Is it true that sticky traps are the best way to get rid of brown recluse spiders?
NO. This is absolutely false. Sticky traps only serve as monitoring devices. In a 3 year survey of homes only 8 % of all brown recluse spiders captured on sticky traps included mature adult females. This means that the majority of spiders captured are males and juveniles. Unless the females are found and killed the problem will persist indefinitely. Males are able to mate with multiple females, therefore if only one male escapes the traps populations can continue.
