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Old May 2, 2013 | 01:34 AM
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Arachnophobia

There is a big *** black widow living on my dent somewhere...webs always showing up and about a million dead spider skeletons tucked in all the nooks and crannies. I saw it once, it was curling its legs up under the sheetmetal hole for the tail lights, and it was a big one.

How do you get rid of spiders from the spots you cant get into to smash them?
 
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Old May 2, 2013 | 05:16 AM
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59 views and everybody is running away

"EVERYBODY MAKE HASTE!! EVERYBODY MAKE HASTE!!"
course, I couldn't think of anything funny to say when I was viewer #4
 
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Old May 2, 2013 | 05:24 AM
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brake parts cleaner and a lighter for when that little **** hides. you can fix wiring thats been burned, but you cant live with a black widow in your truck!
 
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Old May 2, 2013 | 08:36 AM
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Cover your truck and set off a bug bomb. Then clean thoroughly with a vacuum cleaner.

And just for fun, here's a nice big spider for you. I found this guy in the hills above Fremont CA. He was just crossing the dirt trail when I spotted him.

 
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Old May 2, 2013 | 09:37 AM
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Be Spider Free !

Here's a recipe for areas that get no or very little summer rain:
  • 1 cup lemon juice
  • 1 cup of tobacco juice (soak about six Skoal bandits in hot water for about an hour)
  • 1/2 cup of lemon scented dishwashing liquid
  • Mix thoroughly.
  • Pour into a hose-end sprayer like pictured below and spray your house, truck, the yard, fences, etc.
  • Let it dry.
Spiders taste with their feet and don't like the acid in lemons, the tobacco juice gives insects diarrhea, and the dishwashing liquid is a surfactant (to reduce surface tension). That way EVERYTHING gets coated so the concoction doesn't run off.

 
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Old May 2, 2013 | 09:52 AM
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Buy a new truck if you're going to be such a nancy.
 
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Old May 2, 2013 | 10:11 AM
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Seal off garage and bug bomb the s$&t out of it.
 
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Old May 2, 2013 | 10:31 AM
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Stab it with a stick!






Technically an unbent coat hanger would work too actually...
 
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carb cleaner + butane torch - common sense + nighttime = fun + dead spider
 
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x2 on the bug bomb in the cab, but if it is else where, plastic cover the whole truck and set off 2 or 3 underneath it.
 
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Old May 2, 2013 | 02:36 PM
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Agree with cover and bug bomb. Pressure wash and a size 14 boot? If all else fails, try blasting some Hank Sr from underneath....no six legged critter can stand that good ol' Nashville twang-twang....
 
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Old May 2, 2013 | 07:24 PM
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spider spray.....terro makes stuff that they hate.
 
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Old May 2, 2013 | 08:53 PM
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Gets some daddy long legs! Natural predator.

Pholcidae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
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Old May 2, 2013 | 10:10 PM
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Originally Posted by HIO Silver
Here's a recipe for areas that get no or very little summer rain:
  • 1 cup lemon juice
  • 1 cup of tobacco juice (soak about six Skoal bandits in hot water for about an hour)
  • 1/2 cup of lemon scented dishwashing liquid
  • Mix thoroughly.
  • Pour into a hose-end sprayer like pictured below and spray your house, truck, the yard, fences, etc.
  • Let it dry.
Spiders taste with their feet and don't like the acid in lemons, the tobacco juice gives insects diarrhea, and the dishwashing liquid is a surfactant (to reduce surface tension). That way EVERYTHING gets coated so the concoction doesn't run off.

Dude...your Ford and bug IQ are definitely off the charts! Very nice.
 
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Old Jul 25, 2013 | 01:53 PM
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so to bring this back up again...will it hurt anything to put a truck in the garage,open the doors and hood...close garage and set of 3-4 bug bombs? The truck I am getting is COVERED in black widows....DONT LIKE CRITTERS!
As in "Hurting anything" I mean by the electrical?
Thanks
 
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