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Re: Spiders
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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