Bug Problem

Bjam · Post by **Bjam** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 10:11 am

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See that little thing? It's about an inch long with real wiggley legs and two little antenna things. They're popping up all over the house. They used to be just a few every month in the basement(which is finished, and there's no weird holes in the wall or anything like that) but now they're travelling. I found four on the living room walls this morning, they're creeping up the stairs, along the ceilings, everywhere. It's gross. (Luckily they haven't found my bedroom yet. I doubt they ever will, it's too messy for bugs)

So do any of you have any idea what they are/why they've suddenly sprung up/how I kill the bastards. Any help will aid me to sleep easily without thinking something's crawling along me at night, so will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Leaf · Post by **Leaf** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 10:13 am

GET OUT OF THE HOUSE NOW!!!! RUN!!! RUN AND DON'TLOOK BACK!!!!!!

...isn't that a milipede of some sort?

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 10:17 am

Millipedes as Pests from Gordon's Millipede Page

Millipedes occasionally exhibit population explosions in a huge way. Parafontaria laminata in Japan becomes so numerous on occasions that they stop trains by causing the wheels to loose traction. Masses of millipedes have also been reported as stopping trains in Germany, France and Hungary. In West Virginia USA in 1949 one swarm of millipedes is estimated to have been made up of 65 million individuals.

Millipedes are generally considered to be harmless but they can be pests in some circumstances. In Europe sugar beet is the main crop to suffer from millipedes. In Africa Spirostreptids can be damaging to cotton and groundnuts. Blaniulus guttulata, the Snake-spotted Millipede accounts for most of the complaints against millipedes, these averaged about 20 per year in 1940, while in America Oxidus gracilis is the main culprit. In Australia Ommatoiulus moreleti, which was introduced in 1953, is a pest of crops and a nuisance in houses, which it invades at night because it is positively phototactic (attracted to light) in areas where it occurs.

Stranger still the millipede Orthomorpha gracilis, a species now much spread around the world in greenhouses is/was once a pest in the gold mines of Johannesburg South Africa where it eats/ate the wooden pit-props thousands of feet below the ground.

Bjam · Post by **Bjam** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 10:25 am

roymond wrote:In West Virginia USA in 1949 one swarm of millipedes is estimated to have been made up of 65 million individuals.

Time for me to take Leaf's advice.

So they're annoying and can stop trains and crops. But I have no crops and certainly no trains, so why do these buggers wanna come and creep me out? I've taken to just vacuuming up any that I see.

Leaf · Post by **Leaf** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 10:31 am

If you vacuum them up...they'll live inside your vacuum,and crawl out at night...crush'em!!!! CRUSH!!!

uh...you guys could consider an exterminator... or find a good spider.

Every spring, ANTS move into my house, and infest another piece of gear. They are bastards!! Sugar ants... like the heat and safety. Recently got into my printer. I poison them, crush them, flick them, vacuum them, freeze them... basically, I make it clear that they may out number me, but I out mass 'em!!

No guilt... just slaughter.

Albatross · Post by **Albatross** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 11:02 am

Leaf wrote:Every spring, ANTS move into my house, and infest another piece of gear. They are bastards!! Sugar ants... like the heat and safety. Recently got into my printer. I poison them, crush them, flick them, vacuum them, freeze them... basically, I make it clear that they may out number me, but I out mass 'em!!

No guilt... just slaughter.

There's a song in there, somewhere...

deshead · Post by **deshead** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 11:15 am

Bjam wrote:I've taken to just vacuuming up any that I see.

What you need is a Brown Lemur.

Bjam · Post by **Bjam** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 11:19 am

deshead wrote:
Bjam wrote:I've taken to just vacuuming up any that I see.
What you need is a Brown Lemur.

Hey, and then I'd get rid of the bug problem and have a cute animal in the house! Awesome!

Morbid Morgan · Post by **Morbid Morgan** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 11:23 am

Leaf wrote:I poison them, crush them, flick them, vacuum them, freeze them... basically, I make it clear that they may out number me, but I out mass 'em!! No guilt... just slaughter.

Could I see a montage of this scenario? Possibly set to Beethoven....black and white, you, your anger and the ants....hilarious.

mico saudad · Post by **mico saudad** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 11:29 am

Bjam wrote:
deshead wrote:
Bjam wrote:I've taken to just vacuuming up any that I see.
What you need is a Brown Lemur.
Hey, and then I'd get rid of the bug problem and have a cute animal in the house! Awesome!

Oh they're cute now. But wait until they start multiplying. And then you'll have 100 million brown lemurs living in your house. And then you'll have to introduce a virus to control the brown lemur population. But then the virus will mutate and spread to your neighbor's house killing all of his pets. And your neighbor will be pissed.

http://www.gnet.org/ColdFusion/News_Pag ... &start=771

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 12:31 pm

Bjam wrote:
deshead wrote:
Bjam wrote:I've taken to just vacuuming up any that I see.
What you need is a Brown Lemur.
Hey, and then I'd get rid of the bug problem and have a cute animal in the house! Awesome!

Yeah! Lemurs, the official animal of HIncistan!
-bill

Leaf · Post by **Leaf** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 12:39 pm

Morbid Morgan wrote:
Leaf wrote:I poison them, crush them, flick them, vacuum them, freeze them... basically, I make it clear that they may out number me, but I out mass 'em!! No guilt... just slaughter.
Could I see a montage of this scenario? Possibly set to Beethoven....black and white, you, your anger and the ants....hilarious.

... if I knew how to do that...I would honour your request. I believe visual artistic splendour is your domain though...

Freddielove · Post by **Freddielove** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 10:32 pm

Speaking of, we have some sort of crazy rodent that we fear is living in our house. It make some crazy screaching noise at night and has been shredding the plastic container the dog food is in. J put out some mouse traps, but I'm afraid that one day we are going to find some pissed of animal the size of a lemur with a trap stuck to its face.

As far as infestations go, Christmas Island has us all topped.

http://www.freundfactory.com/1001774c.jpg

Dan-O from Five-O · Post by **Dan-O from Five-O** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 10:42 pm

Freddielove wrote:Speaking of, we have some sort of crazy rodent that we fear is living in our house. It make some crazy screaching noise at night and has been shredding the plastic container the dog food is in.

How ghetto. I can't possibly imagine where there issue stems from, but you might consider cutting of the food source.

Freddielove · Post by **Freddielove** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 12:10 pm

Thanks for the tip.

Yeah well welcome to Houston. This city is built on a swamp. Every other person has a my house had a rat / possum / brown lemur story. Whatever it was it ate the bait off the traps without setting them off. Round 1 - weasel.

Dan-O from Five-O · Post by **Dan-O from Five-O** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 1:22 pm

Get a bigger, meaner dog. Lord help the animal, or human for that matter, that messes with my dog's food. She's a 115 lb. half Blonde Lab, half German Shephard. She knows how to hunt, how to kill, and how to eat.

sparks · Post by **sparks** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 8:15 am

I used to get those in NC. They sting, but not that bad. Mostly they're just icky.

Have you had any sprickets yet? That's some good old weird American wildlife, for you.

(officially: "camelback cricket". Learned that just now.)

NeilThrun · Post by **NeilThrun** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 5:51 pm

Dear fucking lord, Ive got those too. Killed one in the bath tub. Another near my computer. And one more in the basement. I wish i couldnt remember how many ive killed instead of not being able to remember how many have wriggled under cabinets, and other large imovable objects. Theyre deffinatly not millipedes, those are ussually smaller and more beetle like with overlapping segmented shells. like any of these pictures

http://www.mikeystune.com/images/bug2.jpg
http://www.sfsm.org/millipede.jpg

Granted these are pictures of giant african milipedes, the north american variety look the same, just smaller and darker colored legs.

I think they might be house centipedes but mine look a little different than whats posted here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_centipede[/url]

Bjam · Post by **Bjam** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 6:59 pm

You linked to the unholy land. Tsk tsk.

My bugs have all pretty much died now. They never made it into my bedroom(unless they're hiding) which is a good thing. And now our garden is infested with cute little rabbits and mole-y rat-y chipmunk-y things. Those are far more pleasant. Less wriggley. More furry.

NeilThrun · Post by **NeilThrun** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 8:12 pm

unholy land?

Bjam · Post by **Bjam** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 8:30 pm

Wikipedia.

Wiki... pedia.

frankie big face · Post by **frankie big face** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 1:59 pm

Bjam wrote:
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See that little thing? It's about an inch long with real wiggley legs and two little antenna things. They're popping up all over the house.

You know what's weird? Those things have shown up this summer in my house, too! I live 60 miles from you, so maybe all of eastern PA has them. I've never seen them before and at first, I was throwing outside, but now I'm just squashing them.

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