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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