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Get this; I woke up Sunday morning to find myself and my bedroom covered with hundreds of tiny, brown benign ladybird bugs. They were in my glass of water, on my camera, crawling over my cellphone, in my book, in my hair, some in my ear, on the duvet, on the floor and everywhere else I looked. They did nothing except wander in small circles though. Did not fly or buzz around annoying me. So small I could hardly feel them on my skin. I went and had a bath and 20 minutes later when I came back, they were all gone. Bizarre. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Miszou wrote: I have read the entire internet. on how boring his day was. Crikey! ain't life grand?
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Be glad you've never met a [Parktown Prawn](http://Parktown Prawn)[^]. The photo on the website does NOT do this hulking, spawn of hell, devil beast justice. Urrggg.. The things give me the creeps... (added 2 minute later) [Male Parktown prawn picture](http://Male Parktown prawn picture)[^]. I also forgot to tell you these things are UNKILLABLE, secrete a foul black sticky liquid that you cant get rid off and also emit this snake-like hissing noise when irritated.
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Nic Rowan wrote: Parktown Prawn. Ooooooh, those are so gross. When I was a kid they seemed to like dying in swimming pools - I guess being that ugly could make one suicidal. The whole pool stank! Gross, gross, gross!
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heh, I would be laughing if you weren't such a strange bugger. Though apparently ladybird bugs are good luck :) regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Miszou wrote: I have read the entire internet. on how boring his day was. Crikey! ain't life grand?
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heh, I would be laughing if you weren't such a strange bugger. Though apparently ladybird bugs are good luck :) regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Miszou wrote: I have read the entire internet. on how boring his day was. Crikey! ain't life grand?
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Huh, I just replied to your message and it sent me to messages from April '01. Brad Jennings I like pancakes!
That's happened to me sometimes too (couple of times a week at most). :confused:
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Skip this post if you are anywhere near going to bed soon, I don't want to be the cause of a sleepless night. I laid down as I usually do, but it is fairly warm in the house so I didn't cover up my legs. Just as I was about to enter la-la land, something crawled across my leg. At first I thought it was my cat, but after a few moments I realized that my cat was outside (poor kitty). I'm giving up on the idea of going to sleep now. Even if I find whatever it was that crawled across my leg, I'll just imagine it happening every 2 minutes. :sigh: :zzz: James "then when you go to bed...wait, you dont do that do you....ok....when you plug into the 'hive mind' to charge yourself, ill hack into your head" Nnamdi Onyeyiri over MSN
First night after buying my first house I decided it would be a good idea to break it in by sleeping in a sleeping bag on the floor. (no furniture yet). I guess the previous residents hadn't left yet because at about 2am a mouse jumped on my face and ran off! Landed right on my lips. I was gargling mouth wash for an hour. note: I live in the southwest desert where Hanta virus is still a threat. My code isn't buggy. Those are all fleatures.
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I've had that happen a bunch of times (usually insects). When it turns out to be a spider, I have trouble sleeping for 2 or 3 days after the incident. Hell, I have trouble sleeping when I see a spider not even in the same room as my bed (or outside for that matter). Spiders scare the living donkey balls out of me. Brad Jennings I like pancakes!
We could create a club of arachnophobics :sigh: I try to respect evolved life forms, but I make an exception for spiders: a good spider is a dead spider.
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First night after buying my first house I decided it would be a good idea to break it in by sleeping in a sleeping bag on the floor. (no furniture yet). I guess the previous residents hadn't left yet because at about 2am a mouse jumped on my face and ran off! Landed right on my lips. I was gargling mouth wash for an hour. note: I live in the southwest desert where Hanta virus is still a threat. My code isn't buggy. Those are all fleatures.
Awimsatt wrote: I was gargling mouth wash for an hour. note: I live in the southwest desert where Hanta virus is still a threat. :laugh: Nevermind the virus, I think I'd be doing that anyway :) James "then when you go to bed...wait, you dont do that do you....ok....when you plug into the 'hive mind' to charge yourself, ill hack into your head" Nnamdi Onyeyiri over MSN
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I've had that happen a bunch of times (usually insects). When it turns out to be a spider, I have trouble sleeping for 2 or 3 days after the incident. Hell, I have trouble sleeping when I see a spider not even in the same room as my bed (or outside for that matter). Spiders scare the living donkey balls out of me. Brad Jennings I like pancakes!
Brad Jennings wrote: Spiders scare the living donkey balls out of me. Me too, although I don't mind the living ones too much. However, all of my nightmares :zzz::eek: involve spiders in one way or another! 'til next we type... HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse
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Brad Jennings wrote: Rabies shots. Anything but that! I hate shots; too much pain, and blood, involved...unless the shots are given by one of the nurses at the local hospital, I didn't feel those :D James "then when you go to bed...wait, you dont do that do you....ok....when you plug into the 'hive mind' to charge yourself, ill hack into your head" Nnamdi Onyeyiri over MSN
James T. Johnson wrote: unless the shots are given by one of the nurses at the local hospital, I didn't feel those You were probably too distracted looking at her... eyes.:-O "Some people are like Slinkies... not really good for anything,
but you still can't help but smile when you see one
tumble down the stairs." -
Colin Davies wrote: I think it needs to be sharp. I can do sharp. I just don't want to make too much of a mess, it is my bed after all :) Maybe I'll take it out back to "dispose" of it. First I have to find whatever it is that bit me though. I haven't kept a hawk eye on my bed, but I haven't found any trace of it yet :sigh: James "then when you go to bed...wait, you dont do that do you....ok....when you plug into the 'hive mind' to charge yourself, ill hack into your head" Nnamdi Onyeyiri over MSN
Fire off a bug bomb in your room. If it doesn't kill the critter, it may at least piss it off enough to drive it out in the open. Then you can whack it with a golf club. "Some people are like Slinkies... not really good for anything,
but you still can't help but smile when you see one
tumble down the stairs." -
Brad Jennings wrote: The ones that scare me the most are Brown Recluses. Whew, according to some site I googled those aren't found in Michigan :) Brad Jennings wrote: Still, any quarter sized or bigger spider is enough to scare the crap out of me. I'm with you, large spiders give me the willies....luckily the only large spiders we get around here are the hairy ones and those aren't common. James "then when you go to bed...wait, you dont do that do you....ok....when you plug into the 'hive mind' to charge yourself, ill hack into your head" Nnamdi Onyeyiri over MSN
James T. Johnson wrote: according to some site I googled those aren't found in Michigan Nope, we have most of them here in Arizona. Some keep them as house pets, but I make them stay in the yard. It's so inconvenient to have them leaving their toys in the living room after they've killed them, and their victims get quite gamy after a few days... "Some people are like Slinkies... not really good for anything,
but you still can't help but smile when you see one
tumble down the stairs." -
First night after buying my first house I decided it would be a good idea to break it in by sleeping in a sleeping bag on the floor. (no furniture yet). I guess the previous residents hadn't left yet because at about 2am a mouse jumped on my face and ran off! Landed right on my lips. I was gargling mouth wash for an hour. note: I live in the southwest desert where Hanta virus is still a threat. My code isn't buggy. Those are all fleatures.
As long as it didn't poop on your lips, you should be safe. We haven't had any cases of hanta virus here in northern Arizona, but we're told to keep an eye out for rodent droppings and keep them cleaned out. "Some people are like Slinkies... not really good for anything,
but you still can't help but smile when you see one
tumble down the stairs." -
Skip this post if you are anywhere near going to bed soon, I don't want to be the cause of a sleepless night. I laid down as I usually do, but it is fairly warm in the house so I didn't cover up my legs. Just as I was about to enter la-la land, something crawled across my leg. At first I thought it was my cat, but after a few moments I realized that my cat was outside (poor kitty). I'm giving up on the idea of going to sleep now. Even if I find whatever it was that crawled across my leg, I'll just imagine it happening every 2 minutes. :sigh: :zzz: James "then when you go to bed...wait, you dont do that do you....ok....when you plug into the 'hive mind' to charge yourself, ill hack into your head" Nnamdi Onyeyiri over MSN
I used to have nightmares as a child, of lobsters in my bed.:eek::eek: X| Sweet dreams! "It's been swell.. but the swelling's gone down." - TankGERL
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Skip this post if you are anywhere near going to bed soon, I don't want to be the cause of a sleepless night. I laid down as I usually do, but it is fairly warm in the house so I didn't cover up my legs. Just as I was about to enter la-la land, something crawled across my leg. At first I thought it was my cat, but after a few moments I realized that my cat was outside (poor kitty). I'm giving up on the idea of going to sleep now. Even if I find whatever it was that crawled across my leg, I'll just imagine it happening every 2 minutes. :sigh: :zzz: James "then when you go to bed...wait, you dont do that do you....ok....when you plug into the 'hive mind' to charge yourself, ill hack into your head" Nnamdi Onyeyiri over MSN
That's never a problem at our house because we insist on the cats sleeping inside the house at night and they always sleep on the bed. Nothing get's past them and I've personally seen them eat many spiders, dragonflys etc. No pests can exist long in a 3 cat environment.
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That's never a problem at our house because we insist on the cats sleeping inside the house at night and they always sleep on the bed. Nothing get's past them and I've personally seen them eat many spiders, dragonflys etc. No pests can exist long in a 3 cat environment.
John Cardinal wrote: we insist on the cats sleeping inside the house at night I usually bring her in at night, after living 18 years it'd kill me to have her taken from me by some unknown car in the night. John Cardinal wrote: Nothing get's past them and I've personally seen them eat many spiders, dragonflys etc. :omg: My cat is too much of a chicken to do anything like that. There is a glass table sitting next to some windows in my family room, one day she was sitting in the window and started hissing at another cat....her reflection in the table ;P James "then when you go to bed...wait, you dont do that do you....ok....when you plug into the 'hive mind' to charge yourself, ill hack into your head" Nnamdi Onyeyiri over MSN
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John Cardinal wrote: we insist on the cats sleeping inside the house at night I usually bring her in at night, after living 18 years it'd kill me to have her taken from me by some unknown car in the night. John Cardinal wrote: Nothing get's past them and I've personally seen them eat many spiders, dragonflys etc. :omg: My cat is too much of a chicken to do anything like that. There is a glass table sitting next to some windows in my family room, one day she was sitting in the window and started hissing at another cat....her reflection in the table ;P James "then when you go to bed...wait, you dont do that do you....ok....when you plug into the 'hive mind' to charge yourself, ill hack into your head" Nnamdi Onyeyiri over MSN
We live on a 5 acre property in the country which backs on to a river and estuary with a forest on another side. The amount of dead critters that they have dragged back is unbelievable. It's so common that we keep a special shovel by the back patio and use it to fling dead critters over a bank into the woods. Birds, snakes, a baby rabbit last weekend that we rescued before he got hurt and let him loose away from the cats, bugs of every kind and description, a fish once and of course every concievable type of mouse / rat / mole you never knew existed. They're like some kind of feline death squad, if only they would keep the deer away from the flower beds and tomatoes. Needless to say they have to be de-wormed regularly and those new drops you put on them to keep away fleas work perfectly!
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We live on a 5 acre property in the country which backs on to a river and estuary with a forest on another side. The amount of dead critters that they have dragged back is unbelievable. It's so common that we keep a special shovel by the back patio and use it to fling dead critters over a bank into the woods. Birds, snakes, a baby rabbit last weekend that we rescued before he got hurt and let him loose away from the cats, bugs of every kind and description, a fish once and of course every concievable type of mouse / rat / mole you never knew existed. They're like some kind of feline death squad, if only they would keep the deer away from the flower beds and tomatoes. Needless to say they have to be de-wormed regularly and those new drops you put on them to keep away fleas work perfectly!
John Cardinal wrote: Birds, snakes, a baby rabbit last weekend that we rescued before he got hurt and let him loose away from the cats, bugs of every kind and description, a fish once and of course every concievable type of mouse / rat / mole you never knew existed. Makes me glad that my cat got tired of killing things a while ago. Now she just likes to pull her own hair out :( John Cardinal wrote: only they would keep the deer away from the flower beds and tomatoes. Maybe if you dressed them up like this[^]* they could scare the deer away. John Cardinal wrote: those new drops you put on them to keep away fleas work perfectly! We just started using them on our cat, she doesn't like them being applied nor the next few days of not getting pet on the neck; but I think the end result is worth it for her. *Warning: Plays music James "then when you go to bed...wait, you dont do that do you....ok....when you plug into the 'hive mind' to charge yourself, ill hack into your head" Nnamdi Onyeyiri over MSN
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John Cardinal wrote: Birds, snakes, a baby rabbit last weekend that we rescued before he got hurt and let him loose away from the cats, bugs of every kind and description, a fish once and of course every concievable type of mouse / rat / mole you never knew existed. Makes me glad that my cat got tired of killing things a while ago. Now she just likes to pull her own hair out :( John Cardinal wrote: only they would keep the deer away from the flower beds and tomatoes. Maybe if you dressed them up like this[^]* they could scare the deer away. John Cardinal wrote: those new drops you put on them to keep away fleas work perfectly! We just started using them on our cat, she doesn't like them being applied nor the next few days of not getting pet on the neck; but I think the end result is worth it for her. *Warning: Plays music James "then when you go to bed...wait, you dont do that do you....ok....when you plug into the 'hive mind' to charge yourself, ill hack into your head" Nnamdi Onyeyiri over MSN
James T. Johnson wrote: Maybe if you dressed them up like this[^]* they could scare the deer away. That's funny, that's my wife's favorite flash on the internet. We have a band that comes and practices in our shop and she's been trying to convince them to add it to their sets. I think a Viking cat would pretty much scare anything away!