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Spider Colony
SkutSkut
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Now, I like spiders, and these seem like your docile old yard spider, but we've happened upon a colony that runs the entire length of a tree by the house. There's thousands of em, mostly young ones. Any way to get rid of them without burning the tree down? I don't think bug spray will cut it as it goes the full length of the tree and it's a decent sized tree.
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I'd say call an exterminator. If that's too pricey you could try lighting it on fire and be ready to extinguish it..
Do spiders live together once they're born in mass like that? I always figured they travel from the nest..
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Spiders are not communal and do not form colonies. They will presently eat the dick out of each other and reduce the population via cannibalism.
That pretty much creates the deadliest short range weapon of all time.
"I got a vacuum with 5000 fucking spiders in it, just give a reason to switch it to blow. Punk."
*silent scream*
There are spiders that live in breeding colonies. There have been some extreme examples, too: http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/findadest/parks/lake_tawakoni/media/images/web_600x450.jpg
Quite a fewspiders will tolerate neighbors and form colonies like this if there's enough food to support them all, Michigan gets spider trees like the OP describes quite a bit in the hot part of the summer when mosquitoes are at their worst, but just checking google, colonies spanning hundreds of yards have been photographed all over North America and Europe. They aren't just temporary swarms of babies, because they sometimes last for months until the insect population tapers off enough that the colony isn't getting enough food and turns on each other.
A number of species throughout the world are also truly social and build communal webs. None of them live in North America or Europe as far as I know, but there are species in South America and Asia.
Whatever you do, don't burn it. You'd be surprised how quickly a tree can go up if the conditions are right, and they aren't easy to put out. If it's a particularly large tree, burning leaves blowing off above roof level can fly all over the place, potentially catching other trees, leaves stuck in gutters, dead grass, firewood piles, all the various flammable stuff people have around their houses and yards.
Some spiders will associate when there is enough food or there are too many of them. I would not set fire to it though, that's not going to be a good idea for anyone involved.
you know what to do.. blow the warp core before they mutate us into horrific monsters that force young boy geniouses to invent time travel.