House has to be gassed after SIX THOUSAND venomous spiders take over family's country club home
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House has to be gassed after SIX THOUSAND venomous spiders take over family's country club home
A family has been forced out of their country club home after 6,000 venomous spiders moved in.
Fumigators are now pumping poisonous gas into the house in the upscale neighborhood of Weldon Spring, Missouri in an attempt to kill the brown recluse spiders, which have been there for at least seven years.
After the couple, Brian and Susan Trost, moved out of the home and launched multiple lawsuits against the former owners and insurance companies, the home went into foreclosure.
The 2,400-square-foot, four-bedroom property, which has prime views across the Whitmoor Country Club, never sold - but McCarthy Pest Control believes they can finally take care of the problem.
This week, workers used nine tarps measuring 15,000 square feet to cover the home before filling it with sulfuryl fluoride gas that permeated the walls to kill the spiders and their eggs.
The Trosts, who didn't notice any spiders at the home when they looked around, bought it in October 2007 for $450,000.
But when they moved in, Mrs Trost immediately noticed large webs around lights and in the basement - but assumed the house just needed to be cleaned thoroughly, the Post-Dispatch reported.