oh GROSS!!!!!!

[eilsoe]

Spring is on it's way, and so are many of the insects...


here in DK, we have ANTS.. and a lot of 'em!!


I just went to get a glass of water, when I turned on the lights in the kitchen...


I saw AT LEAST 50 ants crawling around the sink...


EW EW EW EW EW EW EW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



I hate ant season.. mom is gonna phreak tomorrow.. and then bring out the poison :bad:

[Jubba]

get hot pepper and lay it down in little dishes around your kitchen area. We haven't had any ants since we did that. Cheap and effective way to get them out.

[eilsoe]

hot pepper?

like chili?

[Jubba]

yeah, like powdered or just crushed red (hot) pepper.

[Soul]

Perhaps the pepper scared away the small pieces of food left around because everyone knows the pepper is the bully vegetable. So there was no food for the ants, so they went elsewhere. So your theory is wrong Jubba, but still works :beam:

But do your research next time, you made yourself look like dummy! :P

- Soul :s:

[hojo]

ugh, we get ****roachs here, it sucks, i hate them so much!

[Jubba]

It worked for us at our old house. We put small dishes with hot crushed red pepper in them. After a week or so we had less ants and then after 2 weeks they were gone. We didn't really have any serious problems with them after that.

We are guessing that they eat it and they don't like the spicyness and they stay away. Best thing to do tho is to make sure that your house is crumb-free while you have the pepper down, or they will go for the crumbs and not eat the pepper. But if you have large amounts of this pepper available they will still take it and then they left...

[Soul]

C*ckroaches have feelings too! :P

- Soul :s:

[Jubba]

For ****roaches, buy a gun. Or a bazooka... they don't die!

[reverendflash]

You get Olympic size roaches there... just like Hawaii... plus they fly...

don't get me started...

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[Jubba]

hahah! that sucks

[Jubba]

I can imagine the roaches laughing at you when you spray them with RAID... lol!

[hojo]

hahaha, thats horrible! you have to put like rat traps out to catch those bad boys

[senocular]

time to call Orkin. Those guys rule!

[Jubba]

Kind of inhumane too... like feeding a bird an ala-seltzer tablet... they explode due to gas build-up

ORKIN cost money... We are poor

[hojo]

phil, they really explode? thats nasty, then instead of having little roaches everywhere, you have little roach insides everywhere

[lostinbeta]

I get ants too every spring. I hate it.

Spraying vinegar in any opening to your house (doorway bottom windows, etc) where they usually come in does a good job a lot.

Also rice. When ants eat rice it expands inside them and kills them. They bring it back to the colony for the colony to feed on, sometimes pretty effective, but not all the time.

[hojo]

people do that with rats? thats even worse.

kinda funny though, yet very disgusting..walking down the street and seeing assorted rat corpses and birds flying down to eat them.

[lostinbeta]

Originally posted by Phil Jayhan
hojo-

sorry to hear about that...yuck-

I have heard that New Yorkers in Manhattan put out little bowls of coca cola and when the rats drink it, since they cannot burp or fart, they implode. Kinds neat hunh? :!:

pj :P

Yep, that is 100% true as well.

[eilsoe]

oh yuck...

exploding birds, roaches and whatnot... eeewwww...... (said like homer S)

[Jubba]

air fresheners... New Car smell in your home...

[reverendflash]

have you ever had a rat die inside of a wall?

I did in an upscale restaurant once... smelled bad for at least a week...

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[Jubba]

we have mice die in our basement all the time.... since our house is small it smells up the entire house... thats when we open the windows and turn on the fans...

[lostinbeta]

Yes, rats usually like to hide when they die. So you can't find them and they torture you even more than when they were alive.

[hojo]

its like rats go out of their way to piss people off, one final bang when they die.

evil little bastards....:evil:

[Alex]

i dont have any insect problems. i have my self a cat and a dog, thats all the pets i need. but besides that, we really dont have a insect problem here.

although one year we had alot of caprernter ants. every where, finally we packed our bags and set off a couple of bug bombs. ever since there hasent been a pest since.

[lostinbeta]

Yeah, thats pretty gross Phil....lol. My mom has rats for pets, so I could tell you stories about that, but I won't...lol.

[Jubba]

My family hates cats more than mice. We have one of my dogs... She likes to catch mice, but we don't let her in the basement..

[hojo]

you could ask your town mayor to unleash large rat eating snakes...and then to fix the snake problem, you could let loose a bunch of snake eating bears

[lostinbeta]

Hey Jubba: D-Con , rat poison. Works like a charm ;)

[Alex]

who needs rat poison when you have my moms cooking.... haha

[Jubba]

nah, we don't want to use poison because of my dogs...

[lostinbeta]

Well I thought you didn't let your dogs in your basement???

We do the same, because we have a mouse problem (or used to, I haven't seen any recently). We have a dog, but hes afraid of the basement (weirdest thing I ever saw, he won't even touch the first step), so we didn't have to worry about him.

[hojo]

i cant imagine having rats infest my house over roaches. they're bad enough, but having something furry with teeth would be a nightmare.

[lostinbeta]

I prefer mice over roaches. I saw this thing on the discovery channel about a girl who has a roach climb into her ear why she slept and it died in there and she couldn't understand the immense pain in her ear, the doctor looked and saw something in there. He pulled out a roach. That completely skeeved me out.

Roaches are nasty and disease carrying, but even worse they are smaller, and can climb walls and fly when they want to. And they don't die unless you smash them to pieces. And they can survive for over a week without a head because they have a brain in their butt to, they eventually die of starvation or thirst.

[Alex]

if i ever saw a ****roach in my house, i would tie fire crackers to it. and run....

[Jubba]

Originally posted by lostinbeta
Well I thought you didn't let your dogs in your basement???

We don't, but you never know what could happen. They could slip down there somehow...

[lostinbeta]

Oh ok. As I stated, I don't have that problem with my dog. He won't even go down if you coax him with food. He freaks out and gets kind of mean, which is weird for him. I don't get it, but he will NOT go anywhere near our basement.

You can't even pull him down there. It's impossible to get him down there.

[lostinbeta]

Good point Phil.

[ahmed]

for ants, try a mixture of folic acid (powder), sugar, and milk.. it really works, for co<!-- uh.. -->ckroaches and ants.. :trout:

[Alex]

hey lost, my dog wont either. :(

[eilsoe]

lost:

u know dogs have a 6th sense, right? Myabe you have a ghost down there... :sure:


:P:P:P

[Aislin]

I don't have any rodent problems, and few insect problems. Sometimes we get crickets, but my dog Chance catches them, crushes them in his mouth, and then carries them to his travel crate. ...it sounds wierd, but it's awfully convenient.

[kirupa]

I never had a rodent problem either until last week when one rodent (who I swiftly named Jerry) started gnawing on the wall from within the hollow spaces in the wall - strange thing was we couldn't find out where it came from.

Long story short, the yummy rat poison did him over today :( He was kinda cute too - for a rodent that is.

Cheers!
Kirupa :bandit:

[GloryBe]

we get these red bugs, that we call halloween bugs or something and when you swat it, it squirts red dye and it totally will not come off the wall.

but i'm glad we dont have c*ckroaches up here

man o man

[reverendflash]

lost: no brains in buts for roaches... they are extremely resilient, but no brains in their buts...

question... does your dog go down narrow stairs at all? I had a friend who's St. Bernard wouldn't go down stairs that he couldn't turn around on...

ahmed: Boric acid (dry, sprinkled in the back of cupboards, etc. )works very well, should you not have kids or pets around.

QueenB: I'd rather have a roach than have to splat permanent red spoo on my igloo... It must be bad enough just dealing with the smell of fish and blubber...

:beam:

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[GloryBe]

haha..............blubbers not bad


dont get me started on the fish


and on a side note:

rev u been talkin to sintax or somethin................this queenbe thing still around

[lostinbeta]

Originally posted by reverendflash
lost: no brains in buts for roaches... they are extremely resilient, but no brains in their buts...

Rev, I am serious. Roaches do indeed have a secondary brain within their "tail". They do not need both to survive and can live off either one.

I believe their secondary brain is connected to the cerci at the end of their abdomin and the legs. The cerci can detect vibrations, which then send signals to the legs to get moving before the brain in their head even gets the information. If I am not mistaken.

sorry, entemology is something I was always interested in

[ahmed]

Originally posted by reverendflash
ahmed: Boric acid (dry, sprinkled in the back of cupboards, etc. )works very well, should you not have kids or pets around. err.. yeah, its boric acid i was talking about. But made into a paste-like mixture with milk and suger :beam:

[reverendflash]

lost:

I remember you have a buggy interest. do you have any documentation on this? I will search on my own, but you could save me some time...

thanks,

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[lostinbeta]

I have my "bug book", but I don't know any sites. I will search and if I find anything I will post a link.

[reverendflash]

okay, I think I found what you were talking about:


BRAIN: The ****roach brain is spread throughout its body. The head holds a bit of a nervous system, while the rest of the brain is scattered along the ventral (belly-side) part of its body. So, now you understand that if you cut off the head of a roach, it will still live for as long as one week; eventually dying from starvation or thirst.

I did not know that...

I give you 2/3 point...

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[lostinbeta]

"Booyah!"...lol.

I didn't feel like digging out my bug book to read up on if I was right or not, I guess I was close enough :P

[reverendflash]

darn punks...

::kicks dirt::

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[Mik3]

___________________

Perhaps the pepper scared away the small pieces of food left around because everyone knows the pepper is the bully vegetable. So there was no food for the ants, so they went elsewhere. So your theory is wrong Jubba, but still works

But do your research next time, you made yourself look like dummy!
___________________

Soul... LOL!

[Kitiara]

Ants annoy me, but spiders are the ones I really can't stand. Oh, and earwigs. And creepy crawlies in general really. It's not the look of them, more how they feel when they crawl over you.

And how they look, who am I kidding?

Freaks me out.

[reverendflash]

While in Hawaii, I went house hunting with a female co-worker, who was also just moving over, when we looked at a house nestled up in this beautiful little valley, basically in the rain forrest, but 15 minutes from town. I walk into one room, hit the light switch, and watched the carpet move... The entire room was covered in 3" roaches...

I still shiver when I think about that...

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[andr.in]

We never have any ants or rats in our house... Not even in the basement... which suprises me b' we have one problem though!
Dunno what they're called in English but here's a pic:
http://www.hot.ee/syko/u037.jpg
They're gross! They're just everywhere! Wherever there is a little area between two object there are at least 50 of 'em there. They only come in summer! OMG summer is not very far away! I just hate 'em. Nothing can stop 'em... but radiation (mwahahhaaa not c0ckroaches) They are going to take over!
Worse than aliens!!!:alien:
I just hate insects!!!

[lostinbeta]

Thats an Earwig Syko. Those things hurt when they pinch. I learned that one the hard way.

[pinx]

my cats like showing off their hunting skills so when they catch an animal (rat, mouse, bird, squirrel, etc.) they make sure they eat a half of it and leave the other half in front of the front door with the guts lined up nicely beside them. once there was a little stomach right by the masticated mouse. poor thing.

[pinx]

Originally posted by Syko
We never have any ants or rats in our house... Not even in the basement... which suprises me b' we have one problem though!
Dunno what they're called in English but here's a pic:
http://www.hot.ee/syko/u037.jpg
They're gross! They're just everywhere! Wherever there is a little area between two object there are at least 50 of 'em there. They only come in summer! OMG summer is not very far away! I just hate 'em. Nothing can stop 'em... but radiation (mwahahhaaa not c0ckroaches) They are going to take over!
Worse than aliens!!!:alien:
I just hate insects!!!


we have those as well in our house in croatia. they suck.

[lava]

I wonder what it is about our evolution that has made ****roaches asthetically displeasing to us....

[eilsoe]

we have earwigs here in denmark too, they don't bother me tho... :-\


now the gigantic house spiders worry me... y know, the ones that makes the floor shake when they scam across it?


eewww....

[lostinbeta]

Well after doing a bit of reseach I found that no diseases were proven to be carried or transmitted through roaches, although previously I believed and am sure many others believe as well. With people believing that, there is reason to fear them.

But overall roaches are just dirty and are harmful to your property. They... like silverfish... eat starchy items as well as pretty much anything else. This means they will eat paper, book bindings, wallpaper, etc. They are amazingly versatile. And worse of all they secret a scent that isn't very pleasant.

Not to mention that one egg case I believe contains something like 100 eggs (this may depend on species), and they are always mating. So pretty much if you have roaches in your house, you better believe you have 100s running around in your walls.

Makes you skeeved out right? Just knowing that roaches are running around in your walls and you don't even know it.

[andr.in]

an earwig! That's it! We call 'em something similar here too!
I just hate 'em! They're everywhere! They suck!

hey btw anyone had a dream about these flies like in X-Files that go under your skin? Well I had! It was horrible! It hurt when they bit a hole through my skin! Kinda cool dream though!

[lostinbeta]

You can't feel real pain in your dream ;) Just pretend pain.

And BTW: I think you forgot to embed the font in your footer. Supposing its supposed to be a pixel font, it actually looks something like 8px Times New Roman or something to be. Very tiny and very hard to read.