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

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The BW only injects a tiny amount of venom compared to a snake and seldom causes death to a human.

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As Jerseygirl has said, yes, per ounce the toxicity is higher, but a snake injects far more venom.

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Kind of like the little critters myself. I've got a whole troupe of them in among the garage door sensors. They pretty much stay put, so it's fine with me until Octoberish when overpopulation sets in.

As for brown recluses, none this far west. No worries.

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holy moly your wife does all that!! :eek:

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Thanks for that but I was fully aware of the fact as I used the word toxicity.

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She is also a bit of a crack shot scoring 50/50 on the shooting range. You can understand why there are no arguments in our house. :D

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You're welcome. BTW this forum is not just for your benefit.

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Isn't sucking the poison (I'm assuming with your mouth), potentially more
dangerous than it being in your finger. Someone explain??????

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Please tell me they don't go to Chandler. :scared: :scared:

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Hang up some CDs around your house. Make sure they're at the spider's eye level.

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"Hang"? At spiders "eye level" how big are these f**kers?

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Doesnt matter...as long as they are old spice girls or mariah carey CD's

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Your reply was in answer to my thread and therefore interpreted as being directed at me. I have never assumed any thread being mine alone.

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Here Here JerseyGirl...what a rude old fart.... :) Lovely day in Seattle...hows Joizey today?

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just as crap as Yorkshire was ;)

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You're in Yorkshire??? I thought you didnt cross the Watford Gap :D

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I don't, but I did once have the misfortune of stepping outside of the M25

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That's a bad move.

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I thought so at the time too

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Er, first you suck, ..... then you spit! :rolleyes:

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Wise advice in general methinks...

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So did I ! .......... her name was Rose.

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I didn't swallow the stuff :mad: I spat it out :D

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my missus does the same, she'll get up the duff tho, you'll see.

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I once read that the most venomus spider is in fact the Daddy Longlegs but it's jaws are so small it can't bit a human.