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Location: Kentucky | These things are everywhere! I knock their nests down and spray them down with fly spray, but I think it's fuel for them. Any ideas on how to deal with them? |
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Location: Gainesville, TX | Wasp spray? I ran across a big mamba jamba in my shower this morning. It wasn't a daddy long legs though, either a wolf spider or hobo spider. It was like 2x2. Scared the living bejesus out of me. Then I turned around while combing my hair and there's a wasp on my door. Not my morning. |
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  Keeper of the King Snake
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Location: Dubach, LA | Aww, they don't hurt anything! Kinda giggled about your title. Around here they are called grandaddy longlegs. |
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Midget Lover
Location: Kentucky | CanCan - 2014-07-16 9:58 AM Aww, they don't hurt anything! Kinda giggled about your title. Around here they are called grandaddy longlegs.
Bugs don't usually bother me, and they don't harm anything, but they have taken over!! |
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Location: Do I hear Banjos? | Well on the upside...they prey on other spiders. So you may have less bad ones due to them being around.
But...they creep me out too. I was cleaning a stall and one fell on my arm. I about lost it. I'm sure me flailing my arms and squealing like a little girl was highly entertaining to see.
So...one thing that is relatively non toxic to us but will get them would be boric acid. They pick it up on their bodies/legs as they walk and later ingest it while grooming themselves. |
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Location: Somewhere in the middle of nowhere | TrailGirl - 2014-07-16 8:24 AM Well on the upside...they prey on other spiders. So you may have less bad ones due to them being around.
But...they creep me out too. I was cleaning a stall and one fell on my arm. I about lost it. I'm sure me flailing my arms and squealing like a little girl was highly entertaining to see.
So...one thing that is relatively non toxic to us but will get them would be boric acid. They pick it up on their bodies/legs as they walk and later ingest it while grooming themselves.
I am not a spider fan but interesting facts...I never knew spiders groom themselves. Thanks for that tidbit! |
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Midget Lover
Location: Kentucky | TrailGirl - 2014-07-16 10:24 AM Well on the upside...they prey on other spiders. So you may have less bad ones due to them being around.
But...they creep me out too. I was cleaning a stall and one fell on my arm. I about lost it. I'm sure me flailing my arms and squealing like a little girl was highly entertaining to see.
So...one thing that is relatively non toxic to us but will get them would be boric acid. They pick it up on their bodies/legs as they walk and later ingest it while grooming themselves.
It's funny you say that because I have seen almost zero spiders in my barn since they overtook it. |
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 A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Murphy - 2014-07-16 9:35 AM TrailGirl - 2014-07-16 10:24 AM Well on the upside...they prey on other spiders. So you may have less bad ones due to them being around.
But...they creep me out too. I was cleaning a stall and one fell on my arm. I about lost it. I'm sure me flailing my arms and squealing like a little girl was highly entertaining to see.
So...one thing that is relatively non toxic to us but will get them would be boric acid. They pick it up on their bodies/legs as they walk and later ingest it while grooming themselves. It's funny you say that because I have seen almost zero spiders in my barn since they overtook it.
I have Daddy Longlegs all over the place in my feed room, but I still have Black Widows too, so they dont eat every thing. Darn it  |
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Sideways Riding Expert
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Location: ND--it snows, it floods, it snows, it floods | Spray down with Tempo... |
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Midget Lover
Location: Kentucky | docschic - 2014-07-16 12:19 PM Spray down with Tempo...
I've been hearing a lot about this stuff on the forum lately. I'll have to check it out. |
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Location: Never in one place long | ahh, they don't hurt anything... let the cold weather kill them off this fall? I LOVE Daddy Long Legs! I wonder if you have something in your barn that's attracting them. Maybe you'd have many more BAD spiders if they weren't around? |
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 Hog Tie My Mojo
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Location: Opelousas, LA | Southtxponygirl - 2014-07-16 11:10 AM Murphy - 2014-07-16 9:35 AM TrailGirl - 2014-07-16 10:24 AM Well on the upside...they prey on other spiders. So you may have less bad ones due to them being around.
But...they creep me out too. I was cleaning a stall and one fell on my arm. I about lost it. I'm sure me flailing my arms and squealing like a little girl was highly entertaining to see.
So...one thing that is relatively non toxic to us but will get them would be boric acid. They pick it up on their bodies/legs as they walk and later ingest it while grooming themselves. It's funny you say that because I have seen almost zero spiders in my barn since they overtook it.
Wasp spray will kill black widows, it may take a while for them to die though. I use it to knock them down then I stomp them.
I hate black widows, they always hide in my kids outside toys, scares the crap out of me. |
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 Money Eating Baggage Owner
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Location: Phoenix | Daddy longlegs are the good spider! (If you can call a spider "good"). |
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Location: OREGON | Don't kill them. They eat the other 'bugs' you don't want, spiders, mosquitos, etc. |
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Location: Florida.. | who would want to kill daddylong legs..they dont hurt anything..lol.. |
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