How can I kill off spiders without poisoning my monarch babies?

You might move your plants to a shadier area. You can also bring some of them into the house. Feed the caterpillars leaves.

My milkweed is one that grew wild and they seem to like it better than the newer one altho I saw two babies on it today. The monarch evidently hatched from this plant last year and they say they always come back to where they hatched. I didn't know the milkweed would grow in the shade, but if I can save

some babies I'll see about moving it to a table that I have in the shade however

don't know where they would be able to crawl as they are on the go all the time. LOL. I also have a fennel plant I just bought on this table hoping to get

some swallow tails as they are in my area. I don't have an area to bring them

inside. Thanks for your help. I guess I'll have to wait until next season to move

this one milkweed as it is in a huge pot that there is no way I could move. Hoping to get at least one monarch out of all of the caterpillars I have had, but so far can't find their crystalis anywhere and I have lots of green plants so they hide for sure. jUst keep hoping. Thanks again

Milkweed is the number one plant for Monarch butterflies, Once they enter their crystallis, you can clip it off and put it in a shoe box until they emerge, then put them outside..... this used to be my project every summer as a kid. '

Also black widows usually hang out in dark, areas near the ground, behind vines or objects. So put your milkweed up higher and maybe an area that gets more sun.

Thanks so much. I have heard you can gently remove them when they are in the crystallis stage, Hope I wouldn't hurt them. Problem is I know I had 2 who

had to be ready for this stage as they were quite large, and the one I did see

was accidental as she hung herself just under the edge of my brick wall top brick. Because I saw her in her j shape I knew what she was going to do. So far she hasn't emerged but should be anytime now. The other two I have not been able to find. I've had a total of 13 babies and yesterday found 3 of them that had died. Am sure the black widow or ?other spiders got them. Actually saw a black widow going after a caterpillar who had just hung herself and I was

devastated. The area I have is sunny and my concern is putting them on a table away from this brick wall, Where can they go and not fall off the table. They like to roam. LOL Thanks for your time. I will try this Also this black widow came from a crack under the very top of the wall. It scurried back in before I could kill it. Thanks so much