Spiders – Page 5 – Pest Management Professional

Tips & Tricks: Add Value by Removing Spider Webs

Spider web removal is a crucial part of spider control. Failure to remove webs might prompt a callback, unnecessary pesticide...

Halloween Pest Horror Essentials

I’m a horror movie fanatic (and I’m actually understating that a bit), so October is one of my favorite times...

Tips & Tricks: Using Spiders to Your Advantage

The spiders encountered in homes and businesses are typically hunters or trappers, capturing live insects for food. Hunting spiders seek...

Tips & Tricks: Key to Spider Control

Despite their similarities, spiders and insects have many behavioral and physiological differences. Web-building spiders are primarily found in areas with abundant...

Tips & Tricks: Manage Spiders with IPM Concepts

Spiders are challenging pests to manage because of the diversity of spider species, habitats and behaviors. When controlling spiders, keep...

Tips & Tricks: Integrated Approach Controls Spiders

As warmer weather approaches, property owners might start to notice an increase in spider activity in and around their residences....

Ken Kendall, Technical Director, Ensystex

Tips & Tricks: Use IPM Principles to Control Spiders

Spider control involves using the principles of integrated pest management (IPM), which includes sanitation, such as removing spider webbing and...

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Conducive Conditions: Black Widow Spider Gathering Place

This electrical transformer unit is not an unusual sight just outside the back door of a commercial kitchen. Its location...

Brown Recluse Spiders on the Loose

If you’ve ever wanted to travel to Europe, now is the perfect opportunity for pest management professionals to take a...

Pest Trends: Brown Widow Knows How to Deal with Unusual Prey

Latrodectus geometricus is also known as the brown widow spider, gray spider, geometric button spider, brown button spider and the...

How Fumigation Solved a Spider Problem

Imagine fielding this call: Your prospective customer is The Federal National Mortgage Association, aka Fannie Mae. The lending institution recently...

Ride Along: The Ins and Outs of a Typical Spider Call

Reading the mainstream media’s headlines, one would think the No. 1 feared pest is bed bugs. Ask a psychologist or...

NPMA Tips: Lessons from Social Spiders

Social behavior in animals can be classified in different categories based on the level of sociality the organism in question...

Did You Know? Spiders

Spider webs are stringed instruments. The silk can vibrate at a wide range of frequencies and, when plucked, give spiders...

most wanted: Araneaeology

Araneaeology is the study of spiders. As araneaeologists, pest management professionals (PMPs) investigate offenses of our sensibilities. Through their mere...