I have/had an issue at my house. I hired a professional company and wasted about 2k between the initial visit and monthly visits. I now do it my self.

I have/ had a issue with brown recluses. The past two yrs I would see them all the time especially at night. Over the last yr I've really got them under control ALOT vs what I was dealing with. This is what I've done.
1. Remove all the wall plates and use a powder duster and dust in your wall voids.
2. Use something like a dustinmizer and dust real good in your attic and crawl space.
3. Get a chemical spray and spray the perimeter of all rooms, the exterior walls and around the outside on the windows and exterior of the house.
4. Go through your house and calk up around any gaps in base boards or molding or light fixtures. Basically anywhere they can get into.
5. De clutter. Get rid of anything inside they can Nest in. Boxes, junk cabinets etc.
6. Put glue traps in every single corner of every room. The rooms you catch the most in is probably where they are entering at.
7. Make sure cloths are not on ground and shake off before putting on.
8. Make sure blankets or bed skirt does not touch floor. I also put the feet of my bed in the middle of glue traps. So A spider would get stuck to the trap before climbing up the bed. My wife gauked at the idea until we caught several on those traps.


From last yr this time to this yr this time I've seen a big decrease in the spiders I've caught or seen. Last yr every time I'd turn around I'd find one somewhere or would have them piled on some traps. This yr I've only seen a few and don't have near as many on glue trap. From what I've seen, staying on top of it has really helped. If you wanna know the chemicals I use I can get you the name. I buy them from a local pest company.

The only place I have ever seen brown recluses or black widows is in cool damp spaces like basements or in dark corners of a storage shed and such. Does your house have a crawl space foundation or a basement? As already mentioned, get rid of any favorable conditions for them such as boxes and other debris in the cool, damp, dark places. If your house has a crawl space, you might try making sure it's well ventilated to dry it out and make sure it's not a favorable environment for them. Kind of like snakes, get rid of their food sources (other bugs) and you'll likely get rid of the spiders. Keep the yard manicured to form a buffer zone that insects are hesitant to cross to get in your home.

FYI, a pest control guy I used once told me the only way to kill a spider with chemicals is to spray it directly on the bug. He said most insecticides work when the insect walks through it and then lick their feet clean. I don't know if it's true, but he said spiders don't lick their feet. It makes sense to me. I've often seen spiders right after having the house sprayed.

Good luck.

If spraying outside and in your crawl space will do any good then buy some Tempo and spray it. I would not use it inside the kitchen, maybe in a bedroom but just around the baseboards.

I know spiders aren't ants, but I sprayed outside and under my house with that a few years ago when having a sugar ant problem. I later called an exterminator. I told him what I had sprayed and he told me it would be a waste of his time and my money if he came out because he couldn't use chemicals that strong.

Tempo is some BAD stuff. Use with caution. It is used in unoccupied poultry houses to kill Darkling Beetles. It kills everything. I got over exposed to some undiluted Tempo powder about 20 years ago and if I get close to it now, it gets my allergies all screwed up.

Zkd22, We would be willing to leave if you got something that works.

Those pellets farmers put in grain bins will killem. You'd have to leave for several days , or it would kill ya'll too. Bad stuff.