Environmental Pest Management, Inc.

 

                                                 

 

                                     724.349.7900                 

                                          Indiana, PA 

                   

                         Serving Indiana County for over 35 years!

Spiders

Spiders are best controlled by a perimeter treatment on the exterior, and a treatment where they are a problem on the interior.  Spiders mainly reside in basements and crawlspaces.  Our treatment controls the spider population in the home and prevents more from entering the structure. 

Please contact us for more information and pricing.

Some facts about Spiders:

  1. There are over 35,000 species of spiders worldwide, with about 3,000 occurring in North America. 

  2. Many species are household pests.

  3. Wherever their food is available, spiders are likely to be found.

  4. All spiders are predators, feeding on mainly insects and other small arthropods.

  5. In the united States, only two spider groups are considered dangerous to man, the Black Widow spiders and the Brown Recluse Spiders.

  6. All spiders have silk glands, although not all use silk in spinning webs.

  7. Relatively few spiders are capable of piercing human skin.

(Source: NPCA Field Guide to Structural Pests; Smith and Whitman)