Poke some holes in the plastic and you wont have to remove it. Step on spider with large boot. Just don't go where you know chiggers are.
Zebrin
Hi all, I 've got brown recluse spiders loitering in my shed, they show up from
> time to time in the area and one once bit a friend of mine (he's still got a
> nasty mark on his leg after a year). I'm not looking forward to that ever
> happening again.
>
> My yard also has swarms of what look like gnats but bite. Whatever they are,
> more than one person has complained of bites when they walk past one area that
> has ivy and an Azalea under a pine tree.
>
> I'm not a pesticide fan, other than the brown recluses I don't go out of my way
> to kill anything in the yard, but I've got kids to watch out for and I'm
> starting to think about trying the Bayer Advanced hose-on spray. >
> I have a few concerns about it however. We've got a cat and a dog and they both
> like to graze, and I'm not sure if the grass, once treated, would make them
> sick. I know the label says it is safe once dried, but I'm a skeptic. >
> Also if anyone knows of a better (safer, natural) way to keep the swarms of
> biting things and the brown recluses away, I'd be glad to hear them. >
>
> I've also got a question about landscaping plastic used under gravel next to the
> shed. During the Winter we had about an inch of ice covering the gravel and as
> it thawed the shed had some water seep in, that never happened before the
> plastic went down and I have the feeling I blocked some much needed drainage by
> putting the plastic under the gravel. Am I right? I'm not looking forward to
> lifting the plastic but I will do what I'm told. :)
>
> Thanks and sorry for the ramble.