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Feb 3, 2021 23:16:39 #
Bass Fisher
Loc: okeechobee Florida
So I went to heat up dinner, and noticed a black spider holding up the back wall of my microwave. I thought this is going to be interesting, set the timer for 3 minutes, and had my eyes locked on that thing the whole 3 minutes. Three minutes is up, I pull my plate out, grab a screw driver and check the spiders pulse, and the damn thing walked away like nothing happened!!! How??? 3 minutes with all those microwaves and nothing? I'm expecting him to run, burn, pop, yell for help, something... not NOTHING!! Please let me know what yall think? I'm just dumbfounded!! I apologize for my microwave not being the cleanest, and I guess having holes creepy crawlies can get in and out of with a shut door 99% of the day. I just don't know if anyone has experienced anything like this before?
Feb 4, 2021 01:10:00 #
I want to hear from other folks with first hand experience with nuking spiders. I have a theory based on working in the field of microwave communications for 50 some years. But I don't want to sound like a idiot. I have zero experience with that kind of microwave, and with using them to kill spiders.
Feb 4, 2021 12:03:34 #
Feb 4, 2021 15:29:15 #
agatemaggot
Loc: iowa
Room mate placed a June Bug in my new microwave for almost ten minutes the night I brought it home from the store. After giving up trying to cook bugs he carried it outside and placed it on the window screen . After a brief rest from walking around in a circle on the revolving plate in the oven it simply flew off into the dark . That was 20 years ago and I still think about it darn near every time I use my oven ! Ten minutes should have turned that bug into a small pile of ashes !
Feb 4, 2021 15:37:38 #
Spiritof27 wrote:
I want to hear from other folks with first hand experience with nuking spiders. I have a theory based on working in the field of microwave communications for 50 some years. But I don't want to sound like a idiot. I have zero experience with that kind of microwave, and with using them to kill spiders.
I’m interested in hearing your theory, Spirit......
Feb 4, 2021 18:05:58 #
OK. It has to do with their size. They're just not big enough to be affected by the wave length of the microwave's rf energy. I'm betting if you put a tarantula in there, it would sizzle and cook.
Feb 4, 2021 23:34:05 #
Feb 4, 2021 23:47:07 #
Feb 5, 2021 08:35:26 #
Feb 5, 2021 09:16:35 #
The experts say their size is the thing that saves them due to the lack of fat and water molecules to be moved around which causes the friction thus creating the heat. I had to look it up as it bothered me.
Feb 5, 2021 23:20:08 #
Bass Fisher
Loc: okeechobee Florida
Thank yall for the input. It just kinda blew my mind. Reading the comments helped me a little. Still creepy. I asked a few friends, turns out, more than I thought have messed around putting things in there to see what would happen.
Feb 6, 2021 18:10:21 #
GSMJr
Loc: SoCal> Pflugerville (Austin), TX
Your pet spider was not in the direct path of the microwave energy which is focused in the center of the glass plate. This is not to say that it was completely out of the energy path but it didn’t get the full dose of energy from the magnetron.
This was an interesting experiment, I just use a fly swatter to dispatch them, it’s quicker and final.
Your garden spider could outgrow the tarantula in time. Don’t forget a picture when it gets that big!
This was an interesting experiment, I just use a fly swatter to dispatch them, it’s quicker and final.
Your garden spider could outgrow the tarantula in time. Don’t forget a picture when it gets that big!
Feb 10, 2021 00:40:47 #
hang on sloopy
Loc: oakford,pa.bucks,co.
microwaves work on water molecules perhaps spiders do not have enough ?
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