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DANVILLE — Host, Sarah Rutan: If you have ongoing problems with spiders in or around your home, a simple weekly maintenance ritual can have a surprisingly impactful effect. Today we’re in Danville with Diamond Certified Expert Contributor David Osborn of Osborn Spray Service to learn more.
Diamond Certified Expert Contributor, David Osborn: It’s springtime again. The wind is up and spiders become a problem. One of the biggest questions our customers have for us is, “How do we help control the spider?” If you remember Charlotte’s Web, spiders spin a web and get blown in the wind. This is how they disperse themselves. It’s a phenomenon called ballooning. They float through the air until they land in a tree or on a – hit a house on a hill. They tend to migrate down from the trees of the house into the web – into the eaves. And eventually, they’ll set up shop by spinning their webs. They can come into the house if they so choose.
Some of the tips I have for homeowners – and I make this suggestion to my customers. If you’re in an area where you have constant problems with spiders, you should take a broom or a Webster – which I have in my hand here – once a week and go through and knock down the webs in the eaves and around the windows of your home. This will eliminate the webs and the ability of the spiders to gain food. This is how we do that. Just look for webs and just – even if you don’t see a web, I would knock down – just move my brush or the Webster around the windows and the eaves. This is where the spiders tend to congregate.
Here we have a web. The advantage to a Webster is if you put the Webster right in the middle of the web and spin it, it will take up the whole web all at once. And you don’t – it works quite efficiently and you can get these Webster’s at Home Depot or any home improvement store. Just work your way around the house. Just a point of interest here, any hedge or shrub or tree whose branches reach the roof – they should all be cut back 18 inches. This helps rodent-proof your house. Rats like to climb up these – the shrubs and get up on the roof. If they can get on the roof, they can get into your attic. So, that will help rodent-proof your house as well.
So, once a week, if you Webster your eaves, it takes about 15 minutes. It will go a long way in keeping your house free of spiders.
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