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are spiders bad for my house?
Ignoring the fact that they may bite me, will they cause damage to the home like termites do? No, they haven't invaded my home. I just seem them every now and then especially now in spring, and I wonder if they will cause any damage to the wood frames if I don't kill them soon enough? I spray those 'home defense' things around my house but it just doesn't get rid of it completely. What do you guys do for spider problems? |
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Spiders are carnivores. They wouldn't be there unless there was something
to eat. Leave them alone and let them rid your house of whatever it is that they are eating. wrote in message ... Ignoring the fact that they may bite me, will they cause damage to the home like termites do? No, they haven't invaded my home. I just seem them every now and then especially now in spring, and I wonder if they will cause any damage to the wood frames if I don't kill them soon enough? I spray those 'home defense' things around my house but it just doesn't get rid of it completely. What do you guys do for spider problems? |
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wrote in message ... On Tue, 10 May 2005 01:45:02 GMT, "toller" wrote: I have black widows all over the place and love them. They get pretty horny sometimes! |
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Generally, they do no harm except for scaring the daylights out of my
wife once in a while. FYI, we flea bombed once in another house we owned and we noticed that every bug (even spiders) disappeared for about 3 months after that. Be careful with poisons though, you live there too you know. |
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wrote in message ... wrote: The other day I shook a brown recluse out of a pair a pants I was about to put on. It was the first one I have ever seen and I hope it's the last. Brown Recluse spiders are *real* bad. I'd prefer multiple black widow bites to a Brown Recluse bite. I think that if I had your experience I'd seriously consider moving out of the house. Do you live in a part of the country where they are common? |
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wrote in message ... Ignoring the fact that they may bite me, will they cause damage to the home like termites do? No, they haven't invaded my home. I just seem them every now and then especially now in spring, and I wonder if they will cause any damage to the wood frames if I don't kill them soon enough? I spray those 'home defense' things around my house but it just doesn't get rid of it completely. What do you guys do for spider problems? call doc octopus and the green goblin? randy |
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I think spiders are to be observed and identified but generally ignored
otherwise. A rechargeable hand vac is OK for cosmetics. Spraying is just a waste of time as the spray has to be on the spiders legs to be effective and if you have it in your sights you might as well suck it up with a vac. Loxosceles Reclusa/brown recluse/fiddleback/violin spider is just awesome though. If I thought they were threatening me or my family I would think in terms of geography. wrote in message ... On Tue, 10 May 2005 19:58:01 -0700, "Blue" wrote: wrote in message ... wrote: The other day I shook a brown recluse out of a pair a pants I was about to put on. It was the first one I have ever seen and I hope it's the last. Brown Recluse spiders are *real* bad. I'd prefer multiple black widow bites to a Brown Recluse bite. I think that if I had your experience I'd seriously consider moving out of the house. Do you live in a part of the country where they are common? Very common I'm told, but seldom seen. They are called reclusive for a reason. This was the first one I ever saw, but I was pretty sure what it was. I bottled it and took it to a local college where it was positively IDed. I've seen pictures of the flesh damage a Brown Recluse bite can cause and it's nasty. |
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