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Posted on 10/15/2022 3:41:23 PM PDT by libh8er
TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Things are already getting spooky this October. The word is going around that spiders are invading the Tucson area.
Many of you have shared on social media that you’ve recently started seeing more spiders.
Just around Matt Dunkel’s home he’s found five spiders. Around his Oro Valley neighborhood, he’s found three.
“It’s been crazy! It’s been awesome! There’s been spiders all over the place,” he said.
He's been seeing them pop up over the past few weeks.
“Now we’ve just been seeing them everywhere so it’s been really kind of neat to see all the little friends just kind of hanging out in all the little different hotspots of the neighborhood,” said Dunkel.
He hasn’t got rid of the spiders for many reasons.
Things are already getting spooky this October. The word is going around that spiders are invading the Tucson area.
Spiders in Tucson By: Reyna PreciadoPosted at 5:32 PM, Oct 13, 2022 and last updated 5:32 PM, Oct 13, 2022 TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Things are already getting spooky this October. The word is going around that spiders are invading the Tucson area.
Many of you have shared on social media that you’ve recently started seeing more spiders.
Just around Matt Dunkel’s home he’s found five spiders. Around his Oro Valley neighborhood, he’s found three.
“It’s been crazy! It’s been awesome! There’s been spiders all over the place,” he said.
He's been seeing them pop up over the past few weeks.
“Now we’ve just been seeing them everywhere so it’s been really kind of neat to see all the little friends just kind of hanging out in all the little different hotspots of the neighborhood,” said Dunkel.
He hasn’t got rid of the spiders for many reasons.
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“They’re doing a job, they’re taking care of all the little bugs that can bother us and get icky. And what’s been cool is I’ve been able to take not only our daughter, but our son, who’s almost going to be five, and show him all the little cool things about how they build this web,” he said.
Dunkel has seen some black widows, but for the most part he’s seen orb weavers.
These spiders are the most common here around Tucson. Isaiah Vague with Arizona Pest Control said most like to build their webs around plants.
“The reason you’re going to see it that way is because they like to catch flying insects that aren’t going to be aware of their web as they’re passing through,” said Vague.
He’s seen an increase in spiders around Tucson.
“Some of the different storm systems that we’ve had has actually caused an increase in the population of things that they would feed on, things that spiders would normally prey. And with that being said, anytime you have an increase food source and an increase water source, you’re going to produce more. It’s much easier to provide for your offspring if you have something to feed them,” he said.
If you’ve recently started seeing spiders like orb weavers, Vague said there’s no need to worry because they’re actually harmless. But many spiders could mean it’s time to call pest control, because they tend to go where they can find the most food.
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Nice!
Consider that stolen.
I love the look on the girl’s face...
I had one come in to my 20ac Nursery/Garden Center/Landscape Contracting operation business, back in the late 90s, a big female loaded with babies crawling around on her. Carefully, I used a tongue depressor to left her and the small ones into a Mason Jar, filled with Isopropyl Rubbing alcohol.
It still sits on my office-sunroom desk here in the condo, now that I’m retired after 35yrs in business.
No spiders on the Earth means filthy things like flies and mosquitos multiply.
PS — The BW came in on a load of nursery stock — trees & shrubs — from Oregon.
“ If thermo-nuclear will kill all the fire-ants in Florida, I would be rooting for Biden’s nuclear war with Russia”
The problem with that for you is most of the ant killing will happen in Russia.
One of my daughters, at one time, lived in a basement apartment in Chicago.
She had stories about the cockroaches, but one story sets apart from the rest;
One morning she was running late and hurriedly grabbed her stuff, opened the door, and in ran a big cockroach, followed by a centipede. She chased after them all over the place, I don’t recall if she killed them or not.
Unleaded gasoline, a squirt oil[some call them pistol oilers] can gets them right nicely. If you like, mix a litle 30 weight oil in the can.
Cyborg spiders programmed in accordance to Asimov’s three laws.
I kill Black Widows with bug spray, although I try to just smash them when I find them in the tortoise habitat. I try to keep that area chemical free, which also helps out the lizards and the hummingbirds.
What kind of spiders? Hell, I’m shushhing spiders away all the time..in Illinois.
To get rid of cockroaches, crickets, and ants, mix peanut butter with Karo syrup (or some other sugar) and borax. Place dollops of the bait in empty plastic food containers with holes drilled in them for the bugs to enter. The borax will kill the cockroaches and crickets. The ants will tote the bait back to the queen and wipe out the colony.
You have obviously not studied geography very well
Russia has 1/3 population spread over 12 time zones.
Along with 8 point five million thieves, thugs, junkies, zombies, plague-bearers, and general-walking-around death-standing-upright-murderers waiting to burst at the seams.
You might shouldn't let the spiders trouble you too terribly much.
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Glad you are OK........
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