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From: al@gtx.com (Alan Filipski)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Brown Recluse Spiders
Message-ID: <1345@gtx.com>
Date: 13 Sep 90 18:47:17 GMT
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Reply-To: al@gtx.UUCP (Alan Filipski)
Organization: GTX Corporation, Phoenix
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In article <734@tsnews.Convergent.COM> ward@tsnews.Convergent.COM (Ward Griffiths) writes:
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>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.

Raid, yes, but many other insecticides are not effective against spiders
because of their book lungs.  I can't tell you, off the top of
my head, which compounds are effective against which groups
and why, but Larry Lippman's cat could, I'm sure.


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