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TC		#21	[-]
Posts: 261 (06/15/08 11:00 AM) I Need A Clue Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	No. A styrofoam cup. Trixie, I thought they were all over florida? Anyhow, they attacked while we were on the deck. And I think they got in through the holes for the cable cables. Or something. Who knows. It was a beachhouse -- not really built to seal.
Antithesys		#22	[-]
Posts: 22354 (06/15/08 11:00 AM) Gadabout Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Palmetto bugs are also known to lay their tiny eggs in travelers' hair, clothing, and suitcases. There was a story about someone who stayed in the South, went home to Alaska, and was found several days later crawling with the bugs.
TobaccoRhoda		#23	[-]
Posts: 26228 (06/15/08 11:00 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Those little red cockroaches are the things that freak me out. Palmetto bugs, waterbugs and wood roaches don't purposely target our food, I don't think, just, apparently, our faces. At any rate, we have to exterminate for them at least one a year around here, since wood roaches live...er...in the woods, the little fuckers, and so do I.
TC		#24	[-]
Posts: 262 (06/15/08 11:02 AM) I Need A Clue Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Well, they target only the best faces at least.
Trixie Delight		#25	[-]
Posts: 24696 (06/15/08 11:02 AM) put Angel in the corner Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Ahh, a beach house, well that makes some sense then. A lot of those places are nice but yeah if you have a hole somewhere or windows aren't sealed well you're gonna get them in there. We're like Fort Knox at my house. I hate those things.
ColbyRulesAll		#26	[-]
Posts: 7307 (06/15/08 11:05 AM) Annoying sports freak Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Antithesys wrote: There was a story about someone who stayed in the South, went home to Alaska, and was found several days later crawling with the bugs. What about the one where the roaches laid their eggs on the glue of envelopes and the lady had roaches growing in her tongue when she cut her tongue on the envelope?
darlingal		#27	[-]
Posts: 9208 (06/15/08 11:07 AM) Nobody reads me. Everybody hates me. Guess I'll go eat worms. Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Beach houses are inviting the bugs to come stay for vacation. CRA, GAH!
TobaccoRhoda		#28	[-]
Posts: 26231 (06/15/08 11:07 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I know for a fact that the northeast, TC, has their version of the water-wood-palmetto-cock-roach. Horrendous big black cuckarachas. So don't get all uppity with us. There is no place that doesn't have their own pestilence to deal with. I'll take wood roaches over scorpians any day. I will, however, gladly trade you some cockroaches for our brown recluse spiders.
Antithesys		#29	[-]
Posts: 22356 (06/15/08 11:09 AM) Gadabout Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	They're saying we're gonna have our worst mosquito summer evah.
TC		#30	[-]
Posts: 264 (06/15/08 11:09 AM) I Need A Clue Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Did you hear the story about the little baby whose crib matress came with a snake and they found the snake around the sleeping baby's leg? I heard a story when I was about 5 about a woman who bought a coat and was wearing it and felt something weird in her arm and there was a snake sewn into the sleeve. I was a freak when I had to put on my coat sleeves for a couple of years after that. Anyhow, I know you're only trying to scare me anti. I know they could not survive here or they would already be here.
TobaccoRhoda		#31	[-]
Posts: 26233 (06/15/08 11:11 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	THEY ALREADY ARE THERE, OR AT LEAST YOUR LOCAL VERSION OF THEM. Let's just say I put a bug in your ear about this. Last Edited By: TobaccoRhoda 06/15/08 11:16 AM. Edited 1 times.
Antithesys		#32	[-]
Posts: 22359 (06/15/08 11:15 AM) Gadabout Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	It's twue Palmettos are responsible for 1,468 deaths annually and over 1000 of those are OUTSIDE the American South. Source: CDC
TC		#33	[-]
Posts: 265 (06/15/08 11:16 AM) I Need A Clue Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	My ex husband, before we got married, used to live in a duplex in the city. No matter how clean thier place was, their scumbag neighbors kept the roaches entertained and they kept coming back over to our side. You'd turn on the stove and they would all come running out. One time my mother's VCR was in the shop. This was about 25 years ago. So she got one from Rent A Center for a week. She turned that fucker on and when it warmed up, about 50 fucking roaches came running out. She packed that thing up and put it on the front lawn and made them come get it. Had the place exterminated. Anyway, those are my only two experiences with N.E. roaches, which people like to call waterbugs. Ants are the worst thing I've had to deal with in years.
sawsuage		#34	[-]
Posts: 3413 (06/15/08 11:18 AM) Jimmy Dean Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Brings back memories of going to my grandfathers beachouse at Surfside, 70's-80's. It was an UNAIRCONDITIONED beach house...on stilts...we stayed in the room under the house. I used to be terrified of those fuckers...turn the lights out and you could hear them scurrying around as you tried to fall asleep to the waves crashing. You would turn on the light and it was a fucking party! On the ceiling, on the walls....oh the terror. So let me guess...North Carolina beach or South Carolina beach? It is the state bug for South Carolina after all.
TC		#35	[-]
Posts: 266 (06/15/08 11:20 AM) I Need A Clue Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Oh and I didn't tell y'all my husband's reaction when I woke up screaming and swatting a bug from my face. He looked at me in that half still drunk stupid look a person who went to bed drunk generally will have at 3 am and said...."I'm really thirsty. Do you want some water?" and walked off to the kitchen. THEN the bug ran down my leg...I think it was still in the bed after I swatted it off my face. And under the dresser. I made him come back and chase it down and kill it with a rolled up backcopy of Saltwater Fisherman. And he was SO dismissive and just wanted to go back to sleep. I sat there with all the lights on and my eyes darting back and forth from corner to corner until the sun came up. I yelled at him that I hoped on of those fuckers drilled into his fucking ear and laid eggs in there.
TobaccoRhoda		#36	[-]
Posts: 26234 (06/15/08 11:21 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Here is food for thought. And don't even get me started on dustmites and rats that can come up into the toilet. Roaches crawl into your ears while you sleep. A roach chilling in an ear canal TRUE "I've never seen them nest, but I've certainly removed multiple things from people's ears and noses, including insects," says Dr. William Portnoy, an otolaryngologist at the Chelsea Ear, Nose & Throat Center (he provided the gross picture above). "I've seen roaches, but silverfish are most common," he explains. "Sometimes they stay alive in the ear canal, and it can be extraordinarily disconcerting to the patient." In those cases, mineral oil is poured in to suffocate the insect, or lidocaine to stun it; then it is removed with scary instruments we'd rather not think about. Your best preventive measure is to sleep with earplugs or cotton balls.
Trixie Delight		#37	[-]
Posts: 24698 (06/15/08 11:21 AM) put Angel in the corner Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	You all have heard my snake stories, but I'm telling ya when I heard that one about the snake in the crib mattress with the baby I thought that one takes the cake. Christ! What is horrible here, too are the termites. It's like Starship Troopers.
TC		#38	[-]
Posts: 267 (06/15/08 11:23 AM) I Need A Clue Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Trho, see my last post.
nomellons		#39	[-]
Posts: 2409 (06/15/08 11:24 AM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	ICK. Florida is officially off the places to retire to list. Between those things and the no seeums, I would turn into a shut-in. We have a billion Junebugs now -- I am waiting for a lull in the weather to start scooping their carcasses off the patio. We are probably going to have mosquitos the size of palmettos in a week or two.
TobaccoRhoda		#40	[-]
Posts: 26236 (06/15/08 11:30 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I always thought that rat in the toilet bowl thing was an urban myth, but noooooooo Watch your ass. Rats can come up through your toilet. TRUE "Yes, it can happen, and yes, I've seen it," says Linares of Bug Off Pest Control Center. "If there's access to the plumbing line, they can come right up. It's not uncommon for people to call with a rat swimming in their toilet. Most exterminators have gone through that." This is why, he explains, there are companies that sell toilet flaps (fitted around the pipe in the tank) that move in only one direction, so that spelunking rats can't break into your bowl. And then there's this: Your mattress is infested with mites. TRUE Get over it. They don't bite, they just live off your dead skin, and while that is gross, it's not really a huge deal. You can't see them, and unless you have a sensitive allergy, you won't even feel them. If it still bothers you, cover your mattress with a hypoallergenic sleeve and clean your box spring with a HEPA vacuum.

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