GRM solution, spiders in the dash

Dr. Hess wrote: I'd be happy to send you a collection of Brown Recluses, Joey. And you can come get the Black Widows out of my shed.

Bah. He said blue eyes. Maybe the mandibles? Either way not a recluse and not a widow. I have no problem dispatching deadly ones. But otherwise, I feel like it's a good idea to keep predators in the food chain.

I for one, welcome our spider overlords

Huckleberry wrote: Fill the car with geckos. One of them will find him.

Yup, either that or sell him insurance.

I'm good with spiders, for the most part. The black widows worry me, but I usually let them go.

Snakes on the other hand, are shot on sight. No matter where they are, including the few that find their way into the house every year. Hell, our last tractor before I hired a lawn guy had a holster mounted on the side for those we found mowing.

You know whats really berkeleying scary? Shooting a copperhead from 6ft away with .357 birdshot rounds and watching it not even flinch. Shotgun fixed it, but still, was not a fun time.

Plus-1 on the permethrin. Your local REI or some such outlet will have it in a spray bottle. Use gloves when you spray it. Wet permethrin is a skin irritant. Dry permethrin is inert to humans and the active ingredient in insect-repelling clothing.

In reply to RevRico: If you know your Snakes leave them alone, Not much prettier than a Copperhead but they sting like a MF, Brown reclusis spidies on the other hand Need to Die, My Smoker Grill seems to attract Black widows, when not in use, wierd. Rat snakes eat up the Food Copperheads are looking for and they will Leave without a food source.

My favorite is the black widows on the underside of a project car that are 3 inches from you face when you crawl under to do some work. They always seem to be gone by the time you get back with the brake clean.

At my place the scorpions way out number the black widows. I only get one black widow a month generally, but I can black light 2 to 8 scorpions any night of the week.

Buy a 25$ lizard from a pet store. Roll up those windows. Leave him be for a day without interruption. Worked for my dad.

Use compressed air to get him out and vacuum him up when he flees. That's what I did with a 450SEL I had that was infested with black widows.

My dislike of creatures not-human is in direct proportion to the harm they can inflict on me or my family.

Poisonous snakes and spiders? Berkeley that. Their non-poisonous cousins however are good friends of mine.

I work out in my 12x20 shed. I have mice and squirrels from time-to-time. I've decided to leave the spiders alone for the most part.

I was doing seated pull-downs (arms pulling bar down from above my head) and a very large spider jumped off the top and landed on my bare upper chest next to my chin. Was pretty helpless for a moment there.

Then had a bright green tree frog jump from who knows where onto my calf while using the same machine. That one made me jump, especially when I reached down and grabbed onto a cool, clammy frog that I didn't expect to be gripping my leg.

Where is this lat pull down machine? In the jungle?

yupididit wrote: Where is this lat pull down machine? In the jungle?

You'd think so. I've offed 7 mice, there's a red squirrel that likes to hang out, that tree frog I've seen hanging out (not just on my leg) and I had a spider, I'll have to Google it again that was so big, my training partner said he'd "burn down your entire berkeleying back yard before I work out there again!".

I still haven't identified the two rat-sized furry creatures scampering around.

They don't like Judas Priest as much as I do apparently.

Trackmouse wrote: Buy a 25$ lizard from a pet store. Roll up those windows. Leave him be for a day without interruption. Worked for my dad.

When I lived in a cruddy apartment in Daytona Beach whose doors didn't seal that well during college my room mate and I would chase in the Skinks to eat the cockroaches. You have to leave a bit of water out for them though.

Black widows are nocturnal, you want to hunt them with a flashlight at night. Brown recluse or a hobo spider is not to be tampered with

Copperheads are nasty. My wife got bitten by one when we lived in Texas. Took her a couple years to get over it, and she still is not 100%. Thought she might have to get that foot taken off for a while. My stupid neighbor had rats in her garage because she kept the food for her rat sized dogs out there. Killed a couple copperheads inside her house

Just a brief update, caught the little terrorist sunning himself on the door today. I quickly dispatched him with a rubber soled shoe (my flame thrower was out of reach) and left his steaming carcass in the driveway as a warning to his friends.

ebonyandivory wrote:

yupididit wrote: Where is this lat pull down machine? In the jungle?

You'd think so. I've offed 7 mice, there's a red squirrel that likes to hang out, that tree frog I've seen hanging out (not just on my leg) and I had a spider, I'll have to Google it again that was so big, my training partner said he'd "burn down your entire berkeleying back yard before I work out there again!". I still haven't identified the two rat-sized furry creatures scampering around. They don't like Judas Priest as much as I do apparently.

Critter Gym lol

ebonyandivory wrote: I still haven't identified the two rat-sized furry creatures scampering around. They don't like Judas Priest as much as I do apparently.

Maybe try some Dean Martin or Sammy Davis Jr.?

In reply to Pete Gossett:

I actually get that! Good one!

I bet my friend doesn't have spiders in his dash...

Just so you know it's not just me: Arachnid overlords cause vehicular carnage

Spiders, if it is the car in the garage then I just roll down the windows and fog the whole garage. Gets rid of them. As for cars parked outside, I lightly fog the inside with windows rolled up and leave it overnight then open the windows to air out the next day. Snakes, oh no. I would have to kill it with fire and buy a new car. Haven't had that happen yet.
Have had a mouse come out the defrost vent on my Opel GT while driving it. It scurried across the dash and into the cubby and on to behind the center console. Quite exciting while driving the car and wearing shorts. I set several traps and got the sucker and then put moth balls and rat poison tucked inside nooks and crannies so it won't happen again. Also put 3 plug in mouse/rat ultrasonic diversion things on 3 walls of the garage. Haven't had a mouse since. Hopefully.

Kramer wrote: I bet my friend doesn't have spiders in his dash...

I'd roll the car.

Full on action movie style, jumping out that door at 60+ and let the car go where it wants

Huckleberry wrote: Fill the car with birds. One of them will find him.

FTFY. See:

She swallowed the spider to catch the fly (I don't know why she swallowed the fly, perhaps she'll die)

She swallowed the bird to catch the spider (That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her). She swallowed the spider to catch the fly. I don't know why she swallowed the fly...

I generally just smash spiders barehanded (especially the babies on little strings that are everywhere ) I had some giant hissing cockroaches as pets for a few years... Way less messy to squish than even biggish spiders. I think only the female spider bite is semi dangerous to infants and elderly (in the US anyways). Google search for hissers and size reference