LightPhoenix
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You could also use Windex or whatever local brand - I've found the ammonia in the solution messes up a lot of bugs. It's great for killing flies - the ammonia takes out their wings, then you just crush them.
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(OT) I'm being hunted by a spider.
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Anime Kidd
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Now I haven't finished reading through this, but I got one thing to say:
Post a warning before you put up an pic! Jeez!!!
Just scare all of us half to death!
That is a damn freaky spider in those pics GILGAMESH. Scared the "poo" out of me. Hate spiders as well, but I try to capture them and fling out yonder. Of course we don't have many big spiders like that around here. I'd say a military-grade flamethrower might do the trick or if that ain't around, a nice handy can of flammable spray and a lighter.
Or ou can use that paintballgun. Possibly with some sort of scope to help with accuracy.
Strangely enough, I have read a few tales of this sort of thing happening on the net; "Boy meets spider, spiders outwits boy, boy fears for life" type stories. Maybe they are planning a takeover?
Post a warning before you put up an pic! Jeez!!!
Just scare all of us half to death!
That is a damn freaky spider in those pics GILGAMESH. Scared the "poo" out of me. Hate spiders as well, but I try to capture them and fling out yonder. Of course we don't have many big spiders like that around here. I'd say a military-grade flamethrower might do the trick or if that ain't around, a nice handy can of flammable spray and a lighter.
Or ou can use that paintballgun. Possibly with some sort of scope to help with accuracy.Strangely enough, I have read a few tales of this sort of thing happening on the net; "Boy meets spider, spiders outwits boy, boy fears for life" type stories. Maybe they are planning a takeover?
ASH
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I live in Iowa.. Its a wolf spider, or some off breed of it. I have seen a few different colors and sizes of these things, they are almost always hairy, but I have seen a black one before. It probably will not hurt you, but they are creepy and if its truely that big..I would not want it in my house either...I grew up on a pig farm and there were always a bunch of wolf spiders in the barn and pig unit. They are ruthless hunters, I have seen them hunt before and its very much like a wolf hunting its prey. Creepy...
Brown Recluse spiders are not the kind to come out in to the open. They usually hide from you, somtimes in shoes and behind waterheaters and such. They are not very common in the midwest, although they are found here, and I dont know if i have ever heard of one that big. The posion from a brown recluse can be known to cause skin and muslcle to become paralized and decay. I had a girl that I knew from college that wore a cast for 12 weeks because she had a tiny bit on her leg that was not treated for the first 24hrs.
To kill spiders and pretty much anything else in your home get cockroach spray. Cockroaches can with-stand a nuclear attack, so if you find something that garuntee's to kill them, it will kill a spider with out a problem. To be safe, I always put a shoe on my hand, spray and smoosh...
But thats only for the icky spiders, they do kill other bugs..
I dont mind spiders as long as they dont crawl on me, I HATE centipieds.. I HATE bee's, wasps and hornets...
Centipieds i can kill, IF i have too...
If I see a bee, wasp or hornet I run screaming.. My husband thinks its cute...
Unfortunetly, he hates centipieds as much as me..thank god we now live in an apartment that has the orkin man come every three months no matter what.
Brown Recluse spiders are not the kind to come out in to the open. They usually hide from you, somtimes in shoes and behind waterheaters and such. They are not very common in the midwest, although they are found here, and I dont know if i have ever heard of one that big. The posion from a brown recluse can be known to cause skin and muslcle to become paralized and decay. I had a girl that I knew from college that wore a cast for 12 weeks because she had a tiny bit on her leg that was not treated for the first 24hrs.
To kill spiders and pretty much anything else in your home get cockroach spray. Cockroaches can with-stand a nuclear attack, so if you find something that garuntee's to kill them, it will kill a spider with out a problem. To be safe, I always put a shoe on my hand, spray and smoosh...
But thats only for the icky spiders, they do kill other bugs..
I dont mind spiders as long as they dont crawl on me, I HATE centipieds.. I HATE bee's, wasps and hornets...
Centipieds i can kill, IF i have too...
If I see a bee, wasp or hornet I run screaming.. My husband thinks its cute...
Unfortunetly, he hates centipieds as much as me..thank god we now live in an apartment that has the orkin man come every three months no matter what.
MerakSpielman
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I honestly think most spiders are cute, especially the fuzzy ones. I had a pet tarantula as a kid.
Only spiders I can't stand are black widows. They're extremely common here in Albuquerque. I cleared out a junk pile from my inlaws back yard and musta killed twenty of the little buggers.
Remember, spiders are predators. They will not live someplace where there is not a regular supply of prey. If you have spiders, you have something else too, even if you never see them.
A friend of mine on the edge of town had scorpions in his house. They didn't bother him - he left them alone, they left him alone. He finally had to get rid of them when he asked a woman out. Her two requirements for dating him were: 1) get a maid; and 2) get an exterminator. They're married now.
Only spiders I can't stand are black widows. They're extremely common here in Albuquerque. I cleared out a junk pile from my inlaws back yard and musta killed twenty of the little buggers.
Remember, spiders are predators. They will not live someplace where there is not a regular supply of prey. If you have spiders, you have something else too, even if you never see them.
A friend of mine on the edge of town had scorpions in his house. They didn't bother him - he left them alone, they left him alone. He finally had to get rid of them when he asked a woman out. Her two requirements for dating him were: 1) get a maid; and 2) get an exterminator. They're married now.
Ashrem Bayle
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Pielorinho said:
LOL! That'd make a good quote.
Creamsteak
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I'm glad you find my fear so entertaining...Arravis said:
jgbrowning
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Renshai said:
http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2061.html
Here's a brown recluse page. I accidently killed a spider yesterday because I thought it was a brown recluse. Case of misidenity for the poor spider.
joe b.
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