What do you do when creepy crawlies pay your home a visit?

Knight said:
Maybe a story can be developed from this. Bretrick triumphs over a fierce predator
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You're not kidding. Cockroaches in Australia are indeed fierce and they do fly at you**, going for the throat*.

They are best fought using a can of using a can of insecticide as a flame thrower.**








* Just kidding

** Not kidding, they can fly very well. Very disconcerting when they fly towards you.

*** Kidding again. Just spray them with fast knockdown insecticide and wait for it to take effect.
If you cannot bear to see them in their death throws, which can last quite a long time, sweep them up and throw them outside to get on with it. The ants do the cleanup.
 

Knight said:
Maybe a story can be developed from this. Bretrick triumphs over a fierce predator
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He wasn't so fierce. Looked a little battered, crooked wing sticking out. My impression, from the direction it came was that maybe I was sleeping on top of it, when I rolled over to get my laptop, it crawled away then made it's way onto my laptop.
Not a pleasant thought but it does seem plausible.
 

This being Texas we sometimes get scorpions. They won't kill you but they hurt like hell when they sting. It is a normal habit to check your shoes every time you put them on to make sure they're empty. It only takes once. Most people get hit when they step on them in the bare feet.

One evening my dog was in the bedroom growling. The wifey went in there and he was growling at a scorpion that was on the bed. We don't see them in the house that often tho. We get these big Wolf Spiders too. And twice I had Tarantulas cruising my kitchen. I still don't know how they got in.
 
Several times when I was in the Navy, the shipboard cockroach infestation would get so bad that the Skipper would initiate a bounty system on the bugs. Sailors would go around with glass jars in which to keep their kills.

Every evening they could turn in the roaches to the Master at Arms and be paid. I think it was a nickel a bug. Beer in the Petty Officer and EM clubs ran a dime a glass so many shore liberties were financed by roaches.
 
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CarolfromTX said:
Cockroaches, aka palmetto bugs, are endemic here. We have a quarterly visit by a pest control company. He’s coming Monday.
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Yes they are prolific. I used to have pest control but now I just buy safe bug prevention at Lowes. I comes with a little sprayer, I coat the entrance to all doors, garage door, windows and under sinks. Like I said, I have only seen one in the house this year and he went to a glourious smashing end.
 
hollydolly said:
OH yuck... I can honestly tell you I have never seen a cockroach in the UK... thank God... but I've seen them on the continent..in Spain, Cyprus Greece, Italy .. *ugh*... disgusting.. In One place we rented in Spain while we were house hunting.. it had flying cockroaches as big as hummingbirds.. :sick::sick:
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Go on, tell us, Holly, what where the cockies humming? 😊
 
Warrigal said:
You're not kidding. Cockroaches in Australia are indeed fierce and they do fly at you**, going for the throat*.

They are best fought using a can of using a can of insecticide as a flame thrower.**








* Just kidding

** Not kidding, they can fly very well. Very disconcerting when they fly towards you.

*** Kidding again. Just spray them with fast knockdown insecticide and wait for it to take effect.
If you cannot bear to see them in their death throws, which can last quite a long time, sweep them up and throw them outside to get on with it. The ants do the cleanup.
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I agree when living in Puerto Rico I saw some really huge roaches that if you tried to kill them by stepping on them they just rolled over & laughed at you. Spraying works;)
 
For some reason I've had about 5 wasps in my bathroom for the past week at various times. They were on the slow side so I grabbed them with a tissue & flushed them away.

Only twice have little garter snakes got in the house over the years & no idea how. Each time my one cat caught them & carried them around like a prize. I distracted him with a toy & put the little guys outside when he dropped them.
 

What do you do when creepy crawlies pay your home a visit?​

Shoot, we had so many bugs and weird crawlies at our mountain cabin

Heh, one morn I woke to a rather large spider at the edge of my blanket
about two inches from my nose
His skinny front legs were feeling the air

I just said 'mornin'

His eyes bugged out more than they already were, his little forearms went straight up, and off he went

Had one weird bug just sit on my workbench all morning, watching me
work

Did that for several days
then
he was gone

I tend to share nature with nature

unless

it's a snake
 
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Thankfully I don’t get roaches, but rather stink bugs, an Asian import. They come inside, seeking warmth and moisture. You don’t want to smash them as then they are true to their name, and emit a foul odor. I usually gather them up in a tissue and release them far outside. If lethality is desired, you can keep a bottle of a water and dish detergent mixture, and they drown nicely in there…

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I have Orkin do an inspection and spray every 6 months. They tell me that what they spray is safe to humans, but I plan to be away for most of the day when they show up.
 
Ants aren't welcome, spiders are OK except black widows. Scorpions get escorted outside, centipedes get exterminated. In recent years Turkishstan roaches have taken hold in this area,as the climate has become warmer. They're not the 'nasty' kind of roach, but they wander indoors occasionally, and I just scoop them up and put them outside.
 
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