Millipede Madness

[Tuckervill]

I live in Arkansas. Know what people not from Arkansas are afraid of when they come here? Chiggers, ticks and snakes.

Like we're swimming in them. My mother used to make me cover my head on Brownie outings, because she, being from Chicago, told me that ticks are sitting in the trees just looking for a warm blooded mammal to jump into your hair. I've always had this picture of ticks with tiny parachutes waiting for just the right moment to jump on my head.

We just don't go where the chiggers, ticks and snakes are. It's not like they can't be avoided!

Karen

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

You guys are a bunch of BABIES!! afraid of mole crickets and lowly poor potato bugs? PFFFFTT!! BABIES!!

Here I posted a picture of one of my old tarantula mountings, from when I used to keep several:
http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showt...ight=tarantula

When I was about 12 I had a huge millipede named Oscar. He was beautiful and fascinating...a very gentle vegetarian too. He was the size of a hockey puck when curled up. He was significantly bigger than this:
http://www.bugguy012002.com/african-millipede.jpg
Very fun little pet- no noise, no smells, no demanding traits, easy to feed and clean, gentle, interesting.
Now hissing cockroaches....hmmmm...I draw the line there. I grew up with roaches and just can't get into really huge ones as being appealing in any way.

[SadieKate]

You guys are a bunch of BABIES!! afraid of mole crickets and lowly poor potato bugs? PFFFFTT!! BABIES

Who said we were afraid of them?????

Creep and fear -- two different emotions.

-- SK who grew up with tons and tons of captive snakes

[jobob]

Thanks Lisa

[7rider]

Who said we were afraid of them?????

Creep and fear -- two different emotions.

Exactly!!

And it's not a mole cricket...it's a CAMEL cricket!

[SadieKate]

BTW, 7 rider, I love your dutch bunny avatar. I had one growing up (Winkle) who would travel all over the country with us in our camper. The ag inspectors would always goggle when they'd open the door to see a standard poodle, black lab and Winkle all curled up on the dog bed together.

[SadieKate]

I've seen mormon crickets (which are actually katydids) swarming so thickly that I thought the road was moving.




Doing my best for jobob here.

[7rider]

BTW, 7 rider, I love your dutch bunny avatar. I had one growing up (Winkle) who would travel all over the country with us in our camper. The ag inspectors would always goggle when they'd open the door to see a standard poodle, black lab and Winkle all curled up on the dog bed together.

Thanks! That is Tasha...we call her the Queen of Quite-a-lot, because that's what she thinks she is! Little bunny...BIG attitude! She'd probably kick the poodle and lab out...."My bed!!"

[bikerz]

I vote for more bunny pictures and fewer creepy-crawly pictures!

(Oh, wait, this is a creepy-crawly thread...)

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Exactly!!

And it's not a mole cricket...it's a CAMEL cricket!

You're right- sorry!

The lovely Mole Cricket:

[OakLeaf]

We just don't go where the chiggers, ticks and snakes are. It's not like they can't be avoided!

Welllllll, they can be avoided, if you never leave the house and you don't have any pets who'll bring them in with them...

Ticks are one of the few things that freak me out pretty good, but it doesn't mean I won't work in my garden, and the brush on the driveway still needs to be cut whether I want to do it or not, etc., etc., etc.

[Tuckervill]

But they're not sitting there waiting to jump out at you, yanno? You might get a tick and you might not. Wear your long sleeved shirts and tuck your pants in your socks and give yourself a check before you come in the house.

Frontline keeps the ticks off my animals, thank heavens!

Karen

[GLC1968]

Jeeze people...try living in FL for awhile. Bugs there grow to the size of small children.

Thankfully, most of them aren't poisionous.


My husband was stationed in Australia for a few years and now he's terrified of spiders and snakes. Nothing funnier than a big tough guy running and screaming like a girl at the sight of a small spider in the bathtub.

[Skierchickie]

Yeah, well Frontline works on our ticks just enough for the darn critters to leap off the doggie when she comes in the house. They just say "blech - this doesn't taste good". So we end up with them crawling on us, instead. They've been bad the last couple of years. On the bright side, I'm becoming desensitized. We didn't have them this far north until recently. However, growing up on a farm in Indiana, Dad would send me out to mow the barnyard and old orchard area on the tractor, and told me to always wear a hat and be careful under the trees, because they'd drop on you from the trees.

Yuck: spiders, ticks, millipedes, centipedes, leeches, ...... Creep me right out. I really am afraid of spiders (I have more "growing up on the farm" stories ). I think the worst was the pet tarantula my sister brought home from work - she left it with us when she moved out. It only escaped once, well, twice in one day.

Why do I read these threads???

Oh, and I don't want to try living in Florida! Geeze, heat, humidity, and now bugs!

[Tuckervill]

We watched the movie "Enchanted" yesterday. Princess has rapport with all the little woodland animals, yada yada...except in New York City, she summonses the pidgeons, the rats....and the COCKROACHES!

EWWWWWWW when they ate all the scum off the bathtub! :::shiver::::

Karen