bolivianbaby

This morning, there was a large, not huge, spider in my kitchen. He was too high to reach and my aim wasn't good enough to squish him by throwing books at him. He was also too big for me to want to get close to him. I had no bug spray, so I sprayed him with "Pledge" wood cleaner until he fell down. He was all crinkled up when he fell. Then I squished him.

With the creatures wanting to come into our homes since it's getting cooler outside, I just thought I'd share this technique. It also works well if you're out of bug spray.

I need to add for safey reasons not to spray this stuff near your tanks. Always cover them first. This guy was not close to any of my tanks.

And my house smell good now

Jaysee

I'm afraid of aerosols with all the tanks everywhere.

aquarist48

LOL BB. I have a better solution, I scream for Chef!
Ken

bolivianbaby

I edited the post before I saw your response! Great thinking

I am Chef in our house though. Poor me Teehee

Gouramiguy17

Oh how scary can spiders be? I squish all the spiders unless it is a camel spider<---(google it smiley)

bolivianbaby

Spiders and scorpions are the only things that creep me out. My dog will kill scorpions for me and spiders if they're on the floor, but this sucker was high up there.

I've seen camel spiders on youtube. Those things are HUGE!

Lucy

Spiders usually live freely in my house, or I capture and release.
We had quite a few this summer. My kids were like..ummmm Mom, why are there so many spider webs in the house.
It did get kind of creepy so I set some free.

Jaysee

Any spiders I catch are fed to the butterfly fish.

Gouramiguy17

Lol I feed my fish flys

DeanAsploded

I prefer using hairspray, but I find that works best on wasps. With their wings stuck hard as rock they can't fly at you and can just be squished easily. (ten points for mohawk strength hairspray? Although I know from experience the yuecky cornerstore variety works decently too.)

btate617

I have no problems calling my son, who is 10, to kill all the spiders.
If noone is around I spray them with Fantastik w/ bleach then patiently wait for someone to get home to pick up the dead spider.
I will probably have bad dreams now after reading this post, thanks BB.

Brian

mercurybebe

uuuughhhh shuuuuddderrrrr

bolivianbaby

You are MUCH braver than I am for sure

I'll definitely be keeping that in mind for future reference

Never let your son move out. Human spider killers are VERY HARD to find.

I don't even have anything with bleach in this house, except for actual bleach. Hmmm. However, I don't think I could aim those bottles too well

I think next time I'll just take a picture of it and send it to ya via PM

Amanda

btate617

I need to ask a mod how to block people from sending pm's......

ccb04

We have Bark scorpions around here ... and those things seem near impossible to get rid of.

IIRC, they are the most venomous scorpion in North America.

MizRamzi

Spiders U.P. here wear parkas and drive snow mobiles so we just leave em be.

bolivianbaby