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by CrysBuck25 on 08 January 2010 - 18:01
Black widows are common, I think, just about anywhere south where it doesn't regularly get really, really cold. We used to live in Arizona when I was little..Black widows, brown recluse, big centipedes, scorpions, ants, just about every and any nasty thing you could think of. Brown recluses bother me more than widows, but just the same, they're both poisonous and can hurt humans and dogs alike.
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
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
I once killed a HUGE spider with some hair spray! This hair spray was called "Stay Put" -- High winds couldn't move a hair on your head - HA). Anyway, it was in the Bathroom and was the only thing I had available -- I blasted it. Boy, oh boy, it did the trick -- the spider couldn't move -- then I beat the hell out of it with my shoe !!!
by funky munky on 08 January 2010 - 19:01
I feel very grateful to live in Scotland!!!!! Liz.
by beetree on 08 January 2010 - 19:01
About spiders in bathrooms, it reminds me of that movie scene (Annie Hall?) by Woody Allen where he says something like, "That spider was the size of a Buick!" after demolishing the room with a tennis racquet.
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.
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
Betree, We just don't know how lucky we are until you read something like this!!!! I just could not do it, I go crazy at the site of a moth within a 2 inch radius. I am getting cold shivers at the thought of a black widow!!!! Thanks but i'll keep my cold rainy dreary Scotland,lol. Liz
by Two Moons on 08 January 2010 - 19:01
Black Widows,
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.
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
Maggie, just noticed your comment about Hairspray, now that's funny, i've done that myself but only on wasps. Liz
by VomMarischal on 08 January 2010 - 20:01
Just came in from some serious kennel cleaning...and I don't mean just scooping and hosing. Sigh. Tore my favorite work shirt and got a GIANT blood blister on my lower lip. Sigh. I hope I put at least a DENT in the dang spider population. I'm in Northern CA, by the way. They apparently love it here.
by Pharaoh on 08 January 2010 - 22:01
I am in Northern California and my house is in the treetops.
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
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
Contact your local 4 h or county agricultural extension agent! They usualy have experts on staff who will give you the correct info! Not that any of these are wrong but when messing with poison better safe than sorry! One bite can make you desperately sick! You can usually find them at a local university1 I use them all the time when gardening
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