[DFW]: DFW's Lounge
Good morning all. I thought I'd post a picture of what I found guarding my mailbox last night. I have the typical mailbox in a brick enclosure out by the curb at my house. The web goes from the bottom of the actual mailbox, down to the curb, and about a foot out into the street. The widow was about a foot off the ground. After shining my flashlight on it for a couple of minutes to get a good picture, it crawled back up it's web and under my mailbox. I darn near dropped both the flashlight and camera in the street when it started moving.
I'm calling pest control today. I have some more of those disjointed webs that they make around my front door and another one on the side of my house by the electrical boxes. I killed a baby one on my front porch a couple of weeks ago. I usually don't mess with the full grown ones like this. Too creepy. When I lived in Denton, we had them around the house and the only spray I had to try to kill them with was WD-40. FYI, it doesn't work, just pisses them off.
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My parent’s old house was in the middle of nowhere - we had those brown recluses EVERYWHERE!
They didn’t really bother me much, we had people that would come out and spray the house with pesticides so we never had them in the house, but if you went in to the garage (detached about 30 ft away from house) then you were screwed!
WD-40 doesn’t really work but what is funny is to get some gas (or that ignition spray you use to spray in the carburetors of old cars), circle it around them and then light it up – they just sit there all freaked out and pretty much have a heart attack!
My parent’s old house was in the middle of nowhere - we had those brown recluses EVERYWHERE!
They didn’t really bother me much, we had people that would come out and spray the house with pesticides so we never had them in the house, but if you went in to the garage (detached about 30 ft away from house) then you were screwed!
WD-40 doesn’t really work but what is funny is to get some gas (or that ignition spray you use to spray in the carburetors of old cars), circle it around them and then light it up – they just sit there all freaked out and pretty much have a heart attack!
