Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: A massive thick black hairy spider - help! 41Feb 12, 2011 11:16 am Hey Erin, there's some stuff that we bought recently which is industrial strength - mix it in with the outdoor spray stuff and you wont have any creepy crawlies! We bought it since all the earthmoving near us means that there are spiders everywhere at the moment and we both hate spiders! lol Custom European Cabinets - Melbourne Kitchen Specialist PM for business details as website currently being updated! Our Crazy Owner Builder Journey! Re: A massive thick black hairy spider - help! 42Feb 12, 2011 11:33 am You seriously need to be careful when choosing these sprays. Take for example the automated sprays that show "caring" mothers protecting families. Yeah it is natural, but by geeze it is toxic. Many are know carcinogens. Pyrethrum for example can never be used in certified organic products because of its known relationship between it and cancer. Yet the Australian Government says it is safe for use. Many synthetic man made pyrethrins are also nasty to us let alone the spiders. Bifenthrin based sprays are the friendliest of the pyrethrins. They are also the more effective. Do a bit of research for yourself on the ingredients in these sprays before you use them round your kids and you. Fungicides and systemic and contact insecticides are also nasty in just about all cases. There is no way any of that stuff gets used by us. Occasionally we use Bifenthrin but very occasionally. Recent studies on the other family of insecticides is the Neonicotinoids and they are very common in peoples sheds. Seriously controversial. Yes they are considered safe to use by our Government but they also got a mention in wikileaks and scientists are doing independent studies and finding some awful things in regard to what they do to us. They are considered the major reason bees are disappearing from the earth. Pyrethrins are also implicated in that and that includes Pyrethrum itself. When very large companies that rival oil companies for size and influence say something is safe, its made safe Re: A massive thick black hairy spider - help! 43Feb 12, 2011 12:21 pm OMG Erin! You poor thing! If your anything like me i understand how you were/are feeling! I would have died! I'm an arachnophobic! It depends on the size of the spider or how close it is to me for how bad my reaction will be. Small spiders i can get one of the 4 or 5 spray cans i have in the cupboard and kill it that way but if they are big forget it! I freeze, start hyperventilating and the tears just start rolling down my face. Thankfully my DH isn't affraid and he kills them for me! <3 If DH isn't home and i kill a spider, i can't pick it up either, i leave it there for DH when he comes home and i will either leave the house or close off the room it was in! One thing though, no matter what size the spider is, I JUST CAN NOT SQUASH IT! I hope you can find it again (when Aaron is home of course) and get rid of it! Building the Porter Davis Sandhurst 33 Our Thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=42820&start=20 Re: A massive thick black hairy spider - help! 44Feb 12, 2011 1:43 pm Cooper32 Classic thread!! Reminds me of a few years back when my Mum found a large hairy spider in her car but it disappeared before Dad could locate & remove it, mum has a HUGE fear of spiders & told dad if he didn't find it she was selling the car Car was sold 3 days later, she never stepped foot back into it That is so funny, I thought I was bad. Re: A massive thick black hairy spider - help! 45Feb 12, 2011 5:53 pm Fu, maybe you can answer this... The place we've been renting for the past 18 months has a lot of plants and garden...and we've got redbacks like no one's business...Hubby is usually squishing at least four of them every weekend...we have a two year old, so we don't like to just leave them there. I found two more today...one in the drying court and one by the alfresco. Our new house will have a lot less beds, trees, ground cover etc. than this one does..just a bit of lawn and one or two raised beds, but nothing like where we are now: three bottlebrushes, mulched beds running the length of the wall (both sides) and all around the back garden, complete with lots of ground cover-type plants. I'm wondering if that will also mean less redbacks...obviously not none, this being Australia, but still, it'd be nice to not spend every weekend on redback duty, squashing a half dozen of the suckers... Re: A massive thick black hairy spider - help! 46Feb 12, 2011 7:35 pm Usually spiders stay where there home is, a crack in a wall or a hole somewhere. If it got inside it was an accident. You can simply use a vac and a tea towel tied to it to catch it and place it into a container. Don't forget to open the air hole first though or the tea towel and spider will both be doomed. Redbacks need to be dealt with simply because of their toxicity, others are not toxic so don't fear them. You can't imagine how scared they are of you.. Redbacks and vacs - (fluuwmp) gone! Re: A massive thick black hairy spider - help! 47Feb 12, 2011 7:44 pm this is why I love my rentokil guy! "Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions." — Elizabeth Gilbert Living in our new house. Currently scaping the land. Re: A massive thick black hairy spider - help! 48Feb 12, 2011 7:50 pm and what is rentokill guy using around your house and what will that be doing to you?????? Re: A massive thick black hairy spider - help! 49Feb 12, 2011 8:02 pm don't know but me and my family are still here and healthy, and the bugs aren't, so I'm happy "Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions." — Elizabeth Gilbert Living in our new house. Currently scaping the land. Re: A massive thick black hairy spider - help! 50Feb 12, 2011 10:00 pm Redman Usually spiders stay where there home is, a crack in a wall or a hole somewhere. If it got inside it was an accident. You can simply use a vac and a tea towel tied to it to catch it and place it into a container. Don't forget to open the air hole first though or the tea towel and spider will both be doomed. Redbacks need to be dealt with simply because of their toxicity, others are not toxic so don't fear them. You can't imagine how scared they are of you.. Redbacks and vacs - (fluuwmp) gone! These ones are all outside so far... *knock on wood* Just there seem to be a LOT of them in the garden... Re: A massive thick black hairy spider - help! 51Feb 12, 2011 10:14 pm These pesticides don't just go bammo and you get sick. These very slowly bio accumulate in the body. In fatty tissue especially. They can have long term effects on the nervous system and things like blindness are not unheard of. It's the generations to come that often see problems. This is happening in quite a few places in the world. Here in Perth, so many different pesticides are being used in individual homes with happy people in them. Everyone of those homes is contributing to an enormous amount finding their way into our rivers. So much so that fish populations are going female and threatening bio diversity of the rivers. Like the banks taking 1 cent off you for some charge. 1 cent here and there adds up to millions of dollars. Re: A massive thick black hairy spider - help! 52Feb 12, 2011 10:40 pm Oh and the more daddy long legs you have round the place, the less redbacks you will have The daddy long legs is the redbacks number one predator. When we eliminate the top predator, the redbacks will keep coming back way before the good guys show up. This goes for domestic pest control and pests in the garden. You spray something in the garden, there is a direct effect on what is going on. You just have to in tune with it to see. When the population is run out of town, its never the good guys who arrive first Re: A massive thick black hairy spider - help! 53Feb 12, 2011 11:34 pm deb17 I was once driving to my Friends after leaving the gym, I felt something trickle on my face, I am not a person that sweats, so I pulled down the mirror and my worse nightmare came true, one of those furry spiders was sitting just above my eyebrow. I drove up the nature strip with my hand on the horn, it was horrific. I flicked it of my face and drove like a maniac to my friends Hair Salon, she came out with a tin of hairspray and we sprayed the car, couldn't find it, but I have never really got over it. deb have you seen the movie "nothing to lose"? your spider story reminded me of it so much , take a look at this, it is one of the most hilarious scenes I've ever seen in a movie, I'll never forget it! (I love the way the spider just runs off too ) - I think a lot of people can identify! (warning- there is some swearing) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1_cKGWyDAY Re: A massive thick black hairy spider - help! 54Feb 13, 2011 7:09 am Fu Manchu Oh and the more daddy long legs you have round the place, the less redbacks you will have The daddy long legs is the redbacks number one predator. When we eliminate the top predator, the redbacks will keep coming back way before the good guys show up. This goes for domestic pest control and pests in the garden. You spray something in the garden, there is a direct effect on what is going on. You just have to in tune with it to see. When the population is run out of town, its never the good guys who arrive first That explains a lot, Fu. We used to find redbacks around our old garden fairly frequently in the first few years we lived there, then they disappeared. I never realised there was a connection to the enormous daddy-long-legs population that had developed. Unfortunately, my youngest was terrified of spiders for the first ten years of his life, and I couldn't leave even one daddy-long-legs in the house or he'd refuse to go to bed in case it crawled in with him in his sleep ...but since I hated to kill them, I always caught them and tossed them out the back door. Seems I was on the right track. Now we have a few redbacks here, but I havent' really spotted any daddy-long-legs. Maybe I should visit the old place and relocate a few? Re: A massive thick black hairy spider - help! 55Feb 13, 2011 8:01 am I have 'heard' (in other words I don't know how true it is...), that if you keep Daddy Long Legs in your home it will attract the White Tails because they eat them! I just don't keep any spider in my home!!! Henley - Wilshire Mk 3 ... I love my house!! Site start: 4th Feb 09 Handover: 10th Sep 09 Blog: http://stormygirlscastle.blogspot.com/ Build Thread: viewtopic.php?t=7166 Re: A massive thick black hairy spider - help! 56Feb 13, 2011 8:57 am kek Fu Manchu Oh and the more daddy long legs you have round the place, the less redbacks you will have The daddy long legs is the redbacks number one predator. When we eliminate the top predator, the redbacks will keep coming back way before the good guys show up. This goes for domestic pest control and pests in the garden. You spray something in the garden, there is a direct effect on what is going on. You just have to in tune with it to see. When the population is run out of town, its never the good guys who arrive first That explains a lot, Fu. We used to find redbacks around our old garden fairly frequently in the first few years we lived there, then they disappeared. I never realised there was a connection to the enormous daddy-long-legs population that had developed. Unfortunately, my youngest was terrified of spiders for the first ten years of his life, and I couldn't leave even one daddy-long-legs in the house or he'd refuse to go to bed in case it crawled in with him in his sleep ...but since I hated to kill them, I always caught them and tossed them out the back door. Seems I was on the right track. Now we have a few redbacks here, but I havent' really spotted any daddy-long-legs. Maybe I should visit the old place and relocate a few? Bring some over here...I think I've only seen one daddy long legs this past month...so redbacks: 20, daddy long legs: 1. The sprays thing is interesting...we're from Canada (have been in Perth for about 18 months now) and it's taken some getting used to seeing everyone spray everything here...I see the trucks spraying glyphosate all the time...pest sprayers...I'm checking into bio management for termites because I can't imagine spraying for termites every single year...ugh...right next to where my 6 year old daughter wants to start her own organic veggie patch... In our old municipality, even weed 'n' feed was illegal...and the city was not allowed to spray for weeds in public parks...so we had a lot of dandelions in the summer, but at least it was safer for the kids to play on the grass... Re: A massive thick black hairy spider - help! 57Feb 13, 2011 9:46 am Fu Manchu These pesticides don't just go bammo and you get sick. These very slowly bio accumulate in the body. In fatty tissue especially. They can have long term effects on the nervous system and things like blindness are not unheard of. It's the generations to come that often see problems. This is happening in quite a few places in the world. Here in Perth, so many different pesticides are being used in individual homes with happy people in them. Everyone of those homes is contributing to an enormous amount finding their way into our rivers. So much so that fish populations are going female and threatening bio diversity of the rivers. Like the banks taking 1 cent off you for some charge. 1 cent here and there adds up to millions of dollars. why aren't they all banned then? "Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions." — Elizabeth Gilbert Living in our new house. Currently scaping the land. Re: A massive thick black hairy spider - help! 58Feb 13, 2011 10:13 am We used to live in area right on the edge of the bush. We were one of the first ones there and more development was occuring around us (so there were heaps of creepy crawlies relocating) We used to have the most amazing creatures enter our home. Huge centipedes longer than my foot, scorpians (I was stung once and the pain is horrendous) spiders and bush mice Eeek! Other than the scorpian sting-the worst was on a few occasions where we saw a spider that I have never been able to identify. It looked like it had come straight out of the amazon. The following youtube clip shows the size and shape however it had the most beautiful markings on it. It was quite 'furry looking' that I initally thought it was a mouse and it freaked me out so much I swear that I could hear its footsteps LOL My husband hates the idea of killing anything so it was always left alone. (It would have made an enormous mess if I had tried to kill it with my shoe LOL) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu2EnZVrtiU Re: A massive thick black hairy spider - help! 59Feb 13, 2011 10:20 am I also have vivid memories of being a very small girl and found a huntsmen spider in a large decorative pot for an indoor plant (no plant in it at the time) My older brother was looking after me at the time so I asked him to remove it. He told me it was harmless and not to worry about it and that it wouldn't be able to walk up the sides of the pot to get out anyway. Silly little me believed him and I was mortified when I returned to the pot 5 minutes later and it has escaped. I was terrified all night thinking it was going to crawl into my bed...... I got sweet justice the next day when my brother has just hopped out of the shower and we all heard him screaming like a girl. It turns out that the hunstmen had taken refuge on his towel but he didn't realise until he used the towel to dry himself HA HA! Re: A massive thick black hairy spider - help! 60Feb 13, 2011 10:44 am donuts don't know but me and my family are still here and healthy, and the bugs aren't, so I'm happy I paid our rentokill guy $270 a few months back and we were spider free.... for two weeks Custom European Cabinets - Melbourne Kitchen Specialist PM for business details as website currently being updated! Our Crazy Owner Builder Journey! The warning is on the sticker on the door too. Second the aluminium powdercoat 6 18194 Thankyou for your advice. We do have Caesar coming out and hopefully resolve the issue for us. 4 18742 I asked this question of one of the forum's resident cabinet makers who may/may not wish to identify himself to answer other questions if he sees this, but the rersponse… 3 7724 |