Millipede Madness

[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

[Starfish]

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

I would rather get mine in the form of wildlife found in pics on the Have We Done It Yet? thread.

That said, just to stick up for myself, I will mention (but save you a long boring story) about my brave night alone in Texas in a bug/scorpion/mouse infested cabin.

[Trekhawk]

I would rather get mine in the form of wildlife found in pics on the Have We Done It Yet? thread.

That said, just to stick up for myself, I will mention (but save you a long boring story) about my brave night alone in Texas in a bug/scorpion/mouse infested cabin.

YIKES!!
Scorpions freak me out - you are a very brave girl.

[Tuckervill]

Or how about the time I woke up in a tent, in Maryland, literally blanketed by grandddaddy longlegs?

Karen

[Wahine]

I was living on the Island of Maui for a short period in a cockroach and centipede infested dorm apartment. I felt something crawling up my leg while I was in the shower one night and it was a poisonous centipede that had come out of the drain.

Ever since then, centipedes and millipedes creep me out. Better you than me TH.

Oh, it looked like this and was about 6 inches long. That was a tinyone by Maui standards.

[Trekhawk]

I was living on the Island of Maui for a short period in a cockroach and centipede infested dorm apartment. I felt something crawling up my leg while I was in the shower one night and it was a poisonous centipede that had come out of the drain.

YUK!!!!
That story and pic make me feel a little ill. Thank goodness the Millipedes are pretty small.....lots of them but small.

[Jen-Jen]

Or how about the time I woke up in a tent, in Maryland, literally blanketed by grandddaddy longlegs?

Karen

Did you know that granddaddy longlegs are VERY poisonous! I alway pick their little butts up and put them back out side!!!! Then my dad was watching a animal program and he learn this fact. However, my dad is a trickster and sometimes he lies to get you going, but I believe him on this. The reason no one dies from them and thankful for it is because their fangs are so hooked and too short that they can't straighten them enough to sink them into our flesh. Okay all one one....EEEEWWWWWW!

By the way....I no long pick up daddy-long-legs anymore.

[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!

[SadieKate]

Hey, TH, we want pictures of your centipedes!

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

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

You do what you have to do.

[jobob]

Yep, I've lived in my share of cockroach-infested apartments when I was a student in Boston (and no BSG, I didn't cower in the corner like a baby ). You get used to things when you need to.

[mimitabby]

and I thought Millipede Madness was a BIKE RIDE!!!

[Trekhawk]

and I thought Millipede Madness was a BIKE RIDE!!!

LOL - perhaps I could start one up. I squished enough riding the other day so the name would fit.

[Trekhawk]

SK - when Pete gets home I will get him to take a few.

Last night it did not seem to be as bad but maybe that is just wishful thinking. The buggers are still coming inside but not in as many numbers.