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Brown recluse spiders are difficult to treat and they stress homeowners out. Here's how McCarthy Pest Control developed a treatment protocol for these troublesomaarachnids.Brown recluse spiders have infested houses in the greater St. Louis area for many years. Becoming deeply entrenched, they make people uncomfortable in their own homes. Some families attempt to move away from the infestation, while others pursue litigation on the previous homeowner. For pest control professionals, treating brown recluse spiders has become a protracted process with no guaranteed results. Living behind walls and other reclusive areas for six months with no food or water makes these arachnids a formidable opponent. Until now.In the summer of 2012, Tim McCarthy, president of McCarthy Pest Control, St. Louis, began researching how to better treat these deeply embedded brown recluse infestations. He determined the only way to penetrate all areas of infestation was tenting and fumigating, but he needed to learn more about how the process worked. So, McCarthy signed up himself and his staff entomologist, Bob Richardson, for a fumigation school in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.