Ewww Grossss!!!

[Roselander]

And now, we here in the Midwest are waiting for the emergence of the 17-year-locusts. Cicadas, actually. The last time they were out, my now 18 yr old son was just over a year old. I was pushing him on a park swing with one hand, while shooing cicadas away with the other as they were dive-bombing my hair.

 

[Convert_in_99]

And now, we here in the Midwest are waiting for the emergence of the 17-year-locusts. Cicadas, actually. The last time they were out, my now 18 yr old son was just over a year old. I was pushing him on a park swing with one hand, while shooing cicadas away with the other as they were dive-bombing my hair.

Have fun A former midwesterner, I remember that plague “fondly.” Despite the fuzzy wuzzies, tarantulas and snakes, I am sure as heck glad I’m in the south for that one. Well, unless we get the plague in the form of spidies or snakes. Wouldn’t that be dreadful, instead of locust shells everywhere, there would be snake skins. EWWWWWW! If that happens I’m flying home on the first plane out!

Now that I’m on my soap box again, may I say that snakes are just “not natural.” They are almost as fast as me…and they don’t even have legs! My husband and I found six the other day walking in our local park. :bigyikes: He told me I need to watch for them in trees too, not just at my feet. I asked him if he knew which ones were posionous, nope, of course not. I think I spent the rest of an otherwise beautiful day carefully watching my feet and looking up every other second. I guess people around here are so used to them, it’s just a part of life.

**So, “Lexee 15,” did you find any more? I sure hope not. **

 

[lak611]

And now, we here in the Midwest are waiting for the emergence of the 17-year-locusts. Cicadas, actually. The last time they were out, my now 18 yr old son was just over a year old. I was pushing him on a park swing with one hand, while shooing cicadas away with the other as they were dive-bombing my hair.

I had one of those things get inside my shirt during their last appearance here. At least they are only around every 17 years. Those things are annoying, especially their obnoxious sound.

 

[Biblioassistant]

I like snakes. (Yes I am weird like that, but I think they are quite beautiful). Snakes don’t spread disease, they are clean and they would simply prefer to be out of your way. Don’t bother them and they won’t bother you.
As for insects, while we may go OOOO GROSSS!! at big bugs, the ones that harm us are the small ones. Mosquitoes (carry malaria, yellow fever), fleas (carry the plague) and lice (carry typhus). I could go on and on - I was a biology major and I find insects fascinating. \

 

[gmarie21]

I just killed a MASSIVE bug in my dining room :bigyikes: !!! I hate bugs ewwww, gross, I have never seen anything like this thing!!!

It looks sort of like a huge silverfish…kind of. I got on the internet and found something that looks almost exactly like it, if it’s the same bug it’s called a house centipede…yuck :bigyikes: and yes it had a million legs it was about two feet long (yes, I’m exaggerating just a little bit), well maybe not two feet but at least two inches, which is why it freaked me out!!!

Anyone run across these suckers before or something similar? I hope they don’t sting or bite if it was a house centipede apparently they don’t harm humans just roaches:shrug:. I am still sooooo grosssssed outtttt!!! Where’s a man when ya need one :doh2:ha ha ha!!!

When I lived in Maryland we had them all the time (along with misquitoes the size of hummingbirds). Now that I’m in wth Western burbs I haven’t seen those silverfishlike centipedes. I’m not worried about the cecadas b/c they’re harmless and usually aren’t inside. What gives me the heeby geebies are those earwig/pincher bugs. Oh how I wish they would just die.

 

[lak611]

I like snakes. (Yes I am weird like that, but I think they are quite beautiful). Snakes don’t spread disease, they are clean and they would simply prefer to be out of your way. Don’t bother them and they won’t bother you.
As for insects, while we may go OOOO GROSSS!! at big bugs, the ones that harm us are the small ones. Mosquitoes (carry malaria, yellow fever), fleas (carry the plague) and lice (carry typhus). I could go on and on - I was a biology major and I find insects fascinating. \

I also have a biology degree, and I also love snakes. We do have a few snakes around Cleveland. I was at my aunt’s house and saw a little snake in the street. I was afraid it would get run over by a car, so I took a stick and shooed the snake into the grass.

Insects are fascinating. I love butterflies and bees. Spiders are great too, since they are awesome fly-catchers. I do not kill spiders in the house. I take them outside.

 

[CarolAnnSFO]

Spiders are great too, since they are awesome fly-catchers. I do not kill spiders in the house. I take them outside.

Unless they’re really getting in my face, I usually leave spiders alone in the house (but not the cobwebs). I would generally rather have the spiders than whatever the spiders are eating.

 

[Mintaka]

If you have bugs getting inside the house and you don’t like using insecticide indoors, you can sprinkle some diatomaceous earth around where they get in. (Works better on linoleum or the dirt outside than carpet, obviously!)

Diatomaceous earth is very unpleasant for bugs, as the tiny fragments of diatoms give them lots of tiny little cuts. So bugs avoid walking across diatomaceous earth, and your area stays bug-free.

This really works. I used it around and behind my stove/oven when my apartment building still had periods of cockroach visitation. The cockroaches never came out of the walls there again!

 

[Lexee15]

**So, “Lexee 15,” did you find any more? I sure hope not. **

Thank goodness I haven’t found anymore, but I am scarrred to go down into the basement:crying: :bigyikes:!!! I will limit my time down there to when there are other people in the house with me!!! I’m not a snake person, so I’d be freakin’ out if I were you!!!

 

[mapleoak]

Back when we lived in Phoenix many years ago, scorpions were a regular house guest. Those as well as cockroaches and black widows. You would get into the habit of shaking out your bed sheets before going to bed at night and be surprised at the interesting little critters that might be found harboring there. Also due, to the extremely arid climate, you had to make regularly make sure all drain traps were full as they had a tendency to dry up if not used for a couple of days. Then the roaches would crawl up from the sewer.

In Christ - J.M.J.
Mapleoak

 

[gez722]

We live in New Jersey and see centipedes on a regular basis. They are definitely worse in the sping and early fall. When it got too bad, we had an exterminator come out and spray. That seemed to correct the problem. Fortunately, we haven’t needed to do that for a few years. I’ve been told that they do bite, so I make it a point never to get too close to one.

My wife gets completely paralyzed when she sees one. She has said that she meets the Lord one day, she’s going to ask Him why He created centipedes She has a hard time seeing the “good” in them… I tend to agree with her!!!

God Bless,
Gary

 

[Convert_in_99]

I like snakes. (Yes I am weird like that, but I think they are quite beautiful). Snakes don’t spread disease, they are clean and they would simply prefer to be out of your way. Don’t bother them and they won’t bother you.
As for insects, while we may go OOOO GROSSS!! at big bugs, the ones that harm us are the small ones. Mosquitoes (carry malaria, yellow fever), fleas (carry the plague) and lice (carry typhus). I could go on and on - I was a biology major and I find insects fascinating. \

OK, then, it’s settled. When we catch the snakes we’ll mail them to you!

Yes, bugs are disease carriers, but snakes kill in minutes! We have lots of the venemous kind in the south.

 

[renaissancelady]

lol

We used to get those big centipedes in my university residence, which was a converted 100 year old house. I think they used to get in through the chimneys. They were so big that one of my friends said they had antlers (as opposed to antennae)! They’re gross, but harmless.

 

[Biblioassistant]

OK, then, it’s settled. When we catch the snakes we’ll mail them to you

No problem I used to have a really nice hognosed snake who lived in the garden and caught voles and mice. I live in the south too, and the only poisonous snake that’s common around here is the copperhead. Rattlesnakes are still fairly rare. My son in law is terrified of snakes - I told him that I’m going to get a snake, put it around my neck and come calling on him one day (not really, I love him to death and wouldn’t want to scare him)

 

[Convert_in_99]

No problem I used to have a really nice hognosed snake who lived in the garden and caught voles and mice. I live in the south too, and the only poisonous snake that’s common around here is the copperhead. Rattlesnakes are still fairly rare. My son in law is terrified of snakes - I told him that I’m going to get a snake, put it around my neck and come calling on him one day (not really, I love him to death and wouldn’t want to scare him)

OK its settled! What’s that address…?

 

[anthony022071]

And God said to the creeping things be fruitful and multiply, and pay Eve a visit.

 

[Convert_in_99]

And God said to the creeping things be fruitful and multiply, and pay Eve a visit.

Coming from an Antho…I mean Adam!