Diatomaceous earth

[Tidgy's Dad]

It abrades the exoskeleton and causes spiders to lose body fluids and dehydrate until death.
Spider's exoskeletons are not usually very thick.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Cockroaches can last up to 12 hours after encountering DE.
But it still gets them in the end.

 

[Lyn W]

I love this stuff,.I didn't see a fly or insect in tort shed for months after using it ,but does anyone know know if it will kill ,largish spiders.
I was just about to reopen the entrance from shed into greenhouse when i spotted these 2 sentries ,and then found 4 more,they are much bigger than they look in photo

'If you want to live and thrive
Let the spider run alive'

.....just something I grew up with. I don't like spiders but can't kill them as they are good creepy crawly hunters themselves.
I can't pick them up either, but I have a special spider catcher which is like a pyramid with a sliding space and handle.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

'If you want to live and thrive
Let the spider run alive'

.....just something I grew up with. I don't like spiders but can't kill them as they are good creepy crawly hunters themselves.
I can't pick them up either, but I have a special spider catcher which is like a pyramid with a sliding space and handle.

I agree, I never kill spiders.
I will pick them up and put them outside.

 

[Angel Carrion]

I'm hoping that's the case because I'm using it on monster tropical cockroaches.

 

[Angel Carrion]

I agree, I never kill spiders.
I will pick them up and put them outside.

I let them be wherever I find them unless they're a species that can hurt one of my animals. Haven't encountered such a species yet.
I have a handful living in my bedroom, a couple in the living room, one or two in the kitchen, and a hundred or so living outside my front and back doors to catch all the bugs drawn to the outside lights right outside both doors.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Not sure DE would be of much use with that lot.

 

[pepsiandjac]

'If you want to live and thrive
Let the spider run alive'

.....just something I grew up with. I don't like spiders but can't kill them as they are good creepy crawly hunters themselves.
I can't pick them up either, but I have a special spider catcher which is like a pyramid with a sliding space and handle.

These were really big lyn,and can't get to them because they are in between greenhouse and shed,right where i got to put my hand through to reopen it .
I'm only up the road from you,come and catch them in your spider catcher lol

 

[144 Grandpa Turtle]

Not sure DE would be of much use with that lot.

Try hair spray or spritz that will stop spiders and it works on scoirpons

 

[leigti]

Try hair spray or spritz that will stop spiders and it works on scoirpons

Lysol spray works well too.

 

[Keith D.]

YUCK! I live in spider country myself and when I use DE in my house around the baseboards I find very few spiders. I'm assuming it kills them, but even if it makes them leave that is good enough for me!

Daww its just a wittle spider Where I live in SW AZ we have hobos, sun spiders (camel spiders), tarantulas and a bunch of other cool critters lol

 

[Careym13]

Daww its just a wittle spider Where I live in SW AZ we have hobos, sun spiders (camel spiders), tarantulas and a bunch of other cool critters lol

Those camel spiders are freaky!

 

[Keith D.]

Those camel spiders are freaky!

Yah but I like them, they help keep the buggies out of the house. The ones I don't like are the giant harry scorpions and bark scorpions. Did I mention I found 2 hairies in the house today while cleaning up, UGH.

 

[Careym13]

Yah but I like them, they help keep the buggies out of the house. The ones I don't like are the giant harry scorpions and bark scorpions. Did I mention I found 2 hairies in the house today while cleaning up, UGH.

We don't have scorpions out here but one time, at band camp...I mean Nicaragua....I woke up from a night of camping in the mountains and found a scorpion had shacked up with me in my sleeping bag.

 

[pepsiandjac]

Was out the garden yesterday with my bag of diatomaceous earth,must have been going around for and hour blitzing anything that moved,and I can categorically state that diatomaceous earth does suck the moisture out of living things,
Spiders all seem to be doing fine but my hand is shrivelled up like a prune lol,

 

[ZEROPILOT]

It is all but futile to use it at all outside right now because this is our rainy season and it doesn't work when wet.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

It is all but futile to use it at all outside right now because this is our rainy season and it doesn't work when wet.

Useful tip.
Stand over it with an umbrella.
Or a hairdryer.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Strange fact that the bag says that it is useful for up to eight months, I think it says.....since it is a powder and retains it's form in my attic, why would it be any less effective after eight months? It's a microscopic skeleton of sorts. Why would it not be as effective due to time?

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Strange fact that the bag says that it is useful for up to eight months, I think it says.....since it is a powder and retains it's form in my attic, why would it be any less effective after eight months? It's a microscopic skeleton of sorts. Why would it not be as effective due to time?

Odd.
if you google it, it says everywhere it has an unlimited shelf life if kept dry.
It shouldn't 'go off', can't see why it would.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Then it's a marketing ploy to have people buy more? NICE.
some of that dust was blown into my attic over eight years ago.