Be careful, you may be sharing your Jeep

[dave123]

My Jeep has no top, and is parked outside under a car port. For a couple of months now, a spider web has been forming down by my dimmer switch (where my left foot sits while driving). I believe in live and let live, so I just wipe away the web from time to time. Well, a couple of days ago, I notice a large egg sack. Its round, with spikes coming out of it. Out of curiosity, I turn to google. Turns out, I have a Brown Widow spider making babies 2 inches from my ankle spends several hours each week. I had never heard of the brown widow, but it turns out to be MORE poisonous than a black widow. Well so much for live and let live, I euthanized her and her children. Lucky I never got bit.
Moral of the story: Jeeps are full of nooks and crannies that critters, not all of them friendly, can make into a home. Be careful where you stick your fingers!

Note: I got this picture from google, I didn’t think to take a picture at the time.

 

[mylittlecj5]

I've been fighting the spider hoards for a while now. Just put my Cj back in the garage for another round of repairs yesterday, and was fooling with it last night. Peeled the soft top back and a HUGE brown garden spider landed about 12" from my face. Now I don't mind spiders as long as I know where they are and they don't make webs across where I walk, but that one scared me for a second! He got sprayed, then squished...

 

[BrockGrimes]

For Spiders in your garage, house, jeep, etc get:

diatomaceous earth
Diatomaceous earth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
From wiki:
"Diatomite is also used as an insecticide, due to its physico-sorptive properties. The fine powder absorbs lipids from the waxy outer layer of insects' exoskeletons, causing them to dehydrate[7]. Arthropods die as a result of the water pressure deficiency, based on Fick's law of diffusion. It is also used as a neutral anthelmintic (dewormer). Some farmers add it to their livestock and poultry feed to improve the health of animals.[12] "Food Grade Diatomaceous Earth" is widely available in agricultural feed supply stores. It is acceptable as organic feed additive for livestock."


It can be found at Lowes, Home Depot, and other fine hardware stores.
Grab a small bag to start, it goes a long way. They make a powder dispenser
sold in or near the garden center, usually near the pesticides.
Also grab a resperator or dust mask designed for fine particles, this isn't harmful
and is used in medical applications, but why breath it if you don't need to.
It's a fine powder like flour. This will kill the hell out of all bugs that get it one them.
I poof it in all the usual hiding places in the garage, in the corners, under the shelves, etc. Leave a spider web in place and just poof it as it'll hold more material than just a bare surface.

I highly recommend it.

 

[dalefan88]

mine wasnt as bad but i had a ton of those asian beetles all in mine when i got it.

 

[kickitandholdit]

hahahaha i had the vacuum out the other day sucking them up

 

[dave123]

For Spiders in your garage, house, jeep, etc get:

diatomaceous earth
Diatomaceous earth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
From wiki:
"Diatomite is also used as an insecticide, due to its physico-sorptive properties. The fine powder absorbs lipids from the waxy outer layer of insects' exoskeletons, causing them to dehydrate[7]. Arthropods die as a result of the water pressure deficiency, based on Fick's law of diffusion. It is also used as a neutral anthelmintic (dewormer). Some farmers add it to their livestock and poultry feed to improve the health of animals.[12] "Food Grade Diatomaceous Earth" is widely available in agricultural feed supply stores. It is acceptable as organic feed additive for livestock."


It can be found at Lowes, Home Depot, and other fine hardware stores.
Grab a small bag to start, it goes a long way. They make a powder dispenser
sold in or near the garden center, usually near the pesticides.
Also grab a resperator or dust mask designed for fine particles, this isn't harmful
and is used in medical applications, but why breath it if you don't need to.
It's a fine powder like flour. This will kill the hell out of all bugs that get it one them.
I poof it in all the usual hiding places in the garage, in the corners, under the shelves, etc. Leave a spider web in place and just poof it as it'll hold more material than just a bare surface.

I highly recommend it.

Good idea for the garage. I guess you can drop a little here and there, and it will have some staying power, but in the jeep, I think it would blow into my face?

 

[BajaEdition]

my major problem is cats, they love to sleep on the seats, so I have to put towels on the seat so I do not look like a fur freak when I get out.

 

[cj5 guy]

I recently went home to visit my mom and dad. while i was there they were gracious enough to loan me there cj's. moms had a huge black widow living under the carpet right beside the back seat. dads was fine. at least that was untill i poped the hood of the other one in the yard and bam black snake sittin right where the carb usta be... good thing we like black snakes

 

[BrockGrimes]

Good idea for the garage. I guess you can drop a little here and there, and it will have some staying power, but in the jeep, I think it would blow into my face?

It was more directed towards those with immovable objects of affection, LOL.

 

[susie]

Ok guys... this thread is... yuck! I just got chills. And I kinda wanna puke and then go shower! I dont like spiders, snakes, bugs, and right now, I am thinking I dont like kids much either.

 

[bladeburner]

Ok guys... this thread is... yuck! I just got chills. And I kinda wanna puke and then go shower! I dont like spiders, snakes, bugs, and right now, I am thinking I dont like kids much either.

I dont like spiders and snakes Sounds like a song I heard at one time

 

[IOPort51]

Don't dust Buba with DE, it won't work.

Ok guys... this thread is... yuck! I just got chills. And I kinda wanna puke and then go shower! I dont like spiders, snakes, bugs, and right now, I am thinking I dont like kids much either.

 

[susie]

Dammit.... I guess it wont work on my nephews either, will it?

 

[certifiablejeep]

That is why I like NH... the winter kills everything and whatever returns in the Spring and Summer isn't poisonous...

Although we have 3 woodchucks living under the back shed... one really fat one and 2 little fatties... my wife thinks they are cute... I just wish they were big enough to eat ALL the clover in the lawn so I wouldn't have to mow.

Any fatter and they won't be able to excape the speed of the tractor!

cb

 

[dave123]

Ok guys... this thread is... yuck! I just got chills. And I kinda wanna puke and then go shower! I dont like spiders, snakes, bugs, and right now, I am thinking I dont like kids much either.

Sorry Susie, this is for you

 

[susie]

Awww....thank you!!

 

[Cheepjeep85]

de powder is also used in swimming pools as a filter medium