Spider guides
What attracts them, when they show up, what actually works, and when a treatment is worth it. Written for homeowners in our six towns, by the people who do the work.
Homeowner guide
Which ones build on your house, which stay in the garden, which live indoors, and which can actually bite.
Homeowner guide
What each one does, what it does not, and why we start with the vacuum.
Homeowner guide
Egg sacs, spiderlings and the lake hatch: why May and September visits do the most lasting good.
Homeowner guide
A month by month look at what happens on a house from April to October.
Homeowner guide
The three places webs always come back, and what you can change.
The spiders we are asked about most, each with a photo, where it lives on the house and whether it bites. The full list of 22 is in the common spiders in Ontario guide.
On the house
The grey spider in rows under the eaves of lakeside homes.
On the house
The messy cobweb in the porch corner and window frame.
Late summer
The big spider in the big web across the doorway in September.
Indoors in fall
The hairy brown spider on the basement floor when the nights cool.
Cottage country
The dock spider: huge, shy and far less dangerous than it looks.
Medically significant
Where they really are, and how to tell one from the false widows.
Sarnia
How to keep spiders and webs off a Sarnia home, and what a visit involves.
Sarnia
Food, shelter and anchor points. Fix those and the webs slow down.
Sarnia
Why a street a few kilometres inland gets the same evening visitors.
Sarnia
What to look at, what to change, and how to get ready for a visit.
Sarnia
Usually less than you think. The honest answer and how we decide.
