Thread: Spiders in the shed

I have started to find a few red backs around the garage (shed) Every 6 months I drag everything out (or to the side), give the place a good sweep out (I knew my workshop pencil was in here somewhere) and use the mortein home professional surface spray around the walls, doors and windows. Then I move everything back. Seems to keep them under control but I do squash the red backs, I really don't like them.

I flea-bomb the shed, garage and house every couple of years - I HATE spiders! . Snakes, frogs and everything else that wants to live here are fine - just no bl00dy spiders! One of my clients was hospitalized with a red-back bite over xmas and I just found a huge mutha in my storage area on the weekend which means I'm due to bomb again. If the bombs are that bad, why can I count up to a dozen green tree frogs on my window sill any night of the week - or another 10 to 20 if I wander round the yard with a torch.
Note: I also spray those mongrel asian geckos with surface spray - only thing that works when you can't stomp 'em!

Originally Posted by underfoot

Sheesh.. what a bunch of girls (except TL and Ruffly)
next you'll be whinging about woodchips down yer socks

YES I AM and proud of it to
No whinging about woodchips in socks, never wear neither socks nor shoes

Originally Posted by tea lady

If they are still there in droves why bother? I am surrounded by trees so figure that if I kill the ones in there, more will just move in to take their place. I've got a beauty up there at the moment. I think I'll call her Freda. You could just vacuum them up every night when you vacuum up the shavings?

It's with spiders as with canetoads.
Every single on you kill is stopped from multiplying

Originally Posted by underfoot

Sheesh.. what a bunch of girls (except TL and Ruffly)
next you'll be whinging about woodchips down yer socks



is that the same bloke who (before welding a hole in a petrol tank) tried to vacuum the fumes out first?......kaboom

... and they are still picking him up from the creek, the woodshed, the back paddock.....




No, it's not the woodchips down the socks, it's the sawdust down the shirt...... oh so not going there!!!

Get yourself some gecko's, when we moved in here we had spiders everywhere, they all had their homes under the corrugated iron roof of our pergola and there were heaps in the shed, the gecko's moved in and got rid of the lot, other than that you can buy a product from coles or woolies called creepy crawly, it comes either made up or you can buy bigger bottles of it and mix it yourself, it is great stuff, even smells like the stuff the pro's use. It knocks them on the head no probs.

i use a product called pidgeon 500 and yes i know that is not the correct spelling for pigeon but thats the brand name. you can not buy this commercially and it will do fleas,flies.cockroaches.termites, any type of moth, eg indian wharehouse moth, weevils, etc etc etc. it is the best by a long margin nothing comes close to it. i spray my whole shed once per year and do not have any problem. my shed is 30 mtrs x 8 mtrs. if you know a good pest controller then way to go, and yes i do care about environment but that shed is mine and not for insects. and yes we do have funnel webs, redbacks,and white tails, so i do not have to worry about them in my shed there is plenty of other places on the property for them to live cheers grandad

What a bunch of soft wimpy wooses. Do you sooky babes cry when you get a little splinter in your finger?

I know of someone who was bitten ...... wow lets have a panic or an anxiety attack and get Mummy to kill all the nasty pasty creepy crawlies.

I know of heaps of people who have been killed on the roads - should I start shooting car drivers? Oh I suppose that's different - I don't think so. You all have a greater chance of being killed by a human or human error than by all the "harmful" creatures you are ever likely to encounter.

Get a life for goodness sake and stop killing innocent and relatively harmless creatures.

I have lots of snakes and spiders around and in my shed but I leave them alone and they leave me alone.

If you are scared of these relatively harmless creatures then perhaps attending creepy crawly anti-aversion therapy would be far more beneficial to the evironment than poisoning it.

just don't touch the Daddy Long Legs!
i've been told they feast on the redbacks yummy yummy.
regards
the block

Originally Posted by smeds

Get yourself some gecko's, when we moved in here we had spiders everywhere, they all had their homes under the corrugated iron roof of our pergola and there were heaps in the shed, the gecko's moved in and got rid of the lot,

No geckos in Vic. But we have skinks. Saw one this morning so they are prolly having a population explosion to coincide with the spiders.

Originally Posted by underfoot

Sheesh.. what a bunch of girls (except TL and Ruffly)
next you'll be whinging about woodchips down yer socks

Gaffer tape round the socks fixes the wood chips.

Been wondering about bombs myself. My concern is the timber and any affect by way of residue especially on work-in-progress stuff that has been final sanded and is ready for finish.

Been finding red backs left right and center, biggest so far was about 40mm dia. and with 2 kids running around the place it can be worrying.

Thing is I don't want to kill off the huntsmans, I have a tender spot for them

I wonder if there's a bomb to remove raccoons from the shed? I think I've got one living under the storage shed in the back yard. Now if I had a carpet snake.........

Originally Posted by Wood Borer

What a bunch of soft wimpy wooses. Do you sooky babes cry when you get a little splinter in your finger?

I know of someone who was bitten ...... wow lets have a panic or an anxiety attack and get Mummy to kill all the nasty pasty creepy crawlies.

I know of heaps of people who have been killed on the roads - should I start shooting car drivers? Oh I suppose that's different - I don't think so. You all have a greater chance of being killed by a human or human error than by all the "harmful" creatures you are ever likely to encounter.

Get a life for goodness sake and stop killing innocent and relatively harmless creatures.

I have lots of snakes and spiders around and in my shed but I leave them alone and they leave me alone.

If you are scared of these relatively harmless creatures then perhaps attending creepy crawly anti-aversion therapy would be far more beneficial to the evironment than poisoning it.

Spoken like a true Mexican.
We do not have a couple or three here, we have hundreds. Come up here to the north, get bitten by one of then and end up in hospital for a cupla weeks, let's see how you feel then about the relatively harmless creatures..

BTW, the geckoes up here do not eat spiders but the absolutely feast on Cockroaches
We have several pet geckoes in the house, the Aussie ones not the imported ones.

Wolffie