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Subject: BS: Spiders in the House... From: Bobert Date: 22 Oct 05 - 06:53 PM OPkay, granted, me and the P-Vine are livin' in a construction site but these danged spiders is everywhere and I'm gettin' just a little tired of capturin' them and takin' 'um back out side... Wouldn't be as bad if they was small but they all seem to be the same species, brownish to black with a light stripe down their back and they are about 1 1/2 inches from end of front leg to end of back leg... Ain't been bit by none though the smller spiders have bites the hound outta both of us... Anyone have any ideas on stuff that will keep them out or at least make the house less attractive to them??? Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House... From: Bobert Date: 22 Oct 05 - 06:57 PM No, no, no... This was sposed to be in the BS section... Wish it were in the obit section, though... Bobert (with bag over head) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House... From: GUEST Date: 22 Oct 05 - 06:58 PM Cats ? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House... From: Chris Green Date: 22 Oct 05 - 07:01 PM Conkers do the trick apparently. No really! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House... From: Peace Date: 22 Oct 05 - 07:18 PM "All animals have natural enemies. Birds, insects such as wasps, snakes, lizards, frogs and fish eat spiders." Have you considered getting a few dozen snakes? Or a murder of crows? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House... From: Clinton Hammond Date: 22 Oct 05 - 07:52 PM "capturin' them and takin' 'um back out side..." Squash them... easy peasy.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House... From: bobad Date: 22 Oct 05 - 08:53 PM Get a gecko. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House... From: Peace Date: 22 Oct 05 - 09:12 PM Hell, just say it ten times fast. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House... From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 22 Oct 05 - 09:13 PM ... so that when you bring visitors into the house, you can say to them, "Don't shout, there's a gecko in here!" (went over their heads I guess...) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House... From: Rapparee Date: 22 Oct 05 - 09:20 PM It's a sign of a bad winter a-comin'. The spiders are all trying to get indoors where they'll be warm. Gonna be snow and ice and hail and sleet and freezing rain and blizzards and glaciers. Them spiders are tryin' to get out of the path of the southerly migration of the mastodons. Or maybe not. Could be a sign of a mild winter approaching. Has to be one or the other. Has to be. Have you tried insecticide? It's no longer a hangin' offense in Virginia. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House... From: Peace Date: 22 Oct 05 - 09:21 PM Nicholas got it, foolestroupe |
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Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House... From: Peace Date: 22 Oct 05 - 09:22 PM Nicolas. PARdon me. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House... From: Bobert Date: 22 Oct 05 - 09:24 PM Ahhhh, I couldn't kill a spider, Rap... They eat bad bug... Plus, they are cool... Maybe when we get the contsruction finished, they'll stay out... I was kind hopin' fir some miracle herb that when left around the house would make them wanta return to the outdoors... Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House... From: Peace Date: 22 Oct 05 - 09:28 PM Get the Tarlek herb. His suits will drive the spiders away. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House... From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 22 Oct 05 - 09:29 PM There are several herbs such as pennyroyal that are reputed to have insect repellent powers, but spiders ain't insects! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House... From: Peace Date: 22 Oct 05 - 10:09 PM "but spiders ain't insects!" Do they KNOW that? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House... From: Sorcha Date: 22 Oct 05 - 10:24 PM I don't have experinces wit dis, but the kids say that the ultrasonic mice repellers that you plug into the wall outlets keep the spiders away (but not the mice) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House... From: Peace Date: 22 Oct 05 - 10:28 PM Here. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House... From: Clinton Hammond Date: 22 Oct 05 - 10:33 PM "ultrasonic mice repellers" Will also likely bug the F outa yer pets.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House... From: Peace Date: 22 Oct 05 - 10:42 PM Wonder if that would work on crabs? Anyone know? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House... From: Janie Date: 22 Oct 05 - 10:50 PM Bobert, Is it a Rabid Wolf Spider ? Janie |
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Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House... From: Stilly River Sage Date: 22 Oct 05 - 10:59 PM His description sounds like a wolf spider. They're fast, but interesting. I called the local organic gardening guy on his program one Sunday morning (on a local radio talk show) and asked how to keep the tarantulas outside. He said that cedar mulch is reputed to repel spiders. So you might want to find a few bags and simply run a 12-24 inch strip of it around the house foundation to see if that works. I think it has here. I can find their spider holes in the yard easily enough, but I've only had to catch one in the house this year and none last year (and this year's got in by a fluke, under the bottom of a screen door when the main door was left open for a while). SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House... From: dianavan Date: 23 Oct 05 - 12:09 AM The wolf spider won't hurt you but I'm a little bit worried about your spider bites from the little spider. The little brown recluse gives a nasty bite that can get very ugly. I hope you don't have a sensitive stomach! http://www.angelfire.com/biz4/MastiffBreeder/BrownRecluse.html |
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Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House... From: Liz the Squeak Date: 23 Oct 05 - 02:52 AM Should never have watched 'Arachnophobia' yesterday....... Spiders only come into clean houses, they don't like dirt because it attracts entirely the wrong class of fly; but yes, they're coming in because it's getting colder outside and they're looking for a warmer spot to winter in. We've had a couple of the big, brown, hairy legged variety appear, only to be eaten by a cat.... However, the garden has been full of Garden Orb spiders since August - the most amazing webs that have stretched a clear 6ft across the pathway and one that was right across the back door. They've never spun so big that early so I'm expecting a rough winter. And those brown recluses are just downright nasty! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House... From: dianavan Date: 23 Oct 05 - 02:40 PM I noticed that, too, Liz. The webs this year are magnificent! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House... From: Peace Date: 23 Oct 05 - 03:05 PM I am aware that spiders do lots of good in the world. But I do not want them in the place I live, so I spray with Raid and poison the little f*ckers. Had abput four bites last year and that is four too many. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House... From: Ebbie Date: 23 Oct 05 - 03:19 PM The Brown Recluse often gets the blame for some really nasty bites in Alaska, even by doctors, but the experts say that there is no record of a Brown Recluse ever coming this far north and that the culprit is likely the Hobo Spider. Any case, I've seen a couple of really gruesome effects on several people. The area can turn necroptic so that a deep chunk of flesh will eventually fall out. A Chicago friend of mine had that experience in Haines in Southeast Alaska. If I'm not mistaken, the only medication the doctor gave her was Benedryl to combat the itching. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House... From: saulgoldie Date: 23 Oct 05 - 04:02 PM I heard recently (but can't remember where, although it was an authoritative source) that we are NEVER more than three feet from a spider. Remember that all G-d's chilluns got a purpose and a right to live. And spiders are some of those children. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House... From: Peace Date: 23 Oct 05 - 04:06 PM I agree with you saul. And here in Alberta where I am, the spiders have a right to live OUTSIDE. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House... From: pdq Date: 23 Oct 05 - 04:11 PM Ebbie sez... "...some really nasty bites in Alaska, even by doctors" Bragging? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House... From: Ebbie Date: 23 Oct 05 - 06:05 PM Durn tootin', pdq- and some of them are HUGE. (Even though some of them are women.) I often torture my sentences, I find. :) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House... From: Peace Date: 23 Oct 05 - 06:10 PM The wind blew over my house today. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House... From: pdq Date: 23 Oct 05 - 06:29 PM It's OK to split infinitives if all those involved are agreeable, but please, dangling participles in public is over the line. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House... From: Peace Date: 23 Oct 05 - 06:30 PM Churchill while noting the convoluted English of a bureaucrat was heard to remark, "This is a situation up with which I will no longer put!" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House... From: Deckman Date: 23 Oct 05 - 07:21 PM Being the "Deckman" ... (a deck builder) ... spiders and I have daily contact. Many of my deck projects start with a rotten deck tearout and disposal, and that's AFTER I have to move the old wood pile that's been resting against the rotten posts for years. And being the craftsman I am, I simply cannot wear gloves when I work. I must feel the wood I'm working with. I get bit probably once a month. I've only had one serious bite, and I think it was a black widow. I've seen three brown recluse bites. One was my cousin, he lived, the other two died. Having said that, I still feel gentle toward the creatures. As I'm ripping and tearing out a deck, I see them running and scurrying away. I try to give them time to do just that. After all, I'm the one attacking them. Once in a while I'll run into a very aggresive and large spider that will attack me. He'll leap at me and won't take "NO" for an answer. Then I just use my hammer and move on. But, never take a spider bite for granted. I've seen two men die from them. CHEERS, Bob(deckman)Nelson |
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Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House... From: Kaleea Date: 24 Oct 05 - 12:12 AM The ole Piano Tuner from my childhood days always said to sprinkle tobacco behind the kickboard to keep the spiders away. I always did, & I never saw a spider in any Piano I owned--do you suppose it might work in a home? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House... From: Deckman Date: 24 Oct 05 - 05:39 AM There ARE special sprays you can buy to spray the perimiter of your house. Be sure and get all the thresholds as that's where most spiders enter. If you have pets that go in and out, you need to watch them as they'll get it on their feet and then into their bodies. Bob |
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Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House... From: Pied Piper Date: 24 Oct 05 - 06:10 AM What you need is a pet Toad. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House... From: Pied Piper Date: 24 Oct 05 - 06:11 AM Toad |
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Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House... From: Liz the Squeak Date: 24 Oct 05 - 06:59 AM Bob - if the spider is leaping for you, it's probably a female... remember, we're more deadly than the male and enjoy sex and a good meal... sometimes we don't wait until the sex is finished! : ) LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House... From: RichM Date: 24 Oct 05 - 10:59 AM live release spider trap |
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Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House... From: Clinton Hammond Date: 24 Oct 05 - 11:08 AM "live release spider trap" What a huge WOMBAT |
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Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House... From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 24 Oct 05 - 08:22 PM I seem to remember something from years ago about using nicotine as an insecticide - save the ciggie butts break them up and make a water solution spray. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House... From: Deckman Date: 24 Oct 05 - 08:37 PM BEWARE OF LEAPING FEMALES! Actually ... my Father warned me about them years ago. Because he mostly spoke Finn, I guess I didn't learn the first time around. Oh well ... ! CHEERS, Bob(deckman)Nelson |
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Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House... From: Bobert Date: 24 Oct 05 - 08:44 PM My borther got bit by a brown recluse on his boat a couple three years ago and ended up in the hospital in the intensive care ward... Thems is the worst of the worst... I beeen bit by the Black Widow an' it weren't nuthin' compared to what he went thru... Almost kilt the boy... I get bit a lot... Seems since movin' to this old farm that I get bit by something justa bout every day... Most the time I don't know what it was... Just too busy scurrryin' 'round whilst thay chewin' nme up... Yesterday, I took a ferw bags of ol' construction material to the landfill and there were like lots of li9ttle spiders on them bags and from the looks of my arms last night, every danged one of them got its teeth into me... Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House... From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 24 Oct 05 - 09:00 PM "My borther got bit by a brown recluse on his boat" OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO that musta hurt, just like when Ceaser got stabbed in the Rotunda... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House... From: eleanor c Date: 24 Oct 05 - 09:07 PM In my workshop I cleared all the spiders away ( ok ok I got my partner to evict them, I admit) then installed the ultrasonic mouse repeller plug I got off Ebay, 3 weeks ago. So far, no spider has come back in , although it's the time of year they usually come in. Maybe it's working......the dog don't mind it either. No biting spiders in the UK here , the sight of them just makes me feel unwell... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House... From: GUEST,A Date: 24 Oct 05 - 10:36 PM "My borther got bit by a brown recluse on his boat." That also must have hurt as much as when JR was shot in the bedroom. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House... From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 25 Oct 05 - 10:51 AM "My borther got bit by a brown recluse on his boat." Ruth Wallis had a song about a dingy, didn't she? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House... From: lady penelope Date: 25 Oct 05 - 12:35 PM All spiders bite!!!! We just don't have any particularly poisonous ones in the UK. I've got a doodad that has foot long tube and a small extractor fan at the bottom, you suck up the spider and then throw it out. We only have problems with the really big ones that won't fit in the tube........... I may have a go on the sonic thingy, but what I've found most effective is checking the garden through the summer for nests and egg sacks and relocating them to the dump. |
