Millipede Madness

[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

[7rider]

Okay.
Just so Lisa doesn't think I'm all cute and cuddly and stuff....
Here's something from our "critter file" - yes...all the weird and wonderful living things we photograph in our back yard end up in a dedicated file folder on our hard drive called "Critters." -

[Jolt]

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

Oh, I thought that scene was absolutely hilarious!!! The song was pretty cute too.

[OakLeaf]

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

You'd love "Joe's Apartment," then.

Jolt, your college story reminds me of my college co-op kitchen. Every time someone turned the oven on, there would be this VERY LOUD scurrying noise as all the roaches evacuated for cooler quarters.

[crazycanuck]

Oakleaf eeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwww..yuuiuuuccckkk

Long post sorry...

Speaking of being eaten alive..Some of our company's scientists do varying field surveys in the NE of Western Australia and one of thier main safety issues is..crocs.. Yep..not the sun, not weird insects or jellyfish...crocs..

The small spiders that inhabit the dark areas of our fence are normally Redbacks or Whitetails.. Cool but not as freaky as a Huntsman spider.. I've heard although 'huntsman''s aren't poisonous, they kill more people than other spiders each year..becuase of fright!!!

There's a "lake" (Herdsman lake)near our old neighbourhood(not in the boonies) and there are warning signs around the lake that say "beware of tiger snakes". Ian came accross one while biking around the lake one day & he moved out of it's way rather quickly..esp after he read more about them online!!!

Yes Australia has some rather poisonous creatures but you need some excitement in life right?

If you don't bother the creatures, they won't bother you..

*phew* long post over

[Jolt]

You'd love "Joe's Apartment," then.

Jolt, your college story reminds me of my college co-op kitchen. Every time someone turned the oven on, there would be this VERY LOUD scurrying noise as all the roaches evacuated for cooler quarters.

Now THAT is disgusting!!! I don't think I'd want to do much cooking in that kitchen--yuck, yuck, yuck!