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I wasn't sure where to post this, but it's shop safety?

I was bitten by one a couple of years ago and it was nothing nice. A few months ago, a friend of the family was killed by a Black Widow that was hidden in the dash of an old Buick he was working on.

What are you guys using to kill bugs hidden inside your project? Just yesterday, I went underneath my truck and its getting thick with webs and eggs. I have my dash taken apart, but I don't want to just go and start spraying. I know some sprays leave a greasy residue.

I was thinking of getting a couple of foggers and setting them underneath the truck. Thoughts or suggestions?

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bug bomb roll up the windows throw it in and walk away. Up here not many bad bugs but when I see one I like to grab the hammer if possible :lol:

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Subscribed!!

I’m TERRIFIED of the things!

:ack:Yucky!Yucky!Yucky! :eek:

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Always a good idea to be wearing gloves rootin around in these old rigs. We don't typically have to worry about anything worse than yellow jackets. I don't think I could do this if I lived where there was a lot of spiders........I hate spiders.

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Well, I can't speak about how to keep them out of a car,... buy I had them bad in my garage. I tried sprays, bombs, ect. and still they lived. My neighbor is about as old as dirt, and I was telling him about it. He called me to the fence the next day with a shoebox. He said to take it into the garage and dump it out and the bugs & spiders would dissappear. I did it, and that was 5 years ago, and there are still NO bugs in my shop at all......What was in the box???? There were 5 little woodpile lizards that took off when I dumped it. He had caught them in his firewood pile.

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Can't blame those bugs! :josh:

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I bug bomb all the trucks I buy for parts with 2 small cans each. We have the Brown Recluse spiders here so I'm not taking any chances

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The day before I started this thread, I crawled underneath my truck without noticing the webs. When my arm rubbed against them, I flew from under my truck so fast, I hit my head on the rocker. I'm working inside the dash with wires so I can't use gloves. Im going to try a smoke bomb or 2.

Just thinking about it makes makes me itch all over.

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Go to a coop and get you some spray to put around the outside of your shop and around all the doors.

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I use this everywhere around my house, and it kills everything that crawls in Arizona.

http://www.domyownpestcontrol.com/de...jar-p-532.html

It's a powder that you mix in a pump sprayer. It dries as a powder also. Safe around animals once it drys.

When I tore down the Blazer, I used it. I sprayed every nook and crany of that thing. Found lots of dead bugs, but not one alive. Even scorpions!

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I just bite them back.

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I was biten last spring by a Brown Recluse..it was just a sore red spot at first but after about 4 days it was pitch black and almost 2 inches across with a swollen red area around it that measured about 6 across. Went to the Med Clinic and the Docter didnt know what to say at first..all he kept saying was "thats impressive!!"..anyway he wouldnt touch it! Said I needed to go to E.R. It had to be lanced, dug out and packed...it took monthes to heal and you can still see the spot today. Needless to say I will be be spider bombing my shop soon..we had the mildest winter here on record which means lots of bugs , spiders and ticks! this year.

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Yikes! Glad you're ok.

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My garage mostly has daddly long legs (harmless) but occasionally I see a nasty black spider and assume it's a black widow. They get killed quickly.

I like the lizard idea!

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awsome thread, since my garage was built in the 40'sm its not exactly.. "sealed" from the elements. i hate spiders

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I live on the wet side of Washington state and I think the Brown Recluse is the worst spider here. Never seen one…yet. I deal with paper wasps or hornets in old cars outside probably the most. The trick with them is to visit the car in the early morning when the dew is heavy. The wetness in the air keeps them from being able to fly. They walk around a little, flicking their wings, but stay grounded. Mice are probably the worst nuisance. I pulled a heater box out once to change the heater core and had one jump out at me. He was like a little supper Ninja. I have never shot out of a car so fast. I like to think it was more about being surprised then being scared of a tiny one ounce mammal. :exit:

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"He was like a little supper Ninja. I have never shot out of a car so fast. I like to think it was more about being surprised then being scared of a tiny one ounce mammal."

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

I had a similar experience with a Badger once, except I really was scared! I believe I peed just a little bit...

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I would have had to change my shorts if a Badger jumped out :lol:

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I always keep a trigger start torch handy in the shop...anything that moves gets cooked!

On a side note, don't spray them with carb cleaner before trying to torch them. :lol:

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Yum! Eight-legged Flambé! :lol:

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HAHAHA, I had one of those ninja mice jump out at me when I was younger! LOL I was just about asleep one night, and heard it rustling around in the cabinet under the bathroom sink. I wanted to see if I could find where the little bugger got in there, so I was sitting on the floor digging around in there. Dang thing was up on the pipes, and launched out, landed on my shirt, ran up on my shoulder, up and over, and down the inside of the back of my shirt. I woke the whole house yelling, and tore the cabinet off the wall using it to jump up off the floor. Stupid mouse had booked all the way down my back and disappeared. Set out several traps the next day, and made him pay for messing with me. Once in a while my mom and little brothers still tease me about being scared of a little mouse, and that was 17-18 years ago! LOL

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Was bitten by what the doctor said was most likely a brown recluse at a job sight and it wasnt pretty. Never saw the spider but had a sore spot on the back of my leg where I couldn't see it. When my wife came home from work at midnight it was a huge welt and black and blue. Went to the urgent care the next day and they put me on anti biotics I think,but I got a lot sicker before it got better. Fever,chills, achy with flue like symptoms. Basically felt like getting hit by a bus. I was still feeling the affects two weeks later. I used to have a live and let live policy with things but after that if I see a spider I smash him flat!

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I like to spray them with paint and watch them run around on fire. :lol: When I was younger we had horses. With horses come flies, and lots of spiders. I used to shoot them point blank with my pellet gun pumped up to 10. Even without a pellet, just the air blast vaporizes them. When I got older, we were remodeling a house. I had just hung all the sheetrock and a huge wolf spider ran across the wall. I got the pellet gun out, pumped it to ten, and let him have it.......nothing. It just fluffed up the hair on his back. After that I loaded it up and had some target practice. After missing him a dozen times, It took 2 direct shots to put him down. Big bastard.

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was it the honey badger? Cause he doent give a sh*t..:lol:
(if you guys havent a clue as to who the honeybadger is, youtube it)

After reading this, I will be bombing my truck as soon as we get home!!

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Brown recluse spiders are HARD to get rid of. I usually do the 'smash em on sight' method. I've tried sprays, bombs and even the hokey old timer remedy of putting hedge apples around, and they are still in my garage. I've read the only way to get rid of them is to remove their food source, by killing the bugs. Which would work in theory, but I know for a fact that they can live for months with no food or water. I don't know how they can, but they can. I caught one and had it in a cup with a lid on it in my garage for a long time, and would check on it from time to time, and at times it appeared dead, but shaking the cup it would wake right back up! I'm sure someone somewhere would find this experiment inhumane, but I F'ing hate these things!!

That said, I just got done painting my bed the other day in my garage with no exhaust fan (long story, involves a crabby neighbor and the city, need I say more?) and the garage was almost uninhabitable when I got done spraying, then a day or so later, I find this walking out in the open!!!! It's been in the cup for maybe 4 days, I'll post back on here when it's no longer alive, probably be several months.

BTW this is a not so reclusive Brown Recluse, that is between quarter and half dollar size with it's legs spread out.

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Fiddle backs are hard to kill because they walk on the points of their legs.The poisons sprayed depend on them to drag across the stuff.I over bomb when I use spray bombs.:metal:

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The Brown Recluse is said to be in about 90% of homes in the midwest, they get there name because they are hard to spot..they dont make webs like other spiders and hide in the deepest darkest spots until disturbed. There was a case a few years ago here where a woman got a towel out of a closet to dry her fase, and was bitten on the nose by one..she lost her nose completly! heres a few pics of a mans hand that got bitten.

Day 5 6 9 and 10

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Nasty stuff there! Here in western Washington we have the Hobo spiders; also poisonous. Fairly common
tunnel weaver and not actually agressive to people unless buggered with.

Luckily, we also have a large spider called the agressive house spider and, though it can bite, it doesn't
pack the wollup of the Hobo. Big, nasty looking guys but we are lucky we have these spiders as the Hobo
is one of it's common prey and they are slowly nudging out the Hobo population.

This one is male. Females are larger and don't have the bulbous things on the front of them.

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Oh hai! :lol:

http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/1723/31481665.jpg

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Man, why did I come back to visit this thread! :eek:

:lol:


I ended up using 3 Raid fumigators and so far so good, but still cautious.

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ok. Never thought I'd say this but maybe spiders aren't so bad.

I just now learned there is such a thing as a house centipede.
Pulled up a YouTube of a house centipede vs a big spider.

GROSS! :eek:

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Do not try this intentionally. I grew up getting bitten by Black widows as I serviced old brake systems, over and over again but these were young ones, maybe just out of their eggs. I usually found the dessicated mother after seeing the egg sacs and feeling itchy from the bites. Well after a bunch of these little bites I guess I developed an immunity to adult Black Widow bites, because when one happened all I got was a rash and one big pimple. When I moved East about ten years ago I had an occasion to test my ability with a brown recluse, and just got a bunch of pimples. I can't swear I'm still immune, and still keep my eyes open and show respect for the spiders. If I had to get rid of some, I'd try their natural predator. That means snakes or the lizard idea mentioned earlier. I've known a few people who've suffered the whole scenario pictured earlier from a brown recluse bite and don't want to risk that happening just from being pig-headed--take precautions! But being disadvantaged, doing things the hard way and having a tough childhood does have some advantages I guess.

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Out here in California we have a hybred of the Black Widow called the Brown Widow. It has the same extremely strong web (that is a tell tale sign that a widow is close by), as well as the red hourglass spot. The dangerous thing about the Brown's is they do not mind being out in the open, where the Black widows like to be in dark cool areas. They have a very unique egg sack that looks like an old style ocean mine. Their bite is every bit as toxic as the their black cousin. I torch everyone I see.

http://i361.photobucket.com/albums/o...widow_zoom.jpg

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Thanks Guys... For a bad case of the HeeBeeJeeBees.

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I’m glad you brought up the spider egg subject Mike.

For those of us who ship or receive parts from around the country (or world), it’s imperative we
check closely for egg sacs or plant parts and twigs.

Especially in our coastal regions, where the weather is so temperate, we are very prone to introducing
non-native species to our areas which our native predators and pathogens are ill suited to handling.

As in the case of Mike’s Brown Widow, I would hate to flip over an old chair just to find one of
these nasties leering at me...indeed a safety concern.

As mentioned, encouraging natural controls is often best as bugs have a habit of becoming
conditioned to chemical controls which can eventually make them even harder to control.


And Good Morning to you Dunenutt!!! :D :lol:

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Better to have the hee bee gee bees than to have a thumb that looks like that:lol:

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Truth!:metal:

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now i feel itchy, and more paranoid then usual... thanks guys :lol:

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I'm in the medical field and I'm a paramedic of 13 years and work in 2 emergency rooms part time. This is an extreme case for this particular guy not getting treated in time. If he would have noticed his thumb swelling and getting hard from all of the tissue necrosis(rot) and purulence(puss) inside and gone to the hospital in the early days, say 2-3 days, a doctor would have lanced it(cut) with a scalpel, drained it and injected it with an antibiotic. Trust me, 90% of the cases that go to the hospital in time only go so far as to look as this guys hand did on day 5. Most people will go to the hospital by then from all of the pain and itching.

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I don't "hate" spiders, but I don't like it when they become a nuisance. Every so often I'll find a fresh hatch in my garage with several hundred of them little buggers just hanging around. I usually use real quick bursts with the ol' starter fluid and lighter trick. It's dangerous, I know (just keep them bursts real short), and I don't recommend my method to anyone. Sure gets rid of them in a hurry, though.