January is about to get incredibly cold

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It will rid us of bugs that have survived that last couple of winters. Brown recluse spiders were terrible last spring due to the higher than normal temperatures.
Don't know how cold it would have to get to get rid of the brown reculse spiders. I do know that a couple of winters ago it got down to -24 at my house but I sure had plenty of spiders to survive in my barn. I would have to really be careful to not carry them in the house with my firewood.
 

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It will rid us of bugs that have survived that last couple of winters. Brown recluse spiders were terrible last spring due to the higher than normal temperatures.

Most insects live less than a year anyway, this springs hatch is already lying around in wait for the right temps.
 
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It will rid us of bugs that have survived that last couple of winters. Brown recluse spiders were terrible last spring due to the higher than normal temperatures.
Might help on the spiders but the ticks, chiggers, knats don't know what winter is. Spend a little time in Upper Michigan and you will see what a tickchigger problem is all about.
I think they burrow a little deeper into the ground? don't know but I do know cold winters doesn't get rid of some of them.
 
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Al Gore told you all to change the Freon in your cars and to replace those $1 light bulbs or we would have a disaster. Some of you did not listen and kept the old stuff. See what you did, you caused this whole global warming thing. Now with all the ice and snow that will come with this we will have disastrous flooding when it melts. It might even flood my dry pond, and the moles that have taken over the dry bottom will be displaced. There ought to be a law against that.
 

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I'll just be happy if they're right about the rain they say we're gonna get over the next couple days.

I am gonna go ahead and buy a little firewood though, cause I'm out and have been for a year. Never started it last year. Not once.
 

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