Black Widow Spider questions

[sherileeaz]

[nasbond]

I think you may have a June Bug (don't know the proper name) We used to tie a string on their legs and let them just fly around in a cricle. They like fruit and are bothersome but harmless.
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[kurthzone]

[sherileeaz]

[sherileeaz]

I'm going to go with AZ exterminating, they'll take care of the webs, and continue a bi-monthly service for everything but pigeons and gophers. Sounds fine to me!

Thanks for all the help with this.
Sheri

[paintninaz]

[GTG]

June Bugs are harmless to humans, hell on peach trees though. they typically fly into a wall or a house or something to knock themselves out, upside down. They usually can't right themselves on smooth surfaces and subsequently die like a turtle on his back would. You can't spray to get rid of June Bugs however their larvae live in the ground as grub worms eating your lawn's roots. Poison applied to the lawn may kill next year's crop but they'll still fly in from somewhere else. Don't start a spray frenzy over there, you may regret it.

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[sherileeaz]

[nasbond]

Studies show that about 8% of the population are intolerant of insects. The problem is you moved into there neighborhood. Those little fellers lived there alot longer than you. To be honest most of them don't want to live with us but we make it so attractive they can't help it. Lights outside at night brings bugs put yellow blubs in the porch light. Where bugs are spiders live. You wouldn't want to live hundered miles from the grocery store neither to they. Smells of food, human, or aminal will bring bugs, mice and other things. Just your breathing will bring bugs. After awhile everything will blance out and it will not be so bad. Most will move out and then you will have just the occasional invader.

The nice thing is after about five years all of those little critters won't brother you. The sun will have cooked your brain by that time and you won't care like the rest of us.
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[sherileeaz]

[matt gilbert]

You know sheri. If you really wanted to submit to the whole foodchain thing, you could get a cat. They'll hunt the scorpions.

But then you'd have to get a dog, to keep the cat in line.

I don't know what you'd get for the dog, a bear maybe.

and a big gun for the bear...

[sherileeaz]

[Nighthiker]

Go to Spencers Gift and buy a black light. At night turn off your lights and use your black light to check for scorpions and other critters they glow with the black light. Also obtain a copy of Insects of the Southwest by Floyd Werner and Carl Olson (most book stores).

[nasbond]

Tarantula Hawk. You may have seen one and didn't even know what it is. It belongs to the wasp family. They are black with orange wings 1 inch to 1 1/2 inches long. They will not usually bother humans unless you put smash it with something. They sting large spiders and drag the spider to their nests and lay their eggs in the spider. The spider doesn't die but is imoblized and is waiting to be eaten by the young wasps. Why am I telling you about this wasp. This species probably has the most painful sting of any insect. If stung lay down. If you don't you will fall down. Half hour later things will start to return to normal. The same rule applies to Tarantula Hawks that applies to rattlesnakes. They have the right away.
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