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Just-a-Mom said:

The first one I saw was in Florida about 20 years ago. I was on a pay phone and this palmetto but was just staring at me. All I could think to say was "Um...I gotta go. I think this bug wants to use the phone..."

I would never step on one! I put a bowl over them until someone braver can kill it.

Then I moved to Chicago and saw silverfish. W. T. F. ????

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I actually just shuddered reading the word silverfish. There aren't many bugs that creep me out in life, but those do. They're just so repulsive.

And I guess a side note to the original topic of the thread - This is what happens when you take a break from the board for the summer. Madness. utter madness.

I went to college in the city, in Philly and Junior and Senior year we lived in an off campus apartment.. the first time we saw a "waterbug" (GROSS) we screamed so loud people may have thought we were killed. We went to home depot and got everything possible to kill bugs. We put a cup over it until we got back... the first mouse sighting even better.....

Also, one day my one roommate was already at class, i was sleeping and my other roommate was getting ready, she opened the shower and there was a silverfish in there so she skipped the shower and immediately doused it w/ hair gel.. forgot to tell me.. you shoulda heard the scream when i saw this bug in hair gel.. NASTY.

I dislike bugs.. when i see a bug now of any sorts I get the ibby jibbies.

Wow, the hijack of this thread makes me feel better about wanting to go to college in Northern Michigan... Giant creepy crawlies don't like 12 feet of snow either

Get This! Diatomaceous Earth - food grade does kill anything with an exoskeleton! Praise The Lord and pass the cookies. I'd rather meet up with a shark than a cockroach. Anything that can live without a head and survive nuclear bombing is Nicolai and I don't want it alive within 100 miles of my house. Home Depot. Get it.


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Dixie said:

Get This! Diatomaceous Earth - food grade does kill anything with an exoskeleton! Praise The Lord and pass the cookies. I'd rather meet up with a shark than a cockroach. Anything that can live without a head and survive nuclear bombing is Nicolai and I don't want it alive within 100 miles of my house. Home Depot. Get it.


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if centipedes have exoskeletons, you just became my new best friend


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njallday said:

if centipedes have exoskeletons, you just became my new best friend


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According to fact monster, they are! Also found it here:
Diatomaceous Earth DE - Perma-Guard Fossil Shell Flour - Livestock Food Grade - 50 lb

I love it!


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Stop it.

Dixie said:

Get This! Diatomaceous Earth - food grade does kill anything with an exoskeleton! Praise The Lord and pass the cookies. I'd rather meet up with a shark than a cockroach. Anything that can live without a head and survive nuclear bombing is Nicolai and I don't want it alive within 100 miles of my house. Home Depot. Get it.


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Not sure how I should take this.

TheUltimateFan said:

Ugh. I never saw a roach until I moved south. I swear some of these Suth'n roaches are big enough to pick you up, remove you from the house and take over your domain. If I ever return to the Land of Freeze it will be because of the creepy critters here.

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Cardinal my butt....North Carolina's state bird is the mosquito!


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12stepCheermom said:

Cardinal my butt....North Carolina's state bird is the mosquito!


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Someone once told me I should move to North Carolina because they don't have mosquitoes there. Something about the mountains and the running water keeping them from breeding. Scandal and lies, scandal and lies!! Excuse me while I go tell him to come here to hike, because there are no deadly snakes in Texas.

Before I moved we had a snake in my living room in Florida. I threw a plastic clear bin over it, then slid a placemat under that and dragged it out and called security to get it out of the development. The only thing greater than the fear of me catching it was the fear that if I did not, I could never sleep a wink in the house knowing it was out there....somewhere....inside!

Here in Austin hill country they just tell me to keep my maltese inside as there are coyotes out back. Not sure which is worse. Probably snakes in the house.

I'd rather see a roach any day of the week than a june bug. Luckily for me roaches aren't anywhere in Maine except really, really nasty places. June bugs however, are everywhere. They will swarm you if you walk by some during the night and buzz in your ears, latch on to you and put you in therapy. My fear of june bugs is highly unhealthy.

12mowerd said:

I'd rather see a roach any day of the week than a june bug. Luckily for me roaches aren't anywhere in Maine except really, really nasty places. June bugs however, are everywhere. They will swarm you if you walk by some during the night and buzz in your ears, latch on to you and put you in therapy. My fear of june bugs is highly unhealthy.

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Especially considering where you live.

Cicadas are the worst though. My freshman year was a year where they came out and we went to NCA camp. We were stunting outside and they would randomly land on us. When we were walking places past trees they would swarm us. Oh and you know what's not fun? When you do a backhandspring and your hand lands on a cicada.:help: