ever been bitten by a brown Recluse?
I have. It SUCKS!!!
But…if I HAD to choose between a brown or black widow bite OR…standing next to an exploding vehicle OR fighting a grizzly bear….well I think there’s a rational choice there IF one HAD too.
Donate those cars and have the companies tow them away for you!!!
Spoken like a true “person from California” :partying_face:
That might be a viable option with your cars…mine…not so much lol
I’m on board with the fire idea. Conflagration is your only hope.
I’ve not heard of a Brown Widow before… Here, we only have Black Widows and Brown Recluse spiders. The Black Widow spiders aren’t as bad because they tend to stay out of the way in dark/damp places, like under the water meter lid. They are easy enough to spot and kill. The Brown Recluse are a lot more invasive though. They like to come inside the house and hide in places like under the bed, under piles of laundry, and under furniture.
Yea I know the feeling I get redbacks on my car and in the shed I think it’s from the grass its common for my area. I have seen funnelwebs in the yard I hope that is where they stay.
You guys in Australia have to deal with the heart-attack-inducing Orb Weavers though. Need a pocket flame thrower to deal with that.
If you have leather seats do not use the bomb and do not get any insecticide of any type on them. (unless of sourse it says safe for car interiors) The leather seats will rapidly deteriorate from the acids in the insect treatment.
I made this mistake once to rid my car of ants, spraying ortho home defense insecticide on the leather seats (and other surfaces), and within a short few months both seats went from perfect condition to badly split and damaged! Even though I wiped it off after application, the insecticide ate through the leather in an unbelievable fashion. It was a huge mistake!
We have those brown widows, black widows and brown recluses here. They leave a nasty bite. Especially if your more effected by their poison then others. There was a case where a kid got bitten and the hospital couldn’t do much. The father heard of a experimental antivenpm that mexico had developed. The hospital said they will not administer anything not approved by the fda. The company inexicp would meet the father at the airport and the risk the smuggle it back in was on him. So he flew there picked it up and couple hours later back into the us. Passed a couple customs officers questions about why he flew there and straight back with no time of visit. Gets back on the road. Hospital still refuses to use it. The doctor said get the kid into my office. They had to remove the kid from the hospital go into a doctors office to administer the medicine and it worked. Apparently black widows aew a huge problem in mexico.
The really messed up thing about it all is the us has a law. If they don’t have the medicine or treatment here you are allowed to import it abroad. I guess being expirmental was the issue. But the kid had a deadly reaction from it. He was going to die with out it. Most bites arnt to bad. Some fester and get infected. But some people it can be a life or death thing. I have no idea if the USA ever got the antivebom in its inventory now or not. This was several years ago. There was a show/documentary on this families experience
I use Baygon Spray, green tube
Beware. Read intructions printed on the tube
The French would surrender. As is customary.
Were those spiders from Mars?
Yea spiders are okay. I just love walking on the headland and seeing brown and red-bellied black snakes. They seem more scary then spiders lol.
Australia is weird I am away fishing now and I see more random stuff in my area then here 150kms away from Sydney. I went for a walk in a national park nothing. I go fishing here nothing amazing no sharks but I did see small sized salmon close to shore they where about 60cm. Yes we do have kangaroos here on the streets lol oh and possums in the trees stalking me.
One place I fish here and there it’s a hike about 500km drive but even of the jetty you can see baby sharks and stingrays it’s cool.
I vacuum insects with portable cleaner.
The best solution.
Ever.
Until you have to empty it. 
Permethrin is an arichmicide and will take care of the problem. Understand use it to kill ticks. It can be bought in a spray can format. It can also be bought in concentrated form.
Sporting goods stores like Cabelas, BassPro, or Dicks Sporting Goods Cary it. You can also get it at Home Depot and maybe Lowes.
Bob
vacuum cleaner, and air pressure hose.
DEMON WP....(wettable powder) Cypermethrin 40% Other Ingredients 60%
I use it for scorpions and yes...spiders. Available from Amazon. I just re-stocked. Less than $10 for four packets. Each pack makes a gallon of spray. Takes two packs for Arachnads. And Ohhh. IT WORKS !!
dang these look nasty, wiki tlls me the bite is less harmfull then the black widow and it is pushing away the black ones
We have these red insects
They group in the sun and on the grape and linden trees
this year I had enough (birds leave them alone) and use an old vaccuum (also good for water so a nice big - bag free - container where it all ends up)
they turn to dust for little stones make their way into it as well.
last year big red spots on the trees, this year a few, acceptable
But they run away from the hose and mabe spiders are too fast.
I’m not a Buddhist or anything but I tend to just leave creatures alone, in the main. I’m actively trying to teach my wee’n not to be scared of spiders (well, our local spiders won’t do much harm) and also trying to make sure she has a respectful but unafraid attitude towards bees and stuff. In terms of arachnicide / insecticide, why not use some Diatomaceous Earth ? It’s cheap and natural and will also repel as well as kill them.
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Totally with you bro. Live and let live is my general motto. But that changes when I need to repair my car, and one of those creatures is up where I will be reaching my arm. Exception to the rule.