Spiders jump. It's annoying when the little ones do it. It's a hair-raising experience when the big ones do it.

Spiders and any other exoskeletal creatures get to live outside our domicile. All those inside are subject to immediate extermination. If I'm working on one of my vehicles, I go and get the appropriate color of spray paint, or clear lacquer or shellac, and giver 'em a spritz. Ever since my dad sprayed a black widow spider with a Flit gun loaded with Black Flag poison, and it wiped itself off and walked away, I've used methods far more toxic. Paint/lacquer/shellac kills 'em dead in about a second. In the house, it's a smash hit, usually.

I found years ago that "Tap Magic" tapping fluid kills spiders and wasps simply by putting a drop on them.

They simply drop dead and never move again....

It made you wonder - what are the fumes doing to ME?

When I was a kid, I'd spray the flies with the hand pump full of good old DDT! Didn't mind the smell either

I prefer the slow but sure way.  Boric acid.

It is definitely nontoxic to mammals, birds and reptiles, kills Land insects slowly (say 72 hours) unless you apply heroic doses.  Kills in a rather gruesome way, by dehydrating the bugs.   It Kills very surely even in small doses, and most Importantly will kill any other insect or arachnids that eats the remains of the insects it kills.   If a bug eats it, and a spider eats the bug, the spider dies too. 

A fine dusting On the surface too fine to be seen by the eye will kill any insect walking over the It in 72 hours.   The stuff doesn’t expire and will keep on killing as long as it is there.   Remarkably most insects can;t smell it or taste it, so will never learn to avoid it.   It will stick to the exoskeleton of nest insects and be brought back to the nest, where it will kill the other insects in the nest.  But The stuff wipes completely off with any moist towel or tissue if you want to remove it.

Did I mention it is not toxic at all to mammals, birds and reptiles?

No problem with spiders. It's the one's that make noise that bug the hell out of me. And it won't be long before the cricket migration starts.

(September 2, 2020 at 10:34 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: I prefer the slow but sure way.  Boric acid.

It is definitely nontoxic to mammals, birds and reptiles, kills Land insects slowly (say 72 hours) unless you apply heroic doses.  Kills in a rather gruesome way, by dehydrating the bugs.   It Kills very surely even in small doses, and most Importantly will kill any other insect or arachnids that eats the remains of the insects it kills.   If a bug eats it, and a spider eats the bug, the spider dies too. 

A fine dusting On the surface too fine to be seen by the eye will kill any insect walking over the It in 72 hours.   The stuff doesn’t expire and will keep on killing as long as it is there.   Remarkably most insects can;t smell it or taste it, so will never learn to avoid it.   It will stick to the exoskeleton of nest insects and be brought back to the nest, where it will kill the other insects in the nest.  But The stuff wipes completely off with any moist towel or tissue if you want to remove it.

Did I mention it is not toxic at all to mammals, birds and reptiles?

While very effective and very low risk, boric acid is not ' not toxic at all to mammals, birds and reptiles'.

Boru

(September 2, 2020 at 8:49 pm)Sal Wrote: I hate flies. Spiders are my accomplices in killing flies.

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(September 2, 2020 at 10:13 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: I found years ago that "Tap Magic" tapping fluid kills spiders and wasps simply by putting a drop on them.

They simply drop dead and never move again....

It made you wonder - what are the fumes doing to ME?

They killed you "years ago". Now lay the fuck down, will you!

No wonder he sees dead people!

My problem isn't with spiders. It's with rats. Rats (especially when I suddenly find them inside my own home) creep the hell out of me.

At least with spiders, I can spray them to death or even easily squash them with my shoes if they're on the ground. Hell, I'll even use my bare hands to squash them if needs be and they don't look too dangerous. With rats you can't simply do that.

Mice as well, btw.