Bugs, Dirt and other Nasties...

**Sigurd** · 08-02-2007, 08:38

Originally Posted by Garcilaso de la Vega el Inca

We love spiders, because they predict the climate. When they are inside, rain is coming!

If that were true, you would have no outdoor spiders where I live.

**Caius** · 08-02-2007, 20:20

Originally Posted by Sigurd Fafnesbane

If that were true, you would have no outdoor spiders where I live.

You know Sigurd, our spiders are more desarollated than Norwegians ones.

**macsen rufus** · 08-10-2007, 12:53

Spiders are quite welcome in my house - they keep the flies down. Mosquitoes get squitted ASAP, nothing worse than lying in bed at night, and hearing that whining noise, waiting for the bite, so mozzies are on the "must die" list. Ants have somehow found a way in, and I think I might need to do some repointing outside to repair the crumbling mortar that may be the route in. Daddy-long-legs (ie craneflies) are just so damn ugly and ungainly they have to die too. I don't bother too much about their grubs in the lawn, as I quite enjoy the magpies coming down to ferret them out (hey, what else do you watch when you have no TV

).

The only time I had a real PROBLEM with bugs was in Ecuador, when I woke up to find a four inch (10cm) long centipede in my bed. Waaah!!! I did get up rather quickly

**naut** · 08-10-2007, 13:45

Don't get too many nasties here, the wind does blow in dust and such. The worst are Red-backs, White-tails and Red-Bellied Blacks where I live.

Edit:

Originally Posted by Papewaio

bunch of huntsmen

Gah! I hate those so much.

**Papewaio** · 08-10-2007, 13:33

Originally Posted by Garcilaso de la Vega el Inca

You know Sigurd, our spiders are more desarollated than Norwegians ones.

How big are your spiders?

I'd rather look out the window and see if it is raining rather then have a bunch of huntsmen come indoors to tell me it is raining.

**Caius** · 08-11-2007, 02:39

Originally Posted by Papewaio

How big are your spiders?

I'd rather look out the window and see if it is raining rather then have a bunch of huntsmen come indoors to tell me it is raining.

Pape, you mis understood me.

Those little spiders come inside the house, and its proven that it will rain.

**CountArach** · 08-11-2007, 03:01

I haven't cleaned my room in about a month. That's why we have cleaners :biggrin:

My desk is absolutely shocking. Stuff is stacked over a foot high in most places, but I know where everything is... it is all chronological..

**master of the puppets** · 08-11-2007, 04:15

i love my house man, we have tons of spiders in the basement, mostly wolf spiders and jumping spiders, both keep insects down and neither leave webs.

we never have any mosquitoes at my house because we have a large pond in our back yard, in the day the 1st army aircorpse of dragon flies are on patrol for mayflies, and the bats swarm when dark falls annihilating the mosquito population.

we have a kind of wasp (don't know what kind, not a yellowjacket or mud wasp tho) that has a huge nest outside in one of our trees, honest to god twice the size of my head, they werent there last year and we had plenty of flies, this year we have none, i have an army of fly killers outside w00t.

at night the darkness is thick with the chirps of ciquedas, crickets, spring peepers and bullfrogs.

our garden is brimming with all sorts of insects, bees, grasshoppers, ladybugs, and about 40 different kinds i've seen but cannot name.

the only problems are the japanese beetles (hate those things) and occasionally gypsie moths attack our mulberry tree (but a lighter and a bit of hairspray takes care of them.)

...wow, i just made my house seem real nice...

i'm gonna invite freinds over and have a bonfire... need marshmallos tho...