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Thread: Brown button spider - what now?
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02-11-2017, 21:20 #1
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Brown button spider - what now?
There are ample recluse spiders in our area, and plenty of other ones as well.
After urgent moving to Stella I have done my part to keep the house clean of these widows, especially because we have small kids. Others are welcome.
But ... One brown widow took up residence in a high and remote corner of the garage and I left her there because there is no harm in her being there.
I told myself the "lease agreement" will expire as soon as the first egg sack appears, which happened this morning.
What now? I do not want to doom her after carefully observing her development over the last six months.
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02-11-2017, 21:41 #2
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Re: Brown button spider - what now?
Annealing gas torch dominee!
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02-11-2017, 22:05 #3
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Re: Brown button spider - what now?
Docile they are.
But
Doom her, don't fool yourself, you are every bit the predator she is, or did you forget why they call them widows?
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02-11-2017, 22:17 #4
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Re: Brown button spider - what now?
Ds J, both my parents got bit two years ago, and it gets nasty.
I'd get rid of it sooner rather than later. Took us years to get rid of them at home.
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02-11-2017, 22:36 #5
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Re: Brown button spider - what now?
Relocate her? Depending on how and where her web is constructed, it is possible to relocate if you don't want to go the doom route. That being said, the Doom way is probably the simplest.
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03-11-2017, 05:38 #6
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Re: Brown button spider - what now?
My dad got zapped by one about 20 years ago. Above his eye while he was sleeping. Fortunately he woke up and could find the spider to know what happened.
Agonizing 2 weeks followed and it took a long time for him to recover.
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03-11-2017, 05:54 #7
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03-11-2017, 06:31 #8
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03-11-2017, 07:01 #9
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03-11-2017, 07:06 #10
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Re: Brown button spider - what now?
When my softer half isn't around to insist on a public execution of said arachnid, I'll do my best to relocate them to a spot in the garden as far as possible from the house.
If you must kill her, percussion or conflageration is probably quicker than chemical warfare. As far as I understand spiders' physiology works different from insect, and they don't absorb the nerve agent as efficiently, and therefore take a long time to die. Just squash her and get it over with.
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