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If you ever woke up with any part of your body really swollen because something bit you while you slept and you had to go to the ER only to hear someone tell you it was a poisonous spider and btw drop your pants for a shot that's gonna hurt you more than it will me.........you'd kill every spider that crawled into your house. Then there's those quarter sized hairy ones that chase you and out of defense, you have no choice.
And how about attack of the killer bees while you're only trying to mow the lawn in the back of your house. You can't really kill them because they've already stung you along with 6 of their family members, so they're going to die anyhow. Sometimes for bees, life isn't fair, but they should think about that before they harm someone that has done nothing to them. |
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I'm a catch and release girl. I've even been known to allow a spider to live happily in my kitchen by the back door. In that apartment I had a horrible problem with crickets and rolly-polly bugs coming in at the back door. When this garden spider took up residence I let it stay. It grew fat and sassy on a steady diet of crickets and rolly-pollys. The only drawback was I had to clean up the carcasses. When my cat moved in I evicted the spider because I didn't want it to fall victim to her.
:playingcat: I am deathly allergic to bees, wasps, hornets and yellow jackets. But I don't believe in killing them either. |
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Newp newp newp....... Bugs & I have an understanding... Or at least, I believe we do..... Outside?...Dat's yo' shit..Your world...Big bad wide World, if I walk out there barefoot, I had it comin', I deserve to Howl in Pain cuz u Bit my Big Toe in your Territory, my dumb-ass risks Anaphylactic Shock, if I don't duck and cover, or walk Sloooooooowly away from BumbleBees YellowJackets, Wasps etc, whatevah.... Now, having said that, bugs walk past my "fortified" Screen Door? That's my fuckin' Territory, kiss your fuckin' ass Goodbye *MWAH* bye-bye... Ticks, Fleas, Flies, roaches, Scorps, Spiders of any kind....Especially Fat, brown/black, big-ass kind that can possibly kill my Ferrets. U crossed into my house, your Instinct should tell u "bad idea"... It doesnt? tough...You're meetin' your maker if I find u... I dont need nobody screaming bloody murder in the bathroom if a spider lands on their ass while heavily Soaped up....I dont need to encounter a Spider, roach, fire ant, anything with 6 or more legs and capable of Painfully biting me in my bed while I'm minding my business, or havin some intimate time... My bed doesnt resemble grass, my shower doesnt resemble your Home.... I love insects, they're Fascinating, Reptiles as well... I don't give any indication my Home is cozy enough for an insect, the occasional Grasshopper/Cricket hops in ? Kewl, Chirp away, if My ferrets pounce and munch on you? Sayonara, Protein for my babies... LadyBugs? they're Awesome, bring Good Luck... More than 100 on my ceiling? fuck that, especially...Especially when I'm being nice and Humanely removing them, and they let out this Astonishingly Stinky defense bomb.... Mosquitos always die horribly in my house, Those Bitches carry viruses {Only Females Suck Blood, to sustain their larvae} Hornets, Wasps, Bees Will die a crunchy sudden Death if Indoors...Understand my point on this..I'm allergic...almost everyone that knows me in the Real World will understand my sudden Panic... Mind u, I don't scream, Screaming only encourages the fuckers, I learned this at the tender age of 8.... I carefully just get the fuck outta dodge....if it's in the car, whoever's drivin better fuckin stop or do somethin'...Fast....:bomb: Some Bee's{Bumblebees , for instance, Yellow Jackets} don't lose their Stingers...regular garden variety honeybee, yeah they Do....but with my Luck? I'll probably bump into a Queen or 2... If u ever dealt with fire ants invading your small lil home, as a child, u'll sympathize with why I dont anthropomorph any insect.... I'll gladly light Citronella on my Porch, I'll use Bug Zappy light if I can afford it when Camping. Bug's are cool, Outside my sanctuary...:sunglass: |
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Then there's "The Moving Story" about the time my ex and I moved to Jacksonville, FL from Richmond, VA. :|
We stopped at a Comfort Inn along I-95 in South Carolina, just shy of the Georgia line. I wanted to push for Savannah, since I was driving, but my ex, who had been mortally terrified (and refused to drive) the 26 ft. Ryder truck with the auto transport (carrying my truck), was so at her wit's end that she insisted that we stop. When we first got the room, it looked really nice. The A/C didn't work too well, much to MY dismay, but the room looked clean and so we unpacked our overnight stuff and I headed for the shower. I had just stepped out of the shower when I heard Jan scream like bloody hell. I tore out into the room, naked, to see what she was screaming at, and I just caught a glimpse of a lizard with a bright red tail as it scooted across the floor. By this time, Jan's on top of the bed screaming "Get it!! Get it!! Get it!!" at me and pointing. :| Jan didn't even want me to pull my shorts on. She wanted me to go, right away, and KILL this thing, whateveritwas. (I put a pair of shorts and a t-shirt on anyway). So, I then grab the plastic wastebasket and go seeking this thing out (read...on the hunt). There it was, trying to hide under the window air conditioner. It looked like some sort of what we used to call a "skink". It was a scaly black lizard, about 4-6 inches long, black with a bright red tail. I popped the trash can over it and start scooting the can across the floor to the door, which looked like it had an open crack of about 1 inch under it. Well, the can was a good idea.....scooting it quickly over the carpet (very low pile, btw), was not. In my haste to scoot this thing out the door, its tail got caught under the lip of the can and IT. BROKE. OFF. AND WAS TWITCHING. :| By this time, Jan, who is from Ontario Canada (the land of little to no "strange bugs and creatures") was beyond traumatized. I scooted the now tailless lizard out the door and the broken tail behind it. No sooner had the lizard made its departure, Jan was off the bed, gathering all of our stuff up and threatening me with every heinous, hideous consequence she could pull out of her brain to threaten me with, if I didn't get us out of that damned place and into a decent, bug/lizard/creature free hotel. She wasn't kidding, either. As tired as I was, I got us out of there and down the road to Savannah. (That was her "Welcome To Dixie" initiation. :pointing:) For several months, Jan refused to even discuss "the event" that happened to us during that move. I'm sure that, to this day, wherever she is now, she would absolutely, beyond question refuse to stay in another Comfort Inn. The End. ~Theo~ :bouquet: |
I try to let them go if I can :)
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Mind U i got nuthin against Reptiles/Amphibians in my House....
Salamanders, Lizards, Iguanas and Coquies were Regular visitors....and yes, I'd be Tickled to hear a femme Shriek, top of her Lungs...when a thumb size Coqui [tree frog, originally Native only to Puerto Rico...now a "Plague" in Hawai'i *pffft...whateva] joined her in the Tub.....I carefully took him out and tell him he's an ambitious little shit goin after MY girl...and let him out in the plants, I know it's a he, cuz males, if I understand are the only Loud Vocal ones..... That and, they liked crunchy spiders, Pinchy Pinchy millipedes, wounded bees etc.. for Lunch, so, welcome, circle of Life and such.-s- |
I'm for peaceful co existance...
Except the blood suckers, black widows, brown recluse, and copperheads/water mocks... I love bee's, have handled wasps, yellow jackets... I'm not alergic and I think a lil pain on my part is worth helping them out of the house.. I will try to shoo any flying thing out of the house.. even flys... Unless you annoy me... If you annoy me, startle me, then more than likely you are dead... I like spiders in my house and will put up with lil bites and the webs.. Until my kid come up with bites on his leg... then it's time to clean out the cobwebs and vacuum up all the lil dark spots and high spots.. Cockroaches? Water Bugs? Death on the spot and I'm doing a full clean to find out why I have them.. I will use sweet traps for you to take back to your homes... Ants.. same thing.. find out where they are coming in and stop them.. I really do prefer to live and let live.. |
if you scare me..........you're dead.......squished between my thumb and forefinger or my boot heel or the newspaper or nuked or dead by whatever means are at hand.......
otherwise.........if you come in my house, I will warn you....twice....the third time you be dead whether by thumb and finger or the 'nuclear option'.......... I give them a chance to go away in peace....if they don't.........shrug......a warning was given twice.... bugs/spiders/crawly things do not attempt to live in or visit my house without peril |
random big ass san antonio texas cockroach story:
in the army living in the barracks.....hot humid miserable ass San Antonio summer......... laying on my bunk in t-shirt and boxers sweating like a pig.....stoned out of my mind off some really good direct from thailand 'buddha weed'....it was the Army in 1972.... I swear this is a true story... there was this big ass dead roach laying by a locker.....well....about 12 of his buddies come in double file (it is a military post) and picked up that dead roach and caried him out the door..... I swear on my mother it really happened and was not a function of smoking a couple of big fat joints of buddha weed prior to the incident....... I could tell ya stories about the candy bar machines and what was in those wriggly candy bars that fell down in that slot....and none of those incidents were under the influence of any mind altering substances either........ really......... promise...... honest....... |
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BUGS!
I studied Entomology for a three years, I really love bugs! They have to really get on my bad side to kill them. Right now, I can't think of a good reason to kill an insect. At dusk, I love to watch the little bat fly into the sky insearch of insects. I love what they do for my garden, I love to watch them as they go their busy way.
Don't get me wrong, I'm still trying to figure out the benificial factors of fleas and ticks! SF_Boi |
Found a ladybug on the kitchen faucet, our door is open so the cat can enjoy the sunroom. I put the ladybug on some of our indoor plants. Hope it feeds well.
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I do not like bugs in my house. They die, except spiders. Spiders eat the bugs that do not belong there, so for the most part, I leave them alone. In Oklahoma there were these big, nasty bugs, I thought they were jumping spiders, but someone told me they were crickets. They LOOKED exactly like spiders though... I called them criders, lol (cricket/spider). Those damned things would hop after me and chase me down the hallway. I couldn't even get close enough to kill them. They are scary!!!
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We have flease. we have done flea spray, capstar, first shield, advantage, flea collars, yard spray, 8 pounds of borox, and dawn soap.
We- the dogs and now me, anytime I sit down for a second that is, still have the damn fleas. We have vacuumed the house. Even the hard wood floors. Thrown away dog pillows and blankets. Got rid OUR mattress. I am loosing my mind. Maybe I DO want a collar. A flea collar of my very own. |
We are having the same issues down here. It's awful!
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I grew up in Australia so I say if the bug isn’t big enough to put a saddle on or you can’t tell if its grimacing at you- then leave it be.
But I live in a household with 2 teenage girls and a high femme, all of whom go from being Lara Croft to chair climbing, high pitched, eye closing, arm waving, mob bosses demanding that “it” die the moment a spider crosses their path. I’ve often thought about sending a note to their math teacher, asking why the teenagers believe that something smaller than a piece of rice is actually “at least 6 inches round”. My femme, she is a little better, but put an earwig near her, and she makes the teenagers look like bouncers at a leather bar. :overreaction: |
I am a big fan of catch and release.
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A friend just told me on Facebook that she was advised by her vet that the topical flea control stuff is not working this year.
She recommended comfortis- and her dog is flea free. Im taking a deep breath here. The money we have been spending of flea stuff has really been adding up. But as I look over at my dog, I can visably SEE the damn things crawling on him. |
Before you spend the 90 bucks on comfortis - my two dogs are on it and they still have fleas - not as bad as before, but they aren't eliminated.
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You'll pretty much have to wash everything...and the animals daily for awhile, because it's not a pesticide. It's an organic cleaner...and a serious wetting agent...so it breaks down the little air bubble that fleas put around them to survive a bath. Basically, you're gonna drown the little buggers. It's a pain, but it's safe, and it works...and it's not poison. (And no, I'm not an Amway distributor :giggle: ) |
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Joxer would totally do it. Moose however, well, bless her- that 110 pound princess doesnt even like to get her paws wet on GRASS. So, no, surfing would be out for her.
Plus, the ocean is I think, at lease 6 hours away. SIGH. I rather like the idea of THIS though.. http://www.arbico-organics.com/produ...de-fleas-ticks has anyone tried one? |
My vet has recommended that I do Advantage then Frontline the next month. Says the fleas are getting resistant and this will help.
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with garage opener, I entered the garage as the lifted ... felt a web across my face and uttered, "eeew." then, i felt a thud on my head, and I quickly started brushing my head as I ran screaming from the garage.
I did not put the garbage out tonight :| |
As I posted earlier today on Facebook... unknowingly walking headfirst into a spiderweb is never fun, but doing so after just applying fresh mascara is hideous!!! *shudder*
In the house, I actually don't mind those whatchamacallit granddaddy longlegs things. I usually end up showering with 2 or 3 in the corner near the ceiling. They are never a nuisance. When I was a kid my grandmother used to pick them up and let them crawl over her hands, so I did the same. OTHER spiders, however, are a different story. Anything looking even remotely "hairy" is a deal breaker. If I spot them first, I can usually "trap and release", but heaven forbid they launch a sneak attack such as dangling down a web in front of my face or dropping onto my shoulder. Then, they get smacked and flung and stomped upon. As for outside, that's their turf. They have every right to be there, as long as they aren't building webs for me to get stuck in my mascara. *still shuddering* I do check the type of spider though, if it's close enough to the house. I live in the NC mountains, and especially since I'm in the woods we end up with a lot of brown recluse and black widow. Sadly, if I spot one of those they get the 15-ft-away-foaming-bee-spray. I love that stuff cause I can stand far enough away without getting jumped on by creepy crawlies, and also because instead of just a liquid stream that could miss, it's a nice foam that will cover and then deteriorate within seconds. It's great for those with bad aim in the face of scary monsters! LOL All this pretty much just covers spiders. Any other type of bug doesn't rate on my scale, so they're safe....lol And as for snakes, well... I have a really bad habit of just grabbing them up, poisonous or non... I've had a snake fascination since I was a kid. Luckily I was taught at an early age by my grandparents and great-grandma how to distinguish poisonous vs nonpoisonous native snakes, and how to properly handle them. I guess it comes from living in the mountains for so long, and with my great-grandma it probably had a lot to do with her being Cherokee and seeming to know everything about everything in nature (at least to a kid..lol). I learned to respect nature early on. We, as with every other living creature, are just playing a role in the grand scheme of things. Even the tiniest insect has a purpose... |
I kill all except for ladybugs, the occasional green lizard, crickets and certain kinds of beetles. I gently catch the ones I mentioned, take them outside and set them free.
I cannot stand a roach or fly in my house - they put me in super stealth commando mode until I have eliminated them. Ants just purely piss me off. hey dixielady, I was notorious about catching snakes when I was a child too. Once I was sleeping over at a friend's house who lived in the country - think I was in third grade. Anyway, I caught a baby diamond back rattlesnake and put it in a jar. My friend and I hid it under her bed. Her big sister found out, told on me. I got in a whole lot of trouble. Reptiles have always fascinated me - especially alligators. |
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I only like the bugs from here:
http://planetadisney.files.wordpress...ugs_life_4.png These: http://buginfo.com/assets/images/pes.../wolf-eyes.jpg NOT SO MUCH!! I've learned to instead of : http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs49/f/20..._Stock7000.gif |
Just the title of this thread has made me cringe..ugh. I realize they are a needed part of the ecosystem BUT in this case I am willing to jeopardize it if need be. I refuse to not have someone stomp on them
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This is a confessional thread ...
I am deathly afraid of spiders. Even tiny ones. If they are outside, I give them wide berth, but do not kill them. I cannot, and I'vd tried, get newspaper and scoop them up and take them outside. I have an anxiety attack worrying that they will ... and they have ... get to my hand that is holding the paper before I get them outdoors. So, I have a designated boot :( It shames me, but that's the truth. On the other hand, I'll pick up snakes, lizards, etc. without a second thought. Freud would've had a grand time with me :blink: |
Most bugsI can live with,they go back outside.Spiders..any kind.. best not enter the house..If my fur kids get to them first they have a chanch, if I do ...well..a stomp clears that problem up.
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My policy for when there is a spider or a bug in the house is pretty simple: if it is venomous or poisonous it dies, otherwise I just toss it outside for the lizards to deal with
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:blink::| theres a thread for theo? ( see sig pic ) l l l V |
I prefer to relocate bugs of any kind when I can, however spiders seem to find me tasty and they are wily, so sadly, they may succumb to the boot. If they would understand that when I open the door I am suggesting they just run for their little eight legged lives, we would not have a problem, just sayin'.
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:blink: Now that I work in the storage industry, I don't even give them a chance. The space needs to be swept and cleaned out and done fast. If they run, good. If not, there's a push broom, a regular broom and my foot to assist in making my preference clear. |
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