Tarantulas

texaslgr

texaslgr

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Tarantulas are pretty common where I live....so common that at night during the summer, you can see them in the streets. Well, last night, there's one in my house! I know I typically watch where I step when exiting my doors b/c they have been seen on my front and back porches regularly but this has crossed the line.

Anyone know of something I can spray to keep them off the house and away from the doors. I have a pretty good idea where this fella came in but it made for a pretty restless night last night wondering if any buddies followed him in.
 
Where do you live?

I used to love playing with Tarantulas growing up in Southwest Texas. They'd especially come out after a good rain.

When I was six or so, I gathered a bunch of scorpions and tarantulas and put them in a bucket to fight. You'd think I'd remember who won.

We were never successful in either keeping the scorpions or tarantulas out of the house. Or those damn Katydids.
 
I live in Taylor.....I think it's Tarantula heaven. I have a large concrete driveway and every night, there are at least 2 or 3 there. Driving through the neighborhoods is kinda cool sometimes b/c you can see them walking in the road. I have a lot of the black ones and they get pretty good size. But the brown ones tend to 'stand up' and jump.

BTW, the one in the house last night was fairly big.......probably around 4 to 5 inches long (front legs to back legs).
 
He probably came down the toilet vent.
We had an extended drought one year, and the surrounding neighborhood was getting very dry.
I suspect these guys can smell moisture, so this little guy decides to go for the home invasion.
I woke up around 3 AM to answer the call, turned on the light (so I can see the scorpions) and there he was ....a BIG tarantula. Easily 6 inches across. No way he could of come in through a door jamb.
He had come down the toilet vent and had popped up in the bowl of the crapper.
By the time I saw him, he was a little worn out from the journey.
I dropped him in a cup and threw him outside.
If the missus had been the one to find him, it would have been a rousing adventure after the screaming was over.

I don't think you can realistically spray for them without really exposing yourself to a lot of nasty chemicals. They are very big, and require a huge dose.
You could try sticky trays, the ones for mice.
 
I'm really not sure I wanted to hear about that damn thing popping up in the toilet although that would be a somewhat logical explanation. The last time this happened was about 20 years ago and it was right there on the toilet. Last night, the critter was in the hallway between 2 bedrooms and about 15 feet from the bathroom so it makes it extremely difficult to figure out where in the hell he popped out.
 
I would move. Or buy a shotgun.

Ultrasonic bug repellers seem to be working in my girlfriend's house (they had a bad roach problem). Don't know if tarantulas are too big for that, but it'd be something to try. The ones I got were at Petsmart - two 500 sqft transmitters for $25.
 
Of all the ******* threads for me--a borderline arachnaphobe--to click on while I'm having a fine round of shittin' and a surfin'.

Of course I've never seen a tarantula in the house, but now I'm certain there's one about to take a bite out of my sac.
 
I posted a few days ago about the tarantula that was in our bedroom. If the live in holes in ground with a web doorway, I have about a million on my property. On another board, someone was saying their home in New Hope (next to my lovely town) is on some sort of migration pattern, and every year they are up to their knees in tarantulas for about two weeks.
 
Haha-I was driving with my ex in Yucatan years ago between Merida and Cozumel, in a bigass jungle, and all these tarantulas were crossing the road, so I told her I had read they jump real high and had been known to jump into open cars and kill the occupants. Maybe that's why she's my ex.
Another time, we were waiting on the outdoor patio at County Line in Westlake, and this tarantula that looked big as a dinner plate walked right across the middle of the patio, causing a near panic among the happy hour types. Unfortunately, the fun was ended by a non-PETA member busboy.
 
This is one of the funniest non-aggy threads I've read in quite a while.

Go ahead and catch one for me. I'll keep it fat on crickets in a nice terrarium. Good stuff for the kids to watch. It might just push Mrs. Sangre over the edge, but that's a risk I'll have to take!
 
Sangre

Where do you live? Honestly, if you live close and really wanted some, there are so many at my house that I could probably round up 5 to 10 in a couple of nights easy. I used to take them to school as a kid and everyone thought they were so cool. So, if you have kids, I'm sure they'd enjoy the hell out of them. Oh....the cricket part is the best part....even I enjoyed watching them attack those crickets
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You people are crazy. I'd be out every night practicing my golf swing with an old 7-iron on those dirty ********.
 
lgr,
I'm in Lockhart.

Gustafson,
Those "dirty ********" do a mighty effective job of controlling a lot of other 6 legged critters. Take them out of the equation and you are asking for a population boom among their prey. Personally, I'd rather have a relatively small number of spiders than a huge number of other insects, but that's just me...
 
Growing up south of San Antonio, every summer we had to deal with the tarantulas taking over the damn city. I can remember driving along the streets and just running over them as they were running around all over the place.

They are trying to get into the house because it is cooler. If you have any openings around your doors or windows they are going to squeeze in. We used to have the problem with them coming in through the garage.

The exterminators used to say that there was really nothing they could spray to keep them away. However, I learned that if you find one in your house wasp spray will kill them. The beauty is that you can stand far away and spray them.

I only used this approach because I was always told they could jump really far, though I never gave them the chance to show me if they really could.
 
Please stop killing those beautiful creatures. They will not harm you. I've handled many and never been bitten.

Now that we've had plenty of rain, they should stay where they belong.
 
i'm not afraid of spiders, but i think i would **** my pants if i walked into a room and one of those were sitting there. i know they're harmless to humans, but hasn't anyone seen the movie Tarantula?!?!?!
 
My wife makes fun of me but even though I live in Dallas now, I still shake out my boots before I put them on. When I was younger, I spent lot of time in south east Texas country where a spider/roach/scorpion would routinely decide to take a nap in an empty boot.
 
I just mowed my 1.6 acres down low as I am about to leave on an extended trip. There are easily 50 tarantula holes around the yard.
 
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