So did any of you know you could die while trying to loose weight? I almost did the other night. If for some reason I had been recording myself I could have made a bunch of money with about 2million hits on youtube by now.

A little back story my shop is pretty infested with brown spiders. I'm not sure what kind of spiders they are. I call them "path" spiders because every where I walk the damn things have made another web in my path. Other than being annoyed they do not really bother me and I am not scared of spiders.

So I was cruising along at a good clip on the elliptical. I happened to notice one of my spider friends about 10 feet away. I don't know what spiders talk about to each other but I know for sure there is some sort of communication.(more on this later)

So this spider catches my attention and I start watching him making a web from the 69' Camaro to the roof. Up and down up and down. I am watching this obvious diversion going on when the spider gives the signal to his partner. You see while I was watching the first spider was making his web another spider that was in on the conspiracy must have been told I had killed a few hundred of his ancestors over the years and they had put a hit out on me. The second spider dropped from the ceiling above me and stopped 3 inches in front of my nose. Now is a said before I am not scared of spiders but I don't think I have ever been sneak attacked by one. Maybe I am a little more afraid than I though I was because my reaction was to step and move back. This was not the best split second decision I have ever made since I was basically running in place at the time.

I don't know exactly what happened next (that would have helped to have video) but trying to stay in an upright position was a challenge to say the least. Their plan is that I would fall to my demise spitting my head open on the concrete floor. I did foil their plan because there was a 78 Silverado only a foot or so away. I can attest the mirror on the door will hold all of my falling weight.

I have not completely planned my retaliation but when I do I'm going in fast and hard.
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Kill'em. Every last one of 'em. Glad you're ok.

 

Wow - great story! Glad there were no serious injury.
I have both some dursban and bifenthrin here you can use to exterminate your shop with. These would make kinda the bug equivalent to a nuclear bomb...

 

Our boat is infested with them. We keep it at the dock and the moist air and abundance of bugs makes for the biggest friggen spiders you've ever seen. Anyway, Sunday afternoon we set off for a quick trip across the lake. I was driving, a friend was next to me and our wives and kids were just behind us. I had all the canvas off except the bimini top which is over my head but not over the girls in the back. Just about the time I got up on plane a real nice big spider drops like a god damn paratrooper and gets blown right into my wifes friend's face (within a foot or so anyway). For whatever reason, I happened to be looking back and I mentioned kind of non-chalant like to my friend sitting next to me "you probably should kill that thing". His wife caught sight of it and crawled over my three year old and jumped over my wife, nearly jumping off the back of the boat in the process.......I hate um but it's kind of fun to watch other people freak

 

Start walking around with a can of black flag and hitting it on the other hand in an intimidating manor almost like the mobsters would with a lead pipe.

 

I have a fair amount of praying mantis where I live . I'll mail you a dozen .... That will take care of your spider problem

 

Aerosol hairspray and a lighter

 

I like your style mad dog I like your style

 

I'm guessing NOT brown recluse (sp?) since, by their name, they don't normally come out in plane sight. But if it is, you should be concerned as they will bite and cause an infection that eats or kills the skin/tissue.

 

That's actually a good point. They are mean SOBs.

Did he, by any chance, look like this when he dropped in front of your face:



But seriously, if you live in the area covered by the green blotch, then you do need to be aware of them:



From a bit farther away, they look like this:



- Eric

 

Start up all your cars, close the doors, get out and let them run for a while.
When I was young, our garage was full of black widows. My dad let the car idle inside for a while with the doors closed. Spider population went way down.
Bet it don't work with a modern car.

 

Don't know what they are but they are not Brown Recluse spiders. They are harmless. I looked up what they were years ago but I don't remember right now.

 

Something those of us that live in the Gulf Coast states should be concerned with is the BROWN WIDOW spider. Yes, I said BROWN widow.

I learned of them when I was stationed in Alabama. One of our good friends there at Ft. Rucker warned us about them. At first I thought she was mistaking a black widow and a brown recluse. But after a little investigation it turned out she was right.

The brown widow was introduced in Florida via some trade with some other country (don't get me lying). It has moved across the Gulf Coast from Florida and, as I found out last month, has made it all the way to Texas. The brown widow is much different than the black widow in that it is not a "hiding" spider. A black widow will live under rocks and such, whereas the brown widow will build a web right in your face.

At Ft. Rucker we had a chain link fence and they would build their web / nest right in the links. They are almost impervious to pesticide so the only real way to kill them is by a physical method. I used to use a MAPP torch and walk around the exterior of the house once a week killing them and burning their spiked looking egg sacks.

Their venom is worse than a black widow drop for drop, but they usually don't inject as much venom so the damage they inflict is comparable. Anyway, if you live in the Gulf States just be aware they are out there, and they aren't shy. Kids and pets are the mostly likely victims.

 

I taught my stepson the "carb cleaner and a lighter" method.

Of course living in California it is not safe to kill spiders outside unless you also carry a 5 gallon bucket of water and a shovel.

 

Ha ha I'm also not too bothered by spiders, but I was sitting on a little box or something on the driveway waxing the car, and the biggest regular spider I've ever seen came charging out from under the car, faster than I could ever imagine a spider being able to move. I barely saw it, but it was so big and moving so fast that it startled me and I fell backwards off the chair onto the grass. I think the mild winter last year has something to do with the size of them this year, they are just huge. I DO have a problem with another type of creature which shall remain nameless, I found that the Ortho Home Defense Max or whatever it's called works really well against everything. My basement used to be infested, after two treatments around the entire perimeter of the house, it's almost completely pest free.

 

They sound a lot like common 'barn' spiders, get a lot of those around. I live in NE kansas so we have a lot of brown recluses out here and most people get them confused with with the other. To be honest recluses are generally nice, reclusive and they very rarely use poison when they do bite. Ive been bitten 3-4 times really. Barn spiders are rude and bite like moonsters though, and even if you bug bomb 'em you never get them all -.-

My solution: Gasmasks, high high high grade gas masks, clear the neighborhood, 1 can of chlorinated brake cleaner (tetrachlorothylene in a can), 1 MAP torch, apply both together, fog area, kill all spiders, quarantine neighborhood for 5 weeks, never enter garage again. lol.

Seriously though NEVER burn chlorinated brake cleaner, ever. MaxDog's post just made me think of this stupid idea which is the only reason I posted it. Being a welder nothing scares me more than chlorinated brake cleaner, I dont even keep the stuff around. I have no problems pulling a gun on a man in a shop for getting ready to 'flamethrower' with a can of brake cleaner before reading it out loud to me

 

Reference MDchanic's map:

I live in Missouri. Yea, we have brown recluse spiders, but at least we have none of those "Hobo Spiders".....always trampin around with their little bandanas tied to a stick...."Hey man, got any spare flies?"

 

Yeah, Richard, should have had the video camera mounted on a tripod for the "magic" moment.............could have made a fortune..........or we all could have had even a better laugh. Great story. Glad you are OK.

 

Their "plan of attack" sounds like a place I frequent occasionally for a cold 1. Used to have a rubber spider suspended with fishing line, from above the jukebox, to behind the bar. New person playing music(preferably female) gets "Charlie" dropped down right in their face. Pretty funny most of the time, considering, at that time, the place didn't have a ceiling, just joysts exposed, so it could happen with a real spider too.
Richard, glad you and the mirror are OK.

 

Now thats a funny story, at least from where I'm standing! What about a fogger?

 

We had them so bad in a shop I once worked in we did the propane and carb cleaner trick on whole walls at a time....(shudder) They dropped like mini fire *****....bleh!

 

Be thankful that the spider was not one of these 4" swamp beasts...

 

As far as your spider friends go, hit them with some .22 cal scatter shot. Make it a little fun!

I just had one of these guys in my mail box yesterday. So they have made it all the way to California... Or you've been mailing them to me. It is my understanding that they are not as nasty as the black ones... The bite isn't as bad

We also get brown recluses out here, but you don't see them too often. In high school a classmate got bit in the face on his cheek. The wound becomes like a staff infection, and a large cavity forms... And they pack it with gauze. He missed 2 weeks over it.

I guess I need to move. Too crowded and still get all the nasty spiders out here. Its a lose-lose!

 

HA ! Timely thread.

I'm a bit arachnophobic. Nothing else...snakes, critters, big bugs, etc, ..bothers me, but spiders do.

I live in a rural area and there's a wide variety of them.
I have a deal with them: Stay out of the house and stay alive.

But the garage, while finished, has an abundance of various 8 legged freaks. I tolerate them best I can until they come within reach.

A couple of weeks ago I was installing my new headers .... the kind that use use goo instead of gaskets. I hate working with goo. No matter how hard I try, it ends up everywhere. So, I'm already tense as I goo up the the pass. side but it goes on fine. The driver side needed a bit more finesse as I needed to loosely install the dipstick tube and slip the header over it. I goo up the header and go to get the tube. As I round the front front of the car this BIG spider (by my standards 'freakin huge'...like gummi-bear body size) streaks toward my foot. I stomp it only to see, as my foot hits, an EXPANDING CLOUD OF OF THOUSANDS OF MICRO SPIDERS. I start doing my Michael Flatley River Dance routine all over the place.

I recover and install the header...only to notice the dipstick tube still sitting on the bench... Grrr.. Stupid spiders.

 

Hehe... I would have paid to see that!
Too bad about the dippy tube tho....
I stomped a big spider at the train station a few months back and it did the same thing - I bet it freaked out some upcoming passengers!

 

Diatomaceous earth kills the creepy crawlers.


http://www.motherearthnews.com/grow-...b0z12zalt.aspx

DE will not cause spidey to burst into flames or explode like a well place spider stomp but is safe for kids of all ages and pets too.

 

And kills other bugs, too. It is a super-fine powder of glass, it tears them up well, esp slugs! Safe as long as it is not eaten.
For the cost of that little box at the greenie sites, you can get a bigger bag at your local swimming pool shop. It is used in many filtration systems.

 

http://www.earthworkshealth.com/products.php


There is food grade DE available if you want to use it on the garden or foodstuffs. It seems to be banned in Texas! Unless you pay more for EPA certification.

 

But it's a completely inert, naturally occurring substance.

Bizarre.

- Eric

 

So is CO2, the stuff we breathe out and plants breathe in, but that's now listed as a pollutant. This kind of thing has got to stop, or we're going to be in even worse trouble than we already are...

 

I agree that classifying CO2 as a pollutant is a bit over the top, but I have to point out that it's NOT inert. It's quite reactive under the right conditions, actually, and plants are pulling the carbon off of it all the time to mix with water and make wood and sugar .

- Eric

 

It's all about money ! Air Force One , Space Shuttle , Cows , Coal Power Plants ....Blah Blah Blah . I don't beleive their ( Gov ) BS !

 

Watch, we'll start having to pay a greenhouse gas tax for breathing. Gaytarded.

 

I have a solution for all of this... A spider tax

 

Don't really have any poisonous spiders around here, but we do have some big ones. Have about 5 spinmasters against the fence and house, 2 of which are almost an inch long. Wish they would do a better job of catching mosquitoes because this is the worst year for them.

If they come into my garage, they end up in the shop vac!

 

I always figured if I sucked one up in the shop vac it would lay eggs and I'd have a million of them.


Video: Spiders on drugs.

 

Suck in some bug spray - problem solved!

 

I stopped doing that , because I figured they would just climb back out again anyways