Got to the point that all those spiders were taking over the shop.....webs everywhere  looking like Grandpa Munster's shop.

 

Read somewhere a long time ago that stashing hedge apple fruit in the corners of a room will drive away all the spiders......dad used to have one or two in the basement at his house.

 

Road trip to see the doctor in Sidney, OH.....discovered a grove of the Hedge apple trees along side the roadway.   Stopped and picked up a few off the ground.    All three are now in the shop...maybe spidey will leave the building?

 

Anyone else hear about them hedge apples vs spiders?

That's a new one on me. Hope it works because there must be a use for hedge apples.

Keep us informed.

At least they smell better than Amish Road Apples...

 

Something about the smell of the "apples"  the spiders do not like.   Drives them away.    We'll see.....

I have never heard of hedge apples. I wonder if a regular apple would work? I too get to many spiders in the shop

hedge apples are about the size and weight of a Softball...

Kind of bumpy around the outside.....

That don't look like an apple to me!

Cal

They're definitely not edible, either. And, hard as a rock.

It's been a long time but, I don't recall a distinctive odor. Maybe as they "age".

tried housekeeping???

45 minutes ago, clhyer said:

That don't look like an apple to me!

Cal

Looks like a black walnut.

John

Edited November 26, 20169 yr by HARO50

2 minutes ago, HARO50 said:

Looks like a black walnut.

John

or horse apples...

Looked it up.... Osage orange.

John

10 hours ago, steven newman said:

At least they smell better than Amish Road Apples...

Lots of  those around here. Spider don't like them either 

I've heard of it and tried it. Didn't work worth a darn for me, maybe you'll have better luck. I chucked it up to an old wives tale. My dad used to tell me that hedgeapples were the only thing he knew of that God put on Earth that didn't have a single use.

18 minutes ago, Fred W. Hargis, Jr said:

 My dad used to tell me that hedgeapples were the only thing he knew of that God put on Earth that didn't have a single use.

He never met my brother-in-law!

John

Never mind the Hedge Apples, Road Apples, Horse Apples or Adam's Apples. Get out the Shop-Vac once a week and such all the little buggers up!

John

^{Ah heck a little spider never hurt anything. I have a few around my place but mostly on my back porch. One is a big orange spider about as big as the end of a little finger. He-she eats flies, moths and other spiders. It has a big web and sometimes I'll catch a moth and put into the web and the dinner bell rings. I have dirt dobbers and they take care of a lot of spiders. Oh I'm not scared of snakes either and I can't get my wife to cook a rattler.}

1 hour ago, HARO50 said:

He never met my brother-in-law!

John

Well, so far..the resident Brown Recluses have  left the shop.....they no longer drop down in front of my nose....

20 minutes ago, steven newman said:

Well, so far..the resident Brown Recluses have  left the shop.....they no longer drop down in front of my nose....

Glad to hear that.... those suckers can KILL you!

John

21 minutes ago, steven newman said:

Well, so far..the resident Brown Recluses have  left the shop.....they no longer drop down in front of my nose....

Next will be the Black Widows