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by CrysBuck25 on 08 January 2010 - 18:01
Alas! It seems the only thing that can really stop them is stomping...They are hardly little suckers. The black widow is a shiny black spider with an orange or red shape on its underside, and the brown recluse is also known as the violin spider, due the shape on its back.
They are not common up here in North Idaho, but they are here...Travel in people's cars, UHAUL vans and such, from warmer climates...Surviving only if they can get in somewhere warm. My stepson found a nice female black widow in a bag of grapes from Walmart (from California, you know), and decided to keep it as a pet. She's now a very large, very intimidating spider that has turned her large terrarium cage into one big mass of silken web, and eats crickets like there's no tomorrow, but I wouldn't want that thing in my house, caged or not. FREAKYYYY!
Crys
by MaggieMae on 08 January 2010 - 18:01
by funky munky on 08 January 2010 - 19:01
by beetree on 08 January 2010 - 19:01
FM: I'm with you, I don't mind visiting those hotter places but to have to live with all those creepy crawlies, I am just not going to do it.
by funky munky on 08 January 2010 - 19:01
by Two Moons on 08 January 2010 - 19:01
Under the dog house, kill all adults, remove all webs, rake away debris, spray with a kennel dip solution.
You might try Sevin in the dog house.
Red cedar chips also.
Brown Recluse,
Once you get them your stuck with them, they only like places that remain undisturbed.
Clean often and move things around.
I go after them in the winter in my workshop with a shop vac.
Had them here for some twenty years, been bitten once.
Moons.
by funky munky on 08 January 2010 - 19:01
by VomMarischal on 08 January 2010 - 20:01
by Pharaoh on 08 January 2010 - 22:01
One thing that kills them and repels them for a while is Orange Guard. It seems to melt their exoskeleton.
www.orangeguard.com/
This is what I use in my house. I keep a spray bottle in every room just in case. I have to keep up spider control or they just get comfy and take over. It works really good on ants.
When I see a spider on the ceiling, I clear the floor underneath where they are. I get a shoe with a nice flat sole. I get the nearest bottle of Orange Guard. I go near where the spider is. I spray the spider on the ceiling till it drips. The spider will drop to the floor where I smack it really hard with a shoe. If I miss and it gets under something, it will die a slow agonizing death!
PS. Do not stand right under it or the spider will fall on you and drips of the Orange Guard will be in your hair, I know from sad experience.
Michele
by raymond on 08 January 2010 - 23:01
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