Charas-Project
Off-Topic => All of all! => Topic started by: coasterkrazy on July 28, 2008, 05:47:54 AM
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Well, I don't know if I should be posting this thread, but I figure it'll work as a discussion/advice thread.
So recently bugs have been invading my bedroom. It's always been mainly just silverfish, but just now I saw one of THE NASTIEST indoor bugs I have EVER seen. It was HUGE, FAST, and FREAKY. I don't know what the hell it was, but being phobic about bugs in general already didn't help and also worsens my problem. I'm not really sure what to do. I got used to the silverfish but if I keep seeing those, it'll really be bad. My heart will skip a beat every time, just like it did just now.
Anyone else have this sort of problem? Maybe it's all the summer rain, but this is getting tough to deal with. I keep thinking I see bugs out of the corner of my eye and then when I finally start to relax, I actually DO see one.
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Actually, I have been having this bit o problem lately as well. Are silverfish those nasty cockroach-esque bugs with the crazy pinchers on their ***? Well, either way, I had a crazy dream just last night involving mad oversized hornets and well, my room. I've been growing increasingly paranoid, especially after an incident involving a HUGE house spider right under my feet in my room seconds before I went to bed.
Yeah, I'm a pansy when it comes to bugs. :blush:
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Whoa, man, looks like we're in the same boat. Yeah, I think those would be silverfish. It's like a tiny elliptical body that looks like it has six long legs in every direction, though two of them are antennae. I'm thinking what I just saw was a centipede, but I can't be sure. I'm still curled up in my chair in paranoia. :p
Oh and I can't stand bug dream either. Sorry to hear about that. Maybe someone will have advice for us pansies.
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haha, I did some research, and what I was thinking of was just earwigs. Pretty common, not dangerous, just fearsome looking bugs. Silverfish are a little different.
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Ah, okay. I did some research too, and it turns out there's no way this thing was a centipede. I mean, it looked like it could have been one, but it was straight and not twisty and didn't have those little ridges.
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We have silverfish in our book case just because we have so many old books. They usually in humid paper things like cardboard boxes.
I don't really mind bugs. If it crawls of jumps, I just kind of swat if off. Most flying ones don't bother me. Cept one time I'm in my bros room laying on his bed watching him play KH2 from sheer boredom. He's a pig, so its disgusting in there. Anyways, I reached over, grabbed a pillow from under the blankets and heard thumping, not buzzing, THUMPING of wings of a bug. Scared shitless, I twitched over and saw the biggest ****ing horsefly by my ear. I jumped like a pussy.
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I've been fortunate enough to not run into any insect invaders (it helps that I keep anything that could result in a food source away from my room), so I'm afraid I can't relate.
We do have a rat problem, though. It's not the same, but a pest is a pest.
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I have centipedes in my basement. I don't jump or anything at seeing them, but I sure as hell won't let them get near me.
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Actually, a few nights ago, I had a dream about two HUGENORMOUS ****ing spiders. It was pretty long. But what basically happened was, I ran from them, I got stuck in a web on the street, and the more I tried to struggle to free myself, the more I became entangled and fatigued. Someone saved me from the web, and we both ran like hell, but I was so tired that I could hardly run. After that it started getting pretty... Abstract. One of the spiders somehow magically turned into a creepy mannequin, and went limp. I stood staring at it for a while, and then I woke up. What's REALLY weird is that as soon as I woke up, a cold chill ran down my spine. I always thought that the term was figurative, because I had never actually felt the feeling before, but it was like... Weird. It truly felt like a cold finger sliding down my back.
And actually there are bugs in my room, and I've noticed it more and more lately. I'm pretty okay with it. I like spiders, they're good to have around the house. The only bugs I can't stand are mosquitoes and flies. Flies piss me off, and mosquitoes piss me off AND bite.
While we're on the topic, one time a wasp attacked me, and stuck me in my eyelid. Luckily, I bitch-slapped it away before its vile needle sank too far into my thin eyelid flesh.
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Wow. I think I'd take the bug simply being on my wall over having a wasp on my eyelid any day, although I really wouldn't want to choose either! I hope I don't see another one ever again, or at least for a long, long time.
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It's moths for me. They bang against the window trying to reach my light, usually fly in through my open window then stupidly bounce into the light for hours on end. I set them free and they fly straight back in! Trust me, I have a solution to moths. If one is at the window get a stick and bang it near the moth and it scares the **** out of it! Remember this!
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Last summer I worked construction way up in norther alberta canada. I saw the wierdest bugs there.
There was a tent moth caterpillar infestation. Some friends and I went for a drive to go smoke some things, and go out of the truck in this old oilfield parking lot which was vacant, and in the middle of some bushes. I got out and went for a walk to pee on the ground. When I looked at the tree i was peeing on i thought "That tree bark look peculiar" then I realized that the tree bark was infact thousands of caterpillars. I lookerd around me and relized there were literally millions odf them coating the ground, and I had left a trail of footprints through the caterpillars. It was gross, but then I kind of felt like godzilla.
EDIT: Actually my favorite insect life would be moths. I find them awesome. Theyre ninja butterflies if you think about it
Also: Hummingbird Moths, and Gypsy moths look radical. Id like to collect moths when im old and retired.
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My bedroom used to be home to tons of woodlice... they were getting in somehow. They're fine alive but when they died they just kinda piled up under my desk and I'd have to hoover them up or something, and each one makes a sickly little thud when it hits the inside of the hoover.
Nowadays... Just the usual. I found a centipede and some spiders and stuff but it doesn't really bother me. I used to feed spiders to my venus flytrap. Now that was a sickly sight...
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Everything that flies, I try to catch. It's amusing, kinda. Since the windows of the entire top floor here is open during summers(mainly because these houses were built for cold) there are a lot of bugs that likes to fly into my room during the evenings/nights. But I don't mind as long as they:
1. Doesn't make any sound
2.Fly in front of my face/the screen
3. Lands on me and/or tries to bite me/suck my blood/lay eggs
If they do; I try to grab them with my hands. I'm pretty fast so it usually works, flies are fast though(and wasps/hornets can hurt if you're stupid enough to try).
If there is a beetle or something on my floor I just grab some toilet paper and pick them up with it. Then I just open the window and drop them, they can survive the fall... Hopefully.
Spiders on the other hand is harder, I'm not that comfortable with them close to my bed for two reasons. One, they are fast and can crawl up next to me. two, they can make hella' lot of web while I'm sleeping. So I usually just scare them away from my room. Although they usually just retreats back into the wall.
Crickets on the other hand are annoying. You hear that damned sound all over the house but you can't find it.
I did have this huuuuuuuuuuuge cricket/mosqito thing in my room once. With the wings in, it was as long as my hand. That thing buzzed like hell and I felt something heavy pushing down my shoulder. I looked to the side to expect my brother who'd sneaked up on me but saw these huge eyes instead. So I shoke it off and caught it in a bag before I dropped it out the window. I closed the window afterwards of course.
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I had a spider living in the rear mirror of my car (the outside one next to the driver seat) which I named and looked forward seeing to, since he was always outside the door hanging while I was driving. Ill admit thats as close to insects I get without going SPLAT. Normal flies I dont mind, not really small hornets and the likes since they usually dont bother but damn, theres nothing I hate more than mosq's.
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Where I lived before, there were ants, house centipedes and spiders.
When I saw a house centipede or a spider, I usually released them outside. As for ants, I liked watching them work. But they were a bit annoying, because sometime I'd end up with an ant on my arm, so I sometime killed them... and wathed the others bring their corpse.
Where I live now, the only bugs I see are those little jumping spiders. They don't bother me at all, so when I see one, whether they're inside or outside of the house, I just leave them alone.
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When I first moved into my apartment, I noticed that I had cockroaches already living there waiting for me to move in. I COULD NOT get rid of theses ****ing things for the life of me. I swear I used every poison I could find. I even tried forcefeeding them psychedelics. Not that I thought it would help, I just thought it was funny at the time.
Anyway, in the middle of the summer, I got a gnarly ant infestation. And, get this. The ants ate the ****ing cockroaches, then left. It was so cool that I needed to pee, once it struck me what was going on.
btw, during this time I found out that windex kills ants instantly. Waging war on insects FTW
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Windex?! I shall have to try this...
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So does sunlight and a magnifying glass!
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But they don't sell that in a squirt bottle!
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We have loads of spiders here. Massive ones. The little ones, I'm okay with, but the big huge spindly ones give me the creeps. One morning I got out of bed and there was a massive web right next to it. It was creepy as heck.
When they purposefully try to scare me, that's when I get annoyed.