Winter is the solution to dock spiders !!!!
As autumn is quickly approaching the northern hemisphere .... just wait
until the atmospheric conditions are right and watch for the arrival of
the 'parachute spiders' who essentially travel around the world on
their silk parachutes. On the Chesapeake Bay when the atmospherics
are 'just right' (September & October) the GOSSAMER that collects in
the rigging from these parachute spiders is sometimes 'spectacular'.
info: http://homepage2.nifty.com/singingsa..._gossamer.html


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

Rich Hampel wrote in news:110920061132356331%RhmpL33
@nospam.net:

Winter is the solution to dock spiders !!!!


In Charleston, we overwhelm them with gnats on the docks. The spiders
become so fat and overfed they die as the gnats stuff them with sacrificial
gnats, then the other gnats, the ones eating the boaters, eat the spiders.

It's a tradeoff. I had a problem with mosquitoes, until I put up 6 bat
houses. I don't know how the upper bats breathe or stand it inside those
black boxes. It's gotta be 150F in there, even in the shade. So many bats
stuff themselves in there there's no room for the spiders and bats hang out
the bottom, upside down, asleep all day. At dusk, bats come pouring out
across the yard eating any insect that dares move, sonars scanning in full
hunt mode 3B.....

Now, if I could just entice the bats into eating Palmetto bugs, the huge
roaches that carried off my neighbor's goat, we'd have pest control pretty
much under control! Unlike mosquitoes and gnats, however ugly they may
look, Palmetto bugs don't eat people, so are much less of a threat. They
pop when you step on them...(c;



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Rich Hampel wrote:
Winter is the solution to dock spiders !!!!
As autumn is quickly approaching the northern hemisphere .... just wait
until the atmospheric conditions are right and watch for the arrival of
the 'parachute spiders' who essentially travel around the world on
their silk parachutes. On the Chesapeake Bay when the atmospherics
are 'just right' (September & October) the GOSSAMER that collects in
the rigging from these parachute spiders is sometimes 'spectacular'.
info: http://homepage2.nifty.com/singingsa..._gossamer.html

This is common, though not all the way from Japan. In Chicago,
skyscraper window cleaners and exterior maintenance folks routinely are
bitten by spiders flying from Michigan, over the lake, at least 30
miles...

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