Ohh Great! The bugs are back! >:|

[Casio]

I see a spider here from time to time but nothing major

I found this beauty on my mates car last week.

Those legs are probably 3 inches wide.

I'm pretty good with spiders. But if that thing was above me when I woke up....

20 varieties of ants

Do any of them have the ability to hunt you down and kill you?

These ants are well-known in Australia for their aggressive behavior and powerful stings. The venom of these ants has a chance to induce anaphylactic shock in allergic sting victims. As with most severe allergic reactions, if left untreated the reaction may be lethal. These large, alert ants have characteristic large eyes and long, slender mandibles and they have superior vision, able to track and even follow intruders from a distance of 1 meter.

I was bitten by one when I was in grade two. I only remember because my foot swelled up for 2 days



At least I don't live in Tasmania, where Jack Jumper ants kill more people then spiders, snakes, wasps, and sharks combined....

 

[Silverzone]

I hate moths. They are annoying as hell. Beetles are also high on my kill on sight list due to their loud noise of them flying around and hitting walls.

 

[TuneRVisioN]

Since I moved out of London I haven't had the problem with bugs. I get the occasional few but nothing compared to where I used to live.

My old house backed onto a reservoir which is used by Thames Water. The amount of flies and spiders was unbearable.

Pic below.

Where did you find a map like that? I want to see my house.

 

[Wolfe]

Where did you find a map like that? I want to see my house.

Funnily enough, "Google" is a perfectly applicable answer here. But I'll give you something a bit more useful than that answer:

Have fun.

 

[TuneRVisioN]

Thanks Wolfe, but I remember seeing dumb things on google like swim 8000 miles in the ocean, etc. Atleast the map isn't as dumb.

 

[Sureboss]

Any of you Yankeedoodles (always wanted to say that) ever seen those Killer Bees (Africanized Honey Bees)?

 

[kikie]

I'm going to revive this thread because I have a bug question. It's stupid to start a whole new thread for this.

What kind of bug is this?

 

[Bram Turismo]

That would the famous, lethal "kikkiemonster" 👍 Only kidding there bud

I don't have a clue, I haven't seen it before. As for the topic, I hate wasps. I can't understand the purpose of these animals on earth. Bees and bumblebees are nice animals, look beautiful and make sure our flowers grow in all their glory. Wasps are ugly, their zooming is as irritating as flies and the only thing they do is annoy you. You can't have a nice meal outside or they're teasing you and when you try to get to rid of 'em, all they do is annoy you more and sting you.


Message to all of you stupid wasp creatures and especially you Norwegian wasp: Do something meanful to nature instead of annoying other creatures like humans, we've got sprays so knock it off! and about you, please stay out of my bedroom, today was the third day I woke up at 5 AM and you were sitting on my bed. If you don't stop, you'll have to face the consequences!

 

[opelgt1969]

I'm going to revive this thread because I have a bug question. It's stupid to start a whole new thread for this.

What kind of bug is this?

Looks like some type of a roach.

If anyone here ever has a problem with knats a simple solution to get rid of them is to place a bowl of vinegar on your counter (the knats are drawn to the vinegar but when they try to land on it they can't float and end up drowning).
HINT: when using vinegar while dining out check out the bottle to make sure you don't have knats in it. I used to work in food service.

 

[FoolKiller]

I'm going to revive this thread because I have a bug question. It's stupid to start a whole new thread for this.

What kind of bug is this?

I don't know what it is called, but it is one of those annoying bugs that has the misfortune of looking similar to a wood roach, so I stomp it in a very violent fashion (because wood roaches are hard to kill).


As for everyone worried about the bugs I use a thing called Raid. Spray the spider and wtach it fall off its web and then squirm around on the ground for a few seconds before it dies. I also have the wasp and hornet killer that shoots a 20 foot stream with enough force to knock a wasp nest down. Or if you are paranoid about being stung you can use the foaming kind that hits the nest and immediately expands into a big foaming ball of poison, trapping all wasps in its grasp. The 20 foot stream kind is potent and forecful enough to knock them down and have them twitching before they hit the ground though, so it isn't a major concern.

Most bug killing happens around sunset as that is when the spiders start building nests around my outside doors and wasps/hornets become less active.

Things like moths and crickets I try my best to put back out without killing, but accidents do happen. Then for mosquitoes I have an Off Lantern, where you burn the candle and you put a little memory stick looking thing in eth top that heats up and releases a repellant. On a still night it is usually effectiove for about 15 feet. We also have citronella torches around the deck. That helps some but citronella is kind of hit or miss.

Bees I want because I grow flowers and vegetables. Besides bumblebees are skitish and will go away just by waving your hand at them.

And of course, the bottom of my shoe is always effective.

 

[Orion]

A bee stung me for having the Honey BBQ Chips Bag.

They don't go away when you wave your hand, they just annoy you more, just like flies!

That bug above does look like some type of roach, but I can't really tell you.

 

[Loon]

All the mosqutoes out real bad here, it's horrible, you can't stand anywhere without getting attacked. The strange thing to me is that when I lived in Georgia, I never got bit, but up here I'm like a magnet.

 

[FoolKiller]

A bee stung me for having the Honey BBQ Chips Bag.

They don't go away when you wave your hand, they just annoy you more, just like flies!

Just bumblebees. They may come back after a while but if you make them feel threatened they run.


Another way to deal with them is a badminton racquet. Just pop them off somewhere you don't plan to walk. They lay on teh ground stunned for a while and eventually get going, unless you hit them too hard.

 

[Venari]

To be frank, zappers are not ideal inventions for mothers...

Can't believe no-one picked this up!

ROFL!

Okay, I've gone mad. Where's the kettle?

 

[wfooshee]

If you live within 5 miles of the Everglades, you give blood completely involuntarily in the spring and summer, there's also the spiders, pesky flies in the spring, swarms of gnats all year long, wasps and their nests in every crevice, cockroaches anywhere there's food, crickets to annoy you at night, 20 varieties of ants, caterpillars, moths, and butterflies since I near the Butterfly Capital of the World, and I try not to think of the termites might be eating my home from the inside out.

And then there's the people here that bug me.

Doesn't have to be Everglades. I'm in north Florida, and between roaches, ants, fleas, mosquitoes and termites, who has time to worry about bees, wasps, spiders? Then there's the black beasties that clog the air on our highways in the spring and fall. We call them love bugs, because you only see them when they're flying aroung "connected," and then they swarm in the millions. Cars, trucks, tourist RVs, etc get coated with them.

You people never heard of insect spray or something.

They have trucks that drive around here every night spraying the air, street by street, for mosquito control. I was gonna post a picture, but I can't get onto Imageshack, getting a 500 error.


* time passes, buy new washer and dryer, install, test, everything works, come back to this *

Ah! Now it's working. This is earlier this evening, as a matter of fact, in front of my house.

 

[Jondot]

I'm not a big fan of them either. I make such an effort to avoid contact that I've never actually been stung by anything, ever. Nothing has even got within 1 inch of me.

There's quite a lot of stuff around here, so I bought myself one of those fly-net kits off ebay. It's essentially sticky velcro tape and 4x2m of mosquito netting. It's worked like a charm so far . I did get a couple of bug zappers too, but I've found them to be utterly useless.

The best solution to killing them? Invest in a cat.

 

[Orion]

Okay, now these bugs are starting to piss me off now, especially at this time of year. There are these small bugs that constantly come and fly on my computer screen, interfering with my GTP time!

I saw this wierd caterpillar like bug that was gray and hairy, like 2-3 inches long, and also this big green bug, which had wings and was around 5 inches long. Now you see why I'm always mad. This big bug just fell into my rice crispies, it was like some jumbo house fly.

 

[3-Wheel Drive]

Try living in the hill country. I've found about a dozen scorpions in my house since we moved in a couple of weeks ago. Got stung couple days ago by one, hurt like hell. I've also had a centipede crawl on me while playing NFS, and every time it rains, gnats spawn and swarm, and fly though open windows' screens. And we've had to spray like 4 hornet nests that were on our house.

Between that and the cacti, everything around here bites, stings or pricks.

 

[El Jarretto]

I had a mosquito fly up my nose the other day. Those mosquitoes plus 110*+ in my garage makes anger management suck. Now I on;y have one pair of needle nose pliers, I shattered the other one on the floor.

 

[wfooshee]

I had a mosquito fly up my nose the other day. Those mosquitoes plus 110*+ in my garage makes anger management suck. Now I on;y have one pair of needle nose pliers, I shattered the other one on the floor.

Any pliers you can break on the floor, you don't need anyway. . . .