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I can haz spiders?

aar0s

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why sure i can! went to pick up a ramp over the weekend and found some kind of huge brown spider that instantly went over to protect two sacks of little spiders. put a long lighter to all of them (the little ones pop like pop corn when heated). what is a good method of killing the little buggers and the insects they feast upon?:headscrat
 
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I have Spectracide Ant/Roach/Spider killer and I tested it out on a wicked looking spider. About 20 seconds after being sprayed, it started writhing and died shortly after. $5 at Walmart for a very large container.
 

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I have Spectracide Ant/Roach/Spider killer and I tested it out on a wicked looking spider. About 20 seconds after being sprayed, it started writhing and died shortly after. $5 at Walmart for a very large container.

That's about 19 seconds too long for me!
 
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not a real big spider, if it was a BR then it would have been a big one. I have seen a couple around though. me and a guy from work found a black widow in a pallet of stair parts one day, it was not happy and very creepy looking!
ill have to try the sprectracide stuff.
 

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hah, when i worked production at a auto seat manufacturer I picked up a side shield out of a box and there was a black widow hanging in it about and inch and a half big... i hate spiders worse than anything, so i started cussing and some big dumb fucker came over and pinched it with his fingers to kill it... lol
 

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I spray the permeter and under bench sections of the shop with Yard Guard regularly. It seems to get into all the little crevices. Super duper critter killer.
 

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I believe this is a Wolf spider (25 cent piece for size reference). She's carrying an egg sack which blends in with the gravel, but it's approximately 7 o'clock position to the quarter.

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Frontal view. I guess the large canines are where the name comes from?:headscrat

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Rear view while carrying egg sack.
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Where's the snake when I need it?

I work in S. America in the jungle and if you take your hand and spread your fingers, well thats about the size of some of the spiders we have here, they crunch when you stomp them and are incredably fast, 6" grass hoppers, scorpions, there slow and easy to stomp, and all kinds of snakes, man I hate snakes, bushmaster and Fer de Lance, been bit by one of those, not fun, if a spider the size of that one gives tou the willies than stay outta the jungle
 

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I've heard you can kill most spiders with boric acid found at drug stores? I used it on some small ones, it seemed to work very qiuckly. The reason I can't say for sure is I only got to do it once or twice. Limited trial period!!
 

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Wolf spiders get their name from the fact that they hunt prey, they do not weave a web in the traditional way. IIRC they have feeler lines, but they hunt and kill by running their prey down and injecting it.

As far as quick bug killer, try carb cleaner. Mineral spirits works great too, but you have to put it in a spray bottle.
 

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I've heard you can kill most spiders with boric acid found at drug stores? I used it on some small ones, it seemed to work very qiuckly. The reason I can't say for sure is I only got to do it once or twice. Limited trial period!!

I believe boric acid works to kill bugs by abrading/cutting up their digestive tract. Bugs like ants are always cleaning themselves and when they have that boric acid powder all over them they lick it off and swallow it and it ends up killing them through internal damage. I dunno...just what I heard.
 

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I picked up some Demon at Tractor Supply... powder stuff that you have to mix up. It kills all the bugs, and about half the spiders that come into the shop.
Spiders are really hard to spray for, as for the most part, you have to spray them directly.
I've got 4 acres, and approx. 5 billion wolf spiders... most the size of a silver dollar or bigger. I saw one that was about the size of a tarantula... scared the hell out of me. I sprayed him until he went belly up.
 
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Maybe it's just me, but I'd rather have the spiders. They are free to eat whatever other bugs are crawling into and under the house...


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Probably not - they are actually pretty small spiders. Which is one of the reasons they are so dangerous.
My guess for a large brown spider would be a wolf spider.

As far as the Brown Recluse I've knew someone that got one of those nasty bites and he didn't even know he was bit at first. :shocking:

When it comes to that clock spider, I'd burn my F'ing house down. :thumbup:
 

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PB Blaster is awesome. Not just on seized bolts, rust prevention, etc., but on killing spiders. When I picked up my Land Rover project vehicle, I apparently also picked up a black widow and some other nasties (it had been sitting in a field for a loooong time). Anyways, by the time I saw the thing, grabbed something to hit it with, it had run off. I sprayed the entire area around where I saw it with PB Blaster. Also took a look around the truck and sprayed all the webs I found with PB Blaster. By that night, there were a couple of non-black widow spiders keeled over dead on the hood--they must have crawled out to get away from the Blaster and croaked. About a week later I found the black widow laying between the rear crossmember and the truck bed. I fished it out and it looked mumified, like the PB Blaster had somehow sucked all the juice/guts/whatever out of it. Very strange looking, but a dead spider is a good spider, so I'm sold.
 

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Boric Acid is good and before you buy it, just get a box of 20 Mule Team Borax and use it. I put it into a shaker and go around the perimeter of the garage and house foundation sprinkling it. It works too ! Always had a problem with critters building nests, but no more. It's better than using all the chemicals.
 

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Where I live we have wolf spiders. All other spiders get a pass from me as they really earn their keep with killing all the other offending bugs like earwigs. But on the Wolf spiders they literally lumber across my shop floor. I have tried all the high priced bug killers on them just to watch them walk right out of it and keep going. One night I soaked one in a four inch puddle 'till he wouldn't move. Left him there. Next morning he was gone! So what I discovered is Carburetor spray cleaner from Walmart kills on contact. They give up the ghost in 5 seconds. I get a shovel and out to the garden they go dead as door nails. Been using this for years now. Recently I have taken to spreading boric acid around the walls of the shop and last year I only killed one or two with the spary. So I may be getting the upper hand on this big guys................

Lisa ;)
 

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Yeah, but then you have to figure out how to get rid of John Goodman. I think I would learn to put up with the spiders... :)
 

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I have Spectracide Ant/Roach/Spider killer and I tested it out on a wicked looking spider. About 20 seconds after being sprayed, it started writhing and died shortly after. $5 at Walmart for a very large container.

Hot water does the same thing.
 

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I wish that I wasn't so damned afraid of the things. I have gotten MUCH better compared to when I was in jr. and sr. high school. Back then, if I saw a spider on my bedroom ceiling, I would take an old cavalry officer's sword that I had and try to spear them, at an angle and from a distance. This was because I had had a few nasty instances where, in trying to crush them overhead with a tissue, they bailed for it and I flipping freaked out thinking they had landed on my chin or on my shirt.

Now, I leave a lot of them alone, but I still have a real primitive, visceral reaction if one catches me by surprise. It could actually be comical if portrayed correctly. Like, if I was working under the car and was startled by a spider, I might jerk my head so fast that I smash it against the frame and pass out. That's funny stuff, a 6'2" 200lb man having a panic attack over a 1oz bug.
 

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THis stuff not only works well, its provides quality entertainment. The little bastards flip, flop, freak out, and squirm. I have a couple cans of it sitting around

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Maybe it's just me, but I'd rather have the spiders. They are free to eat whatever other bugs are crawling into and under the house...


Andy

I generally leave them alone as well. They serve the purpose of consuming other, less desirable insects.
Sure, you might get bit by a spider one day, but they are more likely to scoot away from you than "attack" you.
I kinda feel bad when I kill one accidentally by moving something around in my shop.
Live and let live, and let nature take care of her business.
 

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After keeping it together for quite a while, Sam has a MASSIVE, coffee-spilling, 'they're crawling on me get em off! GET EM OFF!!!' case of the heebie-jeebies... Man I hate spiders...

These things must carry live young as well (or that sack is full of them, I don't know). Anyway I stepped on one years ago to kill it and noticed movement all over the ground around my foot. Looking more closely the movement was from hundreds of the little bat's turds! :shocking:
Needless to say, the creepy-crawly heebie-jeebies I felt were actually coming up my leg. At that point, all manhood departed and I danced / jumped / ran much to the delight of my fiance at the time.

I learned to shoot them with the aforementioned automotive chemical sprays instead.
 

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I have wolf spiders everywhere around my house.. Some get as big as my hand. I used to kill everyone I saw, but I just stopped worrying about as the don't ever mess with me..

Like someone else mentioned they are very bold and will just cruise right out in the open floor while your working on stuff and freak you out.

I've seen plenty around here twice the size of the one I snapped a pic of.. The wd-40 can is just for some size reference.

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Anyway I stepped on one years ago to kill it and noticed movement all over the ground around my foot. Looking more closely the movement was from hundreds of the little bat's turds!

I've done that a couple times. Last time there was a lighter and a spray can in reach and I hit'em with the flame thrower and they made popping noises like rice crispies as they burnt up.. There were 100's of them running out in every direction... Freaky for sure.
 

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Our front door is in a recessed area. We leave our porch light on, so in the summer we have two or three large spiders spin webs in the entrance to the front door to catch the bugs drawn by the light. First time I saw them was coming out the front door in a hurry and running face first into the webs. Looked over and saw the spider and it scared the **** out of me.
After that, I knew they were there and left them alone. It is amazing how having those large spiders cut down on salesmen coming to our front door!!! Haaaaaa-haaaaaaa-haaaaaa. To see the look in their eyes.
 
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