Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: Spider I.D please 21Feb 22, 2012 2:27 am Well you have to consider many pesticides are oil based. This can cause accumulation issues. Over time you will find you have sprayed the entire house surface with 2 second bursts. Flies = open the doors and windows and let them pass through. If at night and you have both flies and mozzies - open the back door, turn on the garden light/s, kill the house lights and stand outside. They all fly out usually. Spiders = are you seriously that scared of a bug? I mean really are you serious? Catch them and let them go. They are lost in your house anyway and are looking for an exit. Huntsmen = You don't even need to catch them, just coax them gently encouraging them to get on a stick. Then take them to a tree. Usually they go to the end and look at where they are going. They actually have very sharp vision with movable lenses on 4 eyes. Dangerous spiders and funnel webs. = vacuum cleaner = bye bye.. Re: Spider I.D please 22Feb 24, 2012 11:25 am I completely understand why people will want to help them back outside. However, for some of us, there's just a completely irrational fear going on with spiders for some reason. If it's a snake, cockroach, cane toad, lizard, beetle or anything except a spider, I'll happily pick it up or coax it outside. If it's a spider, unfortunately I lose the plot completely and end up hiding behind my wife. It's totally silly, but many phobias are I suppose. Re: Spider I.D please 23Feb 24, 2012 10:14 pm In my younger days when i had small children I had the professionals come and spray the house for spiders and have regretted it every day since, my middle son was about three at the time and has suffered with stomach and thyroid trouble, I still to this day blame myself. I have resently used poison that I mix myself (restaurant grade but still poison) because I had a scorpion infestation and could not live in the house any longer, but because I hate poisons so much I also put lots of other measures in place such as free range poultry, gravel around house ect to deter the scorpions. Again i wish I did not use the poison because it was not doing the job, the other measures I put in place have worked and it is hard to find a scorpion now I just wanted to share my thoughts so that anyone else with children did not have to live with the guilt as they watch their children grow up and wonder if it was their fault. Spider I.D please 25Mar 18, 2012 9:07 pm We have our house sprayed yearly, I would hate for my babies to be bitten, or for her to eat one. Jasmin Hickinbotham Belmont - modified Signed: February 2011 Slab should go down before 2012 My build thread https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=52310&p=799483#p799483 Re: Spider I.D please 26Mar 21, 2012 2:46 am Well, with all the rain of the last 2 years a pair of stumps sunk into the mud. I went under there and jacked the house back up - I can close the front door again - and what was I doing for 2 hours? Having a face off with a Redback 70cm from my face. She is right under the front door. There were 8 old egg clutches just over from her. I didn't really mind. She is more than likely eating wolf spiders, earwigs and cockroaches. I think she can stay there as there must be one Redback every 20 feet in the north of Melbourne. What I found is the ones that bite the most often are those annoying tree spiders that "drift" of a night time as they tree hop in the breeze. The little ones that are green or brown (same species). These guys bite anything and it hurts like a hot needle. These guys are the ones your spray misses and the tree / garden spiders are the ones kids access - a lesson to be learned - spiders bite sometimes. The spray is letting in cockroaches but not allowing common spiders to get them first. Also the residue will persist and kids lick their fingers. I can't imagine what chemicals go into a barrier spray that lasts for a year.. Re: Spider I.D please 27Mar 21, 2012 7:43 am I don't kill spiders except for Redbacks and White Tails. The others take care of the mozzies that sometimes get into the house. I killed 3 female redbacks last night. They built their webs in the corners of the bluestone steps right where my kids hang out sometimes. Last thing i'd want is for my kids to get bitten by one of those and i'm not going to start telling the kids "not to play there because...etc" I once killed 24 Redbacks in one night. I'm in the north eastern suburbs of Melbourne and they are everywhere. Re: Spider I.D please 31Jun 02, 2012 9:32 am JazzyJess Thats why we stopped spraying and alot of the time we have less creepycrawlies now. Same experience here - many years ago we had many whitetail spiders in the house, at least one a night. With all the bad press on whitetail spiders and finding them on bathroom towels we did the surface spray around the house and was saddened to find beneficial victims - dead huntsman etc. The spray did nothing to stop the white tails getting inside, it actually seem to make the problem worse . Since then have not sprayed anything and its a very rare event to find a whitetail in the house. The last one I recall finding was some 5 months ago and a daddy long leg spider had already made a meal out of him. selina2106 as others have said the spider looks like a wolf spider. I can happily report we have them in the garden - they have an important job to do. The can be spotted easy at night with a torch as they have very reflective eyes. They soon make tracks when approached. Re: Spider I.D please 32Aug 18, 2012 10:17 pm Daddy long legs will predate RedBacks. Lots of Daddy Longlegs around will see you a degree of peace of mind Hi We have finally decided to complete a KDR on our corner plot in NE Melbourne suburbs. Given its a corner plot approx. 400 sqm just a standard design may not fit the… 0 8486 Thankyou so much 😀 I've decided on White on white for doors and trims, White on white 50% on ceiling and Mt buller for walls. Fingers crossed it will look OK 😀 2 7138 A question. Im in Queensland and building a new home. We managed to reach practical completion 6 weeks ago but we haven't heard any date for handover yet. Who should we… 0 5733 |