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Anonymous
I can vouch and say that killing blackwidows with water is not an effective solution. At my old job I had to clean the patio everyonce in awhile, right? Well, we got a rather nasty black widow infestation, and due to the fact that customers regularly bring their pets and kids to the patio, they told me to deal with it.
I though, "Hey! I'll just use the high pressure dirt remover [basically an expensive high pressured hose pipe] and kill those fuckers"... Well, I go through, sweep the entire place with the thing, rinse out all the pipes, so on and so forth. For the most part it just rinsed them down to the sewers, however there was this one black widow that would not die. I would direct the pressure washer directly onto the thing and it wouldn't die. This went on for about 2 months, but my POS job was too cheap to call an exterminator.
Anyways, moral of the story is, don't try water. Leave the spider be, or just smoosh it. Raid is highly toxic to animals, so chemicals is a last resort.
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