Has anybody here ever exterminated their house because of spiders?

[BeachBaby]

I've never had to do that before, but just in the last 4-5 days, I've killed at least 30. Yes - THIRTY.

And they're not teensy-weensy, either. Their legs make them about the size of a quarter in diameter. :scared:

My final straw was when I found one in the shower with me. They're pushing me too far. I want to declare war. :nuke:

[Midlodemocrat]

1. War? I'll alert DS1.

:patriot:

[BeachBaby]

6. Does he own bunker-busters?

I'm kinda thinking that they are the only thing worth utilizing.

[Midlodemocrat]

8. Pretty sure. He's got quite an arsenal, don't let him fool you.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

2. Get LynneSin up there

She catches the fucking things with her bare hands.

Lynne=FREAK

[skygazer]

5. My husband is fascinated by the damn things

He has a bunch of pet spiders in the bathroom and will call me in there to see what amazing things they've done now. :eyes:

He won't let me vacuum them up or even put them outside - no, they must stay in the bathroom and make baby spiders.



I think I liked it better when he was afraid of the damn things. Then, he only woke me up in the middle of the night to squish them. :banghead:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

11. I make LostinVA kill them

[BeachBaby]

12. You must divorce him.

NOW.

[skygazer]

14. I can't - he cooks

I'd starve to death without him. :shrug:

[BeachBaby]

16. Damn him.

[BeachBaby]

9. She lives about 20 minutes from here. It would be easy.

But now you've freaked me out. What is she doing with them when she catches them? Does she play with them like a freak?

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

13. She deposited the HUGE spider somewhere outside the hotel

She probably played with it, too.

[BeachBaby]

15. Well, that's just gross.

I'm now reconsidering my friendship with her. Thanks for the info.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

19. No problem

She somehow thinks spiders are less scary than fiddler crabs.

:wtf:

[caty]

3. If you've got that many....

call the exterminator of try a bug bomb.

[BeachBaby]

17. That's how it's starting to look.

But like I said, I never heard of calling an exterminator for spider extermination. I wanted to find out if they even do such a thing.

[flvegan]

31. Thirty spiders?

I'm feeling light headed.

[BeachBaby]

34. You and me both.

I didn't have Windex in the shower with me, so as soon as I got done screaming - and no doubt, no less than 50 farm workers heard me - I grabbed the shower massager and shot it at him, screaming the entire time he was following the current and into the drain.

My heart can't handle this a 2nd time.

[TZ]

38. Hmmm.

I need to start googling random spider pictures and posting them in baseball threads for you...:evilgrin:

[MrCoffee]

4. Give them no quarter

Tell the exterminator to exercise extreme prejudice.

[BeachBaby]

18. I think I'm going to demand the "shock and awe" treatment.

[Midlodemocrat]

7. You could ask Rabrrrrrr to arrange for a General Order 24.

But that seems a bit like overkill.

[BeachBaby]

20. No, babe. No such thing as overkill in this.

THEY ARE IN MY SHOWER AND BEDROOM.

PiGuy was killing flies with his hands when he was here, but I can't wait until his next visit to take care of this.

[Midlodemocrat]

27. What do you have fucking dead bodies under the house?

Dude, Amityville is in NY, not NJ.

:rofl:

[BeachBaby]

29. LOL.

It's all a part of the ambience that occurs from living on a farm. :eyes:

[Born_A_Truman]

50. I live on 30+ acres in the desert

Mice, kangaroo rats, rats, lizards, scorpions, you name it! My cat takes care of any mice that get in the house but I do get the house sprayed for ants. Every year I had an ant invasion and I got sick of storing everything in my fridge and finding them all over the place, so I get the place sprayed. Three years now and no ants in my house.

[dgibby]

49. Don't move to SC.

The state bird is a Palmetto Bug (read that big-assed cockroach). I keep a can of Raid in every room in the house. UGH!

[bif]

10. I used those smoke bomb things once

Mainly to get rid of fleas. We found a ton of dead spiders as well. I'm not sure if they still sell those things but they were quite effective.

[BeachBaby]

21. My friends had to use the bomb to rid their house of sand fleas.

Worked like a charm - then again, they have a TINY house. Not a lot of rooms.

Thanks for the input, though - I'll see if I can find a DIY instructional online.

[CreekDog]

22. My cat eats spiders

Wanna borrow him? :hi:

If you go the extermination route, avoid pesticides. You don't want that stuff in your house, near it or near your kids.

[BeachBaby]

24. Too bad the meetup isn't this weekend.

I'd have you bring the cat. ;) :hi:

[CreekDog]

30. I no longer have a spider problem

:rofl:

At my old place in the East Bay, we had lots of big, ugly spiders, until i inherited my South Philly cat.

[TZ]

39. Yeah I rarely see spiders in my place

I think its because of nom nom nom you know...;) Ants now...thats a different story..:eyes:

[CreekDog]

41. I wonder how they decide what's food and what's a gift to their owner?

I'm quite happy to not have him put spiders on my pillow.

:shrug:

[TZ]

43. yikes

I hadn't thought about that. The little brats will drop toys right on top of me when they REALLY want to play..:scared:

[CreekDog]

44. i notice you haven't been calling her "Creekkitty"

now that her behavior is less annoying.

:eyes:

[TZ]

45. Yeah, well

Don't give her any ideas..she was a little bratty last night (if you do a search you find a couple of 4am posts from me--but it was both of them...:eyes:)

[CreekDog]

47. my cat has been an angel

i put him on the bed last night and he was giddy. i think he forgets he's allowed on the bed :rofl:

oh well, he's going to be mad at me when i go to Portland for four days.

[BeachBaby]

25. Dupe.

[csziggy]

40. I'd trade - my cat led a spider into the house last night.

The cat even lingered in the doorway to let the spider get all the way in. If he sees a spider in the house, he watches it go by. I think he considers them his pets.

[TZ]

42. HAHA

THats what my cats do to ants...They just stare at them.

[csziggy]

53. Mine won't even kill roaches. Sometimes I wonder what good he is! n/t

[CreekDog]

46. I had a yellow lab who found a mole in the yard one night

She tore out and got in its face, barking and growling, so it rared-up and hissed at her, so she comes running back and stands behind me. :eyes: :rofl:

[csziggy]

52. Sounds like a yellow lab - they can play brave but they are chickens

Lovable chickens, though.

[Xipe Totec]

23. They are welcome guests in my house.

I don't mind spiders, they are bug eaters.

[mnhtnbb]

26. In the south, the exterminator is on a quarterly contract--especially living in the woods.

[crim son]

28. My sister who lives in Seattle does it once a year.

For some reason she has lots of spiders and her husband is terrified of them.

[Blue Diadem]

32. There's a good perimeter spray that has worked for my son's spider problem.

It's ortho Home defense

http://www.scotts.com/smg/catalog/productTemplate.jsp?bodyCssClass=scotts+blade+product+general+en&tabs=general&navAction=jump&bodyId=product_general&proId=prod70044&itemId=cat50086&id=rootCategoryId

[Orsino]

33. Yes. I lost two cats in three weeks...

...to presumed brown recluse bites. Never again.

[JCMach1]

35. Where there's spiders there's OTHER insects!

[fizzgig]

36. i'm pretty tolerant of spiders, but i feel your pain

this weird species of spider (larger than a quarter in diameter with a weird opaque white/red/purple body) infested my couch at my old house. we kept the couch when i moved, but we put it in the garage and i think the cold killed all of them because i haven't seen one since.

i'm the designated spider catcher in my house and i trap them in a jar or glass and put them outside because they are useful little buggers to keep around. my fiance - a big, fairly burly, manly kind of man - is terrified of them. he squeals when he sees one and once called me from the other side of the house to get a little spider off the hallway wall so he could get to the bathroom :rofl:

[TZ]

37. Too bad you have dogs.

Cat chow! My guys would be in heaven! Ants..meh...but spiders..:woohoo:

[SacredCow]

48. As mentioned throughout this thread....

That's one good thing about cats- Spiders, roaches, etc... are all but elilminated from your home. But you REALLY don't want to watch them going after the things- I made that mistake once.

:puke:

[InvisibleTouch]

51. I rescued a spider from my neighbor's bathroom yesterday...

...and set it free in my flowerbed. It was a pretty little wolf spider, perfectly harmless. My neighbor was so freaked out by it that she wouldn't even go into the room until I'd removed it. I have a hard time understanding fear of spiders. So ... I guess the answer to your question would be "no." :)

If I did have an epidemic of them like you seem to have, though, I'd probably set a few house geckos loose to eat them. No sense poisoning the inside of your home.