first thing before tearing apart a car is fire

[cbrestorations]

whenever im tearing a car apart the first thing i do is grab my big propane bud torch and hit the whole under side of the car and every hole in the body...i hate it when black widows and spiders fall on me while under a car. just today a charger looked spider free under neath after pressure washing so i figured ehh im good this time...but while pulling the exhaust a damn black widow fell on my shoulder then scrambled out from under the car running around like ricky bobby (help me baby jesus the spider is gonna get me). then the torch came back out and 5 more fell out of the frame rails...  i found a stick of dynamite in a quarter panel one time, glad i didnt torch that car lol

[b5blue]

YUP! Hate them critters!  Redoing my 89 Cherokee I had a similar problem...Can of Raid and 2 cans of PB Blaster, a week later I was spider free and all the nuts and bolts came off pretty easy! I found egg sacks all over....don't forget "The Next Generation". 

[ITSA426]

I like to let them spend a winter outside in Minnesota.  Not many places to hibernate in a car body.

[polywideblock]

wd 40 is the answer to them all      and if they get upidy  just add a lighter and they get the "flame thrower "   


          hate spiders   

[stripedelete]

What a bunch of Marys.  Living near the water, erratication is futile.  We co-exist.  I've even named a couple living on my boat.

Of course as soon as I see a bee, I grow a vagina.

[b5blue]

  Have you ever seen what one bite from a Brown Recluse spider can do? (Google it.) We got it all here in FLA. I grew up here running around in the woods and orchards. I have an arsenal, Raid/Black Flag, PB Blaster, WD 40 and bottles of alcohol and OSPHO with with sprayer tops. (Plus a few have been painted black or grey!)  The alcohol is mostly for mosquito, they hide in the dark areas of the car and stalk you while you work. I mist the air and they drop to there doom. They can dance around you biting and flying away in and out all day, impossible to swat at, my alcohol misting rig made for cleaning took care of that.     

[stripedelete]

I don't have to google it.  I checked you locations before my previous post.   You guys do deal with the nasties.

We do have the brown recluse.   Fortunately, they're pretty rare.

[RallyeMike]

I block them nose up on the car trailer and visit the local U-spray-em with a pocket full of quarters and some rain gear. Critters and grease all gone in one swoop. No fires to put out. Had enough of that.

[Baldwinvette77]

I hate spiders, the ones i get aren't deadly, but look, i don't make a mess of their stuff, so how about you don't make a mess of mine ok?  i never built a car on top of a wasp nest, but i've had nests on my bumper brackets ,exhaust pipes ,door jambs... gee thanks.

[b5blue]

  Wasps like my car also.

[r4daytona]

Luckily up here near Buffalo we don't have many nasty things. However we do have the brown recluse.  My friends dog got bit by one and they had to amputate it's leg and one of my students got bit and you can still see this deformed area on her leg where the skin rotted.  You can keep your alligators, rattlesnakes and black widows.  I want to move to a warmer climate when I retire and "venomous and deadly critters" is going to be a big criteria.  SO whats a good area?  NC , Tenn, VA ??

[John_Kunkel]

I always get a 3-pack of those bug bombs that you activate and they spray up; set them under the car and next morning count the dead critters.

[Dodge Don]

Better hope the Aussie contingent do not see this thread....they will laugh and think you are a bunch of Sheilas 

[polywideblock]

    already contributed my     after "the flame thrower  " theres nothing crawling anywhere near me     but I'm still looking    

          on a side note did you know theres a "widow"  species on nearly every continent including Europe and New Zealand  

                                                    red back is still the worst    

[Lord Warlock]

Have to admit the aussies have us beat when it comes to poisonous critters.  But florida does have its share of nasty arachnids, scorpions, snakes (eastern diamondback, cottonmouth and coral snakes) I tend to worry about mosquitos more than snakes though, they carry all sorts of diseases, a snake you can avoid, can't protect against a mosquito that wants to eat you. Have spiders in the garage that houses the charger, but haven't found any black widows or brown recluse under my car yet.  Have something big and nasty in the rafters above the car, they keep dropping dry corpses on top of the car. 

[b5blue]

For rats to rattlers my Crossman pump air rifle sits ready. The laser sight is dialed in at a sweet spot of 15-20ft. It lights up the backside of the fired BB. 

[fc7_plumcrazy]

sometimes I am glad to live in germany.

No poisoness spiders (for human)
No scorpions at all
no poisoness snakes

The most dangerous thing is a tick

Carsten

[69wannabe]

Dang dirt dobbers are bad here and will build nest in the smallest places!! My dads old truck doesn't really get drove like an everyday driver but it does get drove maybe once or twice a week. I was checking the rear brake shoes and one side was wet with gear oil so I replaced the axle seal and bearing on that side. A few months later it was wet again dripping gear oil off the backing plate so I pulled it back apart and put another new seal in and decided to check the axle housing vent and the hose had a dirt dobbers nest built in it and had the vent stopped up I cleaned it all out and it quit leaking.

Bought a 2000 grand cherokee last year that had been sitting for at least three years with a bad engine in it and it had several spider families living under it. Not a shortage of insects and crap here in north georgia in the spring and summer time.