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> "zob" <zob@ cox.net> wrote in message
> news:fnu2841aouec9rgmgsjcp9fiac7h528l06@4ax.com...
>> Suzanne,don't you live in the West? I know that Black Widows are
>> prevalent here in the South, but I didn't know that they were common
>> in the west. Learn something every day.
>
> Black widows are pretty much all over North America. I've certainly had
> them everywhere I've lived.
>
>> I wonder what is bringing all the arachnids and daddy longlegs in your
>> house all of a sudden?
>
> Eh, it's just that time of year. No biggie. I mean, we usually have a
> bunch of spiders up on the walls near the ceilings, so that's nothing new,
> and the black widows tend to thrive during the summer. They like cool,
> moist places, so you often find them in outbuildings, woodpiles, porches,
> and apparently, window wells. We used to have them in our sheds and
> garage (probably still do), and I have seen them in the window wells from
> time to time, but this is the first time I've seen THAT many. (I found
> one in my 11-year-old son's window well last night too. I think we are up
> to about ten now, with at least two dozen egg sacs.)
>
>> I got a laugh out of you using Fantastik to kill the black widow. It
>> reminded me of the movie, "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" where the Greek
>> father thought that Windex was the cure for everything!
>
> When we lived in Houston and had their usual red fire ant problems, one
> day I was cleaning in the kitchen, and happened to come upon a trail of
> ants. Disgusted, I sprayed them with Fantastik, meaning to wipe them away
> afterward. Imagine my surprise when they completely stopped moving upon
> being touched by the spray! More experiments showed that Fantastik is THE
> ultimate bug spray. If you spray a flying wasp, it will stop in
> mid-flight and drop before you've completely stopped the first spray.
> Small bugs go down instantly--much faster than with Raid. Larger bugs
> (roaches, crickets) need a couple of sprays, but it works on them
> eventually too. I haven't gotten much luck with spiders, though I usually
> don't spray spiders anyway, so I don't have a whole lot of experience with
> them.
>
> What's weirder is that I've also tried other cleaners, like Windex,
> Pine-Sol, Oxy Clean, and Formula 409, and NONE of them work as well as
> Fantastik. There's just something in that particular brand that does it.
> And it has to be regular Fantastik--no special scents or formulas.
> --S.
Simple Green does the same thing. Pretty cool.
