Help with bug ID
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So, any bug that crawls around your house, you don't kill, you just let it go on its way? Remind me, never to spend the night in your house. :biglaugh:
What if a giant spider is on your wall, but not causing harm. Would you just let it be?
It's not about just letting any insect set up camp. Identify, research, apply common sense.
As far as spiders go, my husband *hates* them, so I dispatch of them on behalf of his sanity. And, I hate snakes, so, we take care of one another.
rolleyes:I know it's ridiculous to hate snakes so, but I scream like a girly-girl and run in circles till I nearlyhave a heart attack. I blame this irrational fear on my 4 older brothers who would dangle them over me.
Seriously though, I worked on a insecticide research crew through college and grad school at ISU. We took extreme safety precautions and yet my cholinesterase was seriously affected so for one year I couldn't go near the stuff. I'm not into organic food, etc., but I do think twice about what I fling around the environment in which I reside.
That's the way I am with spiders.
For example: If this was my house, I wouldn't think twice and burn it to the ground. And just looking at this picture gives me goosebumps and makes me sick to my stomach.
THAT reminds me of the tarantula I killed last year before closing on my house here in Texas hill country - earwigs would be the best compared to scorpions(killed 4 so far), tarantulas(2), fire ants, rattle snakes, mud dawbers and other beasties - makes me wish for the freezes of the north - for about 5 minutes...That's the way I am with spiders.
For example: If this was my house, I wouldn't think twice and burn it to the ground. And just looking at this picture gives me goosebumps and makes me sick to my stomach.
That's the only thing keeping me from really wanting to move down south. I can deal with the cold, but I cannot stand tarantulas, scorpions, etc.THAT reminds me of the tarantula I killed last year before closing on my house here in Texas hill country - earwigs would be the best compared to scorpions(killed 4 so far), tarantulas(2), fire ants, rattle snakes, mud dawbers and other beasties - makes me wishfor the freezesof the north - for about 5 minutes...
I would move if I had to, but my house would look a little something like this:
That's the only thing keeping me from really wanting to move down south. I can deal with the cold, but I cannot stand tarantulas, scorpions, etc.
I would move if I had to, but my house would look a little something like this:
Yeah - my exterminator is out often - haven't seen anything inside since month 2.
The scorpions are the biggest concern - they get in the house while small and grow - usually in the attic. The tarantulas are outdoors - the little ones are identified by ridiculously big legs - ugh!
The one saving grace is few mosquitos - too dry.
I hate mosquitos, too.. I think the only place I can live without spiders, scorpions, and mosquitos is in the arctic tundra.
The reason I put down the poison around the house is because its not just one or two that we run across. Four years ago, the first spring I was living here, we vacuumed up hundreds of these damn things throughout the house. Since starting the application or the earwig killing stuff its been pretty effective. I didn't put any down this spring hoping that the initial infestation had been dealt with and I've instead been rewarded with, yet again, dozens of earwigs in the house.
I personally don't mind most bugs, even these stupid earwigs. However, when we have company over, I don't want to have them seen crawling all over the walls, and potentially on them.
Thanks for posting this....my wife and I were wondering what the heck those things were, we have them right now in our house.
For some reason they remind me of the "earworm" in Wrath of Khan." That freaked me out as a kid.
I hate bugs. Luckily I have never seen one of these things. We had a bug guy come twice already this year though so if there were any around they probably aren't still here!
That spider picture was absolutely icky. I might go Dave route if I ever saw that mess. I also am happy with the freezing cold here if only for what it does to creepy crawlies. I could't handle scorpions wandering around my house. Makes me shiver.
That spider picture was absolutely icky. I might go Dave route if I ever saw that mess. I also am happy with the freezing cold here if only for what it does to creepy crawlies. I could't handle scorpions wandering around my house. Makes me shiver.
I agree, unfortunately, my wife does not. She hates them and freaks out evrytime she sees one. Which this year has been daily as they camp out under the wash cloth in the sink
Believe me I would try this, but my fiance' probably wouldn't like me burning down her house, lol.
lol yeah, probably just want to use this for those pesky mosquitos and gnats. :wink:
Never seen one of these little buggers, I tend to let bugs be around my house as well. Especially spiders, they'll help out with the extermanation bills :smile:.
I'm amazed that no one has found a pseudoscorpion. I run across a couple a year in my garden, etc. The good news is that they're quite small, so the freak-out inclination should be dampened a bit.
Iowa insect Notes
Wikipedia (note it can move on firewood ... a reoccurring theme in my life)
Iowa insect Notes
Wikipedia (note it can move on firewood ... a reoccurring theme in my life)
