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Start here => Free For ALL => Topic started by: Gluey on May 31, 2008, 11:53:33 PM
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This is the second time my room is infested with ants. This time there not just any ants but there fire ants! They sting and burn and i hate them. i have laways loved bugs and have been fascinated by them but if ants are biting me in my sleep and biting my rats, wood beetles chewing inside my walls at night and THOSE FUCKING FRUIT FLIES. They just have to HAVE TO be in your face. I find dead wolf spiders in the bathtub and it's a shame becuase the eat all the annoying bugs and wold spiders are beutiful creatures. Bugs that live in colonies are invasive and do any thing they can to invade your space.
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Yes ants are annoying. I put my jumper on a wooden post while doing some gardening. I put it on again when I felt cold and then I did the ant dance. Ants all over my neck.
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/shudders.
i bloody hate ants. :grrr:
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I was moving a huge pile of timbers I use for landscaping details yesterday. I had left them untouched all summer last year and they had become bound together by ivy overgrowth, but I needed to use the space. I looked down once and realized that I was covered in hundreds of fire ants from my feet to my chest and arms.
I brushed them off and just as what usually happens with me and most insects, I was not bitten or stung once (ants can do both, although they have no poison in their bite).
Not sure why they don't attack me to defend their nest.
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:o Ants, I hate ants
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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.
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I have just two words for ants, Boric Acid....
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good gracious - everyone's agreeing on something.
:jawdrop:
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Hate ants, stepped in two nests already gardening.
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the consensus grows...
:eyebrows:
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Ever have ants invade your kitchen cabinet and get into all the food? That happened to my parents a couple of times. The only way I can imagine it happened is that they came up through the floor from the crawlspace. (Would that have happened if there was a finished basement down below instead?)
Another honorable mention is once when I was at a bonfire with some of my Trekkie friends. I helped gather firewood and, when turning over one log, suddenly there were hundreds of big, red ants scattering in all directions (the size of carpenter ants, though I had always thought carpenter ants were black).
And then, the time a wolf spider made an appearance in the break room at work. I've never seen so many adults act like such wusses in all my life. They were all trying to kill it but (good for it) it went inside the tubular steel frame of one of the tables. Lunchtime was over and everyone had to go back to their desks, so the spider was spared. (I mean, come on! About half those people were engineers.)
One more thing worth mentioning... the time a huge beetle got on a friend of my brother's. It was big like one of those black beetles, but its shell was pale green with spots like a ladybug. (Never seen anything like it before or since.) My brother's friend was no wuss, third-degree blackbelt and been in many fights, but this thing scared the shit out of him, to the point where I was like "All right! Hold still for a minute." while getting this creature off his sock.
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I have just two words for ants, Boric Acid....
Don't we get enough of that for you in the rainwater, already?
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Ever have ants invade .....
It happens to us, sometimes. Pretty bad last year, but they aren't after our food.
I am convinced that they have a nest where they overwinter under my garage, which is on a concrete slab nexxt to the house.
House sits on pylons with a crawlspace. When they first hit the surface, after being underground for three or four months, they are looking for water. I try to deny them that and it works.
I have found that I can reap the benefits of their hard work all summer long, if I can just keep them out of the house in the spring. The way I do this is to keep all water dried up in the house, when they first appear. They look elsewhere and leave the house to find the water I leave outside for them. Hey, it works.
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Interesting....
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I guess someone will call me a fucking ant whisperer now, too.
:D
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:laugh:
:indeed:
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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.
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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 :o Scotland home of the killer slugs who would have guessed
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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.
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Slugs go in your house too :o I have never seen one indoors
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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:
(http://davidmichaelkennedy.com/blog/media/heather-banana-spider.jpg)
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.
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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.
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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.
:D
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:GA:
I fucking HATE ants and I fucking HATE slugs and I fucking HATE spiders.
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I shouldn't have read this thread. :grrr:
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I fucking HATE ants and I fucking HATE slugs and I fucking HATE spiders.
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I shouldn't have read this thread. :grrr:
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.....
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^Thanks for that image....right before I go to bed....
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I fucking HATE ants and I fucking HATE slugs and I fucking HATE spiders.
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I shouldn't have read this thread. :grrr:
We have black widows (... they look just like the pictures, round, shinney black with a blood red hour glass on the belly). .......
:LMAO:
This is quality comedy!
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:GA:
I fucking HATE ants and I fucking HATE slugs and I fucking HATE spiders.
:GA:
I shouldn't have read this thread. :grrr:
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.
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^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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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.
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I get Brown Recluses in my house, no Black Widows though.
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a27/Sufist/brown_recluse_lg.jpg)
How fast are Black Widows? Brown recluses are fast lil' buggers. It's hard as hell to try and kill them.
Thankfully at least in my house the paint on the walls is oil based and they have a harder time climbing it. So I've only ever seen them on the floors.
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I really can't stand insects. I usually kill them as soon as I see them.
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Thankfully at least in my house the paint on the walls is oil based and they have a harder time climbing it.
Interesting - I didn't know oil-based paint was harder to climb.
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Thankfully at least in my house the paint on the walls is oil based and they have a harder time climbing it.
Interesting - I didn't know oil-based paint was harder to climb.
It has a somewhat slick coating to it-- and generally speaking, I don't think brown recluses are particularly good climbers in the first place.
In fact, most bugs that enter my house have difficulty climbing it. I'd say the Scutigera (House Centipedes) are the only ones I usually see able to scale it, heh.
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I was watching my youngest cousin when she was about 18 months old and she was playing with a Tonka truck that my nephew had left outside, so I decided to clean it. I found a black widow spider that looked just like this one in a recess in a tire and I got it out and crushed it on the ground so thoroughly that I could see no trace of it left behind. It scared me half to death because my little cousin was not verbal at that age. What it had bitten her and I never saw it? How quickly would I have taken her to the emergency room for what I might have assumed at first to be a beesting? Even if I did take her, would the doctors have known that it was a black widow spider bite? That was the first and last black widow spider I had ever seen there. She could have died in my care and I would never have forgiven myself if that had happened. I'm so glad that I decided to clean the toy truck she was playing with.
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What are black widow bites like? Do they turn necrotic like brown recluse bites?
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We had ants in the living room for a while. I kept finding them and I couldn't figure out where they were coming from. We kept killing them whenever we saw them. Then one day I saw they were crawling out from the cord, the kind of cord where you plug in more than one thing. I had to get off the computer and I took the cord and put it in a plastic bag and tied it. I left it like that for a week thinking they would die but they didn't so I finally threw it away and I got some ant traps. We placed them in the living room where the ants are. We still had some despite getting rid of their colony. They all eventually went away. We even had some under our bed so my boyfriend stuck a trap under there and it killed them all eventually. We haven't had any ant problems since.
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What are black widow bites like? Do they turn necrotic like brown recluse bites?
No, black widow spider venom is a neurotoxin.
I found this:
What are the symptoms of a bite?
A black widow spider bite gives the appearance of a target, with a pale area surrounded by a red ring. Severe muscle pain and cramps may develop in the first two hours. Severe cramps are usually first felt in the back, shoulders, abdomen and thighs. Other symptoms include weakness, sweating, headache, anxiety, itching, nausea, vomiting, difficult breathing and increased blood pressure. Young children, the elderly and those with high blood pressure are at highest risk of developing symptoms from a black widow spider bite.
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I find fleas much more annoying, as do our cats. Ants are much easier to deal with.
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:GA:
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Fucking ant well here's an ant orgy
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What are black widow bites like? Do they turn necrotic like brown recluse bites?
No, black widow spider venom is a neurotoxin.
I found this:
What are the symptoms of a bite?
A black widow spider bite gives the appearance of a target, with a pale area surrounded by a red ring. Severe muscle pain and cramps may develop in the first two hours. Severe cramps are usually first felt in the back, shoulders, abdomen and thighs. Other symptoms include weakness, sweating, headache, anxiety, itching, nausea, vomiting, difficult breathing and increased blood pressure. Young children, the elderly and those with high blood pressure are at highest risk of developing symptoms from a black widow spider bite.
There are a few black widows here, but we mostly have little black and white jumping spiders, brown and yellow orbweavers, black and yellow argiopes, black trapdoor spiders and large, very hairy wolf spiders.
I have only seen one brown recluse. It was in my garage. They are easy to spot, because they have eyes set in a triangle pattern, rather than bi-laterally spaced. To me the common name "fiddleback" is responsible for getting a lot of beneficial spiders killed needlessly. There is a wide variety of mostly harmless "violin spiders" that seem to be quite common, everywhere, but they have eyes set in opposing pairs on their cephalothoraxes.
When I lived in Tennessee, black widows were everywhere!
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I remember being in middle school and we were playing Pictionary in one of our classes and this girl named Stacy picked up and card and started drawing on the board. She drew a window and colored it black and none of us could figure what it was. Then she said it was "Black window."
Our teacher didn't even ask to see the card. She just laughed. but his all didn't make any sense so I was telling my mother about it and she said "it probably said 'black widow' and she misread it."
That was when I first heard of black widows.
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There are a few black widows here, but we mostly have little black and white jumping spiders, brown and yellow orbweavers, black and yellow argiopes, black trapdoor spiders and large, very hairy wolf spiders.
I have only seen one brown recluse. It was in my garage. They are easy to spot, because they have eyes set in a triangle pattern, rather than bi-laterally spaced. To me the common name "fiddleback" is responsible for getting a lot of beneficial spiders killed needlessly. There is a wide variety of mostly harmless "violin spiders" that seem to be quite common, everywhere, but they have eyes set in opposing pairs on their cephalothoraxes.
When I lived in Tennessee, black widows were everywhere!
That was the only one I ever saw in the town where I grew up in Alabama.
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I find fleas much more annoying, as do our cats. Ants are much easier to deal with.
We have a bit of a flea problem at the moment but we are treating the cats and it is a lot better than it was a couple of weeks ago.
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I find fleas much more annoying, as do our cats. Ants are much easier to deal with.
We have a bit of a flea problem at the moment but we are treating the cats and it is a lot better than it was a couple of weeks ago.
Those buggers are a pain. :(
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I find fleas much more annoying, as do our cats. Ants are much easier to deal with.
We have a bit of a flea problem at the moment but we are treating the cats and it is a lot better than it was a couple of weeks ago.
Those buggers are a pain. :(
Anything smaller than a cicada killer I can take out with my sword!
I may yet develop techniques for confronting cicada killers, since cowering seems to not work.
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Where I am working now they have silver fish yuck I see them every time I pull off some siding
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i'm suffering from a severe infestation of colons. :(
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colons? like this :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
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colons? like this :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Looks more like a "column" of ants, two-wide.
Not sure that I know what an ant colon looks like. I treasure this fact.
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i'm suffering from a severe infestation of colons. :(
Does this mean that there be buggerbait about?
(I don't really know wtf you are talking about)
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At least it's not a semi-colon ;;;;;;;; :o
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I fucking hate this thread, I feel physically sick now :(
I am NOT a girly girl. But this thread makes me want to find the nearest chair, stand on it, wave my petticoats and squeal until a big strong man comes in and takes all the bugs away.
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colons? like this :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
yes. well, just solitary ones, but they're Ninja Stealth colons!! :hide:
the O Man has them too. :-\
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i'm suffering from a severe infestation of colons. :(
Does this mean that there be buggerbait about?
(I don't really know wtf you are talking about)
(don't worry - i'm not sure i do , either. :laugh )
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I fucking hate this thread, I feel physically sick now :(
I am NOT a girly girl. But this thread makes me want to find the nearest chair, stand on it, wave my petticoats and squeal until a big strong man comes in and takes all the bugs away.
i'm not a girly girl either. but i quite like the idea of standing on a chair and waving my clothes about until a Man turns up. if he took my mind off things, i wouldn't even care too much about the bugs. :eyebrows:
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I fucking hate this thread, I feel physically sick now :(
I am NOT a girly girl. But this thread makes me want to find the nearest chair, stand on it, wave my petticoats and squeal until a big strong man comes in and takes all the bugs away.
i'm not a girly girl either. but i quite like the idea of standing on a chair and waving my clothes about until a Man turns up. if he took my clothes off and then my mind off things, i wouldn't even care too much about the bugs. :eyebrows:
Fixed :angel:
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colons? like this :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
yes. well, just solitary ones, but they're Ninja Stealth colons!! :hide:
the O Man has them too. :-\
Yes, they appear from nowhere. Very scary.
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Look at what you guys did, I logged onto this thread, and a big spider just came crawling along my floor. I threw Stan Cohen's 'States of Denial' at it and its dead. I wanted to say "deny this, fucker" but I held back as its not 1989.
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Look at what you guys did, I logged onto this thread, and a big spider just came crawling along my floor. I threw Stan Cohen's 'States of Denial' at it and its dead. I wanted to say "deny this, fucker" but I held back as its not 1989.
I was going to say, "SAVE her," but that was before I finished reading your post. I can almost guarantee that you have murdered a pregnant female who has spent her last days creating the contents of an eggsack to be divined in her own image, which was developed directly from her own bodily resources, one other annoying insect at a time. She was in preparation for extending her delicate genes into the next generation of insect devouring spiderkind.
I would reven welg upon you a world without spiders, even though you have just haplessly murdered the most promising of the species
If you experience insect problems in the coming year, remember this day. Hope that your curse is shortlived.
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"Every time you kill a spider, it starts raining", like we say in Sweden.
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They've killed a LOT of spiders lately.
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True. Hate the fucking rain.
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They've killed a LOT of spiders lately.
I didn't and yet it's raining incessantly here! :grrr:
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Look at what you guys did, I logged onto this thread, and a big spider just came crawling along my floor. I threw Stan Cohen's 'States of Denial' at it and its dead. I wanted to say "deny this, fucker" but I held back as its not 1989.
I was going to say, "SAVE her," but that was before I finished reading your post. I can almost guarantee that you have murdered a pregnant female who has spent her last days creating the contents of an eggsack to be divined in her own image, which was developed directly from her own bodily resources, one other annoying insect at a time. She was in preparation for extending her delicate genes into the next generation of insect devouring spiderkind.
I would reven welg upon you a world without spiders, even though you have just haplessly murdered the most promising of the species
If you experience insect problems in the coming year, remember this day. Hope that your curse is shortlived.
If she's put her eggs anywhere in my flat I'm going to scream. The only good spider was Charlotte and even she died.
And when you all kill ants, do NONE of you remember the ant from Honey I Shrunk The Kids?? You know, the martyr who took the fall from the scorpion? Honestly. Every time you kill an ant, you're spitting on Walt Disney's grave.
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Look at what you guys did, I logged onto this thread, and a big spider just came crawling along my floor. I threw Stan Cohen's 'States of Denial' at it and its dead. I wanted to say "deny this, fucker" but I held back as its not 1989.
I was going to say, "SAVE her," but that was before I finished reading your post. I can almost guarantee that you have murdered a pregnant female who has spent her last days creating the contents of an eggsack to be divined in her own image, which was developed directly from her own bodily resources, one other annoying insect at a time. She was in preparation for extending her delicate genes into the next generation of insect devouring spiderkind.
I would reven welg upon you a world without spiders, even though you have just haplessly murdered the most promising of the species
If you experience insect problems in the coming year, remember this day. Hope that your curse is shortlived.
If she's put her eggs anywhere in my flat I'm going to scream. The only good spider was Charlotte and even she died.
And when you all kill ants, do NONE of you remember the ant from Honey I Shrunk The Kids?? You know, the martyr who took the fall from the scorpion? Honestly. Every time you kill an ant, you're spitting on Walt Disney's grave.
By ""save her"" I meant to set her freee outside your flat. I do not care to co-habitate with crawlers either, but some of them, such as ants and spiders, do more good than dab.
A spider eats its weight in annnoying, pesky insects every couple of days. I always try to save themm.
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Ahhh. I haz teh dumb from doing too much uni study. Generally I try to let all bugs out unscathed, but it makes my skin crawl the bigger they are.
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I kill insects almost as soon as I see them.
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Rayne when you get to Australia I will protect you from the spiders and snakes, no worries. However the magpies.....let's just say I will be screaming and waving my petticoats and waiting for you to save me. :-[
Hey everyone has a phobia. Mine are magpies.....and hospitals. Besides it isn't the spiders, snakes or sharks you have to worry about, it is the ferocious dropbears.
I see you made 10 posts. Has the forum opened up a bit more for you? :asthing:
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I kill insects almost as soon as I see them.
I think that is fine. I see nothing wrong with that, as long as you eat your kill.
:evillaugh:
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Rayne when you get to Australia I will protect you from the spiders and snakes, no worries. However the magpies.....let's just say I will be screaming and waving my petticoats and waiting for you to save me. :-[
Hey everyone has a phobia. Mine are magpies.....and hospitals. Besides it isn't the spiders, snakes or sharks you have to worry about, it is the ferocious dropbears.
I see you made 10 posts. Has the forum opened up a bit more for you? :asthing:
Yes, I can now get access to the Sex forum and various other bits and pieces.
Dropbears?
This probably wouldn't be a good time to post a picture of a magpie.
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(http://www.cs.vu.nl/~kielmann/magpie-photo.jpg)
Oops.
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I love those birds. :)
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:zoinks: You fit right in already, rayne.
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Speaking of slugs earlier in the thread. This is a murder slug. They came from Spain but are now over most of Europe:
(http://www.dn.se/content/1/c6/67/51/75/mordarsniglar.jpg)
This is a Swedish slug, pretty harmless:
(http://www.svetto.se/wp-content/070530_snigel.jpg)
This is a Swedish slug and a murder slug. They can interbreed without problems:
(http://www.nematoder.se/gfx/snigel1.jpg)
The result is a murder slug that can resist the Swedish winters:
(http://media.hd.se/2007/07/19/241494/large/mordarsnigel.jpg)
They don't harm people, but they eat anything in the garden. :grrr:
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I kill insects almost as soon as I see them.
I think that is fine. I see nothing wrong with that, as long as you eat your kill.
:evillaugh:
They just go down the toilet. Nothing evil about eating insects in other cultures. I have eaten chocolate covered ants before. I didn't care for them.
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(http://www.cs.vu.nl/~kielmann/magpie-photo.jpg)
Oops.
Bitch! :asthing:
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Rayne when you get to Australia I will protect you from the spiders and snakes, no worries. However the magpies.....let's just say I will be screaming and waving my petticoats and waiting for you to save me. :-[
Hey everyone has a phobia. Mine are magpies.....and hospitals. Besides it isn't the spiders, snakes or sharks you have to worry about, it is the ferocious dropbears.
I see you made 10 posts. Has the forum opened up a bit more for you? :asthing:
Yes, I can now get access to the Sex forum and various other bits and pieces.
Dropbears?
Dropbears are proper bastards.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULEQpUY_crc
Dropbear in action.
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The now filed eggs stand the test of time the winter at protected places; the young snails will attack our spring flourisher with the first heat in amounts. The colored case snails crawl in case of rain weather onto trees and shrubs and strike then particularly; their food damages hold themselves as a rule, however, in boundaries.
:LMAO:
Speaking of slugs earlier in the thread. This is a murder slug. They came from Spain but are now over most of Europe:
(http://www.dn.se/content/1/c6/67/51/75/mordarsniglar.jpg)
This is a Swedish slug, pretty harmless:
(http://www.svetto.se/wp-content/070530_snigel.jpg)
This is a Swedish slug and a murder slug. They can interbreed without problems:
(http://www.nematoder.se/gfx/snigel1.jpg)
The result is a murder slug that can resist the Swedish winters:
(http://media.hd.se/2007/07/19/241494/large/mordarsnigel.jpg)
They don't harm people, but they eat anything in the garden. :grrr:
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:zoinks: You fit right in already, rayne.
:agreed:
Wanna cyber with an arthritic dawg?
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Rayne when you get to Australia I will protect you from the spiders and snakes, no worries. However the magpies.....let's just say I will be screaming and waving my petticoats and waiting for you to save me. :-[
Hey everyone has a phobia. Mine are magpies.....and hospitals. Besides it isn't the spiders, snakes or sharks you have to worry about, it is the ferocious dropbears.
I see you made 10 posts. Has the forum opened up a bit more for you? :asthing:
Yes, I can now get access to the Sex forum and various other bits and pieces.
Dropbears?
Dropbears are proper bastards.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULEQpUY_crc
Dropbear in action.
cab't seee anything, if it is a pic file..
I know what ia dropbear is, thoufgh
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No it is a Youtube commercial. I have a space between the "m" and "/" to show you the link.
http://www.youtube.com /watch?v=ULEQpUY_crc
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The now filed eggs stand the test of time the winter at protected places; the young snails will attack our spring flourisher with the first heat in amounts. The colored case snails crawl in case of rain weather onto trees and shrubs and strike then particularly; their food damages hold themselves as a rule, however, in boundaries.
:LMAO:
Speaking of slugs earlier in the thread. This is a murder slug. They came from Spain but are now over most of Europe:
(http://www.dn.se/content/1/c6/67/51/75/mordarsniglar.jpg)
This is a Swedish slug, pretty harmless:
(http://www.svetto.se/wp-content/070530_snigel.jpg)
This is a Swedish slug and a murder slug. They can interbreed without problems:
(http://www.nematoder.se/gfx/snigel1.jpg)
The result is a murder slug that can resist the Swedish winters:
(http://media.hd.se/2007/07/19/241494/large/mordarsnigel.jpg)
They don't harm people, but they eat anything in the garden. :grrr:
last time I showwed my mom a foot long slugg, I thougnshe ws going to faint.
she could hardely believey her s eye
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:zoinks: You fit right in already, rayne.
:agreed:
Wanna cyber with an arthritic dawg?
I don't do cyber on the first date, the least you could do is buy me some dinner, maybe some flowers... I might meet you against an IRC skip if you pretend to respect my mind.
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I might meet you against an IRC skip if you pretend to respect my mind.
:rofl: Classic.
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(http://www.cs.vu.nl/~kielmann/magpie-photo.jpg)
Oops.
Bitch! :asthing:
Pandora was fascinated by the magpies when she visited me in Melbourne. She told me she can notice different markings on some of them and that there are even "reverse magpies" that are white and black instead of black and white. There are also magpies up here in Townsville but not as many as in Melbourne and Traralgon. A classic bird sighting moment was in Apollo Bay when we saw a gathering of 3 or 4 politicians (pink and grey galahs) on the front lawn of my beach house. :zoinks:
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Cato the Elder recommends that you take the mash that you get when pressing olives and smear the outer walls of the house with it. That way the ants will stay out :viking:
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Cato the Elder recommends that you take the mash that you get when pressing olives and smear the outer walls of the house with it. That way the ants will stay out :viking:
I wonder how many of those recommendations work....
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Actually the old Roman medicine theriac has viper flesh in it and has proven to be an antidote against bites from vipers. The Romans tested this on hens.
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That is not likely to be true. Even in the case of the use of isolated or crude preparations of viper VENOM, taking it orally would do nothing whatsoever (barring entry into the bloodstream via injuries to the oral, oesophageal mucosa, etc.
Snake venom, along with that of scorpions, spiders (although there are a few spider and wasp venoms that are based on small molecules rather than proteins), ants, etc. the venom components that do the main damage are almost entirely, almost always proteinaceous in nature, or peptides (smaller than proteins, chains or cyclic constructs of aminoacids) and MUST be injected into the system to be active. One could, if there were no injuries to permit its access to the system, swallow snake venom to no ill effect, being a protein/peptide based concoction these venoms will simply be torn to pieces by the digestive system, no different than a piece of meat.
And thus can produce no immunizing effect. Ergo, the roman claim is false. IIRC the theriacs often allayed symptoms of illness due to the large component being opium-based. But certainly would not prevent death due to a bite from a viper/elapid snake envenomation.
Ants? think fire ants are bad news, you lot should have seen the fucking bastards I saw whilst trekking through some dense turkish forests on holiday. Big buggers, average what I took to be workers from behaviour, coming out of an undisturbed nest were approximately, on average, a centimeter and a quarter to 1.5cm long, with HUGE heads and mandibles to match. In build, they were heavy, squat, resembling african driver ants in all but size and the lack of the driver/army ant behaviour of marching in columns. I didn't get stung or bitten, I don't know if the species concerned did sting but I sure as blue buggery wouldn't have wanted to find out (not after the vicious sting I got from some species of tropical nettle, that was bad enough. Felt like somebody whacked my arm with a hammer, after being stung on the fingers.
Black widows ey......well we VERY seldom get them in the UK, they aren't native, but have sort-of invaded to a degree and the odd one pops up.
I had a brown widow as a pet, and yes, I have been bitten. The effects were NOT pleasant. Severe cramping all over, was the main effect, felt like I got worked over with a baseball bat by a gorilla. Although the bite was my fault, pissing her off changing stuff in the enclosure, adding crickets and the like whilst she was guarding two egg sacks.
Unfortunately, the fucking pigs brought down one of their abusive, fruitless harassment raids on me at the time, and murdered both my pet, her babies, hundreds of newly hatched brown widow spiderlings and the second, unhatched egg sack, all killed, and for no reason whatsoever, just senseless, mindless carnage.
Anybody where they occur naturally, (any of the latros) be willing maybe, to catch me one, or more, for a fair price?