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[chickenbutt]

I have a massive quantity of peppermint EXTRACT.    Would that work, in lieu of peppermint oil?  TIA  

[RedTop]

For many years we have dealt with brown wood spiders every fall.   At night our garage doors would be covered with them, and eventually several would find their way inside our house, and basement.   My husband would spray heavily outside with malathion, but it never completely got rid of them.   

When the first spiders showed up last August, I decided to ****** them in the bud, and set up monthly service with our Dodson exterminator.   For $42 a month, the exterminator sprays our garage, basement, perimeter of the house, around every window and door, and our porches.   For the first summer ever, we didn't have a problem with ants, flies, gnats, earwigs, mosquitoes, granddaddy longlegs, and no one has seen the first brown wood spider.   Definitely worth the money to be pest free.    I do not have our living areas sprayed, due to COPD, allergies and asthma, but the spray used is claimed to be safe for people and pets.   

[sandraskates]

We don't get a lot of spiders in the house and I don't mind them. I'll capture them using the glass a paper method and re-home them outside.

If I'm too late and one of the cats discovers the spider first, well, it's not a quick  death.

[gardenman]

I don't mind spiders. If you've got spiders you've got other bugs too that the spiders are eating. If you get rid of the spiders you'll likely get overrun with whatever the spiders are eating. Spiders are carnivores and survive by eating bugs that end up in their webs. They spread their webs where there's food and if there's no food they'll move on. If you've got a lot of spiders you've got a lot of other bugs that the spiders are catching and eating for you. Me, I'll take the spiders over the other bugs. Think of them as a live-in exterminator on the job for you 24/7 that you don't even have to pay. 

[nrm]

Pest control service and Raid work for me. 

[Zhills]

Read on FB this weekend to put a couple of peppermint plants in your house.  They could be trimmed and kept as very attractive house plants!

[qshpr89]

We live near a pond so between the spiders and snakes I'm always screaming!  I did find something that the spiders don't like - Eucalyptus.  I buy the big bundles of dried that you can get a your local craft store.  I put a bundle in a vase on every floor of the house.  I put two big bundles on each side of the garage entry on the inside - just leave them in the plastic they come in. Spiders do not like the smell.  I change the bundles about every 6 months or sometimes longer - just depends on when I start to see a lot of spiders again I know it's time to switch it out.

In trying to figure out what we could plant outside to get rid of them - spiders do not like the smell of rosemary.  So, next spring I'm going to go crazy planting that stuff in pots all around the house.