[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Brown Recluse Control (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 6/18/2013 4:20:00 PM EDT
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I found a Brown Recluse in the garage tonight. I had taken the truck to the shop last Friday and removed a bunch of stuff including a tarp from the bed toolbox. I had the stuff in my garage and when I picked up the tarp to put it back Mr. BC came rolling out. He is now flat after I screamed like a girl, danced around the garage and smashed him.
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Quoted: I found a Brown Recluse in the garage tonight. I had taken the truck to the shop last Friday and removed a bunch of stuff including a tarp from the bed toolbox. I had the stuff in my garage and when I picked up the tarp to put it back Mr. BC came rolling out. He is now flat after I screamed like a girl, danced around the garage and smashed him. Any ideas on pesticides etc. to kill these things? Fire.....Kill it with. |
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Jumping spiders eat em up and leave you alone. They are your friends!
Sticky paper traps, eliminate clutter. Clean and sweep behind headboards, closet furni, and under dressers, entertainment centers, etc. These things are really the only things you can do. We get em around here, and we have small kids. I'm religious about clutter removal and do a good cleaning every week under everything. They shy away from activity, so if you fuck with hiding places, they go elsewhere. Foggers and poisons are useless. |
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jumping spiders. theyre harmless and will eat recluses and widows. 
Phidippus audax, If spiders carried a wallet, his would say Bad Motherfucker. They're actually pretty personable and curious too, you can handle them without getting bit once they get used to the idea. Their bite is about like a mosquito's bite. |
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Thanks guys! We do have jumping spiders, I killed them too in the past, guess I'll cut that out. Stay away from the poisons, then (they'll kill the beneficial spiders, too), and buy more jumping spiders. __________________________________________________________________ Cross-platform gun database/electronic bound book (v1.3.2) (and the original thread). «nolite confidere in principibus, in filiis hominum quibus non est salus» |
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jumping spiders. theyre harmless and will eat recluses and widows. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Kaldari_Phidippus_audax_01.jpg/250px-Kaldari_Phidippus_audax_01.jpg Phidippus audax, If spiders carried a wallet, his would say Bad Motherfucker. They're actually pretty personable and curious too, you can handle them without getting bit once they get used to the idea. Their bite is about like a mosquito's bite. I name them all Leonardo and welcome their presence in the house. |
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jumping spiders. theyre harmless and will eat recluses and widows. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Kaldari_Phidippus_audax_01.jpg/250px-Kaldari_Phidippus_audax_01.jpg Phidippus audax, If spiders carried a wallet, his would say Bad Motherfucker. They're actually pretty personable and curious too, you can handle them without getting bit once they get used to the idea. Their bite is about like a mosquito's bite. I caught one of these guys at work yesterday. Brought him home in an empty water bottle and turned him loose in the garage. 
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In USMC SOI I was bit by a brown recluse on the wrist... but i waited until our ambush drill was over before telling the corpman... he thought i was full of shit until he found it walking around where i had been lying in wait...
He took a knife and slit the bite and told me to let it bleed. It swelled up a little, and hurt like hell, but i never got a lession like other bites i've seen pictures of. |
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Quoted: In USMC SOI I was bit by a brown recluse on the wrist... but i waited until our ambush drill was over before telling the corpman... he thought i was full of shit until he found it walking around where i had been lying in wait... He took a knife and slit the bite and told me to let it bleed. It swelled up a little, and hurt like hell, but i never got a lession like other bites i've seen pictures of. That's not something to fuck around with. Some of the google pics show lesions that look bigger than a 30-06 exit wound.  |
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I totally agree wth this and we keep one on two windows right now, they catch flies and mind theor own business Quoted:
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jumping spiders. theyre harmless and will eat recluses and widows. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Kaldari_Phidippus_audax_01.jpg/250px-Kaldari_Phidippus_audax_01.jpg Phidippus audax, If spiders carried a wallet, his would say Bad Motherfucker. They're actually pretty personable and curious too, you can handle them without getting bit once they get used to the idea. Their bite is about like a mosquito's bite. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Foggers and poisons are useless. Supposedly this is because unlike most spiders Brown Recluses do not clean themselves, so any poison just sits on their exoskeleton. I heard this about scorpions, yet I find them and recluses dead due to my cypermethrin kill zones. |
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I found a Brown Recluse in the garage tonight. I had taken the truck to the shop last Friday and removed a bunch of stuff including a tarp from the bed toolbox. I had the stuff in my garage and when I picked up the tarp to put it back Mr. BC came rolling out. He is now flat after I screamed like a girl, danced around the garage and smashed him. Any ideas on pesticides etc. to kill these things? Find some Phidippus Audax Spiders, jumping spiders, the little fuzzy ninja like ones, they love nothing more than hunting and killing Brown Recluse spiders. Game On! 
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Buy a lot of jumping spiders. Set them free in your house and garage. Let the battle begin. Do jumping spiders hunt and kill other jumping spiders? The pest control aspect is cool, but I don't want to spend the money if they are gonna go all highlander on eachother |
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Temprid SC. I use this a lot, and it is good indoors and outdoors. It is very good. It is a factory mix of 2 insecticides that were each good alone- Premise and Tempo. They are better in combination. 6ml in a gallon of water is perfect. |
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Apparently, that's some kind of spider resale shop. I've got half a mind to sell them some recluses from under my house. For $9 a pop, that's like a fucking gold mine. Hell, they're selling Rabid Wolf Spiders, which I could probably get 50 of in a few minutes. $9? Are these people high? |
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I found a Brown Recluse in the garage tonight. I had taken the truck to the shop last Friday and removed a bunch of stuff including a tarp from the bed toolbox. I had the stuff in my garage and when I picked up the tarp to put it back Mr. BC came rolling out. He is now flat after I screamed like a girl, danced around the garage and smashed him. Any ideas on pesticides etc. to kill these things? Our house is surrounded by Jumping Spiders, and those things murder the fuck out of Brown Recluses. They're also harmless to people and pets, and hilarious to watch. For some strange reason, the jumpers refuse to come inside the house or garage. It's weird. Wolf spiders do come inside, and I leave them alone too. Another bug we have around here that loves to eat BR's is the house centipede. Looks creepy as hell, but like jumpers is harmless to people and helps take out the bad spiders. They too, seem to avoid the garage for whatever strange reason. We get small numbers of BR's trying to move into the garage each spring. I used to just track them down by going into the garage at night with a flashlight and squashing them before they could hide. Usually would get three or four young ones, maybe a couple older ones and then never see any again. This year I tried using diatomaceous earth. Bought a 10lb bag from Amazon and scattered it around the edges in the garage. So far it seems to be working, found some BR's dead with a faint layer of white dust on them. |
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There really is only ONE way to ride yourself of the spider.
ELIMINATE its sources of food... IE other insects. Clean stuff up/out. Bugs move out spiders follow. Spray til your blue in the face sick and broke. Not going to work long term until the food is gone. |
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I appreciate the advice, but it is summer in the South, the only way to eliminate bugs is to move the house!! I'm going to try to relocate any jumpers I find.
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There really is only ONE way to ride yourself of the spider. ELIMINATE its sources of food... IE other insects. Clean stuff up/out. Bugs move out spiders follow. Spray til your blue in the face sick and broke. Not going to work long term until the food is gone. |
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Buy a lot of jumping spiders. Set them free in your house and garage. Let the battle begin. Do jumping spiders hunt and kill other jumping spiders? The pest control aspect is cool, but I don't want to spend the money if they are gonna go all highlander on eachother You bet your ass they do! Don't ever put two in the same container, or very shortly you will have one happily eating the other. |
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Well you just need a bunch of these around your house! They eat spiders. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EFO0ccULTAs/S7T5F_q9BWI/AAAAAAAAAF4/6fH_XdvrAXg/s1600/housecentipede.jpg Yep, that'll make the situation better. Bunch of those. My little sister was absolutely terrified of those damned things when she was a kid. She used to call me into her room to kill them, and I hated them almost as much as she did. I never knew that they preyed on spiders. Our old stone house in PA had a shit-load of them. |