I think I have a small spider problem. | Poal: Say what you want.

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When I say small I don't mean small spiders I just mean spiders. So a couple of days ago my hands swelled up. and I thought it was due to dehydration and one finger in particular was really swollen. My knuckles were very sore and I had fluid on them. Over the past couple days the swelling's gone down as I've been taking medicine and I finally can see the area pretty clearly. it looks like I was bit on my right ring finger at the top knuckle. I've been finding little spiders here and there all over my camper van. some on the inside some on the outside. Tonight I'm watching a show on Netflix and I see something that looks like hair floating. So I blow on it thinking it's my hair because it's kind of long and it just goes back and forth. It then keeps dropping down and I'm like oh Lord. I turn the light on and it's a spider that's probably the size of a half dollar dropping from my ceiling onto my bed. What do you all think I should do to help alleviate my potential spider infestation besides burn down my camper. is there a more sensible approach? It's going to be fun sleeping tonight.

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Raid is your friend, my friend. Spray the living fuck out of every inch of your camper and leave it closed for a couple of days. Then wash the windows and exposed surfaces and change all the bedding. Shampoo seat fabric. Air the camper out thoroughly. What does not kill us makes us stronger, and you are stronger than a spider. Keep telling yourself that.

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Poison don't work well on spiders

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Lizard, vinegar, diatomaceous earth, can expanding foam, shopvac. I'm sure you can figure out how to use all of those things to fix your spider problem.

Fuck the chemical weirdos in this thread.

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I've heard diatomaceous earth can damage one's lungs because it's sharp like asbestos.

If it's just sitting there on the ground it won't hurt anyone but when he's spreading it and stirring it up I think he needs to wear a dust mask.

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I thought about sticking around the campsite I'm in for one more night the temperature supposed to drop into the low 20s. But after careful consideration all that's going to make them do is go find a heat source which is me and my really really warm blankets. So I think going back down to the heat would be smarter because then they'll drop hopefully and go run off and find somewhere else to go hang out. The only thing that sucks about the desert is all the darn mice and kangaroo rats. They've been really bad this year.

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For the first time ever two weeks ago I had a mouse in my van. Somehow it figured out a way to get up through the firewall and get into the main cab it took me 5 hours to finally kill it with a trap over by the accelerator pad. I guess it really just depends upon where you're camped if you're going to get hit or not I spent four nights in a gravel pit and didn't hear one of anything. Then I went to valley of the gods in Utah and it was non-stop mice running up and down through my van, the engine block I mean. I had trap set up and I caught one but I got him in the morning after he was leaving. I think a lot of that also has to do with behaviors from other people if the mice aren't accustomed to litter and food they're not going to know that the vehicle is what brought that there. I always set up traps around my front wheels. Some of them mice are smart enough to get around it, some aren't.

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I wonder if theres an apex predator spider that is harmless to humans yet will fuck the ever living fuck of the other spiders you could deploy in there. Kind of like how snipers are deployed to go after other snipers

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My luck the bastard would bite me anyway.

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If I was you I wouldn't waste my time on DIY solutions on an infestation this serious.

Catch one of those bastards in a jar, call an exterminator and show him what he has to deal with.

If you are going to be filling your camper with toxic chemical, it's best to leave it to someone who knows what they are doing.

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While I do have a bunch of nooks and crannies. The really juicy nooks and crannies have all been covered already. I don't live in one of those beautiful sprinter adventure vans. I live in a it's got a roof and a platform for a bed kind. So I do have a few spots that the little SOB's can hide in but there's not as many as I guess there could be. I try to be vigilant when it comes to removing them the spiders I mean but obviously I'm not going to catch them all. This past week seems to be the worst in the past 3 years of owning this van. I don't know what I did differently to be honest other than being a warm place in Utah for maybe longer than I should have. I think also what happened is I was in an area that had potentially a spider hatching and they just fell all over my van and then ran inside and did whatever. This has happened before but they never stuck around seeing there's no food in here. In this particular circumstance with a little scary monster dropped with an inches of my eyeball I think it was curious because I had my phone on and I was watching something and it wanted to watch it too. That doesn't explain the hand though. And I know from previous experience that those little you know what's can get under sheets. So I think what I have to do before I go to bed for the next couple weeks is pull the sheets back and look to see if there's anything under there before I jump in.

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You're going to need to tent it or spray poison everywhere. I recommend calling a company unless you want to do it yourself.

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I think I have to take everything out of this van which is going to be really annoying and fly swat as many of these little bastards as I can. My plan in the next week or so is to go into the desert in Arizona to a hot spring. and my thought would be there is really absolutely nothing for them to eat there so most will probably just starve. Probably a stupid way to think but if I fumigate this thing I really have nowhere to go while it's fumigating.

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That could work, but they're very resilient. And the heat might not be enough for them. I would buy a tent and live in it while you fumigate for a couple hours.

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Interesting you say that because I actually do have mosquito netting. Over the summer I was in Canada and there was more mosquitoes in the word galaxies in the universe. I was on a road called the Cassian highway and the mosquitoes were so terrible they actually found ways to get inside my van. I taped up every nook and cranny I could find and they still managed to get in. It was so bad I actually set up my tent and slept inside my tent. That same night heard a horrible crash coming from the underside of my van which startled me severely and I was stuck in this fucking tent because the tent is old and the zipper jammed. I literally was a hundred miles in either direction away from any type of salvation. I managed to get myself free after about a long 30 seconds and laid on the horn which scared whatever was under my hood to walk out in front and thus I'd be held a gigantic porcupine. I later found out from a fella up the road at the gas station that porcupines love eating engines and accessories. Just my luck so anyway the mosquitoes were so bad in that little stretch of highway when I was driving I had to put on a bug net gloves Gators for my ankles because they were attacking my ankles two pairs of pants cuz they were able to get through the one layer of pants it was ridiculous I pulled over to take a pee I looked behind me in my van and all I saw was a cloud of mosquitoes flapping around. So long story short as I bought those little kill coils and I bought a mosquito net and I use that until the mosquitoes died a couple of weeks later. But then the gnats started and the gnats are worse.

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Come to think of it, you could spray raid or similar in the whole camper, like several cans and buy a tent at Walmart to live in for a night or two and let the raid do its work and then return the tent. Just make sure you air out the place properly when done. Should only cost about 50 in raid cans. I would do 1 per 10 square feet. You literally should not be able to breathe inside when you're done.

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You do realize I'll have to set the van on fire after I do what you suggested. I want nothing to do with being around that kind of shit. I had a friend die of lymphoma because he was paranoid of bugs and sprayed too much in his old apartment. What if I just leave the doors open and write up a sign that says 'shooo'?

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Can you shot web from hand?

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Wouldn't that be something. no my finger actually has this warm feeling to it. Three knuckles were swollen and had water on them. I wonder what got me.

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Yeah sounds like a bite. Draw a circle around the red to see if it get any bigger hopefully you don't need anything medical for it. Should go in a few days