My wife and I just killed approximately 18 to 20 baby spiders on the ceiling in our kitchen. These things were so small that if you were near-sighted and didn't have your glasses on you wouldn't see them. I have gotten suggestions on using vinegar to kill gnats and listerine to kill mosquitos. Are there any suggestions for getting rid of spiders?

Look for a product called Demon... powder or wet.. works up to 3 months.. we find it at LAwn & Garden or feed stores...

Here I go again.
Electron repellers; one on each floor at opposite ends of the abode.
OK, someone tell me they don't work.
We have zero, nada, no spiders.
Oh, occasionally, somehow one gets into the shower pan in the basement bathroom shower. I have no idea how because the fan is located outside the shower and the fan vent, therefore, is not over the shower.
I've been using these items for more than 10 years. We have several about the house and garage.

Daddy long legs - that's what they are called.
They have taken up residence in my garage once again.. I reomoved them to outside via broom once..only to see them all eaten by geckos. I felt like an executioner. AFter that experience, now what?

Okay go ahead - call me crazy (lol)

Thanks for all of the responses.
M-ma, Are you saying that you suspect that they can get in through the vent???

The shower/light/fan vents out the back side of the house. When in use, the flaps open. Therefore, the flaps aren't sealed shut. Very tiny slits between slats. I suppose a spider could crawl into the slit. Not saying they do, but how else do they get in? They would then somehow exit from the light and across the ceiling and into the shower.
The ones I find in the shower pan in the fall are BIG and BLACK. They must be impervioius to the electronic repellers (two in the basement/one in that bathroom) and somehow crawl into the shower but can't get out.
It's a mystery.
Overall, we do not have a spider problem since we bought the repellers. It's only in the fall when those big ones seek indoor shelter. Oh, and I did encounter one different, large non-black spider.

One more thing that will help and that's Spectracide's Outdoor Insect Spray. Spray around the perimeter and in any basement where ground meets block. This does provide a barrier that is effective for a long period of time.
We had guests from England two years ago in early Oct. Sure enough, we're sitting gabbing and one of those huge black spiders goes scooting across the floor. We had already had a few before our guests arrived. And then another the next day and another. We went to Lowe's (took our guests) and bought the Spectracide. End of problem. Somehow these spiders, we think, were gaining entry via our front entrance so its perimeter got a good, slow spraying.
We used it again last fall and had no main floor spiders.

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Sprayes and repillers DO NOT WORK. The pest companies, more than one, stated that a spider MUST be sprayed in order to kill. The barriers do not work on them. They as it must be wet to do anythng to them. I would call orken, or the like to get rid of the spiders. From what I was told house bombs do not even work.

Hi tsy72001
Great pictures. Thanks for your response. My problems range from extremely small spiders in the kitchen and dining room, gnats in the bedroom and these extremely tiny bugs in the master bath. They are no bigger than the head of a pin. Frustrating.

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The pest companies don't want you to use the repellers.
Before I'd spend plenty on an exterminator, I'd try the repellers.
We have no interior rodent or sow beetle or spider problem.
The repellers are 90 + % effective IF USED AS DIRECTED.

My FIL uses them and they do not work. Still had major rodent problems.

We had alot of spiders here. I gave in and called Terminex. Have had them for a year now and I have not noticed any spiders this summer. Usually the porch is so covered with webs it is creepy.

Many spider sub species are beneficial.
We name adult resident daddy long legs, but if I've missed a nest and babies hatch & stay, it's easy to wipe them away

If I killed every daddy long legs, we'd be overrun with mosquitoes and moths...I prefer an occasional harmless indoor spider to buzzing & biting insects/ black widows. brown recluse & "wolf" - ain't no way!

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I repeat: if used as directed, the Riddex electronic insect and rodent repellers do work.
Ours have worked for years--12, 13, maybe more.
One at each end of the abode on different levels. A person may need four rather than two.
I keep plant pots on the floor in the basement near my potting table. I always used to have a sow beetles problem. Pick up a pot and there were sow beetles. I haven't seen a sow in the house in over a decade.
Yes, many insects are beneficial---outside, not inside my house!