Re: black widows

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There are plenty of black widows in Paso Robles....used to kill them all the 
time when I worked at the CYA there. They like stacks of old wood, piles of 
old pipe, stacks of old bricks with holes in them...crawlspaces. I've a 
friend who was bitten two different times, when handling old pipe to weld.

Alligator lizards will eat them, and they also like the same kind of habitat 
as do the black widows.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <GeraldB571@aol.com>
To: <gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 10:31 AM
Subject: Re: [GWL] black widows

> Mitch,
>
> I lived in Riverside for over 50 years, and back around the late 70's I
> began to see them, mostly in some wood I had stacked for the fireplace. I
> tried  several things, and nothing worked but malathion. It got them. I'm 
> now in
> Paso  Robles and I haven't seen them here.
>
> Jerry
>
> Gerald Burke
> Garden Writer
>
>
> In a message dated 6/22/2012 10:17:10 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> mitch@theMulch.com writes:
>
> Any  suggestions for getting rid of Black widows? Are there any  natural
> predators? I'm in the suburbs of San Diego and recently I've seen a  bunch
> in
> my yard. I've got kids at home that like to roam my garden and  pick and 
> eat
> fruit and I don't want them to get bitten, but I also don't  want to spray
> any hard core chemicals if I can help it.
>
> Thanks
> Mitch  Shirts
> Founder
> www.theMulch.com
>
>
>
>
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