Or big azz cockroaches!! We have seen two in our house this week! One alive, one dead.
I will sleep with my eyes open tonight.
I am terrified of these monsters.
Anyone else share my fear or issue with some being found inside?!?!
Misery loves company!
Re: Palmetto Bugs- AGHHHHHHHH!!
YES OMG.
I've seen two in my house this week, it's definitely because it's been so dry--they come in looking for water (they're also called "water bugs" around here). I tell myself that they aren't the "gross" kind of roach and aren't a reflection of the cleanliness of my house, but they still skeeve the bejeesus out of me.
I can't crush them. I can't stand the crunch sound. The best I can do is put a water glass over them so they slowly suffocate and then make MH clean up their bodies.
// I love you too. //
// I love you too. //
// I love you too. //
My DH is off tomorrow and I'm making him go on an extermination mission. I want him to buy Ortho Max for the outside, Borax for the inside, clean out the cutters and bomb under our crawl space. I'm serious, I can't handle these fluckers!
I may have to get drunk tonight to go to sleep- My DH will be working into the wee hours of the am.
Oh the misery!!
::shudder::
// I love you too. //
O' holy hell!!!!!!!!!!!
I CANNOT EVEN.
When I was 12 or so I woke up in the middle of the night to a roach crawling on my face. I swiped it off and it went flying across the room and landed in my rubbish bin. I laid awake for probably an hour after that, just wishing I could bleach my face and listening to the stupid thing rustling around in the papers in the bin.
// I love you too. //
Dear, god!!!!
Yep, totally getting wasted tonight and just pass out.
Oh yeah, I saw one of those for the first time last week. DH had to tell me what kind of spider it was. It was pretty big.
We are just finishing up June bug season here. I was pumping gas at the gas station last night and one flew at me and I screamed and ran inside the store before I had finished. I was too embarrassed to go back out and continue pumping so I just paid for my 18 dollars of gas [quarter tank for my mini van] and left.
"
My 4 Angel Babies.....
MC#1- 12/2008, MC#2- 05/2009, MC#3 07/2009, MC#4 11/2009
Training to become an IBCLC. BF Questions? Just ask!
We are learning that living on the hill comes with creatures! DH opened the front door and a big wolf spider jumped inside! We out a glass over it and funnily enough while we were bending down looking at it our Orkin guy showed up.
This thread is making me so itchyyyyyyy...I HATE roaches.
To add to the fun.... Take a look at these charming creatures called Palo Verde beetles I had to grow up with (In Tucson AZ):
https://thedragonflywoman.com/2011/07/18/palo-verde-beetles/
And they fly too.
I was quite excited to get AWAY from these things when I moved to So. CA
Worst story was when I was about 10, a whole bunch (practically a swarm) of these things were flying past and pummeled me as I desperately tried running for my life... bumping into me, the loud hum of hell surrounding me like a bunch of B-52s or something..... *shudddddder*
They are also known to be pretty daring... my friend and I were in the pool when we were teenagers and one literally let itself fall (or jumped more like) INTO the pool and started swimming towards us.
Hell to the no.
OMFG
Not to butt in, but I'm near you, over in York County. My understanding is that they are not going to affect PA counties west of the Susquehanna, just to the east. I've read conflicting reports though. Either way, we don't have any right now, but I know they've been reported in other parts of the state! Maybe you're just far enough west to avoid them!
Aaaaand I peed.
You aren't kidding. I grabbed the closest thing to me [a place mat. Seemed like a good idea] and chucked it at it. Then I legitimately called my dad and had him come kill it since DH was at work. My parents live across from us.
The best time EVAR was mid fight with DH, and I go storming down the hall trying to be all bad asss, and the biggest one I ever saw jumped out from my guest room, throwing a shoe at me. True story. I told DH to kill the tarantula, and then told him we are moving!!