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How to Identify a Brown Recluse Spider - Smarter Every Day 89

2013-04-29

[public] 1.22M views, 16.8K likes, 1.28K dislikes audio only

Tweet this: http://bit.ly/13Gjc6u You can't kill these with pesticides. Fire. The answer is "handle it with fire." I apologize if me killing a deadly spider in my daughter's living space offends you. Would you feed differently if it was a mosquito carrying malaria? Check your house and keep your loved ones safe.

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Think it through. Burning a very small spider with an exoskeleton increases the pressure inside, and makes it explode... killing it instantly. It's the quickest way to dispatch it that I could think of. I had the same thoughts.... which is why I burned it with fire.

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