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Originally Posted by PHDIII
I am really sorry I read this thread. Our architect is finishing up the plans for our retirement home on Long Island. You guys have succeeded in scaring me to death. I can't stand the standard, every day spiders we get here in Michigan. The only good thing I can think of is that nobody mentioned centipedes. Spiders that can cause unconsciousness? I DON'T THINK SO! Taking a shower without getting rid of the overhead spider first? I DON'T THINK SO! Now I'll never be able to go outside in the summer without long pants and combat boots and armed with wasp spray.
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Congratulations and good luck on your retirement home.
Spiders around here really aren't as bad as they sound and as IG pointed out, I would rather have them around eating the bugs that come to chomp on me.
At night is when I have the most wariness of them. After dark they get busy making those incredible webs. So if you do venture out to enjoy the evening, just get a duster of some sort to sweep off chairs. These little guys aren’t the bothersome ones anyway. It is the ones hiding in dead leaves and dark places you need to be watchful of.
When doing yard work,
always wear gloves and don’t store those said gloves where a spider could crawl in. Same goes with storage of work shoes and clothes. Prior to use, shake out any items that have been stored.
Dock spiders usually scram when you get near them. If you are swimming around the dock, don’t surface under it as a precaution.
At the grocery store I carefully pick up bags or clusters of fruit and look for hitchhikers. When I get home I carefully put them in a colander and wash the heck out of them, turning the fruit and thoroughly inspecting nooks and crannies. Just to be sure.
Spiders taste through their legs, so the use of certain bad tasting sprays may be useful in keeping them out of your home, something like lemon or pepper.
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