Fighting spiders: our brown recluses.
By marguicha
@marguicha (230350)
Chile
July 6, 2016 12:35pm CST
In the city where I live there are no snakes nor mosquitos that will mean we can catch malaria or dengue. But as life is not perfect, we have spiders (the brown recluse) in almost all of the houses in my city.
The house does not have to be unclean. The spider hides behind the pictures in the wall, in the closets and inside the shoes we are not using. It is a shy but deadly spider so we have to fight against it with all our might.
Every time I go to a vacation, I spray my house with a powerful insecticide that says it will kill the brown recluse.
Then, a few days later, Leticia comes to clean up the dead bugs.
Once I saw a spider coming from under my bed. I caught it with a glass and checked it at the web. It was a female brown recluse. I also read that for each female spider, there were around 7 or 8 males ones nearby. I sprayed my bedroom and got all the clothes out of the closet. We found the other spiders. JEEZZZ!!!
So from then on, my house gets rid of spiders every time I go out. I go out, they die!
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8 responses
@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
7 Jul 16
@marguicha
No one wants to have those dang spiders in their home.
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@much2say (57760)
• Los Angeles, California
6 Jul 16
How big do they get - and are they poisonous? We get some little spiders here every now and then, but what we have to worry about most here would be those occasional black widows - but they are pretty much in their own little corners til we find them - mostly outdoors.1 person likes this
@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
6 Jul 16
They are not big at all. Their size (includig legs) are smaller than a fingernail.
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@TheHorse (238349)
• Walnut Creek, California
6 Jul 16
@marguicha I hadn't realized they were that small!
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@Bluedoll (16770)
• Canada
7 Jul 16
@marguicha Why are they dangerous? I know some spiders are. I have a few that aren't so they don't bother me. Mosquitoes are a different story. Squash em like an insect.
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@louievill (28846)
• Philippines
6 Jul 16
Good thing you got them and another nice thing is that poisonous spiders are very rare in the Philippines.
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@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
6 Jul 16
I you don´t have one thing, you have another
. We don´t have typhoons so we have earthquakes.
. We don´t have typhoons so we have earthquakes.2 people like this
@TheHorse (238349)
• Walnut Creek, California
6 Jul 16
@marguicha Yep. In California, we rarely have tornadoes. Or typhoons. But we have earthquakes.
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@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
6 Jul 16
98% of the houses in my city have them. There is no posibility of getting an exterminator.
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@akalinus (44366)
• United States
6 Jul 16
@marguicha Sorry, Keep going after the webs and eggs as well as the spiders.
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@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
7 Jul 16
@akalinus I spray insecticide when I go away. And I keep my house as clean as possible.
@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
7 Jul 16
They are not the same. We don´t have black widows here.
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@TheHorse (238349)
• Walnut Creek, California
7 Jul 16
@marguicha No, they don't look similar, and their poison is different as well. Black widows are fairly large and shiny black, with red markings on the underside of their abdomens. Quite striking.
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@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
7 Jul 16
There are bugs I don´t like but that are harmless. These aren´t.
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