Tarantulas. You like 'em, come get 'em

[daveshoot]

Got another one last night. Got home late, and it was waiting for me at the base of the front door. That makes 5 for the little girl's shovel, and one for my metal shears.

 

[Wagtail]

Nope, not gonna help! LOL

Ah, c'mon... ya gotta love the thought of them wearing a little top hat!

 

[Sinecure]

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I first learned about the product from a neighbor who would dilute the product in water and wash his dogs with it. I now also do this in addition to spraying it around the foundation of my home every 30/45 days. It will kill on contact and also deter future pest intrusions. I have also started to use it on the railings/deck of my rural property (we had major spider issues) - works great.

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[bzimmel]

I've heard of the brown recluse... nasty things. We've got White Tip Wolf spiders which are similar in colouring to the Huntsman but smaller.

It took me many years to finally get comfortable with the Huntsman spider. They're actually a pest-controlling, friendly to humans, BIG HAIRY spider. OK, maybe I'm still not all that comfortable with them, but I no longer kill them on sight.

This cartoon helped a lot:

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We have brown recluse, too. But they look nothing like a tarantula. Brown recluse are MUCH smaller and don't have the "hairy" feature of a tarantula. We also have black widows. Nasty little things, but the brown recluse does more damage if you're bitten.

 

[Car Doc]

Bizimmel, Take a look at Wagtails pic on pg1 of that big old Huntsman spider and look at this...and compare to that pic look similar? Yikes gives me the creeps dont know about anybody else. Granted its not a tarantula but a spider that big is pretty scary.

 

[rswyan]

You might try using diatomaceous earth ...

 

[Wagtail]

They aren't controlling beans except the wife.

She is ready to shoot blindly into the ceiling with a Big Gun and that would not be very Kalifornian, although she is a native. I was thinking there would be a kindler, gentler way, like flamethrowers or cyanide.

I went to the really good local hardware that knows everything. The old guy there that knows everything about everything, who can tell you how to do every little repair and kill every little weed, reacted incredulously. "Tarantulas! I'd bomb the attic." And he walked away, mumbling, "bomb the attic, bomb the attic." It was like a scene from Jaws.

Reminded me of this little ditti:

 

[savageactor7]

Yeah, they were pretty intense in Paso Robles during the mating season. YIKES!

 

[MRSDOUGLAS]

Reminded me of this little ditti:

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Now THAT I can appreciate.

 

[Grumpy Old Man]

Jim, I have been stung by all of them...wasps, yellow jackets, hornets, bees , spiders , chiggers etc. ..but the scorpion was by far the most sudden onset of pain and lasted the longest...the stings from the others, like you, not much - after an hour or so all gone and no swelling...but that scorpion...yikes...

Brin ,I have also been stung by a scorpion and I have found a cure all solution for the burning and pain ! I take a fifth of Gin and mix it with some soda water and a few crushed limes and in about 20 minutes after consuming 4-5 glasses of this majic concoction I no longer feel any pain and barely remember what I was stung by !

 

[Gem99ultra]

awwww shucks. Don't kill those poor little helpless creatures. They walk quietly and don't disturb a thing.

Once when I was a kid back in Texas we visited some kinfolks in Groveton. Got there late at night. When the car headlights hit the front of their house the entire wall looked like it was moving! Hundreds - perhaps thousands of tarantula had converged. I have no idea as to why, and I've never seen that again. Scary? yes. Dangerous? No.

Just don't get caught killing one in a national forest... major loss of money will be experienced.

 

[brin]

Brin ,I have also been stung by a scorpion and I have found a cure all solution for the burning and pain ! I take a fifth of Gin and mix it with some soda water and a few crushed limes and in about 20 minutes after consuming 4-5 glasses of this majic concoction I no longer feel any pain and barely remember what I was stung by !

Grumpy ...Only one time in my whole life I got so sick from drinking I threw up...I was at a business lunch in the 1970's and everyone ordered a drink....I was in my mid twenties and I did not drink...but they ordered me a Gin martini....I took a few sips of that and off to the men's room ....I blew chunks...I would never drink Gin ...I have never had Gin again...I cannot stand the smell of Gin...I do not like to see a bottle of Gin...:shocked: I would rather have the scorpion bite...but some good Merlot...now that is different...

 

[jinman]

I have never had Gin again...I cannot stand the smell of Gin...I do not like to see a bottle of Gin...:shocked: I would rather have the scorpion bite...but some good Merlot...now that is different...

Are you sure it wasn't sloe gin? That stuff is nasty. A sloe gin fizz can gag a maggot. I love gin and tonic with a twist. That used to be my favorite drink in the summertime. I never developed a taste for martinis though.

 

[farmgirl19]

I think vermouth is about as nasty, as one can drink, but I have had plenty of it "stright up" when I was younger, and slightly more crazy.

Brin, you might just have a reaction to Gin. Rum makes me ill, if I even have half a drink that contains rum. And keeps me ill. And I have a really high toleerance to booze.

 

[daveshoot]

Hey, this thread is about tarantulas. :drink:

I have killed a lot more gin than tarantulas. The difference is that I only kill tarantulas on, or in, my home, whereas I am willing to kill gin wherever it is found. My taste runs to scotch, with gin as a backup or change of pace.

It has been a couple days since the last big hairy spider and we are knocking on wood. Note, I have no intention of hunting them in national forests. There are 3.7 million square miles in the USA and I am just reserving 2000 square feet for things with <4 legs.

 

[Wagtail]

Hey, I'm no entomologist but that spider doesn't look all that happy. Mind you, it does look as if it's ready to go on a trip out past your 2000' exclusion zone.

Now scorpions, on the other hand (yes, I found out to my surprise/shock/horror are here in Tassie) get escorted to the next-world via half a can of bug spray!

 

[farmgirl19]

As long as they don't drop on me from the ceiling, I am not spider phobic. In fact, I find them kinda cute. We have them around here sometimes, and other years, none are seen. This year, it is the Wolf spiders that are seen almost every day.

 

[jinman]

Hey, this thread is about tarantulas. :drink:

I have killed a lot more gin than tarantulas. The difference is that I only kill tarantulas on, or in, my home, whereas I am willing to kill gin wherever it is found. My taste runs to scotch, with gin as a backup or change of pace.

It has been a couple days since the last big hairy spider and we are knocking on wood. Note, I have no intention of hunting them in national forests. There are 3.7 million square miles in the USA and I am just reserving 2000 square feet for things with <4 legs.

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I'd don't know, Dave. It looks to me like he is trying to read your credit card number so he can run up charges on the Web.