Yeah, similar story here too. Outside of places the family frequents - mangrove tunnels for example - I live and let live. But in places where it's likely that one of us will make an unintentional bad move with respect to a spider, like stepping on it in bare feet, or sitting on it, it goes. My mother was put in the hospital for a few days with a bright red infection running up her arm from picking up a "dead" wrinkled up Brown Recluse (we think) and dropping it into the toilet with her fingers while cleaning house. So, your house Ms spider, you are fine. My house, you are not. On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Craig Jungers <crjungers_at_gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 6:35 AM, Carey Parks <carey_at_jimparksfamily.com>wrote: > >> I knocked the spider down with some wasp spray >> and finished the job with a size nine Birkenstock. Other sizes may work >> well >> also. YMMV >> >> I used to have a tolerant view of spiders before we had brown recluses > (and discovered how nasty they are) and before Sue got a nasty bite on her > shoulder by a spider we see all the time here. I now have a zero tolerance > policy towards spiders that invade my territory. Hey, I can be territorial > too!!! Anyway, my size 12 hiking boots have done wonders. > > I've also had good luck with sticky traps. > > Craig Jungers > Moses Lake, WA > www.nwkayaking.net > > -- http://parkswhistles.com/ http://www.facebook.com/carey.parks http://twitter.com/LuthierCarey -- http://parkswhistles.com/ http://www.facebook.com/carey.parks http://twitter.com/LuthierCarey *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Sep 14 2010 - 09:51:27 PDT
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