spiders and bugs and webs OH MY......

#21
My d*ckhead neighbor called the cops for my 67 being parked in front of my house, and I got a warning for being on the parked street more than 72 hrs without moving! I called the police and they said they based it on my neighbor's complaint and the amount of spider webs under the car. I told them that the webs form after just a couple of days, their answer was drive it more often or park in the driveway, next time he complains it will be a $125 ticket.
I went under it with a broom and then sprayed the heck out of it, but the webs still come back after a few days. So I guess I'll just be driving it for more errands than before.
Any suggestions on a good payback to my neighbor are appreciated.
 

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#22
Hosing the spiders down won't help. Neither will sweeping away the webs. those little buggers are industrious and all the webs will be back in a day or two.

Pesticide is your best friend.....:D
 
#23
Tried spray pesticide, guess it didn't get in the nooks and crannies enough. I wonder what the life span of a spider is? Maybe if I just keep driving it they'll die of old age before they can reproduce.

My kid suggested herbicide...not for the car but for my neighbor's yard. He wants to do a covert late-night op and write a giant four letter word in his lawn and watch it slowly appear over a few days. No permanant damage but gets the point across. I might give the green light if I get another ticket.
 
#24
I picked this box up in my garage the other day and dropped it right before I touched the biggest black widow I've ever seen. I hesitated to kill it at first because there was an even bigger roach dead in it web. Nice to have a friend like that around. I definatly hate roaches a lot more then spiders.

I heard something rustleing in the plastic I put up for my paint booth this morning. I went to investigate and jumped about ten feet when this huge a$$ roach comes flying out at me. I smacked that sucker down and fed him to the ants in the front yard who ate him alive.
 
#25
Your more scared of a roach then a black widow?.......wow man lol


Well i took apart the WHOLE front end today....when i got home from work i didnt see no webs but i would imagine they work at night so ill see what happens in the morning.....if they are still there some raid will be used lol
 
#27
I just went out to snap some pics And i saw a spider makign his web to the ground...bout the size of my thumbnail.....i saw him...



And damiit he saw me too and skurried back up into the rear bumper before i could get him...we made eye (eyes) contact.....he is mine
 
#28
Max Power said:
LOL, you could just drive the car more. Hard to build a web on something that's moving. ;)
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I drive my '66 daily, since I got it 5 years ago. I have always had spiders. Inside and out. Not the same kind either. I got out of the car the other day and there was a lil green one on my backpack. Whenever I get up and go to work, I get to see all of the webs on the outside of my car. Going across the hood, doors, everywhere. About a month ago, I pushed the button to open the door and it was squishy. I killed an orange spider.

On another note my 'lil brother also has a '66 and he has a mouse. He's seen it quite a few times while he was driving, scurrying around in the car.
 
#30
I had a chuckle at this thread yesterday.
Last night I was under my car, pulling the driveshaft out. The temperature was about 85 - 90 F out here in Tucson. I had a fluorescent light under the car. I was lying in a bunch of shrivelled up bug corpses. The longer I was under the car, the more flies I could feel drinking my sweat. Finally some two inch long beetle thing flew under the car towards the lamp.
I had to get out from under the car for a while to chill and change my shorts.
 
#32
geordie said:
I had a chuckle at this thread yesterday.
Last night I was under my car, pulling the driveshaft out. The temperature was about 85 - 90 F out here in Tucson. I had a fluorescent light under the car. I was lying in a bunch of shrivelled up bug corpses. The longer I was under the car, the more flies I could feel drinking my sweat. Finally some two inch long beetle thing flew under the car towards the lamp.
I had to get out from under the car for a while to chill and change my shorts.
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I live in Tucson too. A couple of years ago I was under my 83 blazer doing a brake bleeding. The wife was pressing the pedal and talking on the phone with her mom while I worked the bleeders under the truck. I had a halogen light on the ground at the top of the driveway while I was working at the back of the truck. As I was under there, I saw a shadow of something move right above me. When I looked up, there was a Centipede scooting along about 2' from me. The lighting made it look even bigger as it cast a huge shadow. :eek:

I did what any rough-tough 270lbs guy would do, I screamed like a girl and rolled out from under the truck ASAP. When I looked back I couldn't see the centipede, so I ripped of my shirt and was dancing around in the middle of the street. I was just sure it had gotten on me. :D

My loving, supportive wife thought it was hilarious. :rolleyes: I guess seeing me jumping around in the middle of the street screaming like a chick would be pretty funnny though.

BTW, this is what the centipedes look like here. We found a dead one in the house and killed one on the wall right before this happened. Yes, they are really this size:

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#34
mustangman70 said:
has anyone ever bug bombed the car>? Is this a bad thing to do? because i will be working inside it again in the next couple of days...i havent done it yet but im bout to....because i dont do spiders:nonono:
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Actually, I have. I dragged my '68 home from out in the Mojave desert and it was full of Black Widows. I lit off a couple of those nice water activated fumigators under it and the spiders were dead. They came back, but the gassers worked for a while. It helps a lot if you can enclose the car when you do it.

EDIT: If you want to get rid of black widows the old fashoined way, wait until about 1-2hrs after dark. They will be out on the webs where you can see them. I wait and then either spray them or get some stress out with a stick.
 
#35
so i was transporting a large speaker from my shed in my cherokee, one with really big exhaust ports (the speaker, not the car). a couple of days later, i noticed that my seatbelt was frayed. i thought little of it and went on my way. a couple of days later the belt was so bad that it frayed all the way through. i went in to the jeep dealer to get a new belt oredered and on my way out, i found a huge dead pack rat just in front of my seat.

also don't underestimate the power of a good shop vac when getting rid of bugs.
 
#37
Cool more Tucson guys!

I found a black widow before I pulled the engine out my car, fixed her up with some WD-40 and then stepped on it =)

i hate spiders so much and i rather mess with a snake then a spyder. Only way to get rid of them is find them and kill them.

and as for your neighbor that is BS. pee on his door mat LOL

Luis
 
#38
LUCAFU1 said:
Cool more Tucson guys!

I found a black widow before I pulled the engine out my car, fixed her up with some WD-40 and then stepped on it =)

i hate spiders so much and i rather mess with a snake then a spyder. Only way to get rid of them is find them and kill them.

and as for your neighbor that is BS. pee on his door mat LOL

Luis
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I have found the best way to get rid of the black widows is WD-40 and a lighter, or carb cleaner and a lighter, or... oh anything flammable and a lighter :D I coat them first then send a flamethrower after them. It's quite amusing.

I kinda like fire.
 
#39
Erich in AZ said:
I have found the best way to get rid of the black widows is WD-40 and a lighter, or carb cleaner and a lighter, or... oh anything flammable and a lighter :D I coat them first then send a flamethrower after them. It's quite amusing.

I kinda like fire.
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:lol: :SNSign:
 
#40
My dad had some lady come and was complaing of a smell. My dad opened the hood and a mouse went flying out from under the hood. Turns out he was cooking on the intake manifold haha
 
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