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From: ward@tsnews.Convergent.COM (Ward Griffiths)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Brown Recluse Spiders
Summary: They might be friendly
Message-ID: <734@tsnews.Convergent.COM>
Date: 12 Sep 90 00:19:40 GMT
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> 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 
> coming from.
> --  
> Mary Lane
> Internet: Mary.Lane@ofa123.fidonet.org

As someone else posted, what you have are probably not Brown Recluse,
and non-venomous spiders can be real handy to have around to help out
with cockroach control and such.  I actually used to keep a couple of
tarantulas around for that job.  They worked great and I was never
bitten.

But if you really want to get rid of them, spiders are sensitive to
many of the same things that kill insects: bug bombs, massive over-
doses of Raid, combat boots, ball peen hammers, etc.
-- 
Ward Griffiths             [Judas] went and hanged himself.  Matt. 27:5
                Jesus said  ... Go, and do though likewise.  Luke 10:37
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