/diy/ - Do It Yourself

[Anonymous No.659574]

Need a sure way of keeping Black Widows out of an outdoor shed, preferably a repellant of some kind (sealing isn't an option).

Pic related.

[Anonymous No.659575]

>>659574
Why isn't it an option?

[Anonymous No.659584]

>>659574
Just need to make sure the place doesn't have any water leaking into it. They like dark, damp places to stick their nests. Had one living in my well box for a while.

[Anonymous No.659608]

>>659574
arrange lavender around the edges, corners, and enclosed spaces. Keeps out spiders and scorpions.

[Anonymous No.659613]

>>659574

Thats a redback though

[Anonymous No.659614]

>>659613
no its not

[Anonymous No.659615]

>>659613
> Ausfag detected
Same diff. Just depends where in the world you are.

> http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/bugs/black-widow-spider/

[Anonymous No.659625]

>>659574
Do what I did. Capture them and sell them as pets. You'll need to buy some of those little plastic insect habitats.

I charged $20 for each female.

[Anonymous No.659626]

>>659615

It was my understanding that the hourglass splotch was only found on redbacks. I guess my fourth grade teacher can stick it.

Still, show that picture to pretty much any Aussie and they'll tell you its a redback.

I love /diy/ for constantly teaching me new things

[Anonymous No.659628]

Three words: Daddy long legs.

[Anonymous No.659631]

ausfag here, we get funnel webs. so i dont give two fucks about buying the "DIY" insect spray kits. the ones that come in the gallon jugs and wands. i'm not going to die because a spider couldn't live and let live too.

while spiders are wonderful, its important to establish perimeters around buildings when lethal spiders are around.

[Anonymous No.659632]

>>659626
In the USA, black widow spiders always have the red hour glass on the bottoms of their abdomens. However, on their backs they can also have a red line. This line can be completely absent, patchy like dots and dashes, or completely solid. I've only seen the ones with the red on their backs a very few times out of the 100 or so I've captured in my life.

>>659628
lol There's always millions of those under boards around here. Disturbing them makes the stink.

[Anonymous No.659637]

>>659631

[Anonymous No.659639]

Try sticky traps along the edges of the wall right near entrances.

[Anonymous No.659640]

>>659639

Paint them gold and release them

[Anonymous No.659642]

>>659639
Laying down sticky traps all over the place also helps pin point hot spots for spider infestations before you start spraying. Always use these before spraying so you know exactly where to spray the most.

[Anonymous No.659643]

>>659626
>>659632
There are multiple species of Latrodectus spider around the world and in NA.
Even L. mactans does not always have a distinct hourglass marking.

[Anonymous No.659647]

>>659628
That's weird, in Britain we call Crane flies "Daddy Long Legs" and those are just Harvestmen.

[Anonymous No.659652]

The nice thing about black widows and other Latrodectus spiders is that it's classified as non-fatal despite the common myth about it being so. The fatality rate is less than .5% and is general caused by complications of another condition (heart issues, old age, disease). That being said, the bites can cause severe pain and other complications.

[Anonymous No.659666]

Had black widows in my garage for years. Never really motivated to do anything about them, though. I like spiders and they're not really dangerous.

[Anonymous No.659667]

Blech. I recently got a pallet of retaining wall blocks and as I was unloading them a big old fat female black widow popped out of there. I dispatched it swiftly with my shoe. I'm on the east cost of the US, and haven't really seen these little fuckers since I lived on the west coast. I think it hitched a ride. Hm.. I guess OP should reduce the amount of quiet, dark hidey holes for them to live in, also. Spiders in general don't like bright, open spaces.

[Anonymous No.659727]

>>659667
>Spiders in general don't like bright, open spaces.

Tell that to the spiders living on the last trailer I worked on. It was a space-frame high-way trailer for precast concrete. The thing was absolutely covered in fresh webs and there were spiders of all shapes and sizes running all over it. Spiders are territorial, but this thing was a god-damn condominium for them.

Point being: Each spider has its own preferred habitat.

[Anonymous No.659742]

>>659574
I'd spray spider killer around the area, but Im in the USA where I can get such a thing.

at hardware stores they sell spider/insect killer. you spray it on the areas you don't want them. they get it on their feet when they walk on it and then lick it off their feet and die.

it is supposed to last for 3 months. it works pretty well for about one month where I live (assuming rain can't wash it away) but then,,,, a 1-gallon jug of the stuff only costs like $15, and you might use 1/4th a gallon for a car-sized building. so it really doesn't cost much per month, you just have to remember to keep spraying regularly.

it is probably not as powerful as what a professional pest control company might use--but then,,, they will want several hundred dollars a year for covering the same area.

[Anonymous No.660191]

>>659626
that is why no one asks aussies anything, silly criminals.

[Anonymous No.660239]

>>659666
wat they are very dangerous. they will fuck up even a middle aged healthy male. pretty much the only dangerous spider north america has.

[Anonymous No.660322]

>>660239
The only time I've know someone to have a bad reaction, was a friend's mom who was bit on the tit, who had a heart problem, the bite Damn near killed her

[physicist bro No.660330]

>>659742
i think thats that sharp needle stuff. humans can touch it and not get stabbed by the tiny tiny needles but when an insect touches it they get completly fucked like they are in a pool full of knifes. i dont remember what its called.

cool shit try that op.

[Anonymous No.660335]

>>660330
Diatomaceous Earth.

[Anonymous No.660692]

>>660239

Widows can make you sick. Recluses can turn you in a pile of mush. Murrica has plenty of poisonous shit plus feral blacks and Mexicans.

Hire an exterminator. Or burn the shed down. Fuck this creepy shit.

[Anonymous No.660708]

>>660239
You're much more likely to get fucked by wasps or bees than any spider. And even them are a very minor threat to your well-being.

[Anonymous No.660714]

>>659613
>Thats a redback though
>>659632
>In the USA, black widow spiders always have the red hour glass on the bottoms of their abdomens.

[Anonymous No.660743]

>>660322
More like Black Widower!

[Anonymous No.660838]

>>659727

>The thing was absolutely covered in fresh webs and there were spiders of all shapes and sizes running all over it. Spiders are territorial, but this thing was a god-damn condominium for them.

Communal colonies of different spider species are not uncommon nowadays. In short spiders are evolving to become social creatures.

[Anonymous No.660845]

>>660838
>spiders eventually invent flight
Game over, man, game over.

[Anonymous No.660864]

>>660845

I hate to break this to you...

>A spider (usually limited to individuals of a small species), or spiderling after hatching, will climb as high as it can, stand on raised legs with its abdomen pointed upwards ("tiptoeing"), and then release several silk threads from its spinnerets into the air. These automatically form a triangular shaped parachute which carries the spider away on updrafts of winds where even the slightest of breezes will disperse the arachnid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai3gTAwssxQ

[Anonymous No.660867]

>>660864
No, I was already aware of that.
I meant wings on fully-grown spiders.

[Anonymous No.660905]

Shit I was just reading this topic and stuff and somehow a little house spider felt down on my keyboard. Shit I am dead serious

[Anonymous No.660932]

Someone post the screencap of the Slavic exterminator who bleached wood with a chemical concoction killing spiders.

[Librarian Chambers !6wFT00admY No.660975]

>>660932
Ask and ye shall recieve

[Ellie No.660992]

>>659574
I put a small amount of Cinnamon in a bottle cap in the back of my mailbox to keep spiders from building nests in there. Perhaps that?

[Anonymous No.661012]

>>659628
>mfw

[Anonymous No.661018]

>>661012
Don't bump this shit, you fool!

[Anonymous No.661391]

>>659574
ALLOW ME TO SOLVE ALL YOUR PROBLEMS! spiders sense vibrations, this is one way for them to find prey. so if you just BLAST some music with heavy bass then you should drive the spiders away.

[Anonymous No.661392]

>>660330
diatomaceous earth works well but if you have fleas they will reproduce like rabbits on crack

[Anonymous No.661562]

>>659628
SUPER PELO PUBICO!!!

[Anonymous No.661564]

>>659574
here's a forum post highly related to your problem.

[Anonymous No.661613]

>>660864
This happens in my area every fall. MILLIONS of spiders will be floating through the air. When the evening sun hits just right the air between the hillsides looks like a very scratched up windshield because of all the strings of silk floating through the air.

[Anonymous No.661638]

>>661564
Mother fucker

[Anonymous No.661639]

>>659574
Just run a lawn mower in the shed. That outta do it

[Anonymous No.661645]

>>659574
I live on the west coast and we get tons of black widows. Black widows are way more afraid of you than you are of them and generally if you don't fuck with them they won't fuck with you. Watch where you step and watch where you put your hands and you'll survive, and as an added bonus won't have to deal with pesky little shit flies etc. in your shed.

[Anonymous No.661652]

Ouch! I hate black widows.

I say you kill them all them all within a ten mile radius, that ought to do the trick. There are some poisons in my local hardware store you should check out.

[Anonymous No.661655]

>>661645
I had one crawl out of a leather glove I just picked up and crawl across the back of my wet hand. It was one of those situations where if it had been squashed by my hand the softer wet skin would have stood no chance of repelling the bite.

Now, every pair of gloves I am about to put on, gets a healthy 3 minutes of stomping underfoot.

[Anonymous No.661733]

>>660838

>In short spiders are evolving to become social creatures.
That's horrifying.

[Anonymous No.661737]

>>661733
Don't worry. They'll start dying when they stop paying attention to the outside world once Facebook for Spiders is created.

[Anonymous No.661884]

I don't know how it compares to regular insect repelling sprays, but Permethrin is supposed to be retarded strong. There's a shit ton of warnings on the bottle I saw, but if you're not spending a lot of time in your shed you'll probably be ok. I'm assuming you just store tools in there and don't have a workbench in it.

[Anonymous No.661896]

>>659574

Fill the volume of your shed with concrete. Concrete and spiders cant occupy the same space at the same time (or really anything for that matter).

[Anonymous No.662115]

Lure them somewhere else in the vicinity.

Fill the shed with praying mantises, hundreds of them, in every nook and cranny. There won't be any spiders there.

[Anonymous No.662129]

>>662115
I agree. Whenever I have a spider problem I just lure them away.

[Anonymous No.662133]

>>660239
Well there's also brown recluse, and where I live we have these things called hobo spiders, who leave patches of necrotic tissue where they bite you...