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CarolineGates's avatar
May 04, 2015

Spiders!

I happen to like spiders, and I prefer they stay outside.

But around my RV in the park I live in surrounded by heavy gravel I have spiders EVERYWHERE, from the roof to the ground.

I also have big Monterrey Cyprus trees behind my space along with other conifer trees. They drop their needles which land in the spider webs and I have a terrible mess to get rid of.

I have a big container of Ortho Home Defense Max perimeter and indoor insect killer. I would not use it indoors, only outside.

Does anyone know if I spray this around the perimeter of the RV if it will keep the spiders from getting onto the RV? I can't reach down under the RV. I could spray it on the RV but not sure putting that spray on the RV is a good idea. Unfortunately all the written instructions on the container wore off so I can't read it. I just cleaned the RV, it took me four days, but it looks nice. I want to avoid the spider webs and needles since they proved to be the biggest problems.

Any ideas?
  • Unless you have spiders falling from trees above the camper, all you need to do is spray around each item on your camper that actually touches the ground. for example, spray the ground around your tires about a foot out each direction. Do the same with your stabilizer jacks, everything. No need to spray a parameter around, just a parameter around each object touching the ground.

    Not much you can do when they come from "above" though, or where the wind blows their webs to, or what falls from a tree.