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False widows being hunted

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    #32
    [Deleted User]
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120553509#Comment_120553509

    Great to hear.



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    #33
    Delboy5
    Registered Users Posts: 875 ✭✭✭Delboy5


    Found this outside today, is it a false widow?

    Spider.jpg




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    #34
    DownByTheGarden
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    We were infested with false widows. both in our old house and in our new one.

    In the old house the shed was full of them and similar to the accounts above I noticed a few very big wolf spiders in the garage one day and much fewer false widows. Most of the false widows I had seen after the wolf spiders moved in moved outside. Only to be seen at the edges of the windows.

    Found a spider as big as my had in the bath a couple of years ago. Never saw one so big in my life. If I were a false widow I would be running away from that one.



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    #35
    bleaks
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    Was fly spraying the little vents around my windows earlier and out popped a family of false widows. I sprayed them with raid and any egg nests that were on the windows too in a bit of a panic. Hoping there isn't an infest in my house now as then I found a little bugger on the inside that was feeding on a bluebottle with the strewn corpse of a daddy long legs not far away (that I thought were predators to false widows, but obviously not this one).

    Is there any deterrents I can use to put on windowsills inside the house!?



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    #36
    iwillhtfu
    Registered Users Posts: 6,367 ✭✭✭iwillhtfu


    So my auld spider finally came to the junction of **** around and find out. 🙈 I now have the biggest false widow I've ever seen moved onto his patch.

    Due to the location I had to try send the FW on his way but they are fast buggers.

    Gave up and just dismantled the web. No doubt I'll find the FW hiding under something else shortly. I did dispatch a few more FW whilst I was out there but doing some work in the garden today it was good to see a nice healthy selection of native spiders about.



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