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Byline: Diane Carroll
So you think you'll kill those nasty brown recluse spiders by spraying pesticide in your cabinets and along your floorboards?
New research shows that's likely to keep the poisonous pests around longer.
The work by Jamel Sandidge, 26, a doctoral student at the University of Kansas, was published in November in the journal Nature.
According to conventional wisdom, spraying kills insects that the spider eats, which cuts off the spider's food supply, which leads to the spider's death by starvation, Sandidge said recently.
But that's not what happens, said Sandidge, who is pursuing a degree in ecology and ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Spider sidesteps easy extermination.