pest control!!

[Notaro]

im going to vent about insects and spiders, man. i keep finding and killing garden, black widows, and now, BROWN SPIDER in my house. i hate spiders. i have some bugs keep coming into my basement. does anyone here run a extermination business here? i need a really good one to come and investigate my house. one freakin brown spider in my bedroom.

[fishaholic18]

Get a pet Snake!!!

[Raven]

just vacume more often.... and use a desicant powder to kill the bugs...

try boric acid powder.... easy on people ...tough on bugs.

[Notaro]

Originally Posted by fishaholic18

Get a pet Snake!!!

perhaps i should smugle some indonesian bug-eating geckos or lizards in my house and they are perfectly harmless.

raven, thanks.

[spence]

Don't need to smuggle, just go to the local herp store and pick up a dozen Tokay Geckos. They might hiss at you a lot, but you won't have any bugs

-spence

[BrianS]

I hate spiders with a passion too

We have a CRAPLOAD of them in my basement in the summer

I have two suggestions

1. Get a cat.. cats love spiders.. I have two of them.. they sometimes try to crawl on the ceiling to get bugs

2. GECKOS! I used to have over two dozen snakes and all kinds of lizards.. occasionally geckos would escape.. had two of them run all over the house.. I also had a trash can filled with crickets to feed my babies..

The gecko's lived for well over a year just running around.. they had to be eating something other than escapee crickets.

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addition: Tokay geckos are the DEVIL...
The ones I had contact with were more angry than the monitors I have owned

[FishermanTim]

On the flip side, spiders are our friends.
They will eat any other bugs, as well as each other.
Growing up, the theory was that if you had spiders in your house, it was good luck. Typical "house" spiders are harmless, and spend most of their life being unseen by humans. If you have house plants, then you would more than likly have spiders, because any bugs that might infest the plants are food for spiders.
As far as Black Widows, and possibly Brown Recluse spiders are concerned, they are poisonous and need to be dealt with.
(Keep in mind that they aren't there to attack you, but more likely they were brought in with something else, like firewood, or something that had been left outside for an extended period.)
If you want to get rid of some REAL pests, there are always the squirrels, pigeons, canadian geese, comorants, and soon the ticks and mosquitos.