Spiders and Centipedes.

[Betheny]

So I'm going to do laundry. I get my stuff ready and I go in the basement and I see this spider the size of a dollar bill hanging out over the entry way... so I come back to get a big ass can of Raid, and I spray a smaller spider in the area to make sure it's working AND T HIS HUGE CENTIPEDE, THE SIZE OF MY MIDDLE FINGER, I KID YOU NOT, comes running out of a crack in the wall and comes right at me and I screamed and sprayed the whole bottle on th e thing AND IT'S STILL ALIVE.

I will never do laundry again. EVAR!

EEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

Edited to add: And NOW, we're out of RAID! Insert bad four letter word starting with F here. Multiple times. In rapid succession.

[Edited on 10-8-2003 by Maimara]

[Skirmisher]

Unless its the size of the spider in arachniphobia, the shoe is the best defense.

Your coworkers will thank you for finding the courage to go back.

[Betheny]

I'm just lugging it all down to my mom's to wash it.

Screw my basement.

Where can I buy the biggest, nastiest bug bombs ever. LIke, nuclear bug bombs.

[Skirmisher]

Home depot had some nice dry ones that I used at my last apt to kill the roaches.

They arent like the old aerosol bombs. These are some chemical that come in a can that you add water too and then leave.

Come back like the next day and air out the room and there you go. Dead bugs.

[Betheny]

it was so gross. it had tiger stripes.

I'll take pictures to post tomorrow. assuming the thing dies. It's in a pool of poison.

[peam]

:lol:

[Betheny]

IT'S NOT FUNNY!

[Weedmage Princess]

That's so weird that the Raid didn't work.

During the summer...when I had an apt on the bottom floor, we used to get centipedes and silverfish...So I bought Raid ant killer and sprayed pretty much the whole apartment..where the walls met the floors....no problems with bugs after that.

Just last night some big nasty winged insect got into my apt cause I had the balcony door opened...sprayed it with the Raid ant killer and it was finished.

[Betheny]

I'll need a case of Raid. We have a big place. The bugs seem to stay downstairs, mostly. I killed off all the little jumping spiders in my room before I could sleep in here.

The spiders in the basement are actually not that big, they have tiny bodies and eyes on stalks, but HUGE LONG LEGS. Not daddy longlegs though, close to it. They're all over.

[Skirmisher]

You want the raid roach killer spray max strength. Thats the big boy. Gawds, I'm having flashbacks.

So lets see this king cobra of centipedes! We demand documentation!

[Betheny]

The camera is in my sleeping roommate's room.

And I am not going down there until there's a burly hairy man with me.

[draconis nematoda]

Catch them and let them loose outside.

Better still catch a mexican redleg and let it roam loose so it can eat all the other spiders.

[Edited on 10-8-2003 by draconis nematoda]

[Betheny]

For some reason, I can't see the picture.

And... the only person insane enough to do the catch and release is this Russian guy I know. And he hasn't come around much since he set himself on fire and ended up in the hospital.

[Ilvane]

I *hate* spiders..:shiver:

-A

[theotherjohn]

Originally posted by Ilvane
I *hate* spiders..:shiver:

-A

I love spiders. Do you know that the only reason you have spiders is the abundant food source (all the other bugs in your basement)?

Dont kill the spiders.

Just remove the food source and the spiders will go to wherever the new foodsource is.

[Halfsilver]

That's funny.

Back in Maryland, we used to live on the edge of the woods, so we were getting all sorts of strange creatures in the house.

I LIVED in the basement, so I got to see alot. I used to make piles of dirty laundry to be taken upstairs and washed. Almost every week when I picked the pile up to bring it upstairs, a couple of light brown long things with about 50 long legs would appear and make for the closet or other darkspace. These things were crazy looking. Like mutant centipedes. If you just barely touched them, though...they fell apart. Weird.

-grays/d

[AnticorRifling]

My wife is deathly afraid of spiders. If one gets in the place she will just be frozen still yelling for me to come kill it. Most of the time I just snag them and let them go outside. Spiders eat other bugs, spiders = good.

[Trinitis]

Heh, I like spiders. I used to feed them around the house when I was younger. I'm not really afraid of any type of bug. I've been known to handle all types. Though, I took a lot to get me near a scorpion.

-Adredrin

[Kurili]

Oh, if I were close, I'd come eliminate em for you. But those who were saying they're living on the other bugs and you should just relocate them are right.


Acolyte Kurili, not afraid of crawling things

[CrystalTears]

I SO feel for Maimara right now. I have an unrational fear and despise for all insects. Doesn't matter what, all of them. Hell the one I hate the most is the praying mantis. ::whines:: Had I been in the movie Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, he would have been a dead man in that spikey room. No way!

[DCSL]

Centipedes are strangely resistant to huge doses of chemicals. We had a six incher crawl under our laundry machines and Mom freaked out on it. She unloaded every can of disinfectant and bug killer we had in the house under those things. We thought for sure it had to be dead under there. We were getting woozy just smellin' the mixtures. I'm surprised the machines didn't explode.

Three hours later, it comes crawling out from under them like nothing happened. That's when Mom ordered me to put on a boot and stand on it while she chopped it up into three pieces. Eventually, this is what we had to do to kill all the bigger centipedes. They're eeeevil.

[SpunGirl]

Bugs are fucking disgusting. The only ones I've seen in my apt. since we moved to Vegas are earwigs, and those things FREAK me out. Kill spray die bugs die.

-K

[Snapp]

I screamed like a little bitch when i read that Maimara!

And as for centipedes, which are one of the scariest creatures alive, they are freakin immune to bug spray! I sprayed a few of them I found in my balcony storage area into oblivion and they STILL lived... of course by that time I was running back inside screaming (I'm such a wimp to bugs).

[Betheny]

So I did end up going 18 miles to my mom's house to do laundry, and I saw a centipede there. I didn't have shoes on either, but bugs at my mom's house know where their place is and they run away from you not toward you.

[Hips]

Originally posted by SpunGirl
Bugs are fucking disgusting. The only ones I've seen in my apt. since we moved to Vegas are earwigs, and those things FREAK me out. Kill spray die bugs die.

-K

I found one in my dorm room the other day... I chased it with a shoe, but it ran under my desk and into my subwoofer.

I turned up my music & subwoofer as loud as possible, in hopes of blasting the little bugger to death. He hasn't crawled out and it's been a few days... so I hope he vibrated to death. :mad:

[Betheny]

What is an earwig?

[DCSL]

Originally posted by Maimara
What is an earwig?

They're eeeeeevil too! Here's one:

[Snapp]

Eww Pincher bugs! (thats what we call them anyway)

[HarmNone]

Blech! I do not like spiders. I do not want spiders on the same planet with me. I would prefer that spiders choose another galaxy. Poor Maimara! :(

HarmNone hates spiders

[GS4Gurl]

The only thing I actually have bad nightmares about are spiders and crazy rabid cats. Sorry but I smash every spider I see. Big or little. Lately I've killed like 5 big brownish spiders with yellowish stripes. I think its a wolf spider but it isn't fuzzy so I'm not sure now. Crickets die quickly at my house too. I'm not scared of those they just annoy me with their chirping.

About the cats, its kind of odd since I LOVE cats. I saw this movie a looong time ago where these people had lots of evil possessed cats trying to get into their house. What movie was that? I just remember a few scary scenes from it.

[Edited on 10-9-2003 by GS4Gurl]

[Geoff]

Originally posted by AnticorRifling
My wife is deathly afraid of spiders. If one gets in the place she will just be frozen still yelling for me to come kill it. Most of the time I just snag them and let them go outside. Spiders eat other bugs, spiders = good.
My wife feels the same way but my son (a faithful "Crocodile Hunter" watcher.) is usually the removal got to guy because we work different shifts. I tease her about needing to be saved by a 4 year old on a regular basis.

On the centipedes are immortal thing...
When I was a kid I kept one in an empty jar for probably 2 months before I decided I needed the jar for something else. When I dumped it out, it ran off.

[Ilvane]

Earwigs are around here under rocks all the time. I thank goodness have never seen one in my house. I really hate spiders!!

I saw a couple in here when I was cleaning..so I promptly took a shoe to them.;)

-A

[Skirmisher]

Yah! I think thats it!

I knew I was remembering it vaguely, but could not recall the name. That is what I was remembering though.

[draconis nematoda]

Speaking of spiders, I just caught a huge black widow crawling up the door frame of my computer room. And I'm talking huge, maybe a quarter inch body and an inch and a half leg spread.

Now that's a spider to be afraid of. Get bit by something that big and you're going to hurt really bad.

I just hope the bloody thing hasn't laid any eggs in the house.

Ray

[Bestatte]

We have a bunch of different types of spiders in and around our house. Outside it's mostly the daddy long-legs variety, and a few jumpers. Inside we have albinos and house-hold brown spiders. The brown ones bite, like most do, and their poison is only around as bad as maybe a wasp sting to someone who -isn't- allergic. Itches like crazy for a few days and then it's gone.

So the brown ones aren't the "brown spiders" that are evil nasty dangerous. Just spiders that happen to be brown.

Spiders don't bother me, unless they're crawling on my person. Usually I'll just get a magazine and scoop them up and shoo them out the door.

We don't have many centipedes here, but I did get millepedes in my old condo. Those things are - blech blech ugh ewww shudder plehhhh... I've found that hairspray works great on them. The extra-hold in the aerosol can. Freezes the suckers after a minute or so and they drop to the ground.

Earwigs look nasty but they're tolerable. We get those on occasion in the spring. Crickets are neat, even though they're really bad for the garden. Same with grasshoppers. Katydids are awesome fun to watch, and stick bugs are amazing, if you can find them.

What grosses me out - are beetles. If it isn't a lady-bug, then it's time to call hubby to come kill the evil monster. Ladybugs are cool though, they're like spiders in that they'll eat the other bugs. Same with praying mantises, which are protected by the state because of their benefit to plantlife.

We get june bugs here..BRRRRRRRRR..makes my skin crawl just thinking about them. They're beetles that are around as big as one of those little pots of lip gloss you buy at CVS.

Fortunately most of these things don't come into the house. Just the spiders, and the occasional earwig. Well those and the flying variety of creatures such as wasps, hornets, and bees. Honeybees don't bother me at all, we have a nest under the siding to our house by our front garden. They buzz all around me when I'm weeding out there, but I just ignore them and eventually they realize I"m not threatening their hive and stop flying around my face. The other flying/stinging things get dead as soon as I can reach for my hairspray.

Hairspray is good. I don't even use it on my hair, just on the bugs.

[Betheny]

I'm stealing your hairspray idea, Bestatte. I hope you don't mind.

I was thinking a BF-Flamethrower would be good too. Like in Aliens. Me = Ripley, the centipedes/spiders = the aliens.

[Miss X]

One of the best things about the UK, there are no dangerous insect things. Im usually ok with most insects but I HATE moths, ugh black ones are so creepy.
As for spiders, euww they are evil. I hate the way when there crawling its almost like they know your watching and they stop. I'm convinced they are trying to take over the world!
Theres this smallish one on my wall right by my bed and im too scared to go near it to kill it, so last night I had to sleep in a different room. Now im just waiting for someone who's not scared of them to get home. Amazing how something that small can drive me to hysterics! hehe
Vx

[StrayRogue]

Originally posted by Lady Daina
::bites DCSL for posting the picture of the icky creepy-crawlie critter:: Now I am gonna have the willies all day, and feel lots of little legs on me! ::flail::


!! And I thought the sex life dwindled after marriage.:cool2:

[Xcalibur]

here too, too cold, we have, i think, no dangerous bugs, cold temperature rocks!

Just buy a cat and whenever you see a bug, bring the cat, he'll hunt them with no mercy

If the cat doesn't want to do so, throw it in a park and get a new one until you get a free exterminator

[Xcalibur]

finaly a thing that cats > dogs...

:lol:

[peam]

My puppy eats bugs. He's a beebane.

[GS4Gurl]

:flamed::flamed::flamed:

I had a dream about giant centepedes lastnight. THanks a lot!!

:flamed::flamed:

[Betheny]

My roommate's cat caught a moth and ate it once. Then promptly yacked it up. It was funny.

[Xcalibur]

i'm around.. 80% sure that the fear of bugs is the fruit of our modern society. People are so bored they create fears to have something to discuss or whine.

It's my theory, of course. :lol:

[Betheny]

Are you making fun of me, Xcalibur?

I will cry.

[Xcalibur]

I'm pretty sure.. pretty pretty sure..

I've cured my gf of the fear of bugs..

Cold treatement.

A bug in the bath, AHHH! She YELLs to me to go kill it

Me in all my boy strong behavior responde: No, kill it or don't clean up

After 3 weeks (and 3-4 bugs) she kills them herself
:lol:

[Artha]

http://angwin.csl.uiuc.edu/images/pohnpei/centipede.jpg

Sweet dreams :)

[Xcalibur]

All that can be scary of bugs is the SQUISH sounds they make when you kill them

And even that, it's a good sounds since you proved to that bastard who was superior :bouncy:

[Betheny]

I hope you come to Simucon, Artha.

I'm going to kick the everliving shit out of you for that.

[Snapp]

AHHHHHHHHHHHH

[Betheny]

That's not even the kind that was in my basement.

This one had really long, fragile legs, and it was striped like a tiger.

You suck.

[Artha]

I'm going to kick the everliving shit out of you for that.

I'll just have my friend protect me.

http://www.boingdragon.com/fcpix/images/tarantula.jpg

:smilegrin:

[Edited on 10-10-2003 by Artha]

[GS4Gurl]

I hope you find one in your bed and it bites you on the pecker, Artha.

Damn it.

[Betheny]

Dear Artha.

[Skirmisher]

Artha made a friend. Awww... :)

[Artha]

I found one in bed and it bit me in the pecker and now it hurts :(

[Tendarian]

I heard they are poisonous,you better amputate.

[HarmNone]

Not to worry. It is a necrotizing poison. The pecker will rot off. :)

HarmNone with more helpful information

*Edited to correct a short circuit*

[Edited on 10-10-2003 by HarmNone]

[Artha]

well atleast I won't have to cut it off then.

[HarmNone]

Not a bit of it! Just wait a few hours and it will fall off on its own. Maybe you can use it as a paperweight!

HarmNone likes to find uses for discarded objects d'art

[Artha]

No, I'm going to cover it in plaster of paris, entitle it 'Spider Bobbit', and then ship it off to some modern art gallery.