I don’t believe it’s really possible in practice to actually die from a spider bite in my area, although we do have spiders here which are considered “deadly” and there’s plenty of these around. Our kids are 3 year old twins. They love being outside but have no awareness of friendly vs deadly bugs.
You can buy poison / repellent stuff from the hardware store. Don’t mess around with a pressurised can. Get the 3 or 4L bottle of something bifenthrin based. Mix & pour into one of those big pump spray bottle things, you want one with a wand.
Then spray the places around the outside of your house, fences, and garage where spiders would like to be. Do this twice a year. I do it once after the end of the rain season, and again 6 months later.
It’s quicker and easier than mowing the lawn, and it avoids having webs everywhere outside, and huntsman-surprise inside.
So, you’re the bee killer. Bifenthrin is banned throughout the EU because of its impact on pollinators. It is toxic to birds and highly toxic to aquatic life with long lasting effects. Recent studies in mice suggest bifenthrin exposure contributes to the pathogenesis of Parkinson’s Disease and is linked to autism. I hope you don’t let your kids play around it.
Settle down mate, there’s no need to be a cunt about it.
You’re conflating residential use with agricultural use. Bifenthrin is not “banned throughout the EU”, it’s restricted from agricultural use.
The studies you’re referring to talk about dosages starting from 0.01 mg/kg per day. That’s something like 1ml a week for a toddler. They’re not going to “catch autism” from playing near the fence I sprayed with bifenthrin a month ago.
Well I’m not spraying vegetation and there’s no run off.
Again, the research you’re referring to regarding harm to wildlife concerns agricultural use in which plants are sprayed, which obviously effects polinators coming into contact with them.
Get a lot of flies in your house? Because I don’t get any, due to my friendly neighbourhood spider.
Kids make you functionally paranoid, I won’t fault your decisions though. I learned about spiders at that age, listened to my mum about them and developed a phobia, so hopefully your kids will not grow up being way too afraid of them and can have spiders in their house when they grow up. Good luck!
Beautiful down there. After living in SE NSW for so long, I drove around the country a while ago and when I got to southwest WA I kept thinking “holy shit, this has been here the whole time??!?”.
The northern bits with the alien-looking baobabs everywhere are also pretty amazing, but living up there would be tough, unlike near those karri forests. Phwoar.
I live in Western Australia.
I don’t believe it’s really possible in practice to actually die from a spider bite in my area, although we do have spiders here which are considered “deadly” and there’s plenty of these around. Our kids are 3 year old twins. They love being outside but have no awareness of friendly vs deadly bugs.
You can buy poison / repellent stuff from the hardware store. Don’t mess around with a pressurised can. Get the 3 or 4L bottle of something bifenthrin based. Mix & pour into one of those big pump spray bottle things, you want one with a wand.
Then spray the places around the outside of your house, fences, and garage where spiders would like to be. Do this twice a year. I do it once after the end of the rain season, and again 6 months later.
It’s quicker and easier than mowing the lawn, and it avoids having webs everywhere outside, and huntsman-surprise inside.
So, you’re the bee killer. Bifenthrin is banned throughout the EU because of its impact on pollinators. It is toxic to birds and highly toxic to aquatic life with long lasting effects. Recent studies in mice suggest bifenthrin exposure contributes to the pathogenesis of Parkinson’s Disease and is linked to autism. I hope you don’t let your kids play around it.
If my children want to play with autistic mice, then that’s their god given god damn right.
-OP
Settle down mate, there’s no need to be a cunt about it.
You’re conflating residential use with agricultural use. Bifenthrin is not “banned throughout the EU”, it’s restricted from agricultural use.
The studies you’re referring to talk about dosages starting from 0.01 mg/kg per day. That’s something like 1ml a week for a toddler. They’re not going to “catch autism” from playing near the fence I sprayed with bifenthrin a month ago.
How about the bees, birds and aquatic life?
Well I’m not spraying vegetation and there’s no run off.
Again, the research you’re referring to regarding harm to wildlife concerns agricultural use in which plants are sprayed, which obviously effects polinators coming into contact with them.
Weird how we all got cancer and all the animals keep dying around our house.
Get a lot of flies in your house? Because I don’t get any, due to my friendly neighbourhood spider.
Kids make you functionally paranoid, I won’t fault your decisions though. I learned about spiders at that age, listened to my mum about them and developed a phobia, so hopefully your kids will not grow up being way too afraid of them and can have spiders in their house when they grow up. Good luck!
No, we don’t actually.
We live on the south coast so the small flies are only around for a few weeks, and the bigger ones never get too problematic.
Spiders don’t really control flies. Plenty of flies in the bush. A couple of flies a week is ample sustenance even for a large spider.
Beautiful down there. After living in SE NSW for so long, I drove around the country a while ago and when I got to southwest WA I kept thinking “holy shit, this has been here the whole time??!?”.
The northern bits with the alien-looking baobabs everywhere are also pretty amazing, but living up there would be tough, unlike near those karri forests. Phwoar.