dibbons
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Has anyone ever cleaned out a garage and NOT found a black widow spider?
Spring Cleaning Always Finds This
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dano
Evil Handy Man
I've found my share. You look before you reach.
Plymouth 65
I'll be in the shop
Not up here thankfully! 65
I usually wear gloves because of the hidden black widows I may find.
Turbo440Dart
crank runner over-er
Not so much in the garage. When I do my once a year pull the duster out of the yard I end up using the MAP gas torch to kill 1 or 20 of them. I will burn the car to the ground before sharing space with a spider.
Geez, we just have to deal with bears here in Northern Ontario. At least you can see them coming.
Yep! And for the rattlers, make lots of noise and jostle stuff around as you go. That usually wakes them up so they'll start rattling, and then you know where to send your wife to start cleaning.
JDMopar
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I put up a tiny little sign by both doors into my garage. It reads " Spider special. All you can eat buffet. Lizards eat free and no tipping required!"
The little green lizards have a field day with the spiders, but there are still more than they can control by themselves. Thankfully, no Black Widows or Brown Reclosers yet. Yes, I spelled it wrong....it's a lineman inside joke! I spray the spiders once it's warm enough for egg sacks to appear. Stinks like heck in the garage for a few days, but gets em gone.
The little green lizards have a field day with the spiders, but there are still more than they can control by themselves. Thankfully, no Black Widows or Brown Reclosers yet. Yes, I spelled it wrong....it's a lineman inside joke! I spray the spiders once it's warm enough for egg sacks to appear. Stinks like heck in the garage for a few days, but gets em gone.LST46
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Always. I am the last house on a dead end street with woods abutting my property so I see quite a bit. Here’s a picture of a huge spider (can’t remember what it is) that looks scary but I looked it up and it’s harmless
dr dodge
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we have BRs and widows
I set one of these off the day before
also works on ants and bees
cheap enough for a slightly reduced paranoia
I set one of these off the day before
also works on ants and bees
cheap enough for a slightly reduced paranoia
That's a beautiful orb weaver! Friend, not foe! I'll relocate them to a plant in the yard if they're somewhere I don't want them.
LST46
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Yes it is. I always let them be because I know they eat a lot of pesky bugs
Sprayed a widder a few years ago in the fenderwell. She dropped to the floor. Was walking by later and the ***** jumped onto my ankle. I was amazed.
dr dodge
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I was a trashman in the country
amazing how some critters are way tougher than ya think
especially hornets, and spiders
I don't know what a widder is but I've been stung twice by wasps, both times in the ear. And both times I was just walking out in the open, minding my own business. They were flying and collided with me, decided "eff this guy" and stung me. I do not like wasps.
JDMopar
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@Workingdog1 might not be from CA, lol. "Widder", as far as I know is an Appalachian American word that actually means Black Widow. 
Saying it out loud using my family's accent, it checks out!@Workingdog1 might not be from CA, lol. "Widder", as far as I know is an Appalachian American word that actually means Black Widow.
JDMopar
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I forgot to add that it can also describe a woman who's husband has passed away...."Ol widder woman".
I have used the flat glue traps in my shop for roaches and the like. I went to change one out, and there was a freakin' coral snake stuck to it. Dead of course, but it scared the crap out if me. I guess he was going to go for the easy picking of piles of dead bugs. Joke was on him!
famous bob
mopar misfit
mostly brown recluse , and lots of them...
70SwingerGuy
Long Haired Freaky Person
Wasps are definitely the A-holes of the insect community, they sting and bite unprovoked for no apparent reason.
threewood
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Yep. In the well house and shop. Sometimes on the back patio under or in things. I try to spray 4 times a year but those buggers keep coming back.
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