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Loathesome Spider
Man's Benefactor
To many people spiders art
objectionable and fearsome.
Actually, most species are harm-
less. aid unable to pierce the
hpiran skin, but a few can bite
and cause acute illness.
sp;dets aro belie -
ficial as they greatly reduce
the Lumbers of harmful and
in,ects. In the vicinity
of b cs of water where hordes
of me'-. •u(in as shad
- :fad mayflies, 'provide an
atm,: .1! ,11.1'T•t` food%
in 0. • !k.u•y,nitinerous ;Ind
`hi: • i!slisan tin L1!\ nuisance
!h:& 1 at I.e:ist
oni.-ci pt •b!t tvvo specie,
tha! ri.•1.ited to On, it reaches a peak of %;:
intensity in t\vo to tl!ire I. -•
spec:es o,- subsid is and di -appears in
s ieth-rn orlTrit!.11 12 to 411 et1r. Anyom,
t':.. •- -d Alb-rta. in OUth h ild he kept warm and very •t-4!
.„,. and in quiet uotil a. doctor arrives:,
sem * -`i•rn ontario alom; the 11-)1)iee continuously to tlie;. •
t I. Ilti"tn n„cr 1\. °Lind (live no alcohol as it
black \vid0Nv.inci•eases the toxicit;„• of the
fact that th ,.noison. but the \-ictiiir should'
inalnly black in color drink plenty of wati,r and s•Nveet!
after mating, ,the vieak tea.
!na\- kill the male and' Control Measures
1966
curs in dwellings most frequent -
y qi the fall, apparently seek
ing shelter for the winter. The
female rarely attacks except
\Alen defending her eggs or
,chen the web i disturbed. In
areas.where this- species occurs,
one • should always brush away.
any w..bs spun across the holes
in pri\y seats before problems.
them. The water
Mortality from black widow
Professor Plots Ways Of Winter's Winds
There is an accurate way to through which a current of
plan ahead for the solution to water and sand (used as snow)
wind and snowdrift problems
around your fartn, according to
11. K. Malinowsk1,- school
of agricultural Engineering, On-
tario Agricultural College, Uni-
versity of Guelph.
Prof. 111alinowski proved the
iccuracy of the college's wit('
tunnel and water flume. usod
to determine the best location of
new buildings or trees to serve
as windbreaks on farms where
wind and drifted snow are
,p1dcr hires is less than fit
per cent in 'North America. The
bite may not be inunediately ,
felt hut two tiny red spots and
.urrotandini; , redness appear.,
Later pain develops either
t11: 3r0a bitten or thronehont
flow. A model farm built to
scale is plaCed, in the current
and sand piles 'Up Where snow
would possibly accumulate, such
as at the entrance to a pole
barn. By manoeuvering models
ef tries, fences,. and buildings,
0.A.C., agricultural engineers
can plan a farmstead -that's
relatively free of Snowdrift and
wind problems. .Because
ff.i.rm model Can be rotated 360
degrees every wind direction
eon be taken into account.
flume,. is a channel
The wind tunnel
1,
a
tub
through which air blows. It is
particularly. valuable in studying
air currents since smoke blow-
ing around the farm, model in
this tube is 'Visible. How -ever,
sand would fly around as dust
in this apparatus so the water
flume is better te study snow-
drift problems. Many Ontario
farmers have used both pieces
of equipment free of charge to
plan their farms.
- But how could 141+, wind,.tun-
e I's air currents and the! water
flume's sand pile-up be com-
pared with the snowdrifts and
wind sweeping
over an actual'
farm? A former aircraft engi-
neer,' Prof. IVialinowski tested
this with wind socks that are
usually seen at airports. These
socks were placed apProxirnately
twenty feet apart around:build
ings on I3111.11ewitt's and Cedric
Harrop's. Guelph farms, covering'
an area of 260,000 square feet
at each farrn. The same was
done to scale on the models
placed in the water flume and
wind'ilinnel, and, to bas
curate as possible, eveifitround
conformations and tree sliaPes
were nut ignored in construct-
ine the models.
"We checked the wind sock
directions by taking pbcttographs
from an aircraft at different
stikn:essatwa.l7.never the wind diree.
tion changed," Prof.
"The first winter we checked
both farms, but we, limited it to
the Hewitt place the second
year. The experiment had to be
carried' out in winter for two
reasons: (1) the snow provided
-enough contrast to- photograph
the wind socks and (2) because
valves liked to eat the wind
socks in summer. Then, after we
had taken photographs of the
farms, we created the wind di-
rections we found en the actual
fnlumthee. Ovvi ned atisuneneplhoatnad
water ,
fa rm
s
sgrk4iPfiloeuCindthcisu'r"rents in wind
his results, Prof. 1VIalinelly_
.
tunnel to be the same as those
in the water flume. Differences
in results between the models
and the actual farms were so
slight that the wind tunnel and
water flume were proved prac-
tical for use in farmstead plan-
ning.
WANT ADS BRING, R- E▪ SULTS
-Whore spiders of any • kind
Shiny Belly Ibetiv a 'nuisance, the follow-!
male black wid4w spid-,ing control measures are re -
(r A globularshiny black commended:
abduniti- and two reddish or 1. Screen openings in build -i
yellow .sh triangles on the under. ings carefully to keep out tht!
form a typical hour spiders. even the small newly.
r.earking. The abdomen isltatched ones, and other insects
abot.• quarter inch in dia- that may serve as food material.
met !but may he as much as 2. Using a stiff -bristled, long -
one half inch when thre- female handled broom, brush down the
is fu'i •.if eggs. The male Ls much
smal,(-; and lighter colored. Any
spide- with an intensely hlack
and ,...,ir,s•zy base color should he
treatee with respect!
T19 widow occurs main-
ly ir, r,iral and suburban _areas.
darkened. area' s-stieh
▪ as rodent burrows, cellars, gar --
ages. obtdoor -privies, wood
piles and trash heaps. It oc-
webs, spiders and egg sacs, pav-
ing particular attention to ob-
scure corners.
Spiders may- be killed by
spraying them directly with one
per cent lindane, two per cent
chlordane or 0.5 per cent. diel-
drin.15iiSiS of these materials
may be applied to spider webs
and to crawl spaces beneath
buildings.
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