Brown Recluse Spider Trap Season

Increased Brown Recluse Spider Bites

A recent increase in hospital reports of Brown Recluse Spider Bites highlights the need for homeowners and renters alike to increase their awareness of the brown recluse spider, and ideally avoid painful brown recluse spider bites by setting quality brown recluse spider traps in strategic locations. 

The gold standard for trapping the brown recluse spider is a pesticide free spider glue trap.  The key to the sticky glue trap is placement and numbers. Brown Recluse spiders are not likely to cover long distances any given day, so a strategy that uses more spider traps instead of larger spider traps makes the most sense.

Placement of Brown Recluse Spider Traps

Consider that brown recluse spiders like to hide in tight dark places like wood stacks, garage shelves, piles of of season clothes, attics and crawl spaces. With these in mind place the brown recluse spider glue traps in the corners of the garage, back of the closet and in between logs on a wood pile. The design of the spider trap is important, as well as choosing a brand of spider traps sticky enough to catch a brown recluse by a single leg.
Catchmaster Spider Traps have been made in the USA since 1952 and have a sticky spider trap glue that has been proven by a University of Kansas study to be able to catch a spider by a single leg.  Another advantage of these quality spider traps is they can be folded into a triangle spider trap or a square spider trap depending upon your intended placement.  For example using the triangle spider trap shape is more effective in high dust areas.

Spider Traps prevent spider bites

A trip to the hospital with a spider bite can be scary and cost a fortune! Planning ahead and keeping effective brown recluse spider traps in strategic locations through your house or apartment can make a big difference!