Dog safe spider removal products?

[Lone]

I just had another big hobo spider run across my floor (shudder) and I really want to get rid of them!

Most of the products I’ve looked at for house-wide spider removal have warnings about keeping dogs away from it for a certain period of time. I have a yellow lab that spends most of the day in the house, so I need to find something that is safe for him to be around.

Has anyone used any spider-removal products that are dog safe? I could keep him out of the house for a couple hours if I needed to, but not the entire day (it’s too hot out!)

[hitchinmygetalong]

Vacuum cleaner.

[Blinkers_On]

Eco Smart
It is for ants and roaches and is pet friendly. I have also used it on spiders. It works. My hubby hates the smell, but he’d hate the bugs more.

[MizzouMom]

I use an upside-down strip of Gorilla Duct tape, maybe 8 inches long, in corners and across threshholds of unused rooms to catch brown recluse spiders. Put them down in undisturbed areas and leave them alone for a week or two and if you have BRs they will be stuck on there. They will also get stuck to nosy dogs and cats but without any harm and lots of entertainment when it happens!

Are you talking about Wolf spiders or something more dangerous? Wolf spiders are big and hairy and scary but don’t hurt anything except whatever part of your body you whack when you are scared out of your wits and leap up and hurt yourself.

The hairy little black ones that live in windowsills and jump when you get close are also harmless and will keep various small bugs cleaned up. Jumping Daring Spiders, they’re called.

The only downside to whittling away at my BR population was that I started finding lots of little bugs that were formerly being eaten by the BRs.

[Lone]

The ones I have are hobo spiders, they’re pretty nasty and their bites cause a fair amount of damage. The other small harmless spiders don’t bother me too much (though I’d MUCH prefer they stayed outside too!) but the hobo’s are the ones that really wig me out.

The house I’m renting is older and has LOTS of access points for them. I’ve had the official pest control people out a few times, but they’re fairly expensive and it only lasts a month or two. I’ve seen a few ‘spider bombs’ advertised in stores, but they all wanted dogs out of the house for at least 12+ hours which isn’t really feasible right now with it being so hot.

[MizzouMom]

Hobos and BRs are similar and I would think the tape would work for them too. No poisons involved.

They move around the house, so I’ve seen where people have torn off a large piece of duct tape and completely spanned a door opening to catch them when they are hunting.

If your dogs don’t have access to all areas outside the house maybe you could spray at the foundation? They like to build nests in cracks and crevices, but like BRs will wind up inside in piles of laundry and out-of-the way spaces.

The tape doesn’t kill them all, but knocks the population back if you keep up with replacing them.

[BarbB]

Diatomaceous earth. The food grade kind NOT the swimming pool filter kind that has lethal chemicals added. Totally harmless, kills all bugs, sprinkle it anywhere, on the dog, on the floor, around baseboards, window sills, whatever. Get it at a feed store or order online. Don’t put it in the garden, it doesn’t discriminate between good bugs and bad bugs.

[summerhorse]

Hammer.

[WaningMoon]

Oh my. Hobo spiders are one of my worst fears after watching the National Geo program ’ Infested’, about them. Thankfully we don’t have them here. I’ve been in Vt my whole life and have just this yr seen my first wolf spiders. I left my house for three days. Did that do any good? No, of course not but I just couldn’t cope.

That program said that one has to be very careful trying to get rid of Hobos. They say that hobos are not killed by many chemicals and that once you kill off the ones that ARE killed by whatever you are using, the hobos take over. This family had to move out of there home because no pest control ppl could get control of them.

[philosoraptor]

Vacuum cleaner. Tight window screens. Turning off excess lights at night, since it’s the light that draws in the bugs & the bugs that feed the spider colonies.

[KarrotKreek]

I second the diatomaceous earth powder suggestion. Seven Dust is another option since some people use it as flea/mite powder on animals.

A friend uses a spider deterrent spray. And it works! Smells like licorice. Doesn’t kill the spider, just keeps them from spinning webs in places you don’t want them (tack rooms, door ways, etc). I don’t know the name.