While orb-weavers clean up their own webs, the same cannot be said for all spiders. Be it cobwebs or funnel webs, many species of spiders can leave behind a messy, sticky web that is difficult to clean up.
Fortunately, the professionals at Terminix can help. From common house spiders to black widows, our service technicians at Terminix are trained to identify the common hiding spots of spiders and provide a comprehensive treatment plan to treat all infested rooms of your home. Your home may be your castle, but it can also be a welcome shelter for insects, rodents and other kinds of pests.
To keep unwanted visitors away, take the following steps for pest-proofing your home. Your home is your sanctuary. It's the place where you relax, unwind and feel completely at ease. And nowadays, for many of us, it's also where we work. Because your home plays such a vital role in your life, it's important that it's protected.
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Like all spiders, Garden Orb-weavers can only eat liquid food, so the indigestible solid parts of their insect prey are discarded and dropped to the ground below the web. Breeding takes place during the summer months when males seek out the females within their webs at night. The strategy is to woo her with a carefully plucked silken serenade. The male will pluck threads of silk which identify him as an interested suitor, and gradually move towards the middle of the web.
Males are much smaller than the females, and this may help them in reaching the middle without jiggling threads the wrong way. After mating, the female will lay her eggs in a silken egg sac attached to a nearby structure. These will usually hatch a month or so later. Eggs laid in later summer may hatch the following spring, but by this time the mother will usually have died, as their brief life ends the winter after they breed.
However, the spider remains aware of prey that may become trapped in the web by a trap line of silk that will vibrate and alert the spider if something enters the web. If a prey insect is trapped in the web, the trap line vibrates notifying the spider rush to the web, bite and paralyze the prey and wrap it in silk for later consumption. If something non-eatable is trapped, the spider will either just ignore it or remove it from the web and go back to its protected hiding place.
Orb weavers are most often noticed by homeowners in the late summer and fall since the adult spiders have attained their largest size and have constructed the largest number of webs. Small insects such as flies, moths, beetles, wasps and mosquitoes are examples of insects that make up the spider's diet. Some of the larger orb weavers may also trap and eat small frogs and humming birds should they venture into the web.
Orb weavers tend to inhabit locations where there is abundant prey and structures that can support their web. Typical habitats include areas around night-lights, tree branches, tall grass, weeds, fences, walls and bushes. Male orb weavers are much smaller than females and the male's role in to mate with the female.
Since the males are small, it is not uncommon for them to become the female's first meal after mating. Female orb weavers produce one or more egg sacs and each sac may contain up to several hundred eggs.
Presence of the web is the most obvious sign of an orb weaver population. Orb weavers are found throughout the world, except for the Arctic and Antarctica.
In North America, there are approximately species of orb weaver spiders. Despite their large size and fearsome appearance, orb weavers are not considered to be medically important. Orb weavers rarely bite and only do so when threatened and unable to escape.
If bitten by an orb weaver, the bite and injected venom is comparable to that of a bee sting, with no long-term implications unless the bite victim happens to be hyper-allergic to the venom. Preventing orb weaver spiders is usually unnecessary unless an orb weaver builds a web in a location frequented by people, in which case someone could be adversely affected by arachnophobia, the extreme fear of spiders.
Some key preventive things a homeowner can do is reduce the population of insects that serve as food for spiders, seal up holes, cracks and gaps in the home's exterior to prevent entrance by spiders into the home's living spaces and remove ground litter and other sites that serve as spider harborage. Should the homeowner need assistance in control of these or any other spiders, contact your pest management professional PMP and request an inspection.
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