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 Nothing Comes Easy
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Location: Texas | What can I spray or do safely around horse to get rid of these spiders? I have enough spider nests on my wooden posts to have a sequel of 'The Thing' in a few weeks. In fact, we just killed one that was huge!
I understand the purpose of the spiders... Killing flies, Mosquitos, etc. However, when they are big enough to have to kill with a pellet gun, they have to go! Will vinegar work? Or what can I buy that'll not hurt my horses but deter them from returning?
I'm going to start knocking webs down tonight but I'm sure they'll come right back. |
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  Witty Enough
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Location: CTX | I would like to know too!! We have too many of them suckers running around here!! |
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Location: SE Louisiana | I'll play with a snake anytime.... But i HATE spiders!! FIRE!! Burn it down!!! Fire kills those terrible things!!! |
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Location: Up and over to the right | Fly Predators work like magic for flies in my neck of the woods. As far as spiders, maybe find something that eats spiders? A few bird houses or cats perhaps! |
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Location: Texas | You need to buy some Tempo sc ultra, it's a concentrate, you mix with water in a sprayer and it REALLY works!!!!
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| Spiders are my boogieman in life, but the barn or outside in general I will tolerate them because of the beneficial duties they perform. I don't mind snakes (at least the shivery-scared kind of minding), but I'd rather relocate them so I don't accidentally bother one and get bit in the hay barn.
Now if I lived more south, I would want the recluses gone, if possible. I'm still not healed 100% from a recluse bite I got in 1999! |
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Location: Where the pavement ends and the West begins Utah | Some where I read that Peppermint and vinegar repels them including flies and mosquito. I want to plant peppermint all over my yard. |
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Location: Baden, PA | We just used to put the horses out and attack the inside of the barn with a shop vac |
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Location: ND--it snows, it floods, it snows, it floods | kickincans - 2014-07-13 5:24 PM You need to buy some Tempo sc ultra, it's a concentrate, you mix with water in a sprayer and it REALLY works!!!!
Ditto on the Tempo....works great and safe after it's dried. Peppermint oil works to keep spiders away as well. Fly predators and Tempo would be a great program for control of insects. |
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Location: SoCal | I've had good luck with killing big spiders with Fly Spray! I've had late night run ins with Black Widows and have killed with the Fly Spray. Not sure how you can really use that to prevent them from coming back, but it works to get them gone! |
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Nothing Comes Easy
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Location: Texas | Thanks everyone. I'll look into the Tempo. I think this weekend I'll kick all of my horses out of the barn and give the barn a good cleaning. I'm so glad my barn has decent lighting... There are a few spiders running around here that are bigger then the mice.
This is so aggravating. Between my house and the barn... Im right there with Komet, burn it down! Though I dont think my realtor would appreciate that. I cant keep up with these pests. First I had a rat problem in the barn, then a mouse problem in the bottom cupboards in the house, and now a feral cat and spider problem. Once I chase off one thing, another shows up. |
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Location: Here | Wisdom from tractor supply works great |
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Location: NW. Florida | I've used the shop vac and also a presure washer. |
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Location: Gainesville, TX | I would wash everything out and then spray using some term of long term spray, several are recommended above. Control the flies with fly predators and daily stall cleanings. I would also buy a cat to manage other pests. I hate spiders. |
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Nothing Comes Easy
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Location: Texas | Thanks everyone. It looks like my barns going to get a good spring cleaning this weekend.
I've solved all my other pest issues. I dont have much of a fly problem right now. I was blessed with a stray kitten a few months back and he's taken charge over the barn. Between him and my pellet gun, we have that barn pest free minus the spiders. Unfortunately other feral cats have come in and tried to beat my little guy up. If its not one thing, it's another it seems. Right now I can handle four legged pests.. The 8 legged ones have to go. |
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| We have black widows and Pyranha fly spray even kills them so I use it in my well house and wherever I see a web or a spider that is near where I'm going to be reaching or walking. :-) Easy since I spray the horses regularly this time of year anyway. |
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| If you are looking for a safe and easy way to rid of the spiders I bought a Cobweb Winder from Amazon. It coils the webbing into a neat ball on a wand. The horses didn't mind its use and the spider webs disappeared fast. Before I was just using my broom but it seemed to spread the problem around and make a mess. Good luck everyone! |
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| I have a chicken that hangs out in my barn and she keeps everything out of there...even toads!! lol |
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"Heck's Coming With Me"
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Location: Kansas | Insect glue traps work too. The TomCat brand is good. You can get them at Wal-Mart. Don't leave them flat....tent them. Just don't let your toads get into them. They're the best little spider-getters ever. They're on the verge of hibernation now though, at least in our area.
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