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[Nottheking]

::Swats a beetle::

Humph... After another freak snowfall, We're having summer weather for a week. And suddenly, We're seeing these Japaneese painted beetles ALL OVER! Also, I've discovered that they bite... They make me wish winter would show up...

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[Barry Brien]

Didn't we have a topic similar to this a long time ago?

I hate insects. The other morning I went to the bathroom and there was loads of daddy longlegs everywhere. I had to act. When I was done the room was a mess of disconnected, twitching limbs.

[Nottheking]

[Matt H]

An article I read said that those beetle things usually hibernate on cliffs. Once things started getting cold, they started coming out to find a place to migrate. With a lack of cliffs, they go to houses and such.

Their biting is more like nibbling as they try to figure out and adapt to whatever surface they are on.

I spent part of yesterday vacuuming up a bunch of those little bastards from my parent's house. I truly hate bugs and creepy-crawlys in general (insects, arachnids, etc.) They give me the wiggins. These beetle kind of stink, too.

[Burning Gundam]

I have an ant problem. Pesky little black ants that are impossible to get rid of.

Not to mention a rat problem as well. Smart little bastard.

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[j-dogg]

And you guys think you have it bad? I live in Florida about five miles north of a huge bass fishing lake/swamp/stick marsh. Otherwise known as 'out in the boonies'.

I can assure you your insect problems aren't half as bad as mine. Your state bird isn't the mosquito.

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[Taton]

I live in florida too. I live an urban area and the Mosquito is STILL our state bird. I feel your pain...

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[j-dogg]

Where at in FL? Palm Bay represent!

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[Taton]

Miami Gardens... Me and my next door neighbor are probably the only white people for about a square mile...

P.S. I wasnt trying to be racist by that last comment.

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[Barry Brien]

My brother just turned a daddy-longlegs into a daddy-no legs with a pair of scissors. It's pretty cruel, but kinda funny at the same time.

[NathanWilson]

I used to live in South Carolina, and I'm quite happy not to be there any longer. I still remember those cockroaches.

[Burning Gundam]

I found a Brown Recluse spider crawling around near my bare foot while I was rummaging through some old crap in my room. That could have ended very badly.

We got the rat!

It ate poison, kealed over, and DIED!!

No ant problem anymore either.

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[Nottheking]

Well, I know how bad insect problems can be in the southern US... Right now, our "Asian painted beetle" problem is mostly comparable, cockroaches excluded. These buggers are CARPETING the upper reaches of the multi-story buildings of my campus... There's easily more than a million on campus. Fortunately, the usually stay only in the upper reaches, so the only real annoying ones are indoors. To make matters worse, the area's pathetic excuses for newspapers mistakenly call them ordinary ladybugs...

Matt, what you say definitely makes a lot of sense... Although "Mt. Pleasant" is in little more than a slightly hilly region (it is in the super-flat lower peninsula of Michigan). Also, I have been bitten, but it didn't really cause any pain, just annoyance when one of those ******* things bit me on the eyelid...

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[Fenwar]

[Burning Gundam]

What kind of spiders?

We get all sorts of Spiders: Black Widows (Rarely), Wolf Spiders (Fairly Common), Small Unidentifiable spiders (Very Common),Brown Recluse Spiders (Rarely), Mountain Turantulas (Common), and Garden Spiders (Common in the Spring).

Oh MAN!!! I have the funniest spider story EVER!!

One day, while I was working out in the yard, my sister was getting ready to do some yard work as well. Since all of our shoes are located by the front door, it is common to find spiders once in a while. But what my sister saw was freaky beyond belief.

I wasn't really paying attention to my surroundings until I heard this scream of terror so loud it could have been heard across the valley of which I live in (and it's pretty big). Looking inside, I saw my sister all the way up the stairs (I assume she jumped up them in surprise ), and on the floor on top of one of my sister's sandles, was one of the largest tarantulas I've ever seen,...and it was going berserk!! It was flailing all over the shoe and raising its forlegs and menacingly showing its big fangs.

To tell the truth, the thing scared me a little too, but my sister's reaction more than made up for it. She was huddled together, face all pale, shaking like a sick animal, and about to cry. Needless to say, the family was in an uproar of laughter the whole day .

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[Nottheking]

Ah... that would explain me not knowing, since I started keeping track of the forums when I registered a couple of months later... I wish I could have seen those photos though, if they are as amazing as all of the comments suggested...

By now, it seems most of these beetles have died off, realizing that it IS NOT spring, and the snow was merely a freak storm, not winter... It was bizzare...

As for my house, we maintain a very small population of spiders. they are next to impossible to get rid of, so we have just let them live. They also seem to be helping us with our insect problems...

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[KnighT]

There are no insects I despise as much as cockroaches, and living in Atlanta in a wooded area, we get a lot of them. The really annoying ones are the huge ones that come in from outside and get into my room, and can fly. Eee...some horror stories I have. I've recently taken some premptive action, and sprayed all of the baseboards and possible entry points with Raid. It should last for a couple months. It starts killing the little bastards pretty quick too. Why, just last night, one of them was running laps around my room in a dazed sort of way. I was laughing at it. I don't know where it went though, I went to get the fly swatter and when I came back it had disappeared. No matter, the Raid got it I'm sure. Ew, last night I dreamed there was this one spot in this house where there was a never ending stream of roaches. I would stomp on them forever and stuff, and would get get orange cockroach blood all over my legs. Then this morning I saw two roaches. Grandpa must bug bomb the basement. ::wishes he could transform his Star Wars Micromachines into an anti-roach squad::

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[Nottheking]

Yes, although Michigan is the second coldest state in the Union (next to Alaska, of course!), I'm glad we live here, for we get no cockroaches whatsoever. None. Zip. Nada.

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[Burning Gundam]

Now I feel forunate enough to live in California. We really don't get anything. But when we do, we get the really nasty ones, like scorpions, poisonous spiders, hornets, big ugly flies, etc. etc.

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[Burning Gundam]

Now we have a fly problem, maybe because of that dead rat.

:: Swats a fly ::

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