Originally Posted by frayedends

I’m in lake Denham and I seem to have a lot of brown widow spiders. Had them in my lanai and garage. I just bought some spray to kill them. I bought the stuff that you can spray a perimeter and it’s supposed to kill them for months. My lawn and outside service doesn’t do in my lanai. I’m not there full time so I don’t know how well it worked. But keep in mind, most spiders are good as they are killing other bugs. Brown widows are shy and won’t bother you. If you can’t see the abdomen hourglass another way to identify them is the egg sac. It has spikes all over it. Looks like a corona virus model. The brown widow can give you a nasty bite but aren’t as dangerous as black widows.