Why I Love the South

[bribrius]

And I just totally HATE, JUST HATE, ALL BUGS. And humidity (go west). But mostly BUGS!!!

So with you on this one. And they had the gall in Florida to call them "Palmetto bugs." Those things are pure evil.

The problem is now in the northeast, we have stink bugs, which we never did before. Came here on some cargo containers from China and there are no natural predators, so they can get bad. They're mostly active in warm weather but in cold weather, they try to get inside. Luckily it's only once in a while that I see one inside in the winter, but once the weather warms up, there are a lot of them around and more make it inside. And those things are hard to kill, too. Until something here decides to finally start eating the nasty little things to control the population, I now have to spray to keep them out of the house. I've NEVER had to spray for bugs north of the Mason-Dixon.

yeah, we spray around the yard, house, anything within a hundred feet of the house, like over spray, sometimes I put down the bagged stuff too using a push spreader. By the time it is done, it is so poisonous im afraid to let the dog or kids out for three days. I try to time it right before it rains, so they don't track any of it back in the house or around either..
Have to be careful of the garden though. we spray the garden but not with that stuff for obvious reasons...

 

[bribrius]

There is a difference between cockroaches and palmetto bugs. Palmetto bugs are MUCH bigger!

My fiance freaks out about cockroaches, but I don't mind them. I hate the mosquitoes more.

I like to drink a beer, sitting in the screen house. And watch the mosquitos go to certain death in my big electric zapper. They just, go for the light.......
My wife says I have issues, but for some reason every time I see the light on it flicker and hear that sound I get somewhat happier knowing one more mosquito doesn't exist.

 

[pgriz]

Bribrius, you're denying a proper meal to a hard-working bat. Because they eat from 500 to 1000 per hour. I used to be wary of bats, but after I learned about what they do... they became "friends".

 

[Tiller]

There is a difference between cockroaches and palmetto bugs. Palmetto bugs are MUCH bigger!

My fiance freaks out about cockroaches, but I don't mind them. I hate the mosquitoes more.

I like to drink a beer, sitting in the screen house. And watch the mosquitos go to certain death in my big electric zapper. They just, go for the light.......
My wife says I have issues, but for some reason every time I see the light on it flicker and hear that sound I get somewhat happier knowing one more mosquito doesn't exist.

What do you think "the light at the end of the tunnel" is?

 

[limr30 3]

There is a difference between cockroaches and palmetto bugs. Palmetto bugs are MUCH bigger!

My fiance freaks out about cockroaches, but I don't mind them. I hate the mosquitoes more.

Yes, they are bigger, and they fly, and we hates them forever.

I hate mosquitoes but for different reasons. The big flying roaches just freak the hell out of me, but I hate the mosquitoes because they bite me. They bite the crap out of me. About 5 years ago, my boyfriend and I went to a little river town one summer night, sat at a cafe and had a beer and just hung out for an hour, and then left. 52 mosquito bites from that one hour. All from my knees down. I couldn't walk for more than about 2 minutes before my legs were on fire.

But I don't get a single bite when it's 8 degrees outside :mrgreen:

 

[bc_steve]

Don't go too far north if you want to get away from the bugs. We have horseflies, deer flies, black flies, mosquitoes, and noseeums. Those are just the ones biting you on a regular basis.

My record is from 2004: 20 mosquitoes killed with a single slap.

 

[sm4him]

And I just totally HATE, JUST HATE, ALL BUGS. And humidity (go west). But mostly BUGS!!!

So with you on this one. And they had the gall in Florida to call them "Palmetto bugs." Those things are pure evil.

The problem is now in the northeast, we have stink bugs, which we never did before. Came here on some cargo containers from China and there are no natural predators, so they can get bad. They're mostly active in warm weather but in cold weather, they try to get inside. Luckily it's only once in a while that I see one inside in the winter, but once the weather warms up, there are a lot of them around and more make it inside. And those things are hard to kill, too. Until something here decides to finally start eating the nasty little things to control the population, I now have to spray to keep them out of the house. I've NEVER had to spray for bugs north of the Mason-Dixon.

"Palmetto" Bugs (who are we kiddin' with that name--giant freakin' Cockroaches) are the SINGLE reason that I have never just broken down and moved to coastal South Carolina or Florida somewhere.

Most bugs I can handle--mosquitos don't really like me, ants are a bother but that's all, stinging bugs you just stay away from--but the two things I cannot abide are cockroaches and stink bugs. But I do have a general policy that bugs outside get to live; bugs inside have to die.
Cockroaches/Palmetto bugs are evil incarnate. My policy is: I see one, I kill it. I see another, I sell the house and move away.

Stink bugs have invaded here over the last few years too. I tolerated that until one snuck into the sleeve of my jacket one day. I've been at war with them ever since. Here's a tip to kill them when they get inside: Get a spray bottle; put about a cup of dish detergent in it, and fill it with water. That's it, just soap and water. When you see a stink bug, spray it down with the soap/water mix. It'll take several minutes, but the soap basically dehydrates them and kills them WITHOUT the stink.

 

[snowbear116 47]

And I just totally HATE, JUST HATE, ALL BUGS. And humidity (go west). But mostly BUGS!!!

So with you on this one. And they had the gall in Florida to call them "Palmetto bugs." Those things are pure evil.

The problem is now in the northeast, we have stink bugs, which we never did before. Came here on some cargo containers from China and there are no natural predators, so they can get bad. They're mostly active in warm weather but in cold weather, they try to get inside. Luckily it's only once in a while that I see one inside in the winter, but once the weather warms up, there are a lot of them around and more make it inside. And those things are hard to kill, too. Until something here decides to finally start eating the nasty little things to control the population, I now have to spray to keep them out of the house. I've NEVER had to spray for bugs north of the Mason-Dixon.

"Palmetto" Bugs (who are we kiddin' with that name--giant freakin' Cockroaches) are the SINGLE reason that I have never just broken down and moved to coastal South Carolina or Florida somewhere.

Most bugs I can handle--mosquitos don't really like me, ants are a bother but that's all, stinging bugs you just stay away from--but the two things I cannot abide are cockroaches and stink bugs. But I do have a general policy that bugs outside get to live; bugs inside have to die.
Cockroaches/Palmetto bugs are evil incarnate. My policy is: I see one, I kill it. I see another, I sell the house and move away.

Stink bugs have invaded here over the last few years too. I tolerated that until one snuck into the sleeve of my jacket one day. I've been at war with them ever since. Here's a tip to kill them when they get inside: Get a spray bottle; put about a cup of dish detergent in it, and fill it with water. That's it, just soap and water. When you see a stink bug, spray it down with the soap/water mix. It'll take several minutes, but the soap basically dehydrates them and kills them WITHOUT the stink.

One of my household jobs is to handle spiders and stink bugs. More often than not, they just get scooped up and put outside.

My dad used a sudsy ammonia mixture to spray on wasps & hornets nests or when he was working around the outside of the house.

 

[limr30 3]

Sharon, I heard about the dish washing detergent, too. The only thing I don't like about that is having to go around and cleaning up the soapy spots around the house. What I started doing is putting them in a 'morgue' of water and detergent and a splash of bleach (kills them even faster.) They are pretty dumb and slow - at least the kind we get here - and it's fairly easy to trap them under a glass, slip a card under the glass for sealed transport, and then bring them over to a lidded jar with the water and detergent. Take the lid off, drop the bug into the morgue, put the lid back on, give it a swirl or two and yell, "DIE, DIE, DIE!" (this is the critical part ) and done Either that, or I flush them down the toilet.

And on top of all the things that suck about these bugs, I also then have to deal with all the people who are NOT that bothered and who say things like, "Oh, they're harmless." or "It's just a bug." :angry1:

bc_steve: I've heard that the mosquitoes up in your area and into Alaska can carry off a small child or dog

 

[sm4him]

Sharon, I heard about the dish washing detergent, too. The only thing I don't like about that is having to go around and cleaning up the soapy spots around the house. What I started doing is putting them in a 'morgue' of water and detergent and a splash of bleach (kills them even faster.) They are pretty dumb and slow - at least the kind we get here - and it's fairly easy to trap them under a glass, slip a card under the glass for sealed transport, and then bring them over to a lidded jar with the water and detergent. Take the lid off, drop the bug into the morgue, put the lid back on, give it a swirl or two and yell, "DIE, DIE, DIE!" (this is the critical part ) and done Either that, or I flush them down the toilet.

And on top of all the things that suck about these bugs, I also then have to deal with all the people who are NOT that bothered and who say things like, "Oh, they're harmless." or "It's just a bug." :angry1:

bc_steve: I've heard that the mosquitoes up in your area and into Alaska can carry off a small child or dog

I feel you! Even my sister, who goes ballistics over other bugs, says, "they're harmless..." They are NOT harmless. They are malevolent. They seek to drive us over the brink into insanity with their nefarious ways. I think what I hate the most is how they hide under things and surprise you. And the fact that it's so hard to kill them with it...well, without it stinking.

My son just gets a paper towel, grabs them with it and takes them outside. I think that's too kind of an end for them. :lmao:
But I can't just flush them, because then I would have nightmares about 1,000 stink bug minions emerging from my toilet at night to crawl on me in my sleep... :lmao:

 

[Tiller]

The best part about the bugs is, as I said before, my fiancé hates them. So whenever I kill the bugs, I become Mr. Hero.

I quite like being Mr. Hero :mrgreen:

 

[hopdaddy]

The National news has covered the 2 Inch snowstorm here in Atlanta ..................No more comment from me ............ except to say I'm From Miami ,Fla !!!!!

 

[limr30 3]

Sharon, I heard about the dish washing detergent, too. The only thing I don't like about that is having to go around and cleaning up the soapy spots around the house. What I started doing is putting them in a 'morgue' of water and detergent and a splash of bleach (kills them even faster.) They are pretty dumb and slow - at least the kind we get here - and it's fairly easy to trap them under a glass, slip a card under the glass for sealed transport, and then bring them over to a lidded jar with the water and detergent. Take the lid off, drop the bug into the morgue, put the lid back on, give it a swirl or two and yell, "DIE, DIE, DIE!" (this is the critical part ) and done Either that, or I flush them down the toilet.

And on top of all the things that suck about these bugs, I also then have to deal with all the people who are NOT that bothered and who say things like, "Oh, they're harmless." or "It's just a bug." :angry1:

bc_steve: I've heard that the mosquitoes up in your area and into Alaska can carry off a small child or dog

I feel you! Even my sister, who goes ballistics over other bugs, says, "they're harmless..." They are NOT harmless. They are malevolent. They seek to drive us over the brink into insanity with their nefarious ways. I think what I hate the most is how they hide under things and surprise you. And the fact that it's so hard to kill them with it...well, without it stinking.

My son just gets a paper towel, grabs them with it and takes them outside. I think that's too kind of an end for them. :lmao:
But I can't just flush them, because then I would have nightmares about 1,000 stink bug minions emerging from my toilet at night to crawl on me in my sleep... :lmao:

My boyfriend doesn't even do that. He just gets the bug to go onto a card or a magazine or something and then flicks them outside. "But they'll just come back in! YOU HAVE TO KILL THEM!"

We hates them forever.

But at least now I'm laughing at the idea of sewer stink bugs. Maybe the alligators will eat them! :mrgreen:

 

[jenko]

I'm not crazy about bugs, unless they are pretty ones, but I have just gotten used to them. I live next door to two horse farms and there is just no stopping the little b-tards. It is worse in the summer, we get the palmetto, huge cockroach gross things, ick.

The worst, though, are these invisible biting bugs, called no-see-ums. They are just horrid! I will be in the yard, just fine, and suddenly my legs are on fire and I'm itching all over.

Every fall, our house gets invaded by ladybugs. They want to hibernate indoors. This year, we also got invaded by stinkbugs. First time that has ever happened. I almost called an exterminator, they were driving me so nuts, but I have too many pets for that and so I just went on massive stink bug killing rampages. If you smoosh them they stink, but drowning them produces no detectable odor.

 

[Derrel]

Snowpocalypse, Portland-style.



One, single woman in her 20's, driving a silver Toyota Forerunner, managed to run off the road and get spun around, backward, about 150 feet north of the I-84 and Interstate 5 junction. Her bad driving resulted in this multi-mile morning slowdown that stretched from I-205 on the east, and allllll the way to her little mishap on I-5 Northbound. As we passed her, she was standing outside her vehicle, lodged against the dividing line, talking on her cell phone. Which is probably how the whole incident began.....