Are all glueboards alike? I currntly have brown recluses...

[mldollins]

I bought several run of the mill glueboards. However, at a hardware store, their glue boards are "pre-baited". Is there actually bait or is it just glue?

thanks

[CarolT]

Pre-baited usually means it is supposed to smell yummy to whatever it's made for so it will attract them. Doesn't seem to make any difference to mine, pre-baited or not. If you stick a couple of fresh bugs to it(favorite seems to be those camel crickets), it will draw them faster. Or it did for me. Word of warning, apparently recluses can survive a long time on them, so when you pick it up to dispose of make sure to keep your fingers away from the spiders. Good luck, have a lot of recluses here, spent my birthday last year in Urgent Care getting antibiotics to treat a bite... Whoopee

[pheasantplucker]

Spiders don't freak me out in general...even black widows...but brown recluse give me the heebie jeebies! Good luck. Kill them all!

[Rita]

I really like the sticky traps they carry at SavALot stores. Even caught a small snake that got into the basement, lizards, scorpions and lots of crickets and roly-polys.

[allenrs]

That kind of a creepy way to die.

[OkieDavid]

Also a wonderful form of entertainment introducing your house cats to them......

[Jokarva]

Please put them where other critters won't have access - I've driven (wildlife rehab driver) flying squirrel babies and birds that have gotten stuck on glueboards. It's a miserable, inhumane way to die.

[julieq]

Originally Posted by OkieDavid

Also a wonderful form of entertainment introducing your house cats to them......

Yep! It's about time to set out the glue traps around the baseboards and sure enough if we hear a large commotion at night we've caught a house cat!

[mldollins]

into strips. A single glue board can be cut into 5 decent strips. I had to cut one that was 1 inch wide and another that was 2 inches to slip between the wall and fridge each side. ....already caught several.