All right, so Yesterday I was going to get a drink from the kitchen, and I stopped by the sink. I saw that there were ants crawling all over it with no reason. I had over a thousand to kill because of this, and I spent half an hour doing so. (No, literally one thousand.) And it just so happens that their home is next to the sink, in a windowsill.
I came back to the sink fifteen minutes ago to get a drink, again, and saw ants all over it...again. There weren't as many (Not nearly as many.), thank God. I'll bet I'm going to come back later and find more ants in the sink.
And to allow this thread to have a meaning, have bugs ever invaded your home?
Not in my house. The closest it's gotten to that is when there was 3 spots on the driveway due to a ton of ants.
But, my dad once lived in an apartment that had a cockroach infestation. One time, there was a pile of them in the middle of the floor when he dropped some food, so he found an obligation to take bug killer and got to kill them all. But, usually when there's one, there's a hundred more, so there had to be several thousand who were lucky and managed to live. BTW, that's before he married my mom and then only reason he was there (I do believe it was in Pennsylvania) was he was in the navy then and was stationed there. And since he didn't get the best pay, he had to get that apartment (which cost the same as a good apartment here.).
Sorry for the long, drought out story.
There's these tiny little ants everywhere here, well It's not really THAT bad though...
But when I go camping, Chiggers. Everywhere. And Daddy Long-Legs. Everywhere. :|
Sometimes there are these huge locust things in my shed. They are so large that you actually here a *thump* when they jump and land.
Yeah. I've had a termite infestation.
We had to tent our house and everything.
When we went to renovate our kitchen, it turns out that they had chewed through the wooden beams behind the wall.
I'm so glad it's over. :)
Most ants won't cross cinnamon. Use this to your advantage.
A little bit. But we always get some ants inside during the summer. Yesterday, my arm was itchy, so I went to scratch, but there was an ant there. I was like "WHOA!" and flicked it off. :P
We had a huge ass jumping spider in our house at one point...
And also, not in my house, but frikkin creepy.
When I was little, my family went on a vacation to the maritimes, or whatever it's called. On our trip at one point, we stayed in this bed and breakfast place, and had a room in the basement. My dad, who usually stays up quite late reading, was going to sleep and as soon as he turned off the light, he heard this rustling sound. He turned it back on, and he saw these centipedes running away on the wall. Then he looked around and there were insects literally everywhere. They wouldn't go in the light, though. He basically stayed up all night, with every light in the room on, and killed bugs. I'm glad I was sleeping, I'm scared as hell of insects.
Get a Exterminater if you've got that bad of a problem.
and yes bugs have invaded our home, we found a lot when ripped the carpet out in the 'boys room'
rats are worse.
In one of my old houses, there was an invasion of these beetles with red V's on their backs. They were everywhere.
Just giant spiders....
There was a spider that was so big we just used the vacuum hose to suck it up so we wouldn't have to get near it....like 3 minutes later it climbed back out...so we sucked it back up and it came back out, then we just sucked it up and let the vacuum run for like 5 minutes...
Yes, we are having lots of ants in our house because of the floods.
Quote from: Tuppyluver1 on June 25, 2008, 11:22:31 AM
Yes, we are having lots of ants in our house because of the floods.
Floods? Where do you live?
Quote from: Zovistograt on June 25, 2008, 10:02:56 AM
In one of my old houses, there was an invasion of these beetles with red V's on their backs. They were everywhere.
we had an invasion of beetles like that as well. They were everywhere, but there weren't that many of them (in otherwords, they were spread out). Me and a friend went around picking them up and sticking them in a toilet one day... we found 26 in a day iirc. :P
but that was in the old house. here we just get millipedes (small ones) every once in a while.
Quote from: Shujinco on June 25, 2008, 11:26:39 AM
Quote from: Tuppyluver1 on June 25, 2008, 11:22:31 AM
Yes, we are having lots of ants in our house because of the floods.
Floods? Where do you live?
The Midwest.
It's been very rainy, and we've been having floods on and off since March.
your lucky you dont have BDA
Yeah, twice by flies, and I think there was a small outbreak of fleas because this stray cat found it's way into the roof of our house.
A couple of times. But I just went to the oriental market and got this really good bug repelent, it was jsut like chalk. You just drew a circle around your house or wherever the bugs are. No bugs since.
Quote from: Tuppyluver1 on June 25, 2008, 11:28:01 AM
Quote from: Shujinco on June 25, 2008, 11:26:39 AM
Quote from: Tuppyluver1 on June 25, 2008, 11:22:31 AM
Yes, we are having lots of ants in our house because of the floods.
Floods? Where do you live?
The Midwest.
It's been very rainy, and we've been having floods on and off since March.
Well I know, I live in Wisconsin. What state are you?
There were a few cracks in the floor of our kitchen....ANTS. EVERYWHERE. Must've been at least 700.
Quote from: Shujinco on June 25, 2008, 11:47:45 AM
Quote from: Tuppyluver1 on June 25, 2008, 11:28:01 AM
Quote from: Shujinco on June 25, 2008, 11:26:39 AM
Quote from: Tuppyluver1 on June 25, 2008, 11:22:31 AM
Yes, we are having lots of ants in our house because of the floods.
Floods? Where do you live?
The Midwest.
It's been very rainy, and we've been having floods on and off since March.
Well I know, I live in Wisconsin. What state are you?
Missouri, the eastern part.
At least I live on a huge hill. :)
SUGAR SUGAR SUGAR!
Wherever there is sugar, there are ants. Once, ants got into one of our cabinets and were in the sugar bag! There wasn't any spilled sugar; they went straight to the source!
Quote from: Rayquarian on June 25, 2008, 11:59:50 AM
SUGAR SUGAR SUGAR!
Wherever there is sugar, there are ants. Once, ants got into one of our cabinets and were in the sugar bag! There wasn't any spilled sugar; they went straight to the source!
For once, you've made sense. That explains the infestations...except they aren't going for the source.
*Goes to fix problem*
We used to have an ant problem, but they vanished one year and never came back.
Ants invaded a container holding all the pool supplies once. YUCK. Eggs and ants everywhere.
Ants are a nuisance in the summertime.
F*** ANTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think Ants are my most hated bugs of all time.
5 years old I stepped into a Huge Hill of Fire Ants in the middle of our farm. It hurt so F'n much. I ran into my house and took a bath to drown them all. Some fell off, and some followed, so yes. I have had Ants attack my house before.
F*** ANTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Quote from: MagnumSonic on June 26, 2008, 02:15:17 AM
F*** ANTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think Ants are my most hated bugs of all time.
5 years old I stepped into a Huge Hill of Fire Ants in the middle of our farm. It hurt so F'n much. I ran into my house and took a bath to drown them all. Some fell off, and some followed, so yes. I have had Ants attack my house before.
F*** ANTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mosquitos.
Quote from: MasterYoungLink on June 26, 2008, 06:34:50 AM
Quote from: MagnumSonic on June 26, 2008, 02:15:17 AM
F*** ANTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think Ants are my most hated bugs of all time.
5 years old I stepped into a Huge Hill of Fire Ants in the middle of our farm. It hurt so F'n much. I ran into my house and took a bath to drown them all. Some fell off, and some followed, so yes. I have had Ants attack my house before.
F*** ANTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mosquitos.
it all depends on where you live.
around here, we get tons and tons of mosquitoes every year (as in you can't go outside without bug repellant). One of the worst mosquito places in the world, we drown in them here in SE Manitoba, even though we spray for them. It's really bad.
Also, Horseflies.
Also, Wasps, and tons of them.
Also, Black Flies (which hurt even more than Horseflies)
Also, moths. lots of them.
also, canker worms every 7 years.
When we first moved into our new house there were crickets every where. They even got into the ceiling fan and jumped on my pillow. I'm just glad my dad sprayed poison around the house so we don't have that problem any more.