[Tennessee Conservative]

Ok, another big slide here. I found something I'm more afraid of than Covid.

I went to town this morning and noticed a spider web over the passenger side air vent on the dash. While driving through town I noticed something move. When I glanced over a very large Brown Recluse spider was sitting on the dash waving its front legs at me. By the time I jerked the car back into my lane it had jumped back down in the vent. I drove with one eye on the road and one on the spider.

When I got home, I got the hand-vac to suck it out of there. Well, I got the web but the spider took a dive. My husband informed me that the vents are all connected and it could travel around in there for a long time.

I don't mind snakes. I would rather a snake wrap around my ankles while driving than a brown recluse riding in my vents. Any ideas how to rid my vehicle of this spider? A Facebook friend said either burn the car or shoot it with a shotgun.

Bigg Red, it's a good thing you weren't with me when I saw it because you would have mashed me in the mouth.

[CheshireTheCat]

Sprinkle some peppermint essential oil onto some tissues or paper towels and stick the sprinkled part into the top portion of the vents.

I suppose you can also get a pack of car air fresheners and put all of them up into the car at the same time or spray lysol.

Make the car really smelly.

Or run either the air conditioner at the highest or the heat
for ten minutes.

Make the car inhospitable.

[TheConservativeParty]

Re: spider trouble

How about an insecticidal smoke bomb? Perhaps the very smallest square footage bomb ever made? Or maybe find the smallest and crack the windows. DISCLAIMER this may be imprudent due to risk of fire in such a small space. 🤓

[1_Rain_Drop]

Yikes! I'm not going to ask "are you sure it's a recluse?" because it's a spider!

What I would do is spray the vents with peppermint oil and then turn on the heat full blast.

My theory is,,, spiders don't like peppermint so the spider will avoid exiting through the vent thus remain trapped and the heat inside the vents will fry it.

BTW, I did spray my vents one time only with lavender oil to soothe my dog. Four years later, I can't smell it but my dog does take a quick sniff at the vents when I have the heat on. So I'd say the peppermint oil scent should remain a good while especially to repel the tiny critters.

Good luck!

[Porkchop]

***”...spider was sitting on the dash waving its front legs at me...”

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He seemed friendly enough...

https://www.lasertimepodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/SpideyWaving4.gif

🐷

[OldWarBaby]

That’s just one reason I keep bug bombs and more than one truck. Close up the cabin, throw in a firing bug bomb, come back in a couple days and air it out good. If webs keep showing up hang up a fly paper trap instead of a pine scent tree——semper fi

[Gasshog]

Get some spider killer at Tractor supply, spray all the vent openings (wet). Get the engine block hot turn heater up full blast.

Spider goes to a vent opening steps in chemical, hes dead very soon.

[MomwithHope]

If it was me I would take a spray stream bottle of pure clorox bleach and spray some stream down the vents. Fumes might kill it or if it comes out hit it with the bleach.

[Bigg Red]

Yipes! I might have cussed with you. 😄

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

All these people are going to fumigate you out of your car! Peppermint, Clorox, mole bomb...

Try this....get a can of pressurized keyboard duster with the little pipette and see if you can spray it in the vent just as he pops down.

Good luck!

[cherry]

perhaps put a sticky trap or two around with a little bit of sugar.....