Spider Removal
Professional Spider Exterminator
Spiders
What To Look For
Black Widow Spiders
Black Widow Spiders can be deadly to people and pets, so if you think you have black widow spiders in or around your property, call us right away. Interestingly, males do not bite. The females usually only bite when they are protecting their eggs and at other times will usually try to escape. Black widow spiders lay their eggs close to the web and are usually found in piles of fallen branches or trash, or underneath garden furniture and outhouse seats. The young spiders disperse soon after hatching. After mating, the female black widow often eats the male (hence the name), whose sperm she stores and then uses to produce future egg sacs without mating. Female black widow spiders can live for up to three years.
Brown Recluse Spiders
Brown Recluse Spiders do not seek to bite people. The bite is usually accidental. The spider crawls into a shoe, clothing, or beds; a person then puts on the clothing or lies on the spider in bed. Brown recluse spiders have only one defence — and that is to bite. The bite has an especially nasty effect on people, often resulting in open, ulcerating sores. Left untreated, such bites often become infected and significant tissue necrosis can occur. It is always best to seek medical attention, preferably from a dermatologist, if you think you may have a spider bite. This is especially true in areas where brown recluse spiders are common.
Daddy Long-Legs Spider
Daddy Long-Legs Spider can be found on tree trunks and open ground. They are found throughout North America. On cool afternoons, adult daddy long legs spiders often climb trees or sides of buildings, seemingly to benefit from residual heat of the sun. A warm knothole may attract dozens of daddy-long-legs, who stand close together with legs interlaced all night.
How to Identify Spiders
Black Widow
Spiders are small. Females measure up to 3/8 of an inch and have rounded abdomens often with two horizontal red stripes or with red hourglass markings on their lower half. Males are even smaller, measuring only 1/8 of an inch. Male abdomens are elongated with red and white markings along their sides, and they have much longer legs in proportion to their body size than the female.
Brown Recluse Spiders
Brown Recluse Spiders may grow to have a body about 5/8 of an inch in length and a leg span of about 1 and 1/2 inches in diameter. They are usually light brown but may be darker in some specimens. The key identifying characteristics are the six eyes arranged in three pairs at the front of the head area and the fiddle-shaped marking on the back. The brown recluse spider is often called the “violin” spider or “fiddleback” spider because of the distinctive fiddle-shaped marking on top of its cephalothorax (head end to which the legs are attached).
Daddy Long-Legs Spiders
Daddy Long-Legs Spiders are approximately 1/8 – 1/4 of an inch (4-6 mm) in size and have long, thin legs. Their body is reddish brown and the legs are dark with prominent paler coxae. Daddy long-legs eat small insects and decaying organic matter. Daddy long-legs have one generation per year. When warm weather arrives, the young creep out and grow slowly. Normally they mature in summer, then mate without courtship.
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