So
we've been having some uninvited, and unwanted, guests come through our
basement abode lately (we're talking up to 4 a night when they enter
through unknown cracks when the sprinklers outside water their webs).
Yes . . . it's the poisonous HOBO spider *shivers*. Bleh. After doing
our research and determining that they are indeed Hobos (and not the
common harmless grass spider of similar features), my in-laws have
contacted an exterminator. In addition, we spent the entire day cleaning
and vacuuming the basement, setting out Hobo spider traps, spraying
spider poison along the outside foundation cracks, removing webs outside
along with the wood piles and other items sitting against the
house. I managed to catch, crush and flush (say THAT five times - LOL)
most of the spiders, but I kept a few for my father who wanted to "have a
look at them." Nothing like a good old infestation to get me to deep
clean my house - LOL! I'm sure no matter how bad your day is going, it's
not any worse than the Hobo spiders' day when I catch them. *SMASH* And
don't come back, you varmints!
Yuck! I've talked to people who've run into hobo spiders, but never to the extent that you have. An infestation of them has got to give you warm fuzzies. ;)
ReplyDeleteGood luck killing them all.
Ha ha, Rachel! Warm fuzzies my foot! :) Keep that up and I'll send them to your new house. . . . But seriously, we'll get on top of this problem, hopefully soon.
DeleteEEEEEEWWWW!!!! I found a female hobo spider in my laundry, and my son was laughing at me the whole time I was nervously trapping it in a jar.....
DeleteAaaa! Finding one in the laundry is SCARY! And ICK! I'm super nervous around them too :/
DeleteI think we have the same problem. I've seen two of those ugly beasts and I'm sure there's more.
ReplyDeleteWarm and fuzzy has taken a backseat to gross and cringing.
You said it, Tayla! ICK!
DeleteAck! I'm in Louisiana...I definitely believe the graphic above regarding our area. I've been bit by a brown recluse and had several other run ins with them. I hate spiders >_< Good luck with your Hobo spiders!! *shudder*
ReplyDeleteWOW, Kayla, I'm sorry you've had run ins with the Brown Recluse. I've heard their poison is WAY WORSE than the Hobo. Glad you survived it's bite - eesh! We finally have an exterminator coming this week (THANK GOODNESS!)
DeleteI missed this post form way back. Of course Uncle Rick would want to see them with his father's entomology blood coursing through his veins. Grandpa the most amazing collection of mounted bugs at the cabin. I don't know if you can remember. I even caught with my bare hands a giant moth that got in the cabin once. Grandpa helped me put it in a jar with some sort of chemical that made it go nighty-night permanently.
ReplyDeleteI don't remember the bugs at the cabin. Heck, I don't even remember the cabin. I was probably too young. I'm sure all the bugs told all the other bugs to stay far away from the REESES if they wanted to survive. LOL
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