Barn Spiders?

[sylvie]

I'd get some sort of industrial strength power blower instead of knocking them down.

Actually, I do like spiders and the webs (for today) are kinda Halloweenish.
There's a family in Ohio who makes extra money with their haunted barn. Gets ya thinkin that maybe those natural webs are potential money makers! Less props to buy if ya go into the business, lol!

 

[chipmunk]

I would MUCH (!!!!) rather deal with spiders than those big old roaches or waterbugs or whatever you call them. (insert major cringe) And to me there's nothing grosser than smushed bug guts, so I usually catch bugs and set them free outside. Weird, huh?

What a great Halloween topic!

 

[ducks4you]

I'm glad it's just beetles! I like to use my pushbrooms to knock down webs. Some people use garage vacuums and scoop them up. I've even met those that knock em down, then vacuum. I knock them down, then sweep, then scoop into a wheelbarrow, then move them to the burn pile. Good luck.

 

[buckeye lady]

I haven't seen a spider in the barn since we've had chickens. They eat them!

 

[Wolf-Kim]

I haven't seen a spider in the barn since we've had chickens. They eat them!

Really? I better have a talk with my chickens.

Buncha slackers, no eggs and a ton of spiders! Ungrateful beasts.

 

[PunkinPeep]

The picture of the spider giving the stink eye gave me serious giggles! Thank you!

 

[Iceblink]

DON'T LAUGH!

I talk to insects that are in places inconvenient to me. Last summer I found that 6 out of 10 black beetles that I said "little beetle this isn't a good place for you, go back outside" to, would turn around and go back where they came from.

There were enormous spiders in the lamb pen this summer, I mean REALLY huge, and I told them to go find some other place to hang out. After a few days of telling them that, 3 out of 4 left.

You can call it coincidence if you want, but it can't hurt to try.

 

[Wolf-Kim]

*can't help but giggle at previous post*

I talk to the animals as well, of all sizes. When I knocked down the webs in my daily path, I told them sorry but they needed to go somewhere else. OH and that they better not DARE to come down the pool skimmer, because I would squash them and then spray their little friends with poison. They let me knock down their webs, stayed at the tip of the pool skimmer until I sat it down. To which they prompty found the nearest wall, climbed on up, and began their webs again. I told them, I'd see them again in the morning.

 

[FarmerChick]

My first horse Willy was my therapist.

We would ride for 1/2 a day and that horse heard my whole life!
AND HE DIDN'T COMPLAIN or comment or give me advice!

best therapy a person could get..HAHA

I don't say a thing to spiders or bugs---they just get the broom or the heel