My new parts car is infested with Black Widows

thats not a bad idea but what happens when they creep out of a vent or a cowl when you aint looking =)

 

I have had good experience with the bombs I used in the new shop before I moved in. 3000 sq. ft. and used two bombs (vapor). Let it sit / fume for 24 hours. Went in the next day and I had hundreds of dead critters all along the floor and base boards including Camel spiders, Black Widows and Roaches.

 

I use this stuff called "DEMON" inside and outside of my house once a month. You can get at nusery or plant store, comes in packets that disolve in water. I'll spray it one day and about two days later I find dead
insects all over the place. If you can find it, give it a try.

 

right on ill try that if the skull and cross bones stuff i just picked up doesnt do the trick

 

Am I the only one feeling itchy?

 

A friend of mine in "Black Widow land" does that to his garage every now and then. Says it works good!
Haven't done it yet myself but I'm gonna give it a go soon.
We don't have Widows though....thank the Lord!

 

Tarp and Carbon Monoxide?

 

I would bomb the f**k out of it, then go in with BIG leather gloves, make sure you tape ALL your clothing so they can't get in anywhere and start pulling stuff out of the car and bug spraying the hell out of all the parts once they are out. But be carefull, they are nasty little f**kers.

I have also heard that if you put moth balls in a car, it will keep spiders out.

 

at this point i think im gonna bring home a Mapp gas torch and just go to town

 

but then what do you do with the castrated Moth when you done?

 

Good question............

 

also does anybody know if the bug bombs will hurt the "vintage" CB and AM radio or electronics in the dash at all?

 

How about This... http://www.rodandcustommagazine.com/featuredvehicles/0904rc_1923_ford_turtle_deck/photo_03.html

 

looks like somebody already squashed that one....

 

Pyrethrum poison is a good choice, will kill them within seconds when sprayed directly. Concentrated Methomyl will kill anything. Both of these are very toxic and can kill you but will kill anything alive in that car, make sure you are in a full Tyvek suit with gloves and boots with the seams taped and a good element mask with integrated eye cover (gas mask) spray the shit out of the car and let sit for a week before going inside of it. BE CAREFUL but it should work. Brake-Kleen works too, but is very tedious.

Mike

 

hell no! every TIME i see one of these thread , i read thinkin somebody has come up with a better way to kill em. then i go take a shower. see yall

 

damn that sounds like overkill.... you do this for a livong or something

 

tried any of them yet? ive got a project thats friggin infested with them myself(found out after pulling the fender and noticed i was sticking my hand almost on top of one) so im curious as to what youve tried that has/hasnt worked........if worse comes to worse i guess the pest control guy will be making some extra cash next month.......

 

Times 2. Before we start tearing apart any project or parts car, I tarp it up, drop one under the car and one in the back floor boards, with the trunk and hood lifted. Have yet to have one survive the fogging. Wait 24 hours, untarp, check at night with flashlight.

 

glad to hear that im getting antsy to get home with my tarp and bombs

ill use the skull and cross bones stuff i have now and then friday morning ill do the RAID too

then happy wrenching on saturday

 

As long as the bombs don't leave any residue or moisture, there should be no reason that the electricals would be damaged. I've used 'em in the same room as a half ton of stereo equipment... Electronics can be home to all sorts of creepy crawlies. Man I hate spiders...

Just sell the car.

 

Just dunk the whole car in Lake Elsinore, that water will kill em for sure....LOL !

 

Anybody ever tried putting the car inside a big plastic bag and filling it with nitrogen or carbon dioxide? Spiders need oxygen too. If you have a mig welder you might have enough gas to do the job.

 

brake clean and a lighter always works for me.......quick bursts and you wont burn up anything else.. the hairspray method mentioned earlier will work im sure, bu i think hair spray is more volitile, so ya have to be xtra careful


skull

 

Try to get some black wasps ... http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/IPMPROJECT/ADS/manual_naturalenemies.html

But what to do with the wasp-problem afterwards... Hmmmmmm.....

 

Don't screw around with it. Call an exterminator! My mom got tagged by about 20 hornets last summer while mowing behind a bushy area of the yard and she called an exterminator and he came out and had this little hand sprayer and moved some stuff around and ended up running away using the spray as a shield to keep as many off him as he could. Said that was the biggest hornet nest he had ever seen and there might be 500 - 800 hornets in there. He came back later with a trailer and a hose attached to that and kicked their asses. No more hornets.

I'm sure they have a solution for spiders too. They are the bug people.

Mom said it wasn't all that expensive like she though it would be....


Also, you might try out a chemical company. Here in Tyler, TX we have a place called Center Chemical. They sell all sorts of chemicals from bug sprays to pool chemicals. You can go in there and ask them and they usually know what will take care of what and if they don't have any of it they can usually get some.

I know that there is some spray that does work on spiders also. When I used to do electrical work, there was a house I worked on that had a spider spray setup installed on the eves of the house. It was out in the woods and there was a lot of spiders that would get up in the eves. This system had a pressurized spray in a huge container in the garage piped to all the eves and every so often it would come on and spray for a few seconds to keep spiders gone. What ever chemical that was should help in your case too.

Hope that was helpful.

 

here is a link with some info ... http://www.bugsaway.com/blackwidow.htm

Also here.. . http://www.pestproducts.com/spider_spray.htm

 

damn so i take it you've been here before

 

well i ran into some luck.... i work a parts counter at a plumbing supply and this guy rolls up in a truck marked "Robins Pest Control" he needs about 45$'s in parts so i talked him into taking the parts and spraying my car with "anti spider super black widow killer deluxe" =)

ill save the bug bombs for the garage and the spot killer for any hangers on

 

OK, Scott, now you MUST report back here with results. And more results after a week or so. Lots of us are interested.