hooks: Try using plain rubbing alcohol (or 409 or Fantastik, or their generic equivalent) on the plant (Spritz it on the leaves and stems). Make sure to water the plant thoroughly as the treatment is slightly drying to the plant, (and thoroughly drying to many insects). It works on ants, and spider mites, mealy bugs etc - so it may work on spiders too. Most 'bug sprays' available for home use are made using pyrethrins - which occur in, or are derived from chemicals that occur in, chrysanthemums, and do not contain active 'heavy chemicals' per se [by which I'm assuming that you mean they are made somehow only from a barrel of 'heavy' crude oil]. Please check out the article on natural carcinogens you are exposed to in a holiday dinner below. The main point is: just because it's manmade doesn't mean it's toxic, and just because it's natural doesn't mean it's safe. Here is a link that might be useful: Carcinogens in a Holiday Dinner

Shenanigans_91, You have a 'Bonnie' Spider Plant, which is essentially the curly version to a regular spider plant (curly leaves). The "stems" that the babies grow on are not straight like the regular spider plants, so don't worry. I have an all green 'Bonnie' and mine are looping all over the place, I think but only a couple are straight. Planto

I love spider types. In fact I like most forms. Gey Witch seems to do well for you and the yellow is pretty too. I have Asterisk and really like it. Thanks for posting these photos...Ellie

John Why do you kill spiders. In my area the average house has over 60 brown recluse spider. Any spider that is not a brown recluse will eat a brown recluse or any other insect it can find. Brown recluses feed on dead and injured insects. Any other spider eats the insect before they die or become week and thus starve the brown recluse. This greatly reduces the chance of a brown recluse bite. I could understand your position on spiders if the Brazilian Wandering Spiders live in your area. I would like to have a Huntsman or Goliath bird eating spider in my house to take care of my mice. Right now I have a couple of snake slithering freely though my hose and the mice really dropped their numbers