These fucking ants

[Pyraxis]

 

 

[Peter]

Lucky we are going into winter here so there are less, but this summer was MAD for ants, the fuckers were everywhere no matter how clean the place was. It's meant to be the weather that we are having, more ants around and all, same with roaches. We never have roaches, but this summer, we had about half a dozen. sickening.

I'd gladly swap slugs for roaches.  The slugs here slither into the kitchen through the air vents, and cruise around the sink and cooker, leaving a slime trail as they go.  They also cover the path, making it disgusting to walk on, and the ones that get stepped on are eaten by the others.

[Parts]

Lucky we are going into winter here so there are less, but this summer was MAD for ants, the fuckers were everywhere no matter how clean the place was. It's meant to be the weather that we are having, more ants around and all, same with roaches. We never have roaches, but this summer, we had about half a dozen. sickening.

I'd gladly swap slugs for roaches.  The slugs here slither into the kitchen through the air vents, and cruise around the sink and cooker, leaving a slime trail as they go.  They also cover the path, making it disgusting to walk on, and the ones that get stepped on are eaten by the others.

Slugs go in your houses    Scotland home of the killer slugs who would have guessed

[Gluey]

Slugs and bare feet are the worst.

You know what else is annoying, These fucking mosquitoes! I got bites all over me and no matter how much Polysporin I put on it still itches like crazy. The mosquitoes love my blood for some reason cause other people don't get bitten as much as me.

[Parts]

Slugs go in your house too   I have never seen one indoors

[garmonbozia]

Can't believe I forgot this in my earlier post...

The time I was working at the animal sanctuary where I volunteer on weekends, slogging through palmettos while up against a fence watching out for the carnivorous beast on the other side, and getting a banana spider right in the face when I walked into its web.  To give you an idea of how big those fuckers are, here's a random pic I found on an image search, of one on somebody's hand:



Another time while working there, I was helping to prune the palm trees.  (If you've never been near palm trees, some of them are frickin' huge and have fronds about 15 feet long, and about 20 feet off the ground.)  I was facing upward and using a pole saw to take down a high frond, and had a gray Cuban toad fall and land on my face.

Also, my apartment has a store room off the balcony.  Once, hundreds of ladybugs wintered in the doorjamb for a couple of weeks before moving on.  Ladybugs are cool, so any time I needed to get into the store room, I was very careful not to squish any of them when opening and closing the door.

[driftingblizzard]

I have just two words for ants, Boric Acid....

Don't we get enough of that for you in the rainwater, already?

LMFAO,   did you mean "Acid Rain"?!   That only comes from fossil (oil/gas/coal) plants.    Here at nuke-mart we emit no greenhouse gasses, 'cept the guy in the cubicle next to me. 

But we do use boric acid, to absorb decay neutrons in our spent fuel pool.   Boron has a high thermal neutron cross-section for absorption, but it is also extremely toxic, especially to inscets.  Burns out their underbellies and feet/mouths, etc.

So you can feel safe now.   

[DirtDawg]

I have just two words for ants, Boric Acid....

Don't we get enough of that for you in the rainwater, already?

LMFAO,   did you mean "Acid Rain"?!   That only comes from fossil (oil/gas/coal) plants.    Here at nuke-mart we emit no greenhouse gasses, 'cept the guy in the cubicle next to me. 

But we do use boric acid, to absorb decay neutrons in our spent fuel pool.   Boron has a high thermal neutron cross-section for absroption, but it is also extremely toxic, especially to inscets.  Burns out their underbellies and feet/mouths, etc.

So you can feel safe now.   

LMFAO

OK, thanks for that. I do feel much safer than you could possibly be.

When was the last time you checked your rain water for interest?









Dude, if I had your morning mist I might not have to buy the eyedrops I use.

[odeon]

I fucking HATE ants and I fucking HATE slugs and I fucking HATE spiders.



I shouldn't have read this thread. 

[driftingblizzard]

I fucking HATE ants and I fucking HATE slugs and I fucking HATE spiders.



I shouldn't have read this thread. 

We have black widows (I almost picked one up with some leaves the other day, they look just like the pictures, round, shinney black with a blood red hour glass on the belly).  Did you see the news story about the guy that tried to get imune to his pet black widow.  Let it bight him, he didn't get medical help, and the last thing he did before he passed out was opened all his insect and exotic pet cages in his house.  when authorities found him, all of the creatures had been feeding on his body for several weeks.....

[renaeden]

^Thanks for that image....right before I go to bed....

[DirtDawg]

I fucking HATE ants and I fucking HATE slugs and I fucking HATE spiders.



I shouldn't have read this thread. 

We have black widows (... they look just like the pictures, round, shinney black with a blood red hour glass on the belly).  .......

This is quality comedy!

[DirtDawg]

I fucking HATE ants and I fucking HATE slugs and I fucking HATE spiders.



I shouldn't have read this thread. 

We have black widows (I almost picked one up with some leaves the other day, they look just like the pictures, round, shinney black with a blood red hour glass on the belly).  Did you see the news story about the guy that tried to get imune to his pet black widow.  Let it bight him, he didn't get medical help, and the last thing he did before he passed out was opened all his insect and exotic pet cages in his house.  when authorities found him, all of the creatures had been feeding on his body for several weeks.....

"Nature,"  (I think it was) a couple of night s ago ran a story about how the forensic study of the processes involved with various insects depleting a body can be used to solve murders.

Then they got into DNA testing of larvae and pollen grains to nail a killer.

Cool.

[driftingblizzard]

^Thanks for that image....right before I go to bed....

Here is a more visual image...   for the visually impaired.  Sweet dreams!

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[reborn 2005 at 40]

 I have a problem with very little worms that come out of the woodwork and seem to like white paper and cloth. It's damn annoying when I occasionally find one in my bed, and nothing I try gets rid of them. But I guess that it's better than having cockroaches, ants, and spiders. What I really hate is when a millipede/centipede gets in the house, because it's so hard to kill them.