laid down in bed, when suddenly...

[HMFIC]

You guys... don't you know that spiders kill and eat snakes? They are beneficial to the environment so leave them alone.

 

[IndVet]

I'm not scared of spiders in general, but fiddlebacks give me the heebie jeebies.

+1 on this.

Just a couple weeks ago I threw on a windbreaker (I hadn't worn in a while) to go for a motorcycle ride. When I got back I took the windbreaker off and something fell out of the sleeve. It was a dead fiddleback, still juicy though. Best I can guess is it was between the windbreaker and my T-shirt and the flapping of the loose jacket killed it.

Been shaking my jacket (excessively even) before every ride now.

 

[Clay]

Does that actually help out a bit? I talked to an exterminator once and they said that typically they don't spray for them, but use the glue traps, as the spray kills other insects and doesn't do much good for the spiders but give them extra dead insects to eat without having to catch them.

Seeing is believing. It works. I use Pymethrin insecticides bought at Lowes and they work. When I first bought this house new I had a LOT of brown recluse spiders and I called the exterminator. After talking with him extensively about the chemicals he used, he basically told me the EPA has regulated them to using the same chems that can be bought in any store. He was using Pymethrin and said it would kill a variety of pest including fiddle backs.
He said sunlight, heat and water break down the chemical in about 30 days so he said he sprays the base boards so mop water would not deactivae it. I spray as he said and all I see are dead spiders for the next 6-9 months. They dont make it 10' from the baseboard that they just walk on before they die in the middle of the room. Right now, I am behind on spraying and have seen 3-4 live healthy fiddlebacks in the last week. It will not stain carpet or woodwork and has no smell.

Here is some good info and I copied a piece of it.
http://www.whc.net/cdwr/download/Recluse.pdf
Adult spiders spend little time in direct contact with surfaces. Instead, they are found in or on webbing. Thorough applications of
fine particles of insecticides such as ULV, aerosols or fogs contact spiders in their webs causing quicker population reduction.
Use space sprays of pyrethrins or resmethrin for useful clean outs, especially attics and crawl spaces.

 

[travisstorma]

Thank you. I may go pick some up. I just checked one of my glue traps in attic and there are 3-4 large and probably 50 or so dime sized spiders on it. I hate the attic!

 

[Danny Tanner]

Danny, I don't have to deal with BRs, but I can feel your pain on the hair. Mine sheds an entire headful everyday and then somehow magically grows it all back at night.

Between meat in the garbage disposal and hair in the drains, I need a plumber on speed-dial.

My wife's hair is at least 3' long. She sheds all of it every day in the bathroom sink and it grows back new in the night.

Yeah, mine seems to shed like crazy, yet her hair is still as thick as ever. Our bathtub is behind our sink, so when my wife blow dries her hair, it flies back and collects in that bathtub. I find the stuff in my socks, boxers, my truck. It's every where. Once a month I have to break down the vacuum cleaner and clean the hair off the rollers.

It's ridiculous.

 

[Danny Tanner]

I've killed two in our closet at least 1 inch. I've never seen them that big. Warm winter to blame?



Haha, didn't you start a thread about that? That situation of yours sounds really familiar…

Sure did!

 

[shooterdave]

This year is definitely the year of the insect! While we have had the typical battle with spiders, we had had horrible problems with scorpions. My youngest has been stung 4 times in the past two months. No one else has been, though. I guess he is just a magnet for the little bastards. I finally sprayed with Tempo XL and that seems to have put the kibosh on them. It's no unusual now to find a dozen dead scorpions on the porch in the morning...

 

[been]

about a week ago i was typing on OSA when my eyes focused on something on the wall directly behind my computer. It was a Brown Recluse! So i spend 10 minutes trying to find a fly swatter and had no luck. I tried assassinating it with a shoe and failed. The spider fell and went back under my chester drawers were it probably lives peacfully with its large family ( 3 feet from my bed)...........five minutes later i find the fly swatter.

 

[flatwins]

Thanks to this thread I will be spraying this weekend. Death to bugs. Unless they want to help pay the mortgage they need to live elsewhere.

 

[rightside]

Got tired of swatting them and went the bug bomb route. Used six from Ace, closed everything down, turned off ac and all fans and left for a few hours. Haven't seen one since. Sprayed the entire yard and perimeter outside also. So far , so good.