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Household Hints & Help

2naSalit

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3. I must be really lucky then...

Reply to multigraincracker (Original post)

Wed Aug 24, 2022, 05:40 AM

Aug 2022

I got my ten percent all in one fell swoop one night and got four bites on my face, almost twenty years ago, and still have nerve damage and other problems to this day. Spider indoors get whacked if it survives the poison I put around the outside of the house. Outside, I leave them be.

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Here's Why You Should Never Kill A Spider [View all] multigraincracker Aug 2022 OP

a big garfen spider weaves a nice web in my window every spring rampartc Aug 2022 #1

Back when I was 16 and 17, I had a summer job multigraincracker Aug 2022 #2

we do have black widows and brown recluses rampartc Aug 2022 #7

I must be really lucky then... 2naSalit Aug 2022 #3

No way a friend of mine got bit by a brown recluse. doc03 Aug 2022 #4

I worked with a woman at WIC who was bitten on her face by a brown recluse. vanlassie Jan 2023 #12

I am always happy to see spiders in my basement. apcalc Aug 2022 #5

Even if they are not deadly, any insect bit can multigraincracker Aug 2022 #6

Two spider stories PJMcK Aug 2022 #8

Spiders rule if..fish..had..wings Aug 2022 #9

Thanks for the numbers. Here are the greatest killers in the world. multigraincracker Aug 2022 #10

I leave them alone as long as there is no chance they will get on me. FoxNewsSucks Aug 2022 #11

I love spiders NJCher Feb 2023 #13

I tend to give them a chance to go back between the walls chowmama Mar 2023 #14