Posts with the tag: "spiders"

Keep Spiders From Invading Your South Portland Home

DATE POSTED: January 6, 2016

For most of us our first thought upon seeing a spider is not, “How can I make that little creature more comfortable and help her find a nice, secluded corner in my home to lay her eggs”; and yet it may surprise you to hear that this is exactly what many of us unintentionally do. We often do not take the time to secure our homes by filling all the cracks and gaps that we can in our foundations…

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The Real Reasons For Winter Spiders

DATE POSTED: October 30, 2015

Have you seen more spiders inside your home lately? Have you asked a relative or a friend why those spiders are coming inside or made some guesses on your own? The common belief is that spiders enter homes to escape the cold of winter. Not only is this wrong, it is exceptionally wrong. In today's article, we're going to look at a few things you probably didn't know about house spiders. When we're…

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Eight Legs, Eight Eyes, One Creepy Problem

DATE POSTED: September 9, 2015

Spiders - to use the most technical terms possible, they are icky, creepy, send-a-tingle down your spine kind of bugs. There are not many people that don't cringe just a bit at the sight of these 8 legged arthropods. Arachnids to be exact, this class are believed to entail 40,000 different species worldwide with around 3500 of those calling America home. Thankfully of those 3500 there are really…

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Are Spiders Taking Over Your House?

DATE POSTED: April 30, 2015

Spiders are sneaky. I'm willing to bet you probably haven't noticed them taking over your house. It happens slowly--and in high places you don't tend to look. Stop for a moment, and take a walk around. Look closely at the corners near your ceilings. I bet you'll find some spider webs. When you get back, continue on with this article and find out what you can do about those spiders.

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Spiders: The Creepy, Yet Fascinating Creatures

DATE POSTED: November 6, 2013

Walking into spider webs can be a very frustrating experience. You can’t shake the feeling you have something on your skin, but you can’t see it and you know you could have a spider somewhere on your body. This is one of the most goose-bump raising experiences you can have in your own home and spiders in Massachusetts are known for seeking refuge in relatively undisturbed areas, including…

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Don’t Let Spiders Inside This Fall

DATE POSTED: September 11, 2013

People are having problems with spiders all over New England. We regularly get calls from folks that are seeing more than their fair share of spiders inside their homes. Luckily there aren’t any poisonous spiders in Rhode Island, but every once in awhile black widow and brown recluse spiders have been brought into the state by travelers. Typically the spiders in Rhode Island that we deal with…

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