Finally, victory!
#21
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Keller, TX
Posts: 1,937
Don't believe she was spraying directly on the motor.....I can't see the motor on mine...it is perfectly fine to spray in the bag, which she should do....the spider may be living in the bag. A motor will not explode from bug spray.
#22
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 6,430
Thanks, Battle Axe, for reminding us that the bite of a brown recluse dissolves surrounding flesh. When I worked at a hospital, one of the worst wounds I saw was from the bite of a brown recluse and it required hospitalization.
#23
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Central Willamette Valley, Oregon, USA
Posts: 7,695
I make a bug and spider repellent that my aunt taught me. Buy a small bottle of peppermint oil, and one of basil oil.pour into a sprayer bottle with a quick squirt of dishsoap. Fill the bottle with cool water. Shake before each use. I spray around my doors and windows each time they are opened and along the base of the house outside and along the top and bttom of all my walls once a year. I have not seen a big or spider in years. I hate bugs. I want them all dead, yes, I know that is impossible and they do preform a service for us, but they get the whole world, as long as they stay away from me!
#24
I had so many spider webs on the front and back porch..yesterday I spent most of the day washing them off. Then I spray insecticide all around the porches. This morning I saw several black widows dead on the front porch. We have rocks on the sides of the porch and they build their nests in between the rocks. I intentionally spray on those rocks and crannies several times a year. The webs of black widows are very strong and they differ from other spiders webs.
#25
I am not usually overly bothered by wasps, but I was welding on a trailer one day and they seemed to be irritated. I turned off the torch and looked around. Oops their nest was in the coil spring on the trailer. That wasn't going to work. I fired up the torch, re-adjusted it and tested the flame length. I put the heat near their home and hit the oxygen lever. 1 1/2 foot of flame solved the problem for me. Crispy critters.
#28
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: East Oklahoma - pining for Massachusetts
Posts: 10,477
#29
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Hartford, Mo
Posts: 5,793
In the farming sections of the USA, the MFA sells a concentrated liquid to spray around the outside of the house once or twice a year that prevents any bug or spider from coming in the house. Neighbor uses it because so many grands and great-grands craw on her floors.
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