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TAPS
I don't know why everyone is always so upset about cockroaches! They're clean, bring up their young lovingly, and have been around since the time of the dionsaurs! Besides, they're God's creatures too...
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Nautikos
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May 27, 2008
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Never in my life have I heard of slaters before. I googled them and found they are Isopodas (like that would tell me something LOL). They did show a picture though, so now I know what they are.
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TAPS.
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May 21, 2008
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TAPS
I'm beginning to admit that spiders and ants were here before us and am not as obsessive about them as I was when I came here. As for cockroaches, slaters or silverfish, I say kill 'em all. No quarter asked or given.
posted by
johnmacnab
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May 21, 2008
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HAHAHAHA, shahdlou, "minibreasts". LOL Maybe I'll write about that today.
posted by
TAPS.
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May 20, 2008
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Whiskey, baits are probably good but, I like the complex administrator forcing the issue with leasees because I always fear that some other occupant may not be as careful about pest control as I try to be. If all don't work together in a unit, it is hopeless.
posted by
TAPS.
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May 20, 2008
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Troosha, I heard something recently that I am going to try this year. I have one just ready for that purpose. I read that If you take a roll-on-deoderant/antiperspirant and roll a bit of it on a fresh mosquito bite, that it will not itch or swell. I definitely am going to try it and am hoping that it works.
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TAPS.
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May 20, 2008
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Taps
Show me a mosquito and I’ll show you a big huge welt on my arm, leg, face – you name it. They hunt me down and leave their mark but fortunately where I live we don’t have that many.
posted by
Troosha
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May 20, 2008
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Ah, yes, the unavoidable, ubiquitious bugs of spring. Love em or hate em, you gotta live with them!
Mal
posted by
gapcohen
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May 20, 2008
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Cripes
I thought America was the land of the free, but you've got government enforced cockroach protection. I've never heard of such a thing!
What if you just want to use baits...
posted by
Whiskey
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May 20, 2008
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Don't we just all love the bugs!!!!! I hate cockroaches. In Sydney they live everywhere. It is impossible to get rid of them, only to control them. Then there are the dangerous spiders and snakes. Ants wasps, mosquitos etc and etc. I thought I was safe from all horrors here in Canada but I find I can't go outside in the evening at all. The mossies just destroy me and the little black fly's are terrible. Plus the grey toads clinging to the windows. I'm terrified of frogs. Yes I know she loves snakes and hates frogs. weird. No where is without its problems.
posted by
Kabu
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May 20, 2008
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When I first glanced at the title of your piece, I read "minibreasts" and thought : "ah, now this is something that concerns me...", but it was cockroaches, not the same thing at all! Won't the cockroach treatment kill all the other friendly little beasties in sight (and on sight)?
posted by
shahdlou
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May 20, 2008
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LOL....
I wish those field mice were "filed" away somewheres.......duh!
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
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May 20, 2008
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TAPS...
Tiny ants and filed mice are my plagues...........
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
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May 20, 2008
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My second worse enemy.
Cockroaches! I hate them. They seem to want to take over once you just see
one. I don't have any, though, thank God. Nice blog. Thanks.
posted by
Kolekshuns
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May 20, 2008
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Go for it, Norwood. Erase them from the face of the earth. LOL
posted by
TAPS.
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May 20, 2008
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I once lived close to Maroubra beach in Sydney!!
Cockroaches in their swarms and swarms, flying ones,crawling ones, hiding ones, sleezing ones and walking ones....you name 'em they were there....
I am PASSIONATE about roaches and will stomp, spray and splatter on sight....no the merest wiff of one sends me into obsessive mode of 'SEARCH & DESTROY!'
I want to
short their existance on this earth by fair means or foul.
posted by
Norwood
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May 20, 2008
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Re: We have swarms of honey bees here .. roaches, mice, and
Water Rats? That sounds horrible, vickip. Gives me the shivers.
posted by
TAPS.
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May 19, 2008
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Re: Ugh!
I guess every place in the world has some kind of minibeasts to contend with. "R" in Phoenix goes out with a flashlight every night to look for scorpions. He usually finds 20 or so climbing on the wall and foundations. They glow in the dark when you shine a light on them.
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TAPS.
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May 19, 2008
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Ugh!
roach season... right now I am concerned with a little snail who has worked his way up the wall of the veranda. Where is he going? Does he realize that the other side of that wall is ten floors up?
posted by
KaBooM62
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May 19, 2008
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So you don't like roaches> Me neither.
Bo =^..^= sends you a rose
and a smile
(from me
too!)
posted by
Whacky
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May 19, 2008
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Ah, nature is coming to live in every facet! I would not to deal with cockroaches either! You are a very entertaining writer. sam
posted by
sam444
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May 19, 2008
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I hear ya...
...I've established an uneasy peace with the other insects, but, it's all-out-war on the roach kingdom. Fortunately, I haven't seen a roach in my home in over four-years. Now, I've just jinxed it! Damn!!
posted by
metalrat
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May 19, 2008
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We have swarms of honey bees here .. roaches, mice, and
a very nasty breed of water rat. The honey bees we have to remove humanely and without killing the bees. We have to pay a significant amount of money to have the queen and the honey removed from three buildings. I'm all for humane treatment .. but, well, sometimes ... you know? The roaches are German .. I think they came over on little cracker boats. The water rats are because we are so close to the ocean's run off little thingies .. I'm sure there is a technical name, but I am drawing a menopausal blank. Oh, and the spiders .. love those most of all, haha. Gotta love it!
posted by
Departed1
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May 19, 2008
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I am like you TAPS ~ those buggies love to bug me. I think they find me irresistable? or yummy? or I spoil them with all the stuff I have hanging around that they like. It's good for the pest control. I just treated my inside and out --- and oddly I'm finding more
~
Elyse
posted by
elysianfields
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May 19, 2008
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I'd worry about mosquitoes hatching from my backyard pond, but the fish
enjoy the larvae, so there are few skeeters. And though they politely refuse more than a bite or two of the fish food I scatter on their waters, I see my finny friends are growing fatter, most likely from an abundance of frog eggs. They've developed their own little ecosystem. I hope your battles with the minibeasts are happily weighted in your favor. :)
posted by
Pat_B
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May 19, 2008
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TAPS
Please wear a bracelet or some way of letting people know. A reaction can surely be deadly. I know what you are talking about when it comes to being near the water and everything coming along. Be safe and blessed.
posted by
Justi
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May 19, 2008
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Cockroaches and spiders!! Horror of horrors.
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vogue
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May 19, 2008
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