiling is as high as the roof.

            • @BigDiction
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              57 months ago

              Widows tend to hang out closer to the ground. I wouldn’t worry much about the rafters.

              Darker crevices, debris piles, larger leaning items that go undisturbed for a while.

              • @ParabolicMotionOP
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                27 months ago

                There are some at ground level when I walk out into the garage. Is it possible to vacuum them up? I really don’t want to touch them, or bat at them with a broom. I feel like if I do that, they’ll hit the ground and charge at me, or crawl up the broom.

                • @[email protected]
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                  27 months ago

                  You can vacuum them and it probably won’t kill them initially but as long as the chamber is relatively secure (doesn’t have to be airtight just no obvious way out), they’ll eventually perish via starvation or asphyxiation. I understand that spiders “breathe” through their skin and enough dust can clog that up. Just be prepared not to empty that chamber until you can confirm they’re dead.

                • @Paragone
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                  -27 months ago

                  Vacuuming them probably won’t kill them.

                  You’ll instead have now-malevolent angry spiders in your vacuum-cleaner.

                  I happen to consider that to be a Bad Idea…

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