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Hatdiva
Farmgirl in Training
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Sayra
Peck
Idaho
USA
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 Posted - Sep 08 2009 : 6:38:56 PM
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How on earth do you drive out spiders? My daughter is terrified of them. I've tried the sticky traps with no luck! Any ideas?
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deeredawn
True Blue Farmgirl
2298 Posts
Dawn
Nova
OH
USA
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Posted - Sep 08 2009 : 7:10:11 PM
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I've been told that spiders do not like the smell of eucalyptus. Maybe try some oil on cotton balls of that around the house? I seem to remember doing that once, but I apologize, I can't recall the results!
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gramadinah
True Blue Farmgirl
1965 Posts
Diana
orofino
ID
USA
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Posted - Sep 08 2009 : 8:42:51 PM
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Try to keep your wood storage away from your house and when I put the cedar wood chips around the house it seem to cut down on the amount of them.
Hey welcome to the forum we only live a few miles from each other.
Diana
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Diane B Carter
True Blue Farmgirl
1204 Posts
Diane
Blasdell
N.Y.
USA
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dutchy
True Blue Farmgirl
3427 Posts
Marian
Drenthe
Netherlands
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Posted - Sep 09 2009 : 5:44:19 PM
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Scream and THEN step on them., lol
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DaisyFarm
True Blue Farmgirl
1627 Posts
Diane
Victoria
BC
Canada
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Posted - Sep 09 2009 : 7:21:29 PM
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Can't step on them here, but the vacuum cleaner works!!
We have tons of spiders here, especially this time of year. Many people swear by putting chestnuts around your house. I haven't tried it myself tho. |
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Diane B Carter
True Blue Farmgirl
1204 Posts
Diane
Blasdell
N.Y.
USA
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Posted - Sep 10 2009 : 10:29:17 AM
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The vaccume cleaner is good as long as you know they are dead or empty it into the garbage when done vaccumming, those little guys do live sometimes and crawl out of the vaccume even meaner and dusty.
Or that is something I grew up beliving and it could be wrong. But thats what I was told.
Hope all your days are Sunnydays.
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DaisyFarm
True Blue Farmgirl
1627 Posts
Diane
Victoria
BC
Canada
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Posted - Sep 10 2009 : 11:07:01 AM
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Not if you put an old sock on the end of the hose!  |
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twink
True Blue Farmgirl
131 Posts
Deb
Rapid City
SD
USA
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Posted - Nov 03 2009 : 07:03:28 AM
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There is a fruit called hedge apples that we use to help with spiders. They are extremely expensive this year, however, at $1.00 each. Usually they are about 29¢. You are supposed to place one or two per room. They are green and all bumpy and ugly. I think some people call them ugly fruit, and it has many other names - horse apples, osage orange, etc. They are related to the mulberry, I think. After a month or so they can turn brown and look like a walnut, but apparently they keep working anyway. I've had luck with them in our lower level, but haven't tried them in the main part of the house yet. I just set one in each corner, on a piece of parchment paper to protect the floor. Seems to be working, and we have MEGA spiders around here because our house is surrounded by huge ponderosa pine trees and spiders love to hang out in the trees, ya know. 
A little info about them: http://www.ehow.com/how_4513879_rid-spiders-poison-sprays.html
-Deb
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Cycling Farm Girl
True Blue Farmgirl
85 Posts
Carrie
Alberta
Canada
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Posted - Nov 03 2009 : 11:27:50 AM
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I looked at this website ..they have good suggestions like eucalyptus leaves disbersed throughout the house...and there are other natural ways as well, like getting a cat as they are great spider hunters! I like that suggestion! Great site, and I've learned a little about keeping spiders out!
http://www.ehow.com/how_2125846_repel-spiders.html
Carrie - Victorian Urban Farmgirl
For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
Luke 6:38
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Julia
True Blue Farmgirl
1873 Posts
Julia
Shelton
WA
USA
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Posted - Nov 03 2009 : 9:10:44 PM
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Scream, step on them, and then do the "Icky, I just squished a spider!' dance.
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Libbie
Farmgirl Connection Cultivator
3552 Posts
Anne E.
Elsinore
Utah
USA
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Posted - Nov 05 2009 : 11:39:52 AM
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We have bunches of spiders here, too - farmland, big elm trees and a woodstack-fence - and I'm afraid of the poison stuff, because we also have a very large preying mantis population (isn't that weird?) so, in desperation, I've gone outside when nobody's around and tried to reason with the spiders, telling them that they can live wherever on the farm, the woodpile, etc., but they must NOT harm my little boys, and any of them that enter my home or vehicle can be squished by me with no retaliation by other arachnids. I know - y'all probably will think I'm nuts by now, but we really have very few spideys inside, and nobody's been bitten by one yet (knocking on wood...)!
XOXO, Libbie
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Diane B Carter
True Blue Farmgirl
1204 Posts
Diane
Blasdell
N.Y.
USA
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Posted - Nov 05 2009 : 1:04:46 PM
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My SIL said she used a spider grapefruit to get rid of spiders, I am lucky so far I don't have any here. I never knew there was fruit that would get rid of them Good luck!
Hope all your days are Sunnydays.
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Wildcrafter
True Blue Farmgirl
163 Posts
Suzanne
Burlington
WA
USA
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Posted - Nov 06 2009 : 06:55:50 AM
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quote:
Originally posted by Julia
Scream, step on them, and then do the "Icky, I just squished a spider!' dance.
What? Have you been spying on me?
What do I do about spiders? I moved! I lived in this 50s ranch house and every blasted September, big huge hairy spiders moved in for about 2 weeks. I tried sticky traps, yelling at them, sprayed poison inside and outside my house twice, put those things in the electrical outlets that supposedly put out some kind of sound that spiders don't like.....nothing worked. So, I told my husband this year that we were moving before September. I found us a place in August that was bigger, newer by 40 years!, well insulated with 3 1/2 acres. No big hairy spiders this year! I found a couple in the garage. One, my friend got out with a broom and one of my chickens ate it! The other, I got my big manly husband to kill for me. I just scream. He comes running, calls me a baby (and?) and then he kills them. My hero. We put sticky traps out in the garage and they work for out there. I watched my chickens peck at dead bugs in the sticky traps and eat them. Goofballs!
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Maggiemoo
Farmgirl in Training
15 Posts
Jennifer
Johnstown
Ohio
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Posted - Jan 13 2010 : 04:48:16 AM
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We have lived in the country for seven years now here in Licking county Ohio. The first two years we had someone spray for them because they were so bad. We were the first house to disturb the soil on this land. We had those big furry dark brown ones that everyone here calls wolf spiders. Year three someone told us about using hedge apples around the outside and down in our basement. We tried it and it really works! No spiders. I still can't believe it. They grow abundantly here, so I would be happy to send anyone who wants some next year. Don't pay for them. I place about eight of them around each year. I hope this helps.
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clothedinscarlet
True Blue Farmgirl
1115 Posts
Siobhan
Battle Creek
MI
USA
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Posted - Jan 13 2010 : 06:03:44 AM
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quote:
Originally posted by twink
There is a fruit called hedge apples that we use to help with spiders. They are extremely expensive this year, however, at $1.00 each. Usually they are about 29¢. You are supposed to place one or two per room. They are green and all bumpy and ugly. I think some people call them ugly fruit, and it has many other names - horse apples, osage orange, etc. They are related to the mulberry, I think. After a month or so they can turn brown and look like a walnut, but apparently they keep working anyway. I've had luck with them in our lower level, but haven't tried them in the main part of the house yet. I just set one in each corner, on a piece of parchment paper to protect the floor. Seems to be working, and we have MEGA spiders around here because our house is surrounded by huge ponderosa pine trees and spiders love to hang out in the trees, ya know.
A little info about them: http://www.ehow.com/how_4513879_rid-spiders-poison-sprays.html
-Deb
http://healthtalk.6.forumer.com/index.php
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss you'll land amongst the stars. - Anonymous
Yes, this. We have them at a local farm market type of store that sells produce and gardening stuff. They go by osage orange here and they're supposed to be great for keeping spiders away. I haven't tried them yet (we have tons of spiders too) because I'm afraid my boys will try to eat them and I don't really know if they're safe.
Siobhan, wife to my best friend, Trent, and mommy to Camden (11/28/05) and Bennett (7/11/07). and Truman (7/28/09) |
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