Spiders

[Dave]

Is there anything I can put on surfaces that will deter spiders from making their webs there? I was thinking along the lines of Nipon ant spray, but unlike ants, I do not want to kill the spiders.

TIA

Dave

[The3rd Earl Of Derby]

Cleaning that area at least once a week will deter spiders from spining again. :-)

[Colin Wilson]

On a vaguely related subject, I was bitten by a spider for the first time last weekend - I was sat at a garden table, and the little barsteward came up from between the slats that formed the top of the table and chomped on my elbow...

[PeTe33]

Funilly enough... I have a childhood memory of being venomised by a big garden spider. It crawled onto the top of my thumb and stuck it's fangs into the top and proceeded to try and paralyze me!

I remember a very slight numbing, but that was about it, though the vision of it's fangs(?) and it's pumping body remain quite detailed (when somone brings the subject up)

:¬)

[meow2222]

Insects hate strong smells, thats all I can think of. I just throw them outside. (Yes, spiders can fly.)

NT

[Dave Fawthrop]

|Dave wrote: | |> Is there anything I can put on surfaces that will deter spiders from |> making their webs there? |> I was thinking along the lines of Nipon ant spray, but unlike ants, I do |> not want to kill the spiders. |>

|> TIA |>

|> Dave | |Insects hate strong smells, thats all I can think of. I just throw them |outside. (Yes, spiders can fly.)

Spiders, without wings can not fly. Their terminal velocity is so low that they land without damage. Not sure about Bird Eating Spiders and such monsters.

[woodglass]

What makes you think that ants want to kill the spiders ???

woodglass :-)

[Dave]

I once had a red kneed tarantula on the palm of my hand and it just felt like I was holding a pet mouse with cold feet.

Dave

[Dave]

Nice one :-) I must proof read my posts a bit more.

Dave

[meow2222]

They use air currents to deliberately take off. Theyre not flapping any wings but theyre still flying.

NT

[David Hansen]

On 31 Aug 2006 16:40:11 -0700 someone who may be [e-mail] wrote this:-

And when they land do they immediately start running back towards the building? The ones around here seem to have some sort of homing instinct.

[Guy King]

The message from David Hansen contains these words:

One of these days I'm going to put a blob of Tip-Ex on the back of the sodding great spider that inhabits our kitchen. I swear it's the same one that comes back every time I eject him.

[Dave]

That brings an answer to mind...

I'll spray the areas with a low tack glue spray and see how things go :-)

Dave

[mogga]

I have been repeatedly warned about the spiders that live in the privet hedges that bite but have yet to see it for myself.

to have appeared this year at a huge size - one was so big it seriously gave me the creeps.

of pics there.

[News]

In message , Jim GM4DHJ ... writes

Not to mention door locks and GPO junction boxes.

[S Viemeister]

And the hollow bits of plastic clothes pegs.

[Davey]

Or in our gardener's cap, so that we can all watch as it drops gently down from the cap's bill while we're standing at the bar having a pint?

[Nick]

In message , Davey writes

...In front of the lens on difficult to get at CCTV cameras?

[Mr Pounder Esquire]

Ha! I used to have running battles with these scary monsters in my garage. Last spring I blasted every corner with a can of insect killer from a Pound Shop. I can't remember seeing a spider since. Not that I'm scared of them or anything like that ...

[Davey]

This was before ubiquitous CCTV. Somewhere there is a photo, though.But I did have spiders building their Webs on CCTV later.