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From: trish@trantor.harris-atd.com (Trish Stuckey)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Brown Recluse Spiders
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Date: 11 Sep 90 21:03:16 GMT
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In article <RPETER.90Sep10073916@jornada.nmsu.edu>, rpeter@nmsu.edu
(Peter Herman x5495) writes:
|> Mary.Lane@ofa123.fidonet.org writes
|> 
|> >Does anyone know something that would kill the Brown Recluse?  I
don't have 
|> >roaches; I have those mean, fast, big spiders, and I don't know
where they're 
|>                        ^^^^  ^^^^  ^^^
|>                          1     2    3
|>      If you have wolf spiders, I'd just leave them be (integrated
pest
|> management, and all that).  If you want to be rid of them, good
strong
|> bug spray around the baseboards should do it.  If they really are
BRs,
|> you need to concentrate on spraying the closets, garage, basement
and
|> other dark, usually undisturbed places.  Good luck!
|> 

       I think I know the ones you talking about.  I don't think
they're mean though.  They're certainly mean-looking.  We call
them (here in Florida) the brown mosquito spider.  They are
HUGE, they're a good 6" to 7" across (toe to toe, so to speak),
and when they run across your wall you can here the pitter-patter of
those toes.  I was told that they are harmless, however, I had one
run up my arm and I almost broke my leg when I knocked over the
coffee table trying to get my shirt off (not to mention the heart
attack I had).

       I sprayed 1/2 can of Raid on one of them, he passed out and
about 5 mins. later he got up and walked away. 


   Trish Stuckey