How do you kill black widow spiders?

[KitchenWitch]

[Midlodemocrat]

1. You kiss them. The saliva melts them right in front of your eyes.

[KitchenWitch]

O RLY?

[Midlodemocrat]

9. No, silly. I was just kidding.

You, er, um, you, didn't kiss it did you? :scared:

I kill spiders like that with bug spray or any kind of spray I have on hand.

[KitchenWitch]

13. Of course not!

:silly:

[guitar man]

2. BB pistol

..or a pellet rifle :P

[hippywife]

19. You and

my husband! Must be an Okie thang. :crazy:

[guitar man]

24. yes, it is ;)

I remember when I was a kid, we moved into a big and very old farm house that had a mose problem. We trapped and poisioned and everything else, but some of the little buggers were just persistent and we would see them from time to time scurrying about.

Dad had an old Ruger .22 pistol that he kept loaded with "rat shot" shells. He would keep it handy while he was watching TV in the evening and if he saw a mouse, he'd call it out to make sure we were all clear and *bang!!* "down went the mouse. :crazy:

[Reverend_Smitty]

3. I would say very carefully

spiders + Reverend_Smitty = :scared:

basic math, really

[KitchenWitch]

4. I am not normally afraid of spiders

Just Black Widows, and I saw one in our garage this morning.

[Reverend_Smitty]

5. Personally if it were me...

I would just burn down the garage and start over, but I'm really not the most logical person when it comes to insect control

[KitchenWitch]

8. LOL

:hi:

[LostInAnomie]

6. With kindness

O8) O8)

[Reverend_Smitty]

10. or softly with your song

:P

[City of Mills]

7. 1 can of hair spray, 1 lighter

and one hell of an insurance policy!

[hobbit709]

11. Flamethrowers work well

but there could be collateral damage. Rolled up newspaper gives a satisfying smack.

[Wcross]

12. I would use a fly swatter if you can see it.

They can only hurt you if they get close enough to bite. Personally I would whack it with a fly swatter or get it on the swatter, place it on the ground & then stomp it.
I am sure there are chemicals that would do it but it is overkill.

[BrotherBuzz]

14. A sixteen ounce claw hammer or a flame thrower....

whichever one is more convenient.

[KitchenWitch]

15. Would a molotov cocktail be overkill?

[BrotherBuzz]

17. No, that's on the short list....

especially when you're visiting people away from your home.

[Parche]

16. Make Them Drink Boxed Wine

:woohoo: :woohoo: :hi:

[Gormy Cuss]

My new cat likes to eat them.

Flower eats just about anything. Only problem is that I need to get him to a vet because Flower has really nasty B.O.

[Book Lover]

18. With a song in my heart

[Kali]

20. stick, shoe, rock...whatever is handy...or don't bother at all

they might get a few of those #@&*(^%$@! noisy crickets

[KitchenWitch]

21. Oh gods the crickets!

:rofl:

I no longer notice the cricket noises...they are just part of the house.

[TZ]

22. Get a hard heavy shoe and SQUISH IT.

Seriously..they aren't super spiders. If it makes you feel any better..they aren't QUITE as dangerous as their reputation..and actually not overly agressive spiders..Brown Recluses on the other hand..BAD BAD news...

[KitchenWitch]

23. I was sincerely hoping you would chime in here

I am freaking the fuck out...totally afraid to go back into my garage.

What do I do if I get bit?

[TZ]

25. Go to the hospital.

But I really think, that if you know its there and take clothing precautions, shoes,slacks, long sleeves, gloves, the chances of you getting bit are pretty low.
We had an animal diversity class where the TA went out and found a black widow at the local park and brought it in for us to see it, no problem.
Clothing= ppg (personal protective gear)

[Zuiderelle]

26. Call Terminix.

I had them once... :scared:

I hate to say it, but if there's one, there's probably more. There were in my case.

[begin_within]

43. Get your entire house tented and fumigated ($2,700) and all of your bug/spider/termite problems

will be solved - for one year anyway! We had our house fumigated on May 21/22 and I have yet to see a single spider in the house, 6 weeks later.

[Gormy Cuss]

27. Serious answer: suck it up with your vacuum cleaner.

If you have one with a bag, that is. The force of the suction kills most spiders but as an added precaution you should remove the bag and put it in the outside trash bin.

[KitchenWitch]

28. I will do that next time I see it.

I do have a vacuum that has a bag.

[PeaceNikki]

29. I'd just move.

Somewhere far where there are no more. :scared:

[KitchenWitch]

30. Like Minnesota!

:think:

God I miss Minnesota.

[TZ]

31. Umm, they live there too...

Geographical Distribution Southern black widow Latrodectus mactans (Fabricius)is found in southern New England states to Florida west to eastern Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas being more common in the southern range.
Western black widow L. hesperus (Chamberlin & Ivie)is found in Western Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas north to the adjacent Canadian provinces and west to the Pacific Coast States.
The "brown widow" L. geometricus (C.L. Koch) is found in California and southern Florida and throughout Africa.
The Northern widow L. variolus (Walckenaer) is found in New England and adjacent Canada south to Florida, and west to eastern Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, being more common in the northern part of the range.


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Also here's better advice on if you are bitten:
First-aid

Apply ice pack, house hold ammonia or alcohol directly to the bite area to relieve local swelling and pain. Apply tincture of iodine or other antiseptic to the site of the bite to prevent infection. Bed rest is indicated. If symptoms appear sever or in the neurotic envenomation of young children, the patient should be taken to a physician at once. Bring along the spider for identification, if possible, should antivenin be available. Antivenin is available to treat some widow spider bites

[KitchenWitch]

33. buzzkill!

I lived in Minnesota for 40 years and never saw one.

I have seen rattlesnakes, scorpions, palmetto bugs (more of a nuisance but gross anyway) and black widows here.

x(

[PeaceNikki]

34. Oh pshaw!! There's like 4 in the whole state.

And they're all at the zoo!

[KitchenWitch]

37. LOL

And a fine Zoo it is!

:D

[enlightenment]

32. Locate it and squish it.

Then locate the webs and crush the egg sack and eggs COMPLETELY. Or burn them. Really. They are very sturdy, so even when it looks like the sack is crushed, it may still be protecting the babies.

Bug spray is not very effective (so I'm told by exterminators) because the females are territorial. They will actually move to the next house until the spray is gone - then move back. They will also build multiple webs. Look in the corners both above and below - if you have a tree or bushes near your garage she might have built her web in that.

Large ones can be rather aggressive, particularly if you spray them directly - I had one actually chase me backward about 10 feet after I sprayed it. Freaked me out . . . then it made me mad and I stopped backing up and stomped on it.

Just remember. You have opposable thumbs. They don't have thumbs. Points to you.

Once you have dispatched the intruder, try a perimeter spray around the outside of your house. Respray regularly.

- enlightenment, living in the land of Black Widows, having moved from the land of Brown Recluses (I'll take the Widows any day).

[Tektonik]

35. I try not to kill anything, but black widows are my limit

I saw them plenty in my childhood in the Mojave Desert/San Fernando Valley. I just used a shoe or stick. They're easy to kill so don't worry, just make sure you have good vision of the spider so if you miss it you can hit it again or run the fuck away.

[Dogtown]

36. Paper-towel transport

to the neighbor's yard.


Guns don't kill neighbors....

[Kerrytravelers]

38. Personally, I'd either sell the house or start charging them rent.

Spiders scare the bejeezus out of me (and I don't even know where to locate my bejeezus, so black widows must be really scary!!!)


But really, this thread is nothing without pictures:




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(Did you really think I would add a picture???)




P.S. Hi Kitchenwitch! How are you doing??? :hi:

[KitchenWitch]

41. Freaked but otherwise well.

:D

[Taverner]

39. Spray. Toxic spray.

I'm sorry, but sometimes you have to pull out the big guns.

Same thing goes for wasp nests on my home

[Q3JR4]

40. Locate Black Widow Spider,

lift foot, put lifted foot above black widow spider, bring foot down and give foot a good twist while listening for squishy noises, pick foot back up and make sure black widow spider is dead. Repeat as necessary.

Method also works pretty well for other varieties of spiders and/or insects.

Q3JR4.

[KitchenWitch]

42. Sadly, this morning I encountered said creature while I was barefoot

:scared:

[harmonicon]

44. they're not much to worry about

When I lived in LA, we had them in the house some times, and all of the neighbours did too. I never heard of anyone being harmed by them. .... but, as others have said, the good ways, if you want to kill them, are squishing and fire.

[NV Whino]

45. Smoosh it. eom

[quakerboy]

46. Import a bunch of brown recluses

They are good at hunting, it'll fix your widow problem right up.

[Drum]

47. pre-nup. nt

[leftofthedial]

48. eat 'em

[Monk06]

49. Hire a crooked probate attorney to contest the will.