Redback Spiders - Page 2

Kevnool (Kev) · #21 19-02-2010, 05:25 PM

There even here way out west in my shed.
Cheers kev.

bloodhound31 · #22 19-02-2010, 05:51 PM

Time to go down to Coles and grab a sixpack of those insect bombs. Throw one each in the observatory, shed, garage, outhouse, roofspace of your house and under the floor.

Do it all at the same time so you get all the breeders and all the eggs together. I highly reccomend surface spray around every door, window, cornice and skirt too. Petrol down the holes of the big ants nests and sump-oil all along the bottom of your boundary fences. NUKE EM ALL I say!

Trees....cut them all down, they spoil the view.

If I want to see nature, I go out of the city. Nature should stay out of the suburbs.....unless it helps pay the rent....

Baz.

BerrieK · #23 19-02-2010, 09:22 PM

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Originally Posted by tlgerdes

Just spayed all the nooks and crannies i could find (anywhere i saw a web without a spider) and low and behold, they came out in droves.

LOL!! That's a unique spider population control method - spaying their nooks and crannies so they cannot breed...

We too have lots at the moment. We always do at this time of the year. Especially in the bore pump shed - the biggest ones I have ever seen. Viva my blunderstones - splat.

Kerrie

pgc hunter · #24 19-02-2010, 10:11 PM

Nice and warm here tonight, I'll go outside spider hunting and see what I find...

curiously yesterday there was a whole bunch of slugs around. Yuck!

CoolhandJo (Paul) · #25 19-02-2010, 10:33 PM

I got FLICK in and it knocked em down and away for about 6months. Took another 6 months until they returned in numbers, but nothing like before!

BTW I have funnel webs in my backyard... Hard to get rid of them as they "hide" and dont usually die from ground spray.

pgc hunter · #26 19-02-2010, 10:41 PM

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Originally Posted by CoolhandJo

I got FLICK in and it knocked em down and away for about 6months. Took another 6 months until they returned in numbers, but nothing like before!

BTW I have funnel webs in my backyard... Hard to get rid of them as they "hide" and dont usually die from ground spray.

Time to get a can of hair spray and a lighter

Hagar (Doug) · #27 19-02-2010, 10:41 PM

Spiders Yuk, One thing I have learned during my tussle with termites is that the same spray applied as a fine mist provides a very good surface protection from spiders and kills them all very dead.. The chemical used by my first pest control bloke was Bifenthrin. At a dilution of 0.25% kills spiders for about six months and apparently not humans or pets. It is available from most farm supplies for about $45 for 1 ltr of concentrate which makes about 400 Ltrs of spider spray. I got my place sprayed and no spiders but the termites are still feasting away. Mongrels.

spearo (Frank) · #28 20-02-2010, 05:21 AM

They often like to hide in the "underside" of things such as outdoor furniture etc...
Always check before sitting on outdoor furniture!
Redback and whitetails are the only two kinds that have a short life span around me
I protect all the other one we get at the property (Huntsmen, wolfspider, indoor geeky ones etc)

frank

stephenb (Stephen) · #29 20-02-2010, 05:37 AM

It seems the increase of redbacks has also been noticed by experts:

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/coo...-1225832379308

Starkler (Geoff) · #30 20-02-2010, 02:42 PM

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Originally Posted by spearo

They often like to hide in the "underside" of things such as outdoor furniture etc...
Always check before sitting on outdoor furniture!

Yes I have de-redbacked my outdoor furniture a few times and the buggers keep returning. They make the messiest looking webs of all spiders that seem to get littered with debris.

Garage has them too along the bottom of the main door. Time to start the chemical warfare.

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Redback and whitetails are the only two kinds that have a short life span around me
I protect all the other one we get at the property (Huntsmen, wolfspider, indoor geeky ones etc)

Same here except daddy-longlegs are also exterminated without mercy. Apart from messing up the house with cobwebs they also attract whitetails being one of their favoured food sources.

pgc hunter · #31 20-02-2010, 09:20 PM

My pool has an unbroken network of Redback webs around 3/4 of its circumference, with several large spiders occupying it, plus numerous juvineiles. Also found a nest inside the rolled up pool cover, with an almighty egg sac

... plus another couple of spiders around the pool skimmer box which I handle regularly to clean it, not to mention more yet in the drains. Oh yeah, and the access gate to my pool contains 4 Redbacks, which are a real risk to anyone using it, especially in bare feet.

Ofcourse, the basketball hoop stand is a Redback habitat, as is a couple of rocks in the front yard. Then there is my brother's old doghouse (unnocupied - thankfully!) which has a big mutha residing near it!

I dare not venture into my shed after dark...god knows what arachnid terror lies inside lol...

Time to whip out the hairspray + lighter flamethrower me thinks!

DavidU (Dave) · #32 20-02-2010, 09:26 PM

....note to self........ Do NOT go to Sab's place.

pgc hunter · #33 20-02-2010, 09:34 PM

In addition to Redbacks, we have a big population of Bull Ants and White Tail Spiders come in plague proportions. During the warmer months I have to kill one every second night

Octane (Humayun) · #34 20-02-2010, 10:38 PM

Sab,

Between the spiders and clouds, you have it really good.

H

pgc hunter · #35 20-02-2010, 11:14 PM

well, atleast there is no mozzies here

Infact even last summer the mozzie situation was quiet, but the one before that was hell...

DavidU (Dave) · #36 20-02-2010, 11:48 PM

The mozzies are worried about getting eaten by the redbacks !

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Originally Posted by pgc hunter

well, atleast there is no mozzies here

Infact even last summer the mozzie situation was quiet, but the one before that was hell...

pgc hunter · #37 20-02-2010, 11:51 PM

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Originally Posted by DavidU

The mozzies are worried about getting eaten by the redbacks !

speaking of redbacks eating things, i always see them wrapping up beatles and other bugs.

fringe_dweller · #38 21-02-2010, 01:51 PM

hey yeah, us too, never seen them in these numbers at this house before, evryday i am glad for that innate thing red backs have in their inbuilt altimeter means *generally* means they dont stray far from groundlevel, yes i have seen them in a roof cavity, very rare in my experience, and no poisonous spiders build webs like say orb spiders do between trees, we would really be wouldnt we? interesting that, that would spark a vicious all out war on spiders wouldnt?
i went round perimeter of house walls/ground level vents last night with the greatest weapon ever invented regarding insects/ of all sorts, the atomic bomb of, the might rolled up newspaper, i know garfield comics guy is a fan, WHACK.... WHACK WHACK this continued seven more times
with this rolled up tome i smite thee oh evil dark grape with legs, and they say newspapers are endangered species, try doing that with you laptop! and this isnt the first night lately i have done this!
of note, i am pretty sure that daddy long legs are redbacks mortal enemy number one, and interesting that i havent seen those lanky bouncing freaks much of late? in fact none now, wonder if thats why the redbacks numbers are up? no longer kept in check? just a cycle, but strange in diff states who have had diff conditions hmmm
and redbacks introduced you say? not sure about that, heard that bout whitetails and turns out to be BS, also in bush think they live under *dry* rocks mostly, thats why you dont see 'em?