NEVER Kill This Spider — It Eats The Black Widows In Your Basement

Save $3,500–$7,500 a year ⬇️ amosbarlow.com That pale spider in your ceiling corner kills black widows for free. A quarterly spray contract runs $400 to $1,000 a year to remove it. The long-legged thing hanging upside down above your water heater is the only free black widow control you will ever be offered. Most people sweep it down, or pay someone to spray that corner four times a year. Here is what you are actually looking at. Three completely different animals share that nickname. The one in your corner is the only true spider of the three, the only one building a web, hunting — and the one with no venom worth worrying about. The fear has been aimed at the wrong end of the room — not because dangerous spiders do not exist, but because the spider people kill first is the one that was working against them. In this video I walk you through: ✔ The ten-second identification of the cellar spider against its two lookalikes and against the brown recluse ✔ How a seven-millimeter spider beats a black widow — not with stronger venom but by casting silk from outside its strike range and binding its fangs before it can bite ✔ What the size of that corner web tells you about the insect load behind that wall ✔ The room-by-room rule: which corners to leave exactly as they are, and which ones to clear Rick Vetter at UC Riverside is not aware of a single publication showing a cellar spider causes any toxic effect in a human being. The 2004 MythBusters episode tested the fang claim directly — Adam Savage was bitten, felt a brief mild burn, and the arachnologist's comparison put black widow venom in a different league entirely. The title says this spider eats the black widows in your basement — in plain terms, what that means is it suppresses and displaces them, most reliably taking juveniles and smaller individuals. A large adult widow can sometimes be more than it wants to take on. That honest limit is worth having before you decide what to do with that corner. The honest math: a one-time treatment runs $150 to $400. A quarterly contract runs roughly $100 to $300 per visit, four times a year — $400 to $1,000 annually. A residual spray tends to take the cellar spider out along with, or ahead of, the insects it was eating. You pay several visits a year to remove what the corner was doing for nothing. The pest-control industry sells quarterly contracts on the logic that dark corners need repeated treatment. That logic works as a business because the sprayer in most cases never inspects the corner he is treating. Nobody on a service call profits from telling you the ceiling already has a working predator in it. Go look at the darkest corner in your garage or basement tonight and tell me in the comments what you find — a pale spider hanging upside down, an old gray tangle with nothing home, or a corner that has been sprayed clean. Because what is or is not up there tells you something about your house. And if your father or your grandmother had their own way of doing it, share it. The little family tricks are exactly the kind of knowledge that gets lost when nobody writes them down. I read every single one. Next time I am showing you the low corners, down at floor level where the widow herself builds, and exactly how to clear those without touching the one working for you upstairs. It is the natural next step after today. Subscribe so you do not miss it. Sources: Rick Vetter, UC Riverside Department of Entomology · Jackson, R.R. & Brassington, R.J. (1987), Journal of Zoology 211:227–238 · MythBusters, "Buried in Concrete," 2004 · Missouri Department of Conservation · Penn State Extension · UC IPM #cellarspider #daddylonglegsmyth #spiderthateatsblackwidows #spidersinbasement #shouldikillhousespiders #blackwidowpredator #garagespiders #spiderwebinceilingcorner #pestcontrol #basementspiders #naturalspidercontrol #blackwidow #housespiders