Oil-Based Pesticides Most Effective at Killing Contents of Brown Widow Spider Egg Sacs

Tuesday, November 3, 2015 - 10:30 in Biology & Nature

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside might have found a breakthrough in the spider-control field. In a paper published in theJournal of Economic Entomologythe researchers wrote that oil-based pesticides are more effective than water-based pesticides at killing the contents of brown widow spider egg sacs. “The brown widow spider egg sac is constructed with […]

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