Hi, friends!
Happy Thursday, I hope your day is going well!
It’s fully warmed up outside, which means joy of joys the bathroom bugs are back. It’s round 1, which is a shit ton of springtails. I know in a few weeks this will switch over to round 2 – silverfish. They’re all on the ceiling around the skylight. The skylight doesn’t leak. There’s no indication of any leaking through the roof into the attic. I think the douchebag who flipped the house just has my bathroom exhaust fan just dumping directly into the attic so there’s permanent ways to get moisture in there, even if I take cold showers and don’t use the fan. And of course there’s no bathroom window so I can’t cut down on humitidy that way. I had planned on paying for someone to come out and look into the attic but ended up with a massive unplanned exterior issue bill, so now I’m not sure if this is happening this year. Anyways, don’t mind me getting annoyed trying to squish them every time I use the bathroom after the sun goes down and they come out in numbers.
anything that doesnt get into my face doesnt bother me
i dont react to mozzie bites…at most i notice a tickle coz they landed on me….long as they stay away from my ears i am fine
not that i react to them biting my ears….the sound is just fucking annoying
silverfish is a wierd one tho….didnt really have them over here….till covid happened and everyone hoarded tp
now is that shit related or just climate change?
fuck if i know…. above my paygrade mate
anyways,,,days gone fine here…courtesy of some christian shit i am off till next week 🙂
Mosquitoes fucking love me. I can with a group of people and no one has any buzzing around but meanwhile I’ve already got half a dozen bites. Even with bug spray, it’s like hey let’s find the tiny spot of skin that got missed by the spray.
sucks to be you…..you need a me nearby…i get eaten alive but nothing happens
but everything does seem to think im tasty
i watch things bite/sting me
i mean….the fuck am i sposed to make of that?
nothing happens….i dont know why
I’m that way with fire ants. Like yeah they’ll bite the fuck out of my ankles and it turns red but I’m like shrug time to go on with my day.
I don’t live in a state with them now. Well I guess I shouldn’t assume that southern Missouri doesn’t have them because the Bootheel is a shithole and warmer than my region.
i sat on a fire ant pile once
i am not immune to that one
fuckers hurt.
but if you ever want to get rid of me….keep some coarse sanding paper on hand
its 50/50 odds…..but if you catch me on the right day…the sound of sanding will set my teeth on edge….not a little bit either
its like…a stake to the heart..if you are a farscypire….or at least a failure to invite me in
You would not like a wood shop. All I did was sand.
yeah funny story
but im a qualified panelbeater
i get car bodywork paint ready
3 guesses how i figured out that particular sound sets my teeth on edge sometimes
its not always tho…for some reason
probably should have said used to get car body work paint ready
as i build coffee machines nowadays
but yeah…i took the automotive route in to metal work…
got fully qualified just in time for replacement panels to be cheaper than body work
yeah fuck you china….that one sucked
We have silverfish too. Hate them. We have the occasional roach, but not a severe infestation.
Yeah that was the biggest living adjustment I had in Alabama, the roach situation.
Here in Missouri roaches happen but it’s German cockroaches and it’s not a common thing unless you or an adjacent resident is living in filthy conditions.
Ugh, yeah, I hate silverfish. But it could always be worse — they had to come in to my last apartment with a sniffer dog to check our place because the woman upstairs had brought some back with her from a hotel. It was a well-kept, well-maintained place and I knew her and I’m sure she was mortified. But once my wife heard “bed bugs” she was fully icked out. We heard about the bed bugs on a Tuesday and the dog was coming Thursday. She slept poorly on Tuesday and bailed out to stay at her parent’s house on Wednesday. Turned out we were fine. And the dog was cute.
I had bedbugs from the hoosier neighbor 3 units down at my old condo complex. Like several units all got them and the residents of that unit were like oh yeah we’ve had those for months.
Anyways, the heat treatment works but is a real pain to get everything ready for and then wash alllllll the clothing and sheets and towels in the house.
About 10, 12 years ago New York seemed to be infested with bedbugs. It’s all you ever heard about. The hotels had them, the movie theaters, the subways, the schools. Giant billboards all over the place advertising the services of exterminators, PSAs, it was All Bedbugs All The Time. And then one day we didn’t. You never hear about them anymore, and you never hear about anyone having them. We never had them in my building, luckily.
Funny enough, that’s around the time this happened AND she picked them up in NYC. But yeah, it’s weird that the panic over that has seemingly gone away.
I’ve never had a tick bite until this spring and so far I’ve had three. We don’t really have Lyme’s here but there are other tick borne illnesses to worry about. I never see silverfish but we have those creepy millipedes. 😖
Our cat will catch bugs from time to time and leave pieces of them around.
Which I guess, good for him, but come on, finish the job.
I had a Pentatomidae, a brown shield bug or stink bug crawling on my keyboard earlier this week. There I was, typing away, when a key . . . moved. (Cue scary bug music.) It was big enough to cover a key in entirety. Gross. Wikipedia says this version attacks apple trees. It must like attacking Elliecoo, too. I have zero clue how it got to the second floor and through closed windows.
My parents’ house had a stinkbug infestation a few years ago. Combined with the faux wood brown 1970s panelling still up, it made spotting them a pain in the ass.
Stink bugs are becoming a problem here. I blame climate change for their exponential increase in numbers.
True story… this winter I kept getting whiffs of something funky when I would use our toilet. I scrubbed it inside and out and behind and looked in the tank and still the smell would happen every once in a while when I used that toilet. A month of the haunting sporadic smell goes by and lo and behold a stink bug climbs out of the plant next to the toilet. I flushed that fucker with a vengeance. It was also on the second floor. I think they crawl in between window gaps. But they are so large that I don’t get how….omg maybe they are actually just hatching from eggs!?! Fuck I hope that’s not the case.
I once read (oh here we go again) an article called something like, “What would be so bad about global warming?” It was cautionary, not celebratory. It started out by saying, “What if we had orange trees in New York State? And longer growing seasons? And milder winters?” The very first section was titled something like “Migratory Insects,” which we wouldn’t be used to and would wreak havoc. It only got worse from there. The flooding. The heat waves. The ocean rise. Cyclones and tornadoes. But it is the insects that I remember most.
There’s common agricultural pests like squash bugs that have 1 season in Missouri and 2 in Alabama because of the longer growing season. I don’t want that for here.