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If the spiders did not threaten me I left them alone, but that one was so asking for it.Roaches and buzzing insects were fair game and I killed them when I could.
Buzzing/stinging insects scare the crap outta me....
Llaph, I sympathize COMPLETELY!!We get these HUGE flying Roach things which totally creep me out! And you're right... no matter how much cleaning you do - you see one of those critters, and you feel like you need to start over!
My biggest question is... WHY do they always seem to be INSIDE!?
Ever tried reading on a tablet or backlit device with no other lights on?
Its almost impossible! Dodging moths, Xmas Beetles and other unidentified flying insects - but there is NOTHING worse than a freakin' mosquito!
I love my reptiles though (healthy respect for the larger ones that can easily kill me)but Gecko's and Lizards are welcome. And If I could - I want one of those Little Frilled Lizards - They're just CUTE!
Plus - the up side - they munch up the little spiders and bugs!
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The only way I would know how to do it is by using the html. I do the html because it is an old habit to type all of that out.When you go to write the rview there is a list that talks about formatting. It tells about how to add a bookcover or author link. A few choices down it tells you the code to add an image and explains the size reqs. It also tells of some simple things to do like bolding and italics.
@Jax:
gaaaah I can see about the giant mothras. I can imagine the sounds....
Side story:
I was walking through the garage, my mom was gone so her car was, and I was walking to the fridge to get something to drink and I hit something....
I screamed like a girl and ducked, moving a few feet back and waiting while listening.
When nothing happened I remembered that my mom has something hanging from the ceiling that she uses to know when to not drive too far into the garage....
I thought it was a spider rappeling down.
Good thing that the only person who saw me act like a dumbass was she-ra and when she talks it is not words so it was okay.
I just buried the damn spider in several inches of foam.It was terrifying because I spied the little creep AFTER I had already showered. It built a web between the emergency drain and the actual drain, so water rushing out of the shower head or tub spout didn't hit it. I felt so skeeved out that I showered next to that freakin' thing. And then because of the web I couldn't nail it with toilet paper in case the web stuck and the spider came with it....I had my bath scrubbie hanging above it and I have this image of me showering and the bug crawling out...I may have to throw it away.
This is what I get for not coming home for over a month. Giant fucking bugs have moved in. *shudders*
@Jax Exactly!! Bugs in the house made me feel so unclean.
@ Llaph - Don't worry, you're not the only one...I've literally levitated thinking a bug was crawling on my - Turned out a few strands of hair came loose from their tieback... Sadly, I did have an audience, and my kids looked at me like I'd lost my mind... :D
And Your thought was not all that "Out There"...
Once, while teaching the kids, I noticed the window was ajar, and as it was starting to rain, went to go and close it - I didn't notice a THING until I was Nose to nose with the freakin' spider which had suddenly dropped down on its web...
@ Claire - I'm shuddering with you...
I found a spider in my shower once - little bugger had happily made itself at home - I refused to go in there until my hubby had removed him - using the kids bathroom instead... and I still basically "Case" the shower before climbing in...
Weirdly though - Spiders are the only arachnids I take issue with... Scorpions and ticks - I may not like - but they don't creep me out like the spiders.
Whereas my hubby, who doesn't really mind the spiders gets the heebie jeebies over a single tick.
I HATE ticks. When I was little I got bitten by a deer tick and caught lyme disease. I was so sick doctors thought I had cancer. So I'm kind of paranoid. They're so small, it's almost impossible to find them!I don't live where there are any scorpions. I did see one in Italy, once, but it was dead.
I'm feeling happier by the hour that I live in a moderately cold, perpetually damp climate right now! We get your average household spiders, but nothing too freaky. Nothing with weird colours on its back! I've never seen a roach except on TV. I saw a rat at a place I used to work at once but it was next to a river and didn't come near the buildings. I've never encountered scorpions, lizards or other exotica. The worst thing we get is wasps (and I'll kill those little f*ckers without a second thought).
LOL!Yeah, we have plenty of weird little bugs... most of which I actually couldn't name...
Though thinking about it - its a good exercise for the kids to do for school! :D
When I still lived in the Eastern Cape we used to get Massive Cane Rats just outside of town where we stabled our horses... Those things made normal rats look like field mice!!
And with Five cats in the house - I'm permanently on "rescue" duty... Birds, mice, moles etc...
Needless to say - I'm up to date on my Rabies and Tetanus shots...That's how often I'm taking em back out to empty fields.
If they catch and eat em outside - I leave them be - MOST of the time... But you bring it inside, and sorry - you lose it... LOL
As for Wasps, Hornets, and Bees - as long as they stay outside, I leave them be...
@Claire: my hubby can sympathize - they say that out of every 100 ticks 1 carries tick-bite fever... however, my hubby gets it everytime! LOL
I was used to checking horses regularly for ticks... and now we've moved to an area that doesn't seem to have that problem... :D
Jax, now do you really want to encourage kids to study the bugs, cos that might involve bringing them into the house LOL!Also, Massive Cane Rats ... holy shit!!! :o Even the name sounds scary. You can keep those, thank you very much! :D
I suppose we have the infamous Scottish midge and those are everywhere. Some people react badly to being bitten by them, and get little itchy sores, but nothing that would send you to your bed. I'm usually OK with them, but then I tend to keep myself covered up cos my skin is so pale that I burn after about 10 minutes.
When I was growing up one of the houses we lived at was at the base of a hill (I grew up in southern california) and we got just about EVERYTHING.If I left the cat dish outside (this was before I wore my parents down to let me bring her in) and there was food left ... next morning it would be FULL of earwigs/pincherbugs. I am serious about full, would be so many. Another gross thing were crickets, not the little ones either, those big black scary buggers. (I got a plastic realistic cricket out of a machine at the grocery store, it was like lime green ... I took a sharpie to it and used it to terrorize my sisters)
We had to deal with lizards all of the time also. There were the blue bellies which I didn't mind and caught sometimes, then there were the alligator lizards. Guess why they were named that? Asshole things would latch on to your finger and not let go....
We did not get scorpions though, removing lizards and snakes from the house was chore enough for me.
One time though, after we had come back from the river, a scorpion thing hitched a ride in our food stuffs bin and got out in the kitchen. We were all sitting around looking at something on the computer, I saw it out of the corner of my eye, and like lightening fast I stomped it.
It was either the river or glamis (desert/dune area near mexico border we used to camp/ride quads and stuff at) I looked it up at the time and all that I remember was that it wasn't a scorpion, f'ing looked like one, no stinger tail really.
Holy crap, Llaph! You're giving me the heebie-jeebies just reading that. I believe we have a couple of snakes in the rural parts of Scotland, but they aren't common and you're very unlikely to come across them unless you're out in the wilds looking for them. Lizards live in zoos as far as I'm concerned, though I think some people have them as pets, but you'll never, ever see one in your garden or the street.Ugh, I hate bugs!
texas = snakes. My friend's daughter saw a snake outside while playing and got inside. Later on they realized it was a rattlesnake. They had to get animal control and everything.
pfffftWhen we lived at this house there were boys next door that used to get me to catch lizards and snakes for them ... sometimes they would catch some to show me.
One day they brought me a baby snake in one of those old big plastic paint buckets ... the boys said it was not a rattler because it had pretty colors ... hello mr. baby king snake ... I have no idea how they caught it and didn't ask. I had taught them how to catch ok snakes ... but hi not highly poisonous ones!
A funny from living there though! I had caught a baby garter snake and had it in my flannel shirt's pocket and had forgotten about it. I went into the house to get something and had stopped to talk to my mom in the kitchen ... he decided to see what was up and poked his head out of my pocket. My mom screamed bloody murder and I got three named. :(
Also in Texas, you cannot bring handguns into the hospital. I think that is like the no shirt no shoes no service thing.Texans are weird, never start a convo about football or ask about the aggies or longhorns.
India= snakes and bugs. ALL kind of bugs. A scorpion now is no big deal , though the ones here are not big. Mom just smashes it with whatever is handy. Wasps, bees - all get the same treatment if they enter the house.
LOL Llaph!You and my Mom - She used to collect the snakes and hide them in my grandads tool shed cos he "never" used it.
Till one day, he did need something and almost had heart failure! LOL - made her give them all to the little boy next door.
But she too had a similar idea... though in her case, it was a nasty Math teacher who used to pick on her...
So she took one of her snakes to school - only he obviously got a tad hot in her pocket so slithered out to lie across her shoulders.Math teacher never pulled her hair again! :D
Lannister - as long as they go into a ventilated jar/tub of some kind... I won't mind...
Hell, with the number of buggedy bugs that seem to come in and out as they please, some control might be appreciated! LOL
I love that snake story... wish I had a snake like that to take around with me :) I used to carry my parrot around but he did not appreciate it much. It was good thing his beak was not too sharp.
I miss my rat, I carried her around all over my house. The only irritating thing was when she felt like nibbling on my ear or earrings....I remember a science progect when in elementary school where we had to bring in a bug to place in resin/ice cube tray. We were told to freeze them first ... everyone brought in pill bugs (rollie pollies) or earwig/pincher bugs ... me ... I found a big freaking potatobug. It juuuust barely fit into the cube part with enough to resin up the rest. God that bug was fugly )I wonder where it went), I used to leave it in all sorts of places though it wasn't as fun as my fake cricket. :x
This conversation is so bizarre and funny to me. You guys truly do live in a different world! But I love it! :DI'm laughing so hard at the snake stories!
Lizards around where I grew up were rather small, like some not even palm length including their tale.One day my mom screamed like an ax murderer was attacking her and called for me to help her ... I went into her bathroom and she said to me breathlessly while pointing. To get this lizard out of her bathroom ... it ... was ... a ... aby ... lizard. Hell, I don't even think it passed 3 inches as it was shorter--including its tail--than my index finger.
The fun things I experienced while growing up and being a tomboy.
baby lizards are so cute. for the longest time one lived under the fridge.. tiny gecko.... and would run out on the floor to eat bugs.
haha that reminds me of something. A while back my dad had to replace the heating element on the oven and apparently a lizard had set up home under our fridge. My mom had asked like 20 questions about it for some reason.Seriously mom, it was a lizard ... did I need to have it fill out a rental agreement or something?
I like lizards. They ones I see in Florida are adorable. Bugs and rats on the other hand are a no go. Talk about disease vectors.
Yep. Usually my friends and family here don't let lizards live in their homes - mostly coz they find them scary. But our house has a lot of open ground and trees around it - so we KNOW there is no keeping the bugs out. So we happily let the lizards stay - they take care of the bugs problem for us quite well. I am really grateful, especially during the rains. Ugh. Hate the creepy looking ones that show up then..
Arushi, that's the reason why I don't like to kill spiders. Spiders keep other insects down, so they serve a useful purpose. I don't particularly like any insects and I'm OK with knowing that there's probably a whole bunch of spiders in every room, so long as I don't see them (and mostly I don't). It's only when they get stuck in the bath that I'm forced to deal with them.
The only two creatures I knowingly kill are cockroaches and silverfish - everything else is safe where I am concerned. If I even dream I saw either of those in the house, out come the bug bombs; of course, there is collateral damage with that approach, but I can't share a house with either of those two cretins!
What are silverfish? I'm assuming they're not actual fish LOL!
A silverfish is a small, mini-legged bug that is silver in color and they like to hang out in moist spots - sinks, etc. - they are a relation of the cockroach, though much smaller and not quite as nasty looking, and therefore fair game for me to whack.
I hadn't heard of those before. You guys seem to have some really nasty bugs. Centipedes (or is it millipedes?) freak the hell out of me!
Its most likely the centipedes, as they tend to be the venomous buggers, plus they look more creepy... whereas millipedes are generally more on the harmless side... :)I usually just help the millipedes back outside to a nice tasty plant...:D
Duane - We call them Fishmoths - they tend to gravitate toward paper for us - old schoolbooks/files etc that are hardly used. (though that could also be because of the dark nature of the cupboard) :)We squish em too... Better that than they find my books!!
No bugs are welcome in our house. We're good friends with our exterminator. Seriously, Dennis has seen my sister and I grow up. I spot one ant and my mother is on the phone.
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amen for advantage....One of the greatest things about moving from so cal is no more water/sugar/pain in the ass black ants.
If you left a capful of water in your room during the night you could wake up the next morning with a massive trail of ants that seemed to be everywhere. They found moisture ANYWHERE.
Heaven forbid if you left a soda can out or anything really ... they were hard to get rid of. My dad routinely sprays our yard to keep bugs/ants out. Soooo thankful for that.
Just the idea of those ants sometimes gave me the creeps as I would imagine them all over me. :x grody....
I like lizards too and my daughter is obsessed with all kind of bugs and reptiles. We have a bearded dragon and he's one of the most laid back pets ever. Not fun when my children drop the cricket carrier when they go to feed him though. There is nothing quite like trying to catch a few dozen crickets in your room.
Oh god nope. Just nope. I don't mind reptiles, but I do mind creatures that need live food.
lol ... one of my aunts raises bearded lizards. If you go into their media/game room or whatever all you hear are crickets....I used to have an albino corn snake, he had one eye and I called him bandit....
He was really small so I just fed him small stuff, like pinkies. I never did like thinking about feeding a snake bigger stuff, my uncle had a ball python and she got small mice. I loved that snake, but I passed on feeding time. When my uncle had to move and could not take his snake he offered it to me, I was living with my parents at the time and I got a flat f'no from my mom. She is so easy to creep out lol.
AAwww!! I'm jealous!But my hubby won't even let me get Hamster/Guinea Pig...
( I want one so I can name him Hors d'ouever!) :D
Doubt I'll be able to negotiate for a lizard... not YET...
All I have for pets now are devil dogs ... I don't think I could take care of anything else without help and my mom is so picky about pets. When we were kids we couldn't have anything besides a dog. We had a cat once ... but after we got a dog that cat "ran away"I didn't have other pets till I had moved out. pfffft
Hamsters are just furry piss balls. Hold one and it will pee on you.... Guinea pigs are awesome because they make the cutest noises (when they don't get stuck on doing it) The one I had was perfect for making noise he only seemed to do it when I wanted to hear it. :x
I don't know about putting one in a hanmster ball though, I never did that. My rat had one and loved the hell out of that thing.
My daughter had a ball python too, but it died. Now all we have is the lizard and a cat. Plus the house full of crickets.
I'm happy with my cat. She's a grump sometimes, but considering that Angel is 14 I think she's earned it!
One of my dogs is around that age and she has been a grumpy bitch since we got her.... She has cataracts now so when people come home she barks like crazy till we tell her to chill and that we live there and it is okay.One of my dogs though will bark at anything ... omg if the windows are open. If she hears someone sneeze down the street ... barkbarkbarkbark.
I really don't want to write my paperbut it's 10 pages long and due friday so I really have to get going
Ughhhh I HATE writing papers. This is why I'm a math major, seriously
I hate writing academic or technical papers. Too many rules. good luck!
Thank you! I'd rather just be knitting =/
Claire wrote: "Thank you! I'd rather just be knitting =/"Hmmm...knit the paper....you can always try, but i'm in doubt if you will succeed.....XD
Yeah...my professor might not appreciate it. Agh. I decided to follow Blogilates' May Muscles calendar and I'm DYING. I go to the gym 5 days a week when I'm at school...but clearly I'm not trying hard enough! *dies*
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I know that we did not have any insect killer, but I looked at the top of my fridge and saw brake cleaner(nfi why my idiot ex had it there), grabbed it and sprayed that bugger till it curled up.
Then I waited a few minutes and did it again....
I did not mind the translucent lizards that were all over my porch, but I hated the spiders and the damn roaches no matter how much I cleaned my house. Seriously the hell, that crap made me feel like I had a dirty house.