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Fumigating a spider
So there's a large 1"-2" spider lurking somewhere in my car. Trying to look for it and kill it via mechanical means is likely nearly impossible given
all of the tiny crawlspaces in the car. So, is there any kind of gas I can use to kill it via fumigation? The gas needs to be virtually odorless,
relatively nontoxic to humans, and not able to damage leather, metals, or any other common material used in cars. Any suggestions?
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I think you need some Raid-ium.
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Cmon this is serious, do you have any idea how terrifying it is to be driving while knowing you are under constant threat of attack 
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I've heard leading a hose from the exhaust is good for fumigating vehicles.. most people who try it have great success 
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Quote: Originally posted by NedsHead  | | I've heard leading a hose from the exhaust is good for fumigating vehicles.. most people who try it have great success |
Spiders like exhaust.
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Seriously, what is wrong with a bit of bug spray?
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haha. You deserve karma for this post.
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Well I'd have to fill the whole car with it since I don't know where the thing is, and that'd make it smell terrible for months.
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Spiders need oxygen! Let a big block of dry ice sublime in there and make sure everything is sealed up tightly. Leave it overnight or something and
that might work?
Note to self: Tare the damned flask.
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Wear a SpiderMan outfit whilst driving.
It will not attack when it can clearly see you have SuperSpideyPower.
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Just get some Deltamethrin or another Pyrethroid insecticide dude.
Batoussai.
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Yeah !
Wear the SpiderMan outfit just for skin protection from the insecticide.
Lycra. Mmmm.
[Edited on 10-11-2015 by aga]
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Perhaps, as I originally read this thread title, you could fulminate the spider?
Are you being serious, though? If so, the dry ice idea is probably the best one.
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Well, I'm more like half-serious. If someone came up with something that matched all of the criteria and I could buy/make fairly easily, then I would
do it. Otherwise it's time to go spider-hunting.
As to the dry ice idea, have any of you actually tried drowning a spider before? I had one pinned at the bottom of my pool one time for several hours
and it was still very much alive when I released it. Carbon dioxide asphyxiation would be even less effective than that.
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Eh, if it's not a poisonous spider I wouldn't do anything. I managed to live comfortably for over a month with a 3 inch long house spider
co-inhabiting my bedroom. It stayed out of sight during the day, and prowled the floor at night eating silverfish (bane of my existence) and other
undesirable critters. It left on its own accord a couple months ago.
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Silverfish? In your bedroom...? Is it a clean bedroom?
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I've been thinking about getting a pet spider. It's easy enough to poison the rodents....
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Spiders do not survive being frozen. Leave the car outdoors with the windows rolled down on a night that goes down to 28*F. No more spider... You big
girly man.
If it doesn't get that cold where you live, bag the car with a good quantity of dry ice overnight, as suggested previously. Or get therapy and learn
to love nature's gentle wood folks.
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make some chloroform and leave it in an open bottle in your car.wear the spidey costume also just for an all out spiderman theme roll play kinda
thing.
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spiders do not like boric acid either,just sprinkle some all over the floor boards.record a wasp buzzing sound and play it while driving and the
spider will freeze still.per wiki:hobgoblin.lizard,electro.mysterio,doctor octopus,vulture and chameleon all are enemies of spiderman.
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Of course it's clean... Silverfish eat
paper, and I have a lot of papers. Plus the disgusting things can live for a year or more without eating so it's virtually impossible
to starve them out. Even if I removed all of my books and files and loose papers for a year (which would be very difficult) they may still linger in
crevices...
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| Quote: Originally posted by zts16 | | Of course it's clean... Silverfish eat
paper, and I have a lot of papers. Plus the disgusting things can live for a year or more without eating so it's virtually impossible
to starve them out. Even if I removed all of my books and files and loose papers for a year (which would be very difficult) they may still linger in
crevices... |
I see....Yeah, I found a bunch of them in an old paper box (of the stuff for very old printers with the perforated holes on both sides...)
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Silverfish are not a sign of uncleanliness.
Cockroaches, Rats and Mice are.
The Spiders here are just plain lazy.
There are loads of annoying Flies (one species in particular) and the Spiders do Nothing at all.
They just hang about knitting webs and chatting all day.
Lizards, gekkos, wasps and ants are great as they clean up the bodies as i swat them.
If it were up to me, i'd turn every f**king Fly into a Walk.
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Spiders are good pest control. Does your car have fleas? Leave the spider alone! Or help her relocate.
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I have a crapton of spiders living in my house. Every Mad Scientist's Castle in Eastern Europe has to have them. I don't do anything about them, live
and let live. Of course, it's rural northern Russia, and no spiders here are dangerous for humans.
[Edited on 17-11-2015 by ave369]
Smells like ammonia....
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