Spiders are here!
 

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

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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. ;-)

Spiders are here!
 

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.

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Wayne.B wrote in
:

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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"Captain B" wrote in
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Our docks are just loaded with spiders,

http://www.uky.edu/Ag/Entomology/ent...ruct/ef631.htm
Here in SC, the Brown Recluse, noted to be the most poisonous spider on
the planet, has failed to read the Entomologist's map confining them to
southern midwest states and there are millions of them, everywhere.
They're probably worse in the map's colored in part, but the map is DEAD
WRONG.

The poison eats flesh and CONTINUES. A friend of mine had to have his
HAND CUT OFF to stop it. Everyone in the South or coming to the South
needs to recognize this little brown, unobtrusive little beast. They are
not aggressive until you put your hand under something they've chosen for
home or press them up against something, like rolling over on one in
bed....

They are MUCH harder to spot than our other nemesis the Black
Widow.....which my churches are just FULL OF! I got bit when a Black
Widow took a dim view of my pulling the pedal clavier out from under a
Hammond organ to repair it. There were THREE Black Widows sharing the
pedal habitat, right under the organist's feet. OUCH!

This entomologist's site mentions glue boards as a way to trap them.
(See the pictures). Might be a good idea in the nooks and crannies
spiders love on your boats. My pest control man says spiders are the
hardest thing to kill with pesticides. You just about have to drown them
in it.

Just one of the next generations of dominant species to take over when
the current humans have blown themselves to hell with their
weaponry......after the nuclear winter.

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Spiders are here!
 

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.

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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?

If you find another solution other than killing all you find, please
tell us as my lady is using up her karmic balance on the ones she finds
on our baby each time we go out.

At first, she simply showed them where "out of the boat" was, but she's
become quite predatory of late, to her dismay. If she sees one, it soon
becomes so much mush.

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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

Keep a (large) tarantula om board, and don't feed it!

Bugs and Geckos
 

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

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