Our docks are just loaded with spiders, so of course the come and take
over our boat each weekend, does anyone have some clues as to what
might keep this from happening? Maybe a way to keep them out of our
cockpit at least?

Thanks
-BB
www.boatersbasement.com

In article . com,
Captain B wrote:
Our docks are just loaded with spiders, so of course the come and take
over our boat each weekend, does anyone have some clues as to what
might keep this from happening? Maybe a way to keep them out of our
cockpit at least?

Thanks
-BB
www.boatersbasement.com

Gross. I've heard that Dr. Bronners soap works.

I'm sure there must be other organic compounds that would help...




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Somebody suggested some gekos.

how about some hop toads???


Jonathan Ganz wrote:
In article . com,
Captain B wrote:
Our docks are just loaded with spiders, so of course the come and take
over our boat each weekend, does anyone have some clues as to what
might keep this from happening? Maybe a way to keep them out of our
cockpit at least?

Thanks
-BB
www.boatersbasement.com

Gross. I've heard that Dr. Bronners soap works.

I'm sure there must be other organic compounds that would help...




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"Captain B" wrote in message
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Our docks are just loaded with spiders, so of course the come and take
over our boat each weekend, does anyone have some clues as to what
might keep this from happening? Maybe a way to keep them out of our
cockpit at least?

Thanks
-BB
www.boatersbasement.com


Bring your boat to Marinette Wisconsin, and I'll let my spiders duke it out
with yours. ;-)

On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:08:17 -0500, "KLC Lewis"
wrote:

Bring your boat to Marinette Wisconsin, and I'll let my spiders duke it out
with yours. ;-)

Or bring it to Florida and let them duke it out with my geckos.

Wayne.B wrote in
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Or bring it to Florida and let them duke it out with my geckos.


I gotta ask....Do your geckos sell boat insurance?....(c;



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On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 00:46:16 -0400, Larry wrote:

I gotta ask....Do your geckos sell boat insurance?....(c;

The ones that talk will try to sell you anything.

Wayne.B wrote in
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The ones that talk will try to sell you anything.



My two parrots are the same way....always asking for Monkey Biscuits if I
venture near the kitchen sink.

Roger-Roger - Blue and Gold Macaw
Zeke - Yellow Naped Amazon

Parrots are lots better than the fish I used to have. The fish always died
when I took them out of the tank to teach them how to talk!

Problem with parrots is getting them to SHUT UP!

Wayne.B wrote:

The ones that talk will try to sell you anything.

But you can trust them!

Just ask the one on TV! ?:

Hi, Wayne, and group,

Wayne.B wrote:
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:08:17 -0500, "KLC Lewis"
wrote:

Bring your boat to Marinette Wisconsin, and I'll let my spiders duke it out
with yours. ;-)

Or bring it to Florida and let them duke it out with my geckos.

While we don't seem to have an infestation, we've noted the occasional
state bird aboard (most likely blown in, as one of them was struggling,
inverted, on the saloon sole before I did a Schwarzenegger on him),
and, lately, more occasional tiny cousins (way less than 1/4", but very
cockroach-y looking in shape) most likely brought aboard in beer case
bottoms my misguided contractor's wife uses to "clean up" (she cleans
off the surfaces I've been using to stage stuff by piling it into said
box bottoms, making it impossible to find anything when I return) in
the times when I was gone, before Lydia moved aboard.

I'm not the least bit squeamish, but I'd rather be bug free, just as
I'd rather have a dry bilge.

So, to the question: Do your geckos keep the boat bug-free? I've often
thought, once we splash and actually depart, that it would be a good
thing to have a couple of geckos aboard. Much less intrusive than
iguanas, and don't get so big as to be troublesome later. Once they
run out of bugs to eat, I expect they'd look peckish and we could put
out food and water for them.

In our boatyard, there are legions of small lizards from 2" to perhaps
6" head to tail, and Lydia observed one of the larger (none aboard,
sadly) stalk, catch, and eat a palmetto bug (cockroach from hell to
transplanted northeasterners, state bird to Floridians), so the concept
is sound.

I'm just wondering if any of you have successfully utilized geckos in
an environmentally friendly insect control program?

L8R

Skip and Lydia, sweltering without even Ernesto to cool us down in the
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