Anyone have a good load for huntin spiders?

GunnyMack · Post by **GunnyMack** » Sat Oct 22, 2016 7:16 am

Last night around midnight my Chocolate lab, Claro, started acting frantic. She was 'itchy' and her face was swollen, eyes almost closed up, muzzle looked like a she went a few rounds with Mike Tyson! I should have taken pictures...

Off we go to emergency vet, they administered Benadryl but that was slow to work. Then a steroid which worked very well! We got home about 2:45.

Vet seemed to think it was a 'bug' bite. Have been seeing lots of spiders in the house this fall.

So who has a good load for spiders?

GunnyMack · Post by **GunnyMack** » Sat Oct 22, 2016 7:28 am

Here is Claro, normally...

gcs · Post by **gcs** » Sat Oct 22, 2016 7:59 am

When my son found some BIG spiders in his house, he was ready to burn the house down..so maybe a flamethrower?

gamekeeper · Post by **gamekeeper** » Sat Oct 22, 2016 8:11 am

I hope Claro gets well soon.
Over here some folks put buckeyes (we call 'em conkers) around the house to keep spiders away, I'm not sure it works but buckeyes and a slingshot might...

jdad · Post by **jdad** » Sat Oct 22, 2016 8:32 am

Put these around the base boards, in closets, behind beds, etc. http://www.homedepot.com/p/Terro-Spider ... /203225214

The next best thing is spend the money and have a pro come in and spray.

The best way is just burn the place down and rebuild.

Really hope your dog is ok. I remember when my dad's Rott "discovered" a yellow jacket nest.

claybob86 · Post by **claybob86** » Sat Oct 22, 2016 8:34 am

Crosman 1377 pellet pistol, 4 or 5 pumps, no pellet. Hold it a couple of inches away from the spider.

I also use the traps mentioned by jdad above. They do help.

I also use Ortho Home Defense spray, which also works good.

GunnyMack · Post by **GunnyMack** » Sat Oct 22, 2016 9:00 am

She seems to be doing fine!
Living in the woods, we get lots of bugs, I don't mind spiders but they need to stay outside!

I'll pick up some of those Terro traps!

I saw on TV the aSALT shooter, uses table salt and air/spring pressure but have no idea where or if they are still sold.

Old Ironsights · Post by **Old Ironsights** » Sat Oct 22, 2016 9:15 am

GunnyMack wrote: I saw on TV the aSALT shooter, uses table salt and air/spring pressure but have no idea where or if they are still sold.

Amazon, Cabelas, pretty much anywhere.

http://bugasalt.com/

Don't know how effective they are on hardbodies like spiders and roaches tho.

GunnyMack · Post by **GunnyMack** » Sat Oct 22, 2016 9:23 am

http://bugasalt.com/pages/how-gun-works

jeepnik · Post by **jeepnik** » Sat Oct 22, 2016 9:27 am

Old Ironsights wrote:
GunnyMack wrote: I saw on TV the aSALT shooter, uses table salt and air/spring pressure but have no idea where or if they are still sold.
Amazon, Cabelas, pretty much anywhere.

http://bugasalt.com/

Don't know how effective they are on hardbodies like spiders and roaches tho.

Pretty much disintegrates spiders. Beetles and such succumb quickly but may need a second shot after the first anchors them. Be careful, roaches may charge!

crs · Post by **crs** » Sat Oct 22, 2016 9:41 am

What Jdad said about sticky bug traps + this lighted Victor trap. We bought them for flea control in our barn, shop, dog room, etc, but they attract and catch all kinds of crawlies - cricket, spiders, etc.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Woodstream-M ... 3=&veh=sem

jeepnik · Post by **jeepnik** » Sat Oct 22, 2016 1:08 pm

For exterior use I highly recommend one of these. I've had one around for some years now. It's pretty much taken care of all the black widows (and other spiders) snails & slugs.

When they've been around humans for sometime they become very docile and having no fear they simply pass you by.

GunnyMack · Post by **GunnyMack** » Sat Oct 22, 2016 1:54 pm

With 3 labradors I really don't want skunks hanging around. I had a Jack Russell years ago that would kill skunks, 3 confirmed and he never got sprayed.
He would hunt anything on 4 legs! Cats were not safe, ground hogs, squirrels, chipmunks opossum... You get the idea.
One day this little 15 lbs terror treed a bear about 2-250 lbs, I left him outside under that bear for 4 hours! He girdled the oak tree. I finally got tired of his barking, he was hoarse for day afterward, went and picked him up walked away. As the bear climbed down you could see the relief on its face.

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Sat Oct 22, 2016 2:11 pm

There's somethin' about spiders that I don't like and I kill everyone I see. The wife spent a week in the hospital from a brown recluse. Couple of months ago I was splitting wood and I felt this thing on my neck so I brushed it away.......when I saw what I brushed away my eyeballs got as big as golf balls because the spider I brushed off was as big as a golf ball. I smashed it into the dirt with a chunk of oak.

The best medicine for spiders is 2+2 carb cleaner. I buy this stuff by the case and use it more for spiders and wasps than I use it for it's intended purpose. It kills them instantly. I keep a can in the basement, garage, and the barn.------6

Rusty · Post by **Rusty** » Sat Oct 22, 2016 2:52 pm

I bought a Bug a Salt for my brother in law a few years ago. He goes spastic at the sight of any bugs. He has used it with great success on house flies and spiders. We have some very large spiders here and a few have required a follow up shot.

.45colt · Post by **.45colt** » Sat Oct 22, 2016 3:11 pm

Came home from work last week, a lovely fall day in Ohio............ got out of the Jeep and on the front of the house were a pair of spiders the size of silver dollars in a boxing match with BIG bodies. if they get in the house momma goes totally bonkers so I shoot in the garage for the Ortho Home Defense spray. it works pretty good. I go around the house and find several more and give them a bath too. I also have shot some bigger ones with my old Sheridan air rifle, no pellet, get close. the price we pay for living in the woods.

jazman · Post by **jazman** » Sat Oct 22, 2016 3:54 pm

I've used a Bug-a-Salt since they came out. Best I have found for nailing spiders in the middle of their webs. Plus, you can't beat the price of "ammo"!

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Sat Oct 22, 2016 4:11 pm

Man! What is it with spiders and snakes? Snakes don't bother me a lot unless I'm out in the boonies where help is 40 miles away but spiders send me into another dimension of instant defense.

Must be ...as a doctor once told me....genetic memory

I have yet to talk to a black guy that was not crazy afraid of snakes. I tell them it must be genetic memory from Africa where those snakes bite and you die...fast.----6

.45colt · Post by **.45colt** » Sat Oct 22, 2016 4:44 pm

My next door neighbor was a fire breathing Electric company lineman/ weightlifter of Scottish decent. 6'4 265 lb....I saw Him squat 700lbs and do sets/reps on the curling bench with 160 lbs. He could pick me up overhead like a toy just for fun. Nice Guy, just don't twig His nose.......once in the shed outback a nest of wasps inside, he reaches up grabs the whole thing and crushes them to shreds..
Once He was under the house in the crawl space. it was full of spiders and He came out of there like it was on fire. I wonder where that memory came from Six.

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Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Sat Oct 22, 2016 5:20 pm

45 Colt....ain't that somethin'! Crushes wasps and runs from spiders. (Big nuts on the wasps

)

Mind you...those little tiny spiders we all see in the corners of the house don't bother me a bit. It's those big nasty Wolf spiders that look like a golf ball on legs. Suckers can run fast!

2 + 2 to the rescue. Smack em one shot and they curl up dead.---6

vancelw · Post by **vancelw** » Sat Oct 22, 2016 5:57 pm

Yes...glue traps are the best thing for spiders.
You will be amazed and appalled at what you find stuck to the traps. Here in Texas, brown recluse spiders like to come in to the AC in the summer and dry heat in the winter. Under furniture, dark corners....

There used to be a good chemica called Ficam W that destroyed spiders and was virtually oderless, but I think it has since been banned. Ask your local chemical supply if there is a decent substitute.

JOHNNY WACKO · Post by **JOHNNY WACKO** » Sat Oct 22, 2016 6:17 pm

I bought a Ruger holster with the flap and snap new a week later a mouse chewed around the flap and messed it up. so i get a sticky mouse pad and put on the shelf by my revolvers. end with a $50 BILL STUCK TO IT THEN TO MY FLAT GATE AND MY HAND AND ON MY PANT LEG.i HAD IT ALL OVER EVERYTHING BEFORE I GOT IT TO THE TRASH.

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Sat Oct 22, 2016 6:20 pm

We got those huge wolf spiders, the nasty Hobo spiders, and those Black Widows without the red mark (nearly as poison as the others). I tore apart the old, crumbling wood deck last month, and you could have made Arachnophobia Part II. I guess they don't bother me too much any more after opening utility boxes a few hundred thousand times...they all had spiders in them. It was the hornets, and yellowjackets that ruined your day.

Malamute · Post by **Malamute** » Sat Oct 22, 2016 7:50 pm

I dislike spiders, especially black widows, which we seem to have plenty of. Creepiest was the Tarantulas and wolf spiders in Az. walked out of a buddies place at night once, there was a large blond wolf spider (about 3 1/2" across the legs) on the wall right next to me about eye level. I mentioned it to him, he said "Yeah, that's so-and-so". They named him. Wouldn't let me shoot him or anything.

Found a scorpion in the kitchen sink last spring. Had two of the ugly Jerusalem cricket things in the house also.

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Sat Oct 22, 2016 10:52 pm

Just got done reading up on these wolf spiders and they claim they are not aggressive towards humans but will bite from time to time and cause pain that only lasts for ten minutes. I still don't like em and I will continue to kill em all.

Malamute....no way I would have stayed in that place......sounds to me your bud was all "weeded up".

----6

GunnyMack · Post by **GunnyMack** » Sun Oct 23, 2016 5:56 am

24 hours later and Claro is doing fine!
I wonder how well the BugSalt will work on stink bugs ? My black lab ( Winnie, Claro's mom) like to eat the stink bug then she has to share by panting in your face! I don't mind dog breath but when ode de stink bug is mixed in YUCK!

While I was living in CO, one of the guys that ran the school range was terrified of spiders, seems like the devious guys at school would go out of their way to find tarantula sheds and place them where this guy would be first to find them. Of course we all got a kick out of it.

OldWin · Post by **OldWin** » Sun Oct 23, 2016 9:09 am

We don't have much like that here. No biting snakes, and from the sound no big spiders. Once in a while you hear of someone getting bit and getting a little swollen but that's about it.
I had a little one that lived near the drivers sun visor in my old jeep. Every time you warmed it up he would thaw out and swing under the visor on a string of web. I named him Hermon and left him there.

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Sun Oct 23, 2016 9:56 am

OldWin wrote:. I named him Hermon and left him there.

Jay,
I'm ashamed of you........you named him "Hermon?" Should have been a female name starting with the letter "H".

That reminds me, I'm going to the potty room to drop off a Hillary at the pool.

-----6

Malamute · Post by **Malamute** » Sun Oct 23, 2016 10:39 am

Sixgun wrote:
Malamute....no way I would have stayed in that place......sounds to me your bud was all "weeded up". ----6

He wasn't like that at all, just got used to the friendly spider that lived on his house. I think he reasoned that whatever it ate was less other bug stuff he had to live with. Az has plenty of pokey, sharp, poisonous stuff, you just get used to much of it.

One gross out was hunting with a bud, we found a taralula. It was a really big, old looking one. He took his hat off and got the thing walking on his hat, then on his arm. I never liked getting that close to them, they can jump. They were pretty common to see when out in the hills though.

arjunky · Post by **arjunky** » Sun Oct 23, 2016 12:39 pm

http://www.domyownpestcontrol.com/tempo ... r-215.html

Kills them all flying or crawling.

Not cheap, but lasts a long time, first time I used killed bugs in the garage for three years, I may have upped the dose a little.

Byron

OldWin · Post by **OldWin** » Sun Oct 23, 2016 12:42 pm

Sixgun wrote:
OldWin wrote:. I named him Hermon and left him there.
Jay,
I'm ashamed of you........you named him "Hermon?" Should have been a female name starting with the letter "H".

That reminds me, I'm going to the potty room to drop off a Hillary at the pool. -----6

I couldn't have called it Hillary, I don't hate spiders that much.
Harriet, maybe.......
Ooh,ooh, I know.........Charlotte.

3leggedturtle · Post by **3leggedturtle** » Sun Oct 23, 2016 7:09 pm

I had a Wolf Spider I fed for 3 years. Never had to worry about any other bugs. You shouldn't have worry after this month. Sorry for your dog. But I really hate Fire Ants, little bassturds. Meet them once or twice every winter in Biloxi. Todd/3leg

piller · Post by **piller** » Mon Oct 24, 2016 11:57 am

I have a Crossman pellet rifle that disintegrates spiders when pumped to 5 or 6 and no pellet. Hold the muzzle about 2 inches away. I keep glue traps in places that the terrier-ist can't get to for the ones I don't see. The terrier-ist got into a glue trap once and required a buzz cut to free her. Fire ants are the worst. PillHer likes to walk barefoot in the yard. She somehow can find a fire ant den with her eyes closed. If there is one in the yard, she heads straight to it. I use The Dirt Doctor's natural recipe with jalapenos and limes in it for a quick kill method of getting rid of them.

Bulldog · Post by **Bulldog** » Mon Oct 24, 2016 2:15 pm

Ortho Home Defense works remarkably well, in my experience.

Bill in Oregon · Post by **Bill in Oregon** » Mon Oct 24, 2016 6:34 pm

Spider? Did someone say .. BIG ... spider?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... ouse-video

williamranks · Post by **williamranks** » Mon Oct 24, 2016 8:19 pm

jdad's link also showed a hobo spider trap.
Watch out for hobos! I got bit on one toe last year and it was months before my leg got better.
Small sores popped up on it all the way to my knee, itched something awful, I still have the varicose veins it caused and no treatment or anti venom available. It started to migrate to the other leg when it finally went away.
The males are so flat they'll fit under the weather strip of the doors and they'll travel a long way during breeding season.
Every time I see one of their funnel shaped webs now I soak it with wasp spray.

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Mon Oct 24, 2016 9:49 pm

I walked outside today and was surprised by a swarm of bees all over the fender & hood of the wife's p/u. There was about a 1,000 of them in a huge bundle, and up to a 100 flying around. Not aggressive, but... not taking any chances, I hit them with some wasp spray. I'd had a hive in a tree, but they seem to have moved out.. I was worried about them building a hive under the hood, but it appears they didn't get that far.

GunnyMack · Post by **GunnyMack** » Tue Oct 25, 2016 4:28 am

I hope they weren't honey bees!?
Wasps,hornets, yellow jackets - blast em to kingdom come!

J Miller · Post by **J Miller** » Tue Oct 25, 2016 8:56 am

Well, if it's one of these mouse catching spiders, I'd be using my 45 with Keith Loads or a 30-30.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHv6X9x7KoA

Joe

jeepnik · Post by **jeepnik** » Tue Oct 25, 2016 5:30 pm

J Miller wrote:Well, if it's one of these mouse catching spiders, I'd be using my 45 with Keith Loads or a 30-30.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHv6X9x7KoA

Joe

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1894cfan · Post by **1894cfan** » Tue Oct 25, 2016 7:47 pm

J Miller wrote:Well, if it's one of these mouse catching spiders, I'd be using my 45 with Keith Loads or a 30-30.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHv6X9x7KoA

Joe

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Rube Burrows · Post by **Rube Burrows** » Tue Oct 25, 2016 8:43 pm

2 parts gasoline 1 part fire.

Post by **Ysabel Kid** » Tue Oct 25, 2016 9:45 pm

Sixgun wrote:Man! What is it with spiders and snakes? Snakes don't bother me a lot unless I'm out in the boonies where help is 40 miles away but spiders send me into another dimension of instant defense.

+1 - both counts.

Jack, I'm with you 100%. I've never minded snakes. My roommate in college had a 5.5-ft boa, and ignored it after the first week. I was the only one who would hold it. It would wrap around me while I watched TV. Like my body heat. One big muscle, with teeth on the end.

The ONLY good spider is a dead one. I never understood why I feared them so much. My Dad told me a story when I was older that solved the mystery. Apparently, when I was a bit over a year old, we were living in Arkansas, and a huge spider walked out onto the driveway. He dossed it with gas and lit it on fire. Apparently it walked out of the fire twice before dying. To a kid it must have seemed like a indestructible monster. Thus, my subconscious fear.

J Miller · Post by **J Miller** » Tue Oct 25, 2016 10:35 pm

Well stuff. They must have pulled it right I posted the link.
Sorry bout that.

Joe

Old Ironsights · Post by **Old Ironsights** » Wed Oct 26, 2016 5:21 pm

J Miller wrote:Well stuff. They must have pulled it right I posted the link.
Sorry bout that.

Joe

That's OK Joe. Lots more where that came from.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... ches+mouse

JOHNNY WACKO · Post by **JOHNNY WACKO** » Fri Nov 04, 2016 4:03 am

a heavy foot always dose it for me..

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Fri Nov 04, 2016 9:03 am

JOHNNY WACKO wrote:a heavy foot always dose it for me..

See folks......This is what "good ole common sense" is all about. No primers, powder, bullets, pellets, salt, carburetor cleaner wasted. -----6

Old Ironsights · Post by **Old Ironsights** » Fri Nov 04, 2016 1:48 pm

I hate trying to fill boot holes in drywall...

jeepnik · Post by **jeepnik** » Fri Nov 04, 2016 2:51 pm

Sixgun wrote:
JOHNNY WACKO wrote:a heavy foot always dose it for me..

See folks......This is what "good ole common sense" is all about. No primers, powder, bullets, pellets, salt, carburetor cleaner wasted. -----6

No fun!