Spiders... yuck
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Spiders... yuck
Hello everyone...
I haven't posted in a while... anyways, here's my, well not exactly my, predicament:
My sister moved to the Seattle-area in Washington this summer and has an apartment over there. Her apartment has HUGE spiders in it, and they're freaking her out. She saw one of them out of the corner of her eye and thought it was a mouse because it was so big! We're not sure what kind they are.. but she's having some bad<!sh**ty> luck lately and I want to help her out.
Does anybody know something that will kill the spiders and/or drive them out of her apartment? I don't think she wants to bomb it.. she doesn't really have anywhere else to stay.. do those electronic squealy things work? Well.. I'd appreciate any solutions you could come up with, Thanks!
I haven't posted in a while... anyways, here's my, well not exactly my, predicament:
My sister moved to the Seattle-area in Washington this summer and has an apartment over there. Her apartment has HUGE spiders in it, and they're freaking her out. She saw one of them out of the corner of her eye and thought it was a mouse because it was so big! We're not sure what kind they are.. but she's having some bad<!sh**ty> luck lately and I want to help her out.
Does anybody know something that will kill the spiders and/or drive them out of her apartment? I don't think she wants to bomb it.. she doesn't really have anywhere else to stay.. do those electronic squealy things work? Well.. I'd appreciate any solutions you could come up with, Thanks!
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From: The hills of No. Calif.
Had a thread about this last month, here's the link: https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/s...light=Spiders+
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If you remove as many spiders as you can, WITHOUT squashing them (squashing them leaves a signal to the rest that that position is open...) then clean the areas that the spiders like with lysol, you will drive the remainder away. If you do squash one, immediately clean the location with lysol. It will take about 3 days to get rid of all of them.
BIG spiders in the US are completely harmless - they are either common Gardern spiders, or of the Megliomorph family. Both can get to enormous proportions, and neither have prominent teeth, so the DO NOT BITE. If you use those electronic things, you will have no success at all - spiders are not freaked out by ultra sonics, despite the manufacturer's claims...
BIG spiders in the US are completely harmless - they are either common Gardern spiders, or of the Megliomorph family. Both can get to enormous proportions, and neither have prominent teeth, so the DO NOT BITE. If you use those electronic things, you will have no success at all - spiders are not freaked out by ultra sonics, despite the manufacturer's claims...
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From: Rosebud
I moved into a house that was infested with tarantulas once.I found several large dead "parent" spiders after the exterminator had at them,but a few weeks later I started finding live babies(witch are not small either) and after a few weeks of laying awake at night stairing at the overhead heater vents wondering just how many were about to jump on me,and sleeping with the lights on and nothing but white sheets so I could spot them,I finaly just moved out. There was s study about spiders that concluded,unless your in a hospital or other steral enviroment,at no time are you ever more then three feet from a spider of one kind or another.
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Catch one of the little sob's and post his head on a toothpick in the middle of the room. That'll catch the other's attention. 
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It's a rental so have her tell the landloard to correct the problem. I had to live in that area once; those brown spiders can be a nusance over there. BTW, they will bite, but usually that happens when you are sleeping. You roll your arm onto one unknowingly, and the next morning there is a nice big bump that lasts a few days. Don't panic, they are not poisonous.
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brown recluses? don't they have a nasty bite wich needs medical help. We have them here in WI. The story here is that if one bites you and if nothing is done about it the area will have to be cut out. Fact or fiction?
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Originally Posted by themoonshineboy
brown recluses? don't they have a nasty bite wich needs medical help. We have them here in WI. The story here is that if one bites you and if nothing is done about it the area will have to be cut out. Fact or fiction?
Ok I can now feel calm under my truck next to the big wood pile. As for the UFOs here in WI I'll ask them to use there tracktor beam to lift my truck while I put the shift kit in.
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From: The hills of No. Calif.
Originally Posted by fn250
Catch one of the little sob's and post his head on a toothpick in the middle of the room. That'll catch the other's attention.
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From: Baileyton, TN
The average spider consumes 10,000 times it's own weight in one year. Dispose of all the spiders, and you ahve a plague of other insects so massive, that health problems for all vertibrates would ensue.
Spiders are beneficial, even the ever so nasty ones, that bite.
Spiders are beneficial, even the ever so nasty ones, that bite.
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From: Moundridge, Kansas
We had an exterminator come to our house to get rid of spiders and we just had to be gone while he did it aso we didn't get into each others way and we could come right back to the house as soon as he was done and we diddn't have to cover any thing the stuff he sprayed with was not harmful to humans.
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