Millipede Madness

[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!!!

[Jolt]

You do what you have to do.

That's true, but it's still yucky! Didn't anyone make any attempt to get rid of the roaches?

[OakLeaf]

That's true, but it's still yucky! Didn't anyone make any attempt to get rid of the roaches?

Oh, you know, it was the '70s, it was a vegetarian co-op. No poisons! Anything cooked got pretty well sterilized I suppose, anyway no one got food poisoning while I was there

[jobob]

Where I lived it would have been pretty much impossible, considering the surrounding apts - so I used lots of tupperware.

[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.

[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]

This grossed me out when I heard about them several years ago: Camel spiders in Iraq. They are not true spiders. Story is that they run after you screaming at you the whole time. I guess their bite contains a numbing effect and they chew on at night and you don't even know it! Till you wake up in the morning and you have large open wounds!



The picture contains two of them. One biting onto the next one.

Now that is creepy! I can't even handle the small ones, I can't imagine trying to take a shoe to that!

[Jolt]

This grossed me out when I heard about them several years ago: Camel spiders in Iraq. They are not true spiders. Story is that they run after you screaming at you the whole time. I guess their bite contains a numbing effect and they chew on at night and you don't even know it! Till you wake up in the morning and you have large open wounds!



The picture contains two of them. One biting onto the next one.

Now that is creepy! I can't even handle the small ones, I can't imagine trying to take a shoe to that!

UGH...normally spiders really don't bother me, but those look like some nasty critters--especially since they bite!