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Yes, I realize that I am not alone in this feeling. But tonight after ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
adammaker left (we'd watched the new "Eureka" episode and Mars Attacks! as dessert), I decided I could not sleep without thoroughly toxifying the house's perimeter inside and out. Why, you ask? Well, because during a bathroom break I killed two fucking Brown Recluse spiders upstairs, that's why, and I didn't want to get bitten by one for my third year in a row.
I made a scooter-trip out to Wal-Mart, that paradise of shopping (er, what I mean to say is, "the only place that's open at 1am for paranoid bug-combatants") and bought a couple gallons of anti-spider poison. Got home and poured one gallon along the house's walls and foundation outside, then squirted half the second gallon along bug-friendly pathways up the walls, then went inside and squirted all along the bases of the walls upstairs and down, in the attic-room, plus in the cupboards and fireplace and furnace area.
Then a shower, as I didn't really gear up properly and my nose was running something fierce. By now the liquid has dried up, it's damned late, and I feel confident that nothing can survive breaking into the house. To bed!
Here's wishing you no spiders,
Chris
adammaker left (we'd watched the new "Eureka" episode and Mars Attacks! as dessert), I decided I could not sleep without thoroughly toxifying the house's perimeter inside and out. Why, you ask? Well, because during a bathroom break I killed two fucking Brown Recluse spiders upstairs, that's why, and I didn't want to get bitten by one for my third year in a row. I made a scooter-trip out to Wal-Mart, that paradise of shopping (er, what I mean to say is, "the only place that's open at 1am for paranoid bug-combatants") and bought a couple gallons of anti-spider poison. Got home and poured one gallon along the house's walls and foundation outside, then squirted half the second gallon along bug-friendly pathways up the walls, then went inside and squirted all along the bases of the walls upstairs and down, in the attic-room, plus in the cupboards and fireplace and furnace area.
Then a shower, as I didn't really gear up properly and my nose was running something fierce. By now the liquid has dried up, it's damned late, and I feel confident that nothing can survive breaking into the house. To bed!
Here's wishing you no spiders,
Chris
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We used Haley's pest control on June 2nd, and we're STILL finding dead spiders around the floorboards.
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Just asking because unless you see the spider and spray it directly, most spider poisons do not kill brown recluses, but it does kill their food. So, if you are spraying all over and you do have brown recluses, you are just creating a smorgasbord for them. They will in turn invite their friends, and you will have more.
Plus, they won't bite you unless you taunt them. They are most dangerous, say if they are in a pile of clothes that you step in and press up against the spider. Or there is one nestled in your bed covers and you roll over on it. They won't find you, crawl up on you and bite you.
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That my poisoning might not have worked makes me very unhappy.
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I discovered them when I sprayed down there to kill the crickets. Day one, there were dead crickets laying of the floor. Day two, all of them were gone. I didn't realize that I was feeding my spiders.
I got trapped down there with one, and I hate them so much that I just stood there for what seemed like forever, just wishing that it would crawl away. I finally build up enough courage to grab a laundry basket, throw it on the spider, and then jump in the basket. It made a horrible crunching noise that at the time made me nauseated and dizzy. Today, it haunts me with shivers and goosebumps.
I'm not coming over to your house. Let us know when they are gone.
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Don't know why I'm in such a silly mood at the moment.
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I HATE SPIDERS, TOO!
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God made guys to deal with critters that have carapaces and Too Many Legs.
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Somebody tell Mel that she almost made me cry at work, I'm so freaked out.
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Be careful, okay? Don't get bitten.
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Did you see the news story (flashed by briefly on Yahoo) that in India, monkeys in the subways are a problem, so they're throwing langurs at the problem, and hiring langur wranglers. What I want to know is, what are they going to do for the inevitable langur problem? Throw ocelots at them? Then tigers at the ocelots? Where will the madness end???
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Monkeys: We langurs love 'em!
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