My new parts car is infested with Black Widows

I was going to suggest Dryer sheets but I put some out for my spiders and they made this crazy web, I think they liked it
I found a pic of the happy face spider. Don't know how friendly it is, never trust a smiling stranger. No need to watch out for the Emo spider. It's venom is the deadliest in the world but it's fangs are incapable of puncturing the skin.

 

give'um a smack the traditional way!

 

Guess I'll be in bed with the sheets pulled tight around me, staring wide-eyed at the ceiling tonight. And I only read a couple of those damn links.

 

I haven't read the whole post yet...but...

I mistakenly found something that apparently kills the spiders if introduced to their air supply.

FIRST: DO NOT BREATHE THIS STUFF, I don't know what it will do to you, but it's NOT pleasant at all.

Canola oil. When one answers the phone with this stuff heating in a well seasoned cheap aluminum wok on the stove, it will catch fire. dangerous...to smother the fire I put the lid on, and immediately (stupidly) stuck the covered wok under the faucet to cool it off because my hands were burning...

After it was cool enough to handle, I took it outside and sat it on the front porch...something in the air burned my throat, and my eyes felt as if they were on fire...several hours later I went outside to take the lid off and inspect the damage. I was met with a most horrendous vapor that made me unable to breathe, and again my eyes felt as if they were being burned from their sockets...

Being a mischievous sort of fellow, I managed to pour a quart jar half full while holding my breath, and covering it with a lid. A few days passed, I took the lid off and stupidly took a whiff...same effect as before! After going out back to get a couple of 6x16 rims and discovering a nice fat black widow had taken up residence under said rims, I got a stick, managed to get her webbing on there and her with it...took her and stuck the end of the stick with her and the web on it just far enough into the jar for her to be completely surrounded with the death-inducing vapors...she started twitching like mad, attempting to crawl up the stick, but quickly just fell into the liquid....dead as could be.

Now, how one would put this stuff to use inside a vehicle without rendering it useless...I don't know. It's an oil based compound, and would probably take FOREVER to get cleaned away. I don't know what chemical reaction went on to make it so awful, but it's something evil enough that just the vapors caused death to something equally as evil.

Now, I am going to read the rest of the posts on this thread and probably find something much easier and not as dangerous; I, too, am vexed with these little demons, one came crawling up my pant leg when I sat in the Pontiac today.

 

My dear 77 year old mum in law lives next door, and she keeps a big spray can of oven cleaner in the kitchen to spray any critter that dares enter her domain. The stuff is corrosive and the biggest hunstman spiders curl up in a soggy ball when she hits them with a blast. One day she ran out of oven cleaner so she used firm hold hairspray! Sort of just glued the critter up until it couldn't move, then she stomped on it.

I'd be looking at two possibilities, heat or cold.

Heat would be a steam cleaner of some sort, boil 'em outa there.

Cold would be a cylinder of nitrogen, tarp up tight and fill the void with inert gas.

Good luck, Glen.

 

Don't they gas the containers of Bananas that get shipped to north america with Co2 to kill the black widows?

 

Better than a bite. Here's me getting rid of a huge honkin' wasp nest that had been built inside the foam of our hot tub.... was fun getting in before we (I) got rid of it. My wife and kids provided great moral support from inside the house. Was 90+ degrees outside. I used a rain suit, rubber boots, thick leather welding gloves, sand blasting hood and all cuffs duct taped.

I didn't sweat at all............ but I didn't get bit.

 

checked this morning under the car but i aint getting much closer till the weekend letting the poison do its magic still

 

Use a shop vac with some water in it, and a water hose to flush them out of the crevices

 

Nature can be helpful too- you could get lots of frogs. the frogs will eat the spiders, then you get beavers to eat the frogs, then you get some large monkeys to drive off the beavers. the beautiful partis when winter rolls around, the monkeys simply freeze to death

 

thats the plan on saturday when i start tearing it apart

 

Ha ha, I got out of the shower one day and grabbed the hairspray(when I had hair) to kill a fly I couldn't hit with the towel.
It "Sort of just glued the critter up" but when the hairspray dried he became unglued and tried to fly away...but now he's too heavy so he just skipped across the surface of the counter like the spruce goose trying to get airborne and off the edge where he went into a steep dive. He pulled it out just before crashing and landed wheels down then just skipped all over the bathroom floor trying to get airborn again.
Another time I had crickets getting in the living room from the patio door. I threw one in the toilette but it didn't go down he was a good swimmer so I start thinking scientifically; "Can he really swim or is he just lucky?"Some soap should break the surface tension of the water"
I added a couple drops of liquid soap to the water and the cricket sank, theory proven. What I wasn't expecting was the crickets reaction. he was running under water like he didn't know where he was and then let out a tiny bubble and went into convulsions losing his bowels on the way down. We all thought it was pretty cool and ran for more crickets but after watching a few go down to Davy Jones' locker I said "There's something deeply disturbing about all of this...yeah lets just put them back outside from now on before we end up not right."

 

You sick bastard, I love it!

 

Hahaha...cricket overboard!

 

my personal favorite method:

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=98130&highlight=removal+of+unwanted

you dont need to crank the heat way up, but if anyone on here has ever put a flamethrower on the front of an cave will understand what happens when applied to a hole in a frame rail, or some other tight had to reach area.

 

what ya mean.."before we end up not right"...Bwahahhahahha

 

Do it the 'green' way.... step on 'em

no tents
no cost
no flamethrower
no monkeys, beavers or frogs

If that doesn't work, I'm a fan of brake clean.
With the nozzle extension, I'm a sharpshooter.

As an ex-SoCal desert dweller, I've battled the best.

 

"Happy face" spiders and a psychedelic web??? FAR OUT man! Hahaha

Man...I hate to break it to ya.
That WASN'T a dryer sheet!

That...WAS a blotter of your best ACID.....

 

If it is on a trailer you could go to your local boat launch and back it in deep enough to get most of them..

 

Since it works wonders on the yj's around here,howzabout fogging it with carb cleaner(you may have to cross the border to get the good stuff),sans the red straw? You want to make sure you get critters and eggs,or it'll come back to haunt you later. If Al Gore disapproves,invite him over to help,especially with those hard to reach areas.

 

I hate to say this but the only thing that will work is for you to go buy a Barry Manilow CD and play it for a couple hours and they will pack up and leave.

 

Around here in lower NY every once in a while I come across these really huge, black nasty looking spiders. They are really big and thick. They run fast as hell and they jump, too. I have found a couple dead in the slop sink over the years. Once one crawled out of a ceiling vent fan, took a look around, and crawled back in. They seem to be attracted to water. A few live out by the pool, and hide in the crevices. I don't know what they are. Next time I find one I will post a picture.

 

That would be a funny episode of COPS, they bust into a place and there are 4 hippies on a couch licking dryer sheets..

 

I thought it was Slim Whitman?






no...wait....that's for martians, nevermind.

 

Can try a Snake they eat insects also but I would have to sell the parts car... I hate snakes worse than spiders and I really hate spiders...
most poisionous snake is the Rattleheaddedcoppermoccasin
racinman

 

Its been about a week now that I killed a huge ass widow in my sun room next to some of my stuff and favorite chair. That sucked and now Im sorta freaked out about going back under my car to finish up some things. Ive only lived at this house 3 years and never seen so many creepy -crawly -thingys around the yard either. Its starting to look like every year I get a spider congestion around my cars with webs literally falling around my doors and stuff hanging from tree to tree. Its iky stuff!

My solution was to make some adjustments,very short cut grass, new-trimmed gardening around the garage and trees, and 100 bucks worth of lawn insecticide that spreads over the lawn and smells like diesel. Also went around and killed all the weeds with weed killer and the next door neighbor also advised to use something called (Malathion) insect spray. Maybe one reason the crawlys, rabbits and who knows what... moved in.

Also dropped a few moth balls around the place according to a few old tales for other uses of this product.

 

THE BOAT RAMP!! I love that. Get with the tractor pull crowd to have a contest. Put it on a flat bed trailer and after you get to the ramp attach a chain to the hitch so you can lower it all the way under water. Now have the contest. Think of all the waiting frogs, fish and snakes you'll please! The perfect slime green Calipornia solution!

 

i always use a shop vac to get spiders. sucks them right up and if you have a crevice attachment they've got nowhere to hide. i say catch'em and turn them into shift knobs or freeze them in ice cubes and serve them in drinks to your friends hahaha

 

I like this one, I remember that Speedway used to sell fuel additives that made the exhaust smell like grape or cherry.

 

I've always used that thin clear "painters plastic" to completely tarp the car, then set off a couple of good bug-bombs underneith. It's worked everytime, lotsa curled up dead black widows laying around in no time! It also helps to put the car up on jack stands, open the windows and prop open the doors, hood and trunk a few inches.