Spiders invading my car

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. :smiley:

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

https://www.amazon.com/Sawyer-Premium-Permethrin-Repellant-Clothing/dp/B00GLZICXU/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1497638753&sr=8-5&keywords=sawyer+permethrin

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.

when i moved into my old, old, big, big HOUSE nearly 20 years ago? It had been taken over by spiders and mice and rats. The mice and rats, while an annoyance? caused me no fear. The spiders? Erm…

you wold have to understand? There were webs on WEBS in the basement, the end result of some kind of sick spider breeding program left go under the radar for far too long… all 3 full basements of this house were covered and inundated… the spiders marched around the house like they owned it, which they kind of did.

i TRIED the sprays? i sprayed “ten times as much” as was safe on the package? STILL wasnt killing them, it was just p!$$ing them off. I tried the bug bombs? I bought eh most expensive and biggest, and put one in each and every room… ran outside? to watch the stream from each one harmlessly going RIGHT for the old windows, doing “nothing”.

the over used sprays? burned my eyes and nose RAW and the spiders were still alive. it was worse on me than it was on them…

I knew what had to be done. I had to go, and CARRY the fight into the very HEART of the enemy’s lair itself, and squish and stomp them MANUALLY.

I put a hoodie on? and taped gloves to the wrists of the hoodie. i taped the hoodie to the jeans, and the jeans to the workboots… i pull the big hoodie into a small opening for my face, and goggles over the little of my eyes and nose showing… I was ready.

my (ex)wife is standing there looking at me like i am nuts, but, when i offered HER to go in? she declined… riiiight. I got all worked up and charged in… killed a bunch of webs and spiders, couple “runs” worth of heavily coated floorboards… and ran OUT screaming like a girl scout…

“get em offf! get em OFFFFFFF!!!”

and the ex wife wiped them off… wiped me off… I went back in for a few minutes, and cam running out again… “get em offff!!!”

she said ” uh, theres none ON you, dear…”

“get em off ANYWAYS!!! get em off anyways!!!”

(she wiped off imaginary spiders all over me that didnt exist… so i could go back in, yelling at the spiders, laughing like a maniac…)

=

so, going to extremes? I WON… well sort of. True, i only had to kill a few stray spiders for a little while, then i saw NONE, yes technically i had “won”. But, what have i won?

i was now over run by crickets (not scary, fun at first but…. annoying) and over-run by these little damp bugs? that looked like false centipedes. they vary in size from tiny to gigantic…

the CURE was worse then the DISEASE…

my enemy’s enemy? is my friend… i made peace with a FEW spiders. they will not leave a web, so, a few webs are allowed to exist in a few places. After 20 years of “work”? I am able to handle a FEW small spiders, not most of them, mind you, but… i impressed a few friends showing off how i can pick some of them up (not many)

i have NOW decided? conquering all fears? is impossible… i now allow myself ONE rational fear… spiders.

We’re all humanary stew,

IF
We don’t pledge allegiance to….

The Black Widow!!! :wink:

I’m happy I live in Sweden with NO toxic spiders.

The only way to be sure is to nuke it from orbit.

hmmm…do they tent cars?

a few years ago, I had to get a couple excisions, first about a dime, next about a quarter before all the spider mouthparts???
were removed and quit festering on my buttocks

guess I smashed his ass on mine as he was chowing down on prime butt roast

Ziggy played guitar….
Still one of my fave albums :slight_smile:

A friends leg essentially rotted down to skin, muscle, and bone after a brown recluse bite. Not much worries me but those do. Black Widows are less common but more well known- go figure :stuck_out_tongue: I’m not a fan of spiders but I tolerate the non-poisonous ones since they eat gnats and mosquitoes. The enemy of my enemy is my friend :sunglasses:

Phil