That stuff is amazing! When I was in college my crappy urban apartment had roaches ... I had to keep all of my plates/pots and pans and silverware in the fridge with the food it was so bad...my dad put that stuff down and it made a HUGE Difference!!
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That stuff is amazing! When I was in college my crappy urban apartment had roaches ... I had to keep all of my plates/pots and pans and silverware in the fridge with the food it was so bad...my dad put that stuff down and it made a HUGE Difference!!
I lived in a house once that was infected with spiders, I vacumed up thousands of them then just threw the vacume cleaner bag away... don't think that would work all that well these days with my bagless....lol
My mom did the vacum thing with a bat one time...man she should have just let me grab it .....mmmmmmm
My mom did the vacum thing with a bat one time...man she should have just let me grab it .....mmmmmmm
Sorry Whiskey, I'm with you mom on that one
Hi Stover how goes the home improvement fun????
We've got tons done in the past 2 weeks. All that's left is to finish out the bedrooms, hallway and master bath................I'm so ready for a vacation! Thanks for asking
Glad to hear you got them under control!! I was scratching for you all the way up HERE!! (shudder).
That's my rule too..they're FINE if they stay OUTSIDE, but one hairy leg crosses MY threshold, they're game.
I DO hate having to kill them outside, but they're all OVER the fence we put up so Piper could go out at night for a quick run to relieve herself and if SHE doesn't like them, there's too many for my liking.
That's my rule too..they're FINE if they stay OUTSIDE, but one hairy leg crosses MY threshold, they're game.
I DO hate having to kill them outside, but they're all OVER the fence we put up so Piper could go out at night for a quick run to relieve herself and if SHE doesn't like them, there's too many for my liking.
I hate spiders!!! Especially the "tree scorpions" here in pine country!! those lil buggers hurt!!!
Your friendly, neighborhood horticulturist here...
DE is great stuff, with a couple of cautions.
Most important, because it is so microscopically (sp?) sharp, it will do the same thing to your lungs that it does to insects... shred them. So wear a mask, and pour it, rather than trying to spray it out, whenever you can.
That said, it is really good for soft bodied insects. Slugs in the garden, for instance, will crawl across a line of it and get their little tummies shredded, and dehydrate and die. That's what I use it for... poured on the ground around my hostas.
When I am trying to kill insects indoors, I always try to find a pheromone trap for the particular insect. They make them for spiders, I know. I use a different pheromone trap in my pantry to deal with meal moths that come home in boxes of stuff from the grocery store.
You can just google for pheromone trap and the kind of insect you have, and you will find lots of them.
Gosh! I live in central NY state, so we don't really have any dangerous spiders...unless they're imported! They used to freak me out until we had a beautiful garden spider, living near our deck, that I really liked. Now I just put them outside if the bother me. I feel bad about killing anything....except fleas, ticks and mosquitoes! I have no mercy for the wee bloodsuckers.
Hugs,
Lyn
Hugs,
Lyn
Lyn, Welcome to the Women's Room! I agree about setting them free..but the dratted things would rather be inside with us! It's cooler in here.
Thanks for the welcome, Mary Kay!
I don't really know how I'd feel about brown recluse spiders in my home! Luckily, they're not much of a threat here.
I think a lot of people confuse harmless common house spiders with hobo spiders because they look so much alike. In fact, they look so much alike even experts can have a difficult time knowing which is which! Strangely enough, common house spiders keep the hobo spider population down, so if you kill them off you're more likely to have hobo spiders!
Anyway, I hope everyone gets their spider issues dealt with. I try to keep in mind that they have a lot more to fear from me than me of them.
Hugs,
Lyn
I don't really know how I'd feel about brown recluse spiders in my home! Luckily, they're not much of a threat here.
I think a lot of people confuse harmless common house spiders with hobo spiders because they look so much alike. In fact, they look so much alike even experts can have a difficult time knowing which is which! Strangely enough, common house spiders keep the hobo spider population down, so if you kill them off you're more likely to have hobo spiders!
Anyway, I hope everyone gets their spider issues dealt with. I try to keep in mind that they have a lot more to fear from me than me of them.
Hugs,
Lyn
No more spider threads! I was in the kichen/dining room this mornig having my coffee when I felt a tickle. I absentmindedly brushed at it. A few seconds later a dinner plate size..ok ok it was only silver dollar size brown fat spider was sitting on my hand! I eeked..a lot and flipped my hand in the air. It's gone..my heart is still thudding and I didn't see where it went! 
I am in the family room for the duration!
I am in the family room for the duration!
I had a customer come in today with a red spider about the size of a quarter. I was actually able to knock it off his arm. (I freeze up) He mushed it on the floor. Ugh, nasty, nasty, eeeeeeeeeee.
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