Spiders

I addressed this issue in another thread last year I think.
While in the process of buying Dancing on the Water I ran across an exterminator in St. Charles, MO.

Her suggestion was to get a box of the old stand by 20 Mule Team Borax Laundry Detergent.
Something about the spiders not being able to digest the stuff.
All natural too!
Make up a bucket of it and water and soak your dock lines.
Dock lines come out clean and soft.

We also sprinkle it dry on the carpets before we vacuum Sat morning.
Carpets smell fresh and no more spiders.
We also made up a solution and use it in a garden sprayer for the dock and all electric connections.

Seems to be doing a great job as most of our dock mates are constantly complaining about the mess they have to clean every weekend.

Dan
 
I am going to try a stern letter followed by economic sanctions before I resort to violence.
 
SB You better hope there are not any DEP employees as members on this website or you will be getting more than a red ball. Oh by the way, you didnt see any fish, did you notice any lobster or shrimp larvae (microscopic insects as they may be) floating on the beach, probably not. I happen to have an oyster farmer across the slip from me, his livlihood. I think he might have a problem with such practices.

"Each to his own. BBG is approved for spraying on vegetables and Home Defense is approved for use inside homes. Spiders are not approved for boats or docks." = FOOL
 
Dancin Dave said:
SB You better hope there are not any DEP employees as members on this website or you will be getting more than a red ball. Oh by the way, you didnt see any fish, did you notice any lobster or shrimp larvae (microscopic insects as they may be) floating on the beach, probably not. I happen to have an oyster farmer across the slip from me, his livlihood. I think he might have a problem with such practices.

"Each to his own. BBG is approved for spraying on vegetables and Home Defense is approved for use inside homes. Spiders are not approved for boats or docks." = FOOL
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Lobsters, shrimp larvae, oysters in fresh water? Sounds like biology you would learn in a public school. FYI, some of the city marinas we visit routinely spray for spiders.
 
Daniel P Thomas said:
I addressed this issue in another thread last year I think.
While in the process of buying Dancing on the Water I ran across an exterminator in St. Charles, MO.

Her suggestion was to get a box of the old stand by 20 Mule Team Borax Laundry Detergent.
Something about the spiders not being able to digest the stuff.
All natural too!
Make up a bucket of it and water and soak your dock lines.
Dock lines come out clean and soft.

We also sprinkle it dry on the carpets before we vacuum Sat morning.
Carpets smell fresh and no more spiders.
We also made up a solution and use it in a garden sprayer for the dock and all electric connections.

Seems to be doing a great job as most of our dock mates are constantly complaining about the mess they have to clean every weekend.

Dan
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Dan, do happen to remember the name of the exterminator in St. Charles? That's where I keep my boat and was wondering if it's the same exterminator we are using at our docks...(They did say their methods and products are enviromentally safe)
 
In Texas we have a long growing season and serious spider issues therefore I use serious spider killing stuff. I spray my dock, drips on the boat but never spray the boat, and general surrounding area with Suspend SC, a Bayer product. It clearly states to not use around water but it is the only product I have used that controls the spiders. Notice I said controls because you do not want to kill all of them. Spiders are only part of the food chain and if you kill all of them you just get other insects in their place. If you use Suspend be carefull because it can harm you if you get too much on or in you. Also, it is the same chemical used by pest control experts for residential use in the Dallas area.
 
no wonder the Hudson is near dead. The best defense against spiders is to use your boat.
 
SBW, considering I have on staff an entomologist, zoologist, biologist, formerly a scientist with the Centers and Disease Control and prevention with an emphasis on invertabraes for 30 years, I wont qualify your ignorant comments but will demonstrate your ignorance with the following:

"Yet freshwater clams – or mussels – or "unionids" – "are the most endangered animal group in North America," according to the U.S. Geological Survey's Great Lakes Science Centre in Michigan. The centre, whose research programs date back to the 19th century, lists almost three quarters of about 300 native fresh-water mollusks as "recently extinct, endangered, threatened, or of special concern." Environment Canada ranks mussels second, among Canadian animal groups, to reptiles as most at risk.

"The loss of mussels from our waterways should not be taken lightly – it is indicative of greater impending problems," says Todd Morris, a biologist at Fisheries and Oceans Canada who studies species at risk. About 55 of the North American species live in Canada, with 11 under federal endangered status and four more in the process of being added.

Their life cycle makes them susceptible in several ways, starting with being filter feeders, said Morris.

The clam is the link between sediment and water, taking in food and dumping the rest on the bottom for other creatures to live on, churning and mixing the bottoms of lakes, rivers and tributaries.

"They're a sensitive group," said Morris. "They don't really move. Wherever they are, they stay for 65 to 85 years. Some of them may have been born during the Second World War. Think about what it's experienced in those waters during all those years."

Along with food, PCBs, toxins, metals, hospital pharmaceuticals or drugs that have seeped into the waters are ingested too.


SB You said you lived in Michigan didnt you?

Maybe some of the locals would be interested in your "Arachnid expeditions"
 
I had a weed growing in the large planter I keep at my slip....till I zapped it with some agent orange I keep in a 5 gallon jug in my dock box. Weed-b-gone.
(My slip is adjacent to SBW1's).
 
jg300da said:
I had a weed growing in the large planter I keep at my slip....till I zapped it with some agent orange I keep in a 5 gallon jug in my dock box. Weed-b-gone.
(My slip is adjacent to SBW1's).
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We use 2,4d and Dyquat for weeds. Any thoughts on that?
 
I have "conversations" with the hot dog guy on the street every now and then. He feels it's ok to hire prostitutes as long as they aren't Muslim (his wife is Muslim). Something about Muslim women being more pure than Christian women. His preference is Russian and Brazilian women. Allah told him it's ok. Kind of like the same logic of using Pesticides on the water.
 
"Have you ever noticed that when they get soap on them they sink like a rock?"

Which ones, the muslim prostitutes, or the Russian and Brazilian ones?
 
AndersonAcres said:
I don't like to use poisons. IMO even taking something like pest strips down leaves a residue. Also, not seeing dead fish doesn't mean there's not a downside to BBG.

We've made a tea of bay leaves and sprayed it on the dock and boat with good success against spiders and ants. It's water soluable so reapplication after rains is necessary.
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You go Anderson (GO GREEN)
 
Dancin Dave said:
SB You better hope there are not any DEP employees as members on this website or you will be getting more than a red ball. Oh by the way, you didnt see any fish, did you notice any lobster or shrimp larvae (microscopic insects as they may be) floating on the beach, probably not. I happen to have an oyster farmer across the slip from me, his livlihood. I think he might have a problem with such practices.

"Each to his own. BBG is approved for spraying on vegetables and Home Defense is approved for use inside homes. Spiders are not approved for boats or docks." = FOOL
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Another one (GO GREEN)
 
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