What are these and how do i get rid of them?

Junkyard Dog

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I have hundreds if not thousands of these show up daily in my shop. They live a short life evidently, they die and I sweep them up. I sprayed the whole perimeter of the building pretty good a few days ago with liquid 7. Hasn't helped much. My dads shop used to get em but not anymore and don't know why. Approximately 1" long.

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Millipedes. A micro encapsulated insecticide like Onslaught will work for them and everything else. It will last once sprayed a LONG time. The ratio is very skinny and a bottle lasts and lasts. Use indoor or outdoor and it’s the bomb for stink bugs who come into your walls from outside in the fall. Spray 3’ up on wall and 3’ out on ground to keep about everything out of your house. For shop do the same but do 3’ inside as well around walls and doors.

Amazon product ASIN B004HD7J2S
 
ponykilr said:
Millipedes. A micro encapsulated insecticide like Onslaught will work for them and everything else. It will last once sprayed a LONG time. The ratio is very skinny and a bottle lasts and lasts. Use indoor or outdoor and it’s the bomb for stink bugs who come into your walls from outside in the fall. Spray 3’ up on wall and 3’ out on ground to keep about everything out of your house. For shop do the same but do 3’ inside as well around walls and doors.

Amazon product ASIN B004HD7J2S
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awesomeness!!! thanks for the link, it has really great reviews and i have been looking for a good bug protection since my arachnophobic butt can't stand spiders and I get some HUGE freaking spiders in my shop and around the house...that's a big nono lol. thanks for the link
 
marty79 said:
awesomeness!!! thanks for the link, it has really great reviews and i have been looking for a good bug protection since my arachnophobic butt can't stand spiders and I get some HUGE freaking spiders in my shop and around the house...that's a big nono lol. thanks for the link
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There’s a reason why it’s expensive. It works.
 
ponykilr said:
There’s a reason why it’s expensive. It works.
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just ordered a bottle. Yeah it's kinda high compared to a lot of other stuff but you and most all reviews say it's kick butt.
About a month ago I had a dam turantula (freaking wolf spider) about the size of my palm no joke, right on the wall behind me when I was working and well, I almost fainted (seriously!!!). So I have a pretty bad case of spider phobia from when I was a about 8 I got bit by some big ass spider in Romania and my lower back swelled up purple/blue/red crap and with no medicine back there, it kinda scarred me for life lol. I don't know how I manage to work on cars in garages and stuff with my phobia of them but I get by...
Funny story: Every time a customer says "i got a jeep/truck/whatever been sitting for few years I wanna get back on the road, you wanna tackle it?"...oh man do i regretfully say sure lol
 
marty79 said:
just ordered a bottle. Yeah it's kinda high compared to a lot of other stuff but you and most all reviews say it's kick butt.
About a month ago I had a dam turantula (freaking wolf spider) about the size of my palm no joke, right on the wall behind me when I was working and well, I almost fainted (seriously!!!). So I have a pretty bad case of spider phobia from when I was a about 8 I got bit by some big ass spider in Romania and my lower back swelled up purple/blue/red crap and with no medicine back there, it kinda scarred me for life lol. I don't know how I manage to work on cars in garages and stuff with my phobia of them but I get by...
Funny story: Every time a customer says "i got a jeep/truck/whatever been sitting for few years I wanna get back on the road, you wanna tackle it?"...oh man do i regretfully say sure lol
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I have been in crawl spaces when a Fisher Spider or Carolina Wolf Spider comes out of nowhere. Sometimes they’re pretty aggressive and in a crawl space it’s tense LOL. I hate spiders and wasps/hornets too.

Onslaught works and is a pro grade product.
 
ponykilr said:
I have been in crawl spaces
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oh no no no, that is somewhere you will never find me ...I will ( and have) pay someone to do it for me. I'm about as tough as I can be but dam a spider lol. I've had some stupid close encounters with Black widows working on jeeps that been setting for years...like I'm working in an area and boom, it was right next to my hand. The Good Lord has watched over me cause that has happened several times, big ones too.
Nowadays, every vehicle I get that's been sitting for a while gets a special purple power mixed with bleach and whatever other chemical i find mixed all together sprayed all over the engine and underneath...then pressure washed ...then it gets pulled in the shop LOL
 
Another bad spider moment is cruising through the woods on an ATV and the last thing you see before closing your eyes is a big red spider before it smacks you in the face 😬
 
ponykilr said:
Another bad spider moment is cruising through the woods on an ATV and the last thing you see before closing your eyes is a big red spider before it smacks you in the face 😬
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omg does that suck. kinda why i'm looking forward to this new rig with doors and windows haha. the last buggy i sold, we were plowing through the woods making our own trail and some big ass spiders were falling into the rig....that makes for a very interesting throttle control btw when you see huge wolf spider fall near the gear shifter and you can't freak out or let off gas loosing momentum LMAO. My buddy riding with me when we got through it all finally says "what the hell happened to cruising and crawling" we were bouncing up and over the trees and roots and stumps.
 
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