Russell Chapman wrote:
Dave Land wrote:
I was at a dinner party Friday night where one of the guests (a
real girly-girl) was bragging on the fact that she had faced her
fear and killed an extremely large spider in her living room. I
told her that killing something that you outweigh by a factor of
several million to one isn't facing your fear of it. She wasn't
buying it.
I take an each way bet with spiders (ours aren't as wussy as yours,
overall). I also figure killing them with a shoe is not very
sportsmanlike, but that same dark recess of my brain doesn't want him
around either, so I feed them to my pet dragons...
A shoe generally works better on all sorts of things than a rolled-up
newspaper, but the newspaper will do in a pinch. It's just harder to
beat a scorpion to death, or at least to being stunned, with one. On
the other hand, depending on how the newspaper is rolled up and how big
the feet of household members are, you may get an extra few centimeters
of reach with the newspaper.
It's very hard to kill a scorpion chemically. The best thing to do to
avoid scorpions in the house is to keep down the population of anything
they might want to eat. (That doesn't always work, but it helps.) At
least, that's what the exterminator said.
We get more scorpions if it's wet outside or if someone is building
close to us, circumstances way beyond our control. :( Neither has
happened lately, though.
Julia
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