Catching a spider does not require a pest control company, dangerous sprays or pesticides. You can effectively control spiders using simple glue based spider traps.
Basics of Spider Control
The simple way to catch spiders involves placing traps in high spider traffic areas like corners, inside cabinets and under furniture. When spiders wander into a spider trap, they are caught by the glue. Once a spider is trapped, throw away the trap and replace it with a new spider trap.
Spider traps also capture other crawling insects. When a trap catches a non-spider insect, that insect becomes even more tempting bait for the spider, luring them into the trap.
Quantity of Spider Traps, over Size
Many times we believe the “bigger is better” adage, but when it comes to trapping spiders the size of the trap is not as important. With a glue trap, once the spider crosses the edge of the trap, they are stuck. So a glue trap 6 inches wide is no better than a spider trap that is 2″ wide.
When you consider that the best way to catch spiders is to have lots of traps out, the larger spider traps begin to become fairly expensive. The best spider control solution is several small traps that can fit into the tight spaces that spiders love to crawl in. In fact, the catchmaster spider trap when folded into a square has been shown to attract spiders as a “safe, tight place” to hide.
Safe Spider Trap Disposal
With pesticides, spider may be found all over the house, and need to be swept up. Additionally, if pets eat the spider, then they are eating the pesticide. Children of an age to explore on the floor could also run across a poisoned spider.
Using Spider Traps, there are no poisons, and the spiders are caught in a single location. No need to find the spiders, just pickup the filled spider trap and throw it in the garbage!
UPDATE – ATFE emerges to quantify catch power
When we first wrote this article 4 years ago, there was no established way to describe the “width of a spider trap doesn’t matter” concept. Since that time the industry has introduced ATFE – Active Trap Field Entrance as a metric to describe the length of the entrance to the glue field of a spider and insect trap.
With this new metric the previous 6″ vs 2″ description could be better described as: Choosing the 6 ATFE is 3 times better than a 2 ATFE