How to Keep Spiders Away

How to Keep Spiders Away

Keeping spiders away starts with making your home less attractive to them. Since spiders are looking for food, shelter, and quiet places to build webs, a combination of prevention and regular treatment can help reduce spider activity both indoors and outdoors.

Eliminate Their Food Source

Spiders feed on insects such as flies, mosquitoes, ants, and moths. If these pests are present, spiders are more likely to stay.

Keeping other insects under control is one of the most effective ways to discourage spiders.

Seal Entry Points

Inspect your home for places where spiders can enter, including:

• Gaps around doors and windows

• Cracks in the foundation

• Torn window screens

• Openings around pipes and utility lines

• Vents and other small openings

Sealing these areas helps reduce the number of spiders that make their way inside.

Keep Your Home Clean

Vacuum regularly to remove spiders, webs, and egg sacs. Pay special attention to ceilings, corners, garages, basements, closets, attics, and behind furniture where spiders commonly hide.

Reducing clutter also removes many of their favorite hiding places.

Reduce Outdoor Spider Activity

Trim shrubs and vegetation away from your home's exterior, keep firewood away from the foundation, and remove old webs around porches, patios, windows, and entryways.

Limiting bright outdoor lighting can also reduce the insects that attract spiders.

Apply Spider Killer Around Entry Points

Treating common spider hiding places and entry points can help kill spiders on contact and reduce future activity when used according to the product directions. Focus on doors, windows, garages, porches, foundations, basements, sheds, and other areas where spiders are commonly seen.

Consistent treatment and good home maintenance can help keep your home spider-free throughout the year.