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From: holloway@drivax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.consumers,net.misc
Subject: Re: Spiders Haters Unite
Message-ID: <444@drivax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 22-Apr-86 11:58:45 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 22 11:58:45 1986
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Reply-To: holloway@drivax.UUCP (Bruce Holloway)
Organization: Digital Research, Monterey, CA
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In article <2755@sdcrdcf.UUCP> faigin@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Daniel P Faigin) writes:
>In article <7216@tekecs.UUCP> monam@tekecs.UUCP (Mona McLaughlin) writes:
>>> SPIDERS!
>
>I agree, yuk!
>
>One solution that my wife and I found was crickets. If you can
>put up with the occasional chirping, get a couple of crickets and
>let them loose in your house (or more, depending on the size of
>your house). Crickets eat bugs (e.g., spiders, silverfish, etc.).
>I have been told that if you do not like the noise, praying
>mantises also work.

Yeah, I want one of them loud, noisy crickets around when I'm trying to
get to sleep. Evidently you've never lived with one -- living hell. Spiders
are non-intrusive, totally silent, efficient, and they stay in one place.
Praying mantises are nice bugs, but they move around, too (but never when
there's someone in the room.... leave the room, come back, and where'd they
go?) Problem is, they're seasonal bugs that die at the end of summer.

Oddly, they're also chameleons to a degree. In the summer, they are a light
green color, but come fall, they turn brown, before they die.

Interestingly, praying mantises eat crickets, so if you've already tried
the cricket method and want to try something different....

-- 
"IS HE DEAD?"         "well..... not any more."

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(I'm not THAT Bruce Holloway, I'm the other one.)