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- From: jhb@calmasd.prime.com (Jim Bishop)
- Newsgroups: rec.gardens
- Subject: Re: spiders
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.123540.963@calmasd.prime.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 20:35:40 GMT
- References: <1992Nov7.002325.10012@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <lgiq9fINNhai@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
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- In article <lgiq9fINNhai@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>,
- jaya@encinitas.Eng.Sun.COM (Jaya Holla) writes:
- >
- > I live in sunny California with screens on all windows I still have spiders in
- > my house. Any tips on how to get rid of them will be greatly appreciated.
- > Please email as I have gotten very busy at work and don not read this
- > newsgroup as much as I used to. (TIA)
- >
- > As an aside: three years back the house was fumigated and I did not see
- > any spiders for a while. Now they are back.
- >
-
- Unexciting (except for the chasing them down part) but a plain old
- vacuum cleaner works great for removing spiders from my house. Bear
- in mind though that the spiders wouldn't be there if there wasn't
- something to eat.
-
- Frequent vacuuming of the carpet also cuts down on invasions of
- another major So. Cal. pest - cat fleas.
-
- Jim
-