Anybody out there have suggestions for keeping the exploding Jihad spiders off my deck? I understand the EPA outlawed all the good stuff.
Beware of Spiders
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ohhhh, I see you are in Texas. We visited a boat dock in Texas (Lake Texoma) and I have never seen such spiders in my life....... I don't think I would do well with those guys, they were so big and so black and thick and everyone seemed to be so comfortable whacking them and leaving those huge black blotches everywhere. And their webs.......sticky and those suckers are fast web builders! And they drop out of nowhere........ Is THAT the kind you are talking about?
Any of the commercial sprays from the box stores will keep them at bay. I spray my boat inside once a year and outside once a month and nary a spider can be found. I even do the fingers and the sides of them. I buy the gallon container with the pull out spray handle and it lasts all year. It makes the wife happy. No staining, nor is there any odor. I spray the sail covers and life lines and the bimini and along the gunnels. A walk around spraying the vessel once a month does it. The bird droppings are a different problem all together.
Keep it up,
Ctskip
Keep it up,
Ctskip
Move to a mooring
Perhaps you are taking the wrong approach...maybe if you feed them up they can catch the seagulls pooping on your boat
I have few to no spiders, but I keep my boat on a mooring.
Perhaps you are taking the wrong approach...maybe if you feed them up they can catch the seagulls pooping on your boat
I had spiders at home. I have salesmen ring my doorbell asking if they can sell me a program where they come by every month and spray my house. I decline. I understand the best way to get rid of anything (even house guests) is to eliminate the food they eat. Killing the bugs (spiders eat bugs and other flying creatures), gets rid of the spiders. The spiders won't return. What I found amazing is that spiders climb to the highest point they can find and spin a long thread of spider web, till the wind takes the spider aloft and it goes up into the atmosphere, miles high and freezes and drifts half way around the world then thaws and falls from the sky half a world away. Absolutely amazing. Spray your boat once a month and kill the bugs and the spiders will not return. It works.
Keep it up,
Ctskip
Keep it up,
Ctskip
thank god there's no pictures on this thread. LOL I will be spraying inside and out on my boat now.
Spiders are hunter trappers. Just as we don't hunt or fish where there is no chance of getting food neither will spiders. The inside of your boat should be pretty barren hunting ground for a spider. If you examine the webs early in the morning you will find that the critters have been busy all night.
I just put dryer sheets in my dodger the week before last and there were no spiders this past week. I did not put them in my bimini and it was loaded with webs.
I will be driving the bastards out this weekend with another application of Downey Dryer Sheets.
Arrrrgh!
I will be driving the bastards out this weekend with another application of Downey Dryer Sheets.
Arrrrgh!
we have constant spidey problem and as some may be deadly bastids, i spray then enter my cabinetry lol...i have been sailing on another persons boat for a near year and when i got home---lol-----overcome--lol in and out of my boat were nested --the inside ones were just cobwebs but the outside was active--LOL----busy kids--so i spray then go into a cabinet......LOL.....oh--they can have the deep corners i cant reach but if they come out and i feel them...they die!!!!!
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lol--you will love this--i received a solar panel from somwhere in the desert kind of area southern usa....i had it sitting on my lazarette----and i see this big , furry evil lookinjg spidey coming right at the companionway ----aint getting into my boat, buddy--sprayed him ded...yuuukkkkkkkk,,eeeewwwww!!!!!!!!!!! ---
Spider patrol...
Every time I get down to the boat, I take a deck tour to see where webs are. After dark, giving the buggers time to reoccupy or restring their nets, I hit the deck with a flashlight and a can of flying insect spray. Every boarder I find gets a shot of "gas" and I watch them drop to the deck. The ones as big as my thumb take two or three shots. In the morning I clean up the webs with a spoke wheel brush (an oversized bottle brush for you younguns), hose off the deck, and enjoy the rest of the day spider free. Home Defense sprayed around under the toe rail lasts only about two weeks then it's back to the patrol routine to clean out the newcomers. Even boats on our marina moorings have spider boarders. This year seems milder so far.
Every time I get down to the boat, I take a deck tour to see where webs are. After dark, giving the buggers time to reoccupy or restring their nets, I hit the deck with a flashlight and a can of flying insect spray. Every boarder I find gets a shot of "gas" and I watch them drop to the deck. The ones as big as my thumb take two or three shots. In the morning I clean up the webs with a spoke wheel brush (an oversized bottle brush for you younguns), hose off the deck, and enjoy the rest of the day spider free. Home Defense sprayed around under the toe rail lasts only about two weeks then it's back to the patrol routine to clean out the newcomers. Even boats on our marina moorings have spider boarders. This year seems milder so far.
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