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big black ants
Egads.. then you'd have to get CLOSE to it!!!!!!
Stacey (who's been known to run around naked while spraying a spider with Windex till it drowned) "Lisa Katt" wrote in message ... Jill McQuown skrev i meddelandet .. . wrote: "Magic Mood Jeep" wrote: Lizzie was 'chasing' one of those big black ants in the kitchen the other day. shudder I remember those big black ants. They don't have those in California - or at least, in the Bay Area, where I live. We get these little tiny ants. OK, they do travel in huge throngs. But I think I would prefer to deal with a throng of tiny ants than a single huge one. We had those in my house when I was young, living on the East Coast. They freaked me out, and I was often afraid to go to bed, in case one of them crawled on me at night. Ugh, my skin is crawling just thinking of it... Joyce This is funny! I was showing a woman at work in a catalog this adorable little statuette of a kitten sipping out of a teacup when suddenly she jumped and grabbed her side. I said, "Are you okay?" I'd turned the page corner down and she spotted a photo of a snake-lamp and just about jumped out of her chair! She said, "Oh, it's that snake." Oh! Even a picture of one makes her react like that. With me, it's palmetto bugs. They are like huge flying cockroaches, common to the Southern U.S. I once spotted one crawling across the tile floor while I was in the bathtub. I jumped up, leaped over it and ran naked to the kitchen to grab a can of bug spray. Then I chased it all around the bathroom with the spray, chanting "die, die, die!" That would have made a hilarious video! Jill Would it not have been easier to just whack it with a shoe or something? Elisabet |
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"Jill McQuown" wrote This is funny! I was showing a woman at work in a catalog this adorable little statuette of a kitten sipping out of a teacup when suddenly she jumped and grabbed her side. I said, "Are you okay?" I'd turned the page corner down and she spotted a photo of a snake-lamp and just about jumped out of her chair! She said, "Oh, it's that snake." Oh! Even a picture of one makes her react like that. My mother was the same. With me, it's palmetto bugs. They are like huge flying cockroaches, common to the Southern U.S. I once spotted one crawling across the tile floor while I was in the bathtub. I jumped up, leaped over it and ran naked to the kitchen to grab a can of bug spray. Then I chased it all around the bathroom with the spray, chanting "die, die, die!" That would have made a hilarious video! Never actually met a palmetto bug - or even a cockroach - in RL - but I sincerely desire NOT to - EVER. Earwigs are bad enough. -- Jette "Work for Peace and remain Fiercely Loving" - Jim Byrnes http://www.jette.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ |
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On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 21:35:50 -0700, LOL wrote
(in message ) : Karen Chuplis wrote in message ... in article , Stacey at wrote on 8/10/03 10:06 AM: Egads.. then you'd have to get CLOSE to it!!!!!! Stacey (who's been known to run around naked while spraying a spider with Windex till it drowned) Indeed. I once hairsprayed a wasp to death for the same reason. (blush) I felt bad, but I could not have it in the room!! Usually I just try to remove bugs to the outside via a glass and cardboard, but just wasn't doable with a wasp. Karen I'm sorry, but if it has more than 4 legs, is in my house, and doesn't stay decently hidden, it's very likely to die. A spider that lurks up in the corner of the ceiling in its web can stay; a spider that comes stomping its too-numerous legs across the floor towards me just has a deathwish, imo. I very, very rarely use bug spray, because of Mike, but I have found that a wide range of cleaning supplies and grooming products will do just as good a job. It's kind of alarming, really - stuff I routinely apply to *myself* makes bugs keel right over. ------ Krista Probably suffocates them. Bugs breathe through holes in their shell and don't have lungs. That and the alcohol in most stuff. Think about how long you would survive buried under half your weight in hair spray. |
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LOL wrote:
I very, very rarely use bug spray, because of Mike, but I have found that a wide range of cleaning supplies and grooming products will do just as good a job. It's kind of alarming, really - stuff I routinely apply to *myself* makes bugs keel right over. Oh, that *is* alarming! I take it Mike isn't much help dispatching with the intruders? Roxy, Smudge and Lambchop all go after anything that moves in this house - I'm just lucky I'm bigger than they are. Joyce |
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On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 22:14:24 -0700, Hopitus2 wrote
(in message ): Now that you mention bizarre dispatching methods for insects, we have dumped Clorox on palmetto bugs when proper sprays were not at hand......effective and who's to say less humane? Clorox is chlorine. Chlorine is a poison. Chlorine gas was used as a weapon in WWI. It purifies water because it kills everything living in it. I would think it would be pretty effective on bugs. I've seen ants in Panama an inch long and as thick as my thumb. One bit one of the guys and we found him unconscious about half and hour later in shock. |
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wrote in message ... John Biltz wrote: Clorox is chlorine. Chlorine is a poison. It's bleach, right? Yes, it's chlorine bleach. Joy |
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John Biltz wrote:
Was he allergic, Probably at least a little but he never knew it. Right, who would know that he's allergic to one-inch-square Panamanian ants?? Still shuddering, Joyce |
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