Black Widow tips
 

Found and killed my first black widow spider last night. Anything I can put down to prevent or at least slow down these spiders from my yard?

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hydrochloric acid.

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It's difficult to kill spiders in your yard -- too large an area to treat.

It is better to concentrate on keeping them out of the house.

http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/pdf/2061A.pdf

The brown recluse, BTW, is far worse than the black widow. In general, avoid the same areas that you would avoid for scorpions: nesting sites of old decaying matter such as wood piles or leaf piles. I have also heard that for some reason, brown recluses like to nest near utility meters, which makes a bit of sense in that they are often camouflaged with greenery, not often visited or disturbed, and provide some shelter.

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or even muriatic acid ..don't drink it yourself though ...
or a 12 gauge ...

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Hubby and I found two in our garage. We went out and bought Home Defense Liquid Spray from The Home Depot and also placed a few of those sticky traps in the corners.

Good Luck!

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If I found a Black Widow or any large spider think I would literally die of fright :scared:

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I was bitten by a brown recluse about two years ago while weed whacking, It f**kin hurt ! It left two fang marks in my hand about 1/8 inch apart, I sucked out the crap within seconds, but my hand still swelled up like a baseball. I was told that although they are not usually found this far north it probably fell from a passing truck. .... It would certainly have died in the winter if I hadn't flattened the nasty bitey thingy.

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Don't tell the NYS troopers....they'll do the driver for an insecure load :rolleyes:

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I had a black widow once.

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In my old MkII Ford Cortina

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Oops...I meant "Windows"!!

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So is it true what they say....once you've had black......?

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yeah....Then you get mirrored.

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My wife can distinguish a Black Widows web. Having found it she catches it by 'strumming' the thread with a twig. The BW reacts and attacks the stick it is then withdrawn and firmly placed under a size 9 foot and immortalised :D . She then fishes out the egg pod which gets the same treatment.
Longleat Safari Park has numerous fact boards concerning wild life, one of them states that the toxicity of a BW is 16 times more deadly than a rattlesnake.

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BTW, my wife is very good at catching snakes as well which is just as well as far as I am concerned. :D