If you have ever had to clean out your garage, you have probably wanted to know how to get rid of spiders quickly, effectively and safely. Some spiders are a nuisance, but others are dangerous. While there are few that can kill a full-grown adult, a few common types can cause considerable damage and leave you very ill. Many can injure or even kill small children, so this is a topic of particular interest to parents.

It is easy to charge in with a bottle of supermarket spider spray and go berserk. However, that is not necessarily going to eliminate spiders and undisciplined poison-spraying may jeopardize your health almost as much as it does the spiders themselves. Furthermore, this approach may kill spiders for now but it does not address the problems that invited the spiders into your home in the first place. Believe it or not, you can both rid your house of spiders now and achieve a spider control that will keep them from ever becoming a problem again.

There are some natural ways to control your spider population at a manageable level and make them so rare that you never see them. You may not know this, but the very way in which you keep your house may be inviting spiders to share space with you. Just by altering your living arrangements a little, you can keep spiders away from you and your loved ones.

How To Get Rid Of Spiders Through Prevention

• Keep your house clean, especially your kitchen. It is not necessary to get too specific on this one. Spiders, like other bugs, love a mess for various reasons. If you leave food out, this attracts bugs and the spiders come to eat the bugs.

• If your mess is not food-oriented but more like piles of clothing and scattered papers, this environment is also attractive to pests such as spiders. Clutter provides many hiding spaces. There is a reason you rarely see spiders in the open. They prefer to occupy areas hidden from plain view as a matter of self-defense.

• Change your storage methods. If you are like most people, you store things in your garage in cardboard boxes. Spiders love these boxes because it is easy to get into them. Instead, store your stuff in plastic containers which you can seal with a lid.

• Seal the entrances to your house. This will keep outdoor spiders from getting inside your home. In fact, this is all-around good pest control and it will also lower your energy bills as a bonus.

How To Get Rid Of Spiders That Are Already In Your Home

When it comes to the spiders that are already in your house, you probably already have some poison spray for the job. When you go to begin the extermination process, take a broom with you. You can use it to kill spiders that you spot in the open and avoid wasting expensive poison that way. This tool will also allow you to reach webs and egg sacs up high in order to destroy them. Before you begin spraying, locate areas where you have seen spiders before. These are likely harbors for spiders and should get the strongest blasts of insecticide when you begin your spider hunt.

There are a few species of spider that should receive special attention. They will possibly require different tactics when it comes to elimination. The wolf spider, the black widow and the brown recluse are the most dangerous spiders that you are likely to find in your house.

How To Get Rid Of Spiders – Wolf Spiders

These are the spiders that you will see more often than any other because they are hunters, rather than web-weavers. They have to move about to find their prey. The best way to find them is to wait until dark and then enter any space that you think contains these arachnids with a flashlight. The prominent eyes of the wolf spider will shine noticeably in your direction. At that point, choose between spray can or broom for your weapon of death.

How To Get Rid Of Spiders – Black Widow Spiders

These creatures are most common in the American Southwest and adjacent regions. They can be identified by the red stain, shaped like an hourglass, on their abdomen. If you do not want to get that close, just look for the jet black spider with the distended abdomen. That will usually be the black widow. If you find a suspicious web, you will know it is a black widow web by its strength. They are remarkably resistant and can catch falling rocks without breaking.

They are quite dangerous. Even a healthy adult human will get very ill from this spider’s bite. The very young, the old and the sick may even die as a result of a black widow bite. You can also hunt them at night, though their eyes are not as good of a giveaway.  They like hidden places in general, or any place likely to catch a passing insect.

How To Get Rid Of Spiders – Brown Recluse

Knowing how to get rid of spiders is most important when it comes to these pests. Brown recluse spiders, the most dangerous spiders that you are going to find in your home, generally prefer the outdoors. Unfortunately, they sometimes come inside. Their necrotic venom is terribly dangerous and can cause lasting scars wherever they bite you. Even a full-grown adult may suffer nausea and fever from a brown recluse bite.