Bug Transfers (Was: story for Michele & Marilyn)

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I do help them out when I can or with spiders I just let them be.

 

Helaine

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http://mercury.beseen.com/chat/rooms/g/19502

Kelly or anyone else on the list who wants to chat come check this out!

 

Helaine

who has spent 2 days in bed sick

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Now Roaches is different....we use to live in an apartment that had them bad so I would bomb every month til we finally moved out. My kids would wake up with them in their hair.

 

Helaine

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ok, well I am going to get off here too nothing for me to do but sit here or in bed

 

Helaine

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>heck I don't even kill bugs - many a bug transfer from our old

>farmhouse to outside on a daily basis

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Okay ....

This is a poll type question ..... how many folks here, in addition to

Cindy and myself actually go out of there way to transfer as many bugs

out of the house as possible? I must have " escorted " at least a dozen

bees out in the past two weeks! Most spiders I leave be, but a few ugly

ones go out into the yard (okay I did murder the one black widow in my

kitchen but that is the ONLY SPIDER, EVER that I've killed!)

 

*Smile*

Chris (list mom)

 

http://www.alittleoflactory.com

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Spiders I leave, bees (read yellowjackets, not honeybees) I shoo, but if they don't go, they get squished, moths get captured and released, box elder bugs..well hey they don't eat anything, so why bother. Earwigs! Now those bugs gross me out, esp when I had to fish a live one out of AJ's mouth, bleck! Those black little millipedes are usually dead when I find them in the garage, so they get swept out.

 

 

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chrisziggy <chrisziggy1

 

Sat, 27 Oct 2001 10:26:28 -0600

 

Bug Transfers (Was: story for Michele & Marilyn)

 

 

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>heck I don't even kill bugs - many a bug transfer from our old

>farmhouse to outside on a daily basis

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Okay ....

This is a poll type question ..... how many folks here, in addition to

Cindy and myself actually go out of there way to transfer as many bugs

out of the house as possible? I must have " escorted " at least a dozen

bees out in the past two weeks! Most spiders I leave be, but a few ugly

ones go out into the yard (okay I did murder the one black widow in my

kitchen but that is the ONLY SPIDER, EVER that I've killed!)

 

*Smile*

Chris (list mom)

 

http://www.alittleoflactory.com

 

 

 

 

 

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LOL! You sound like me Chris!! I'm forever scooping little insect critters up into something and escorting it outside...or shushing something out the door.... I'm deathly terrified of spiders, I'll scream and scream and my husband will try to kill it and I'll scream not to hurt it, to help it outside...WAY into the backyard, LMAO!! If I see one while he is at work...I'll just plain old avoid that room for the entire day! LOL! Nuts what a phoba will do to you! And Yikes, that black widow in your kitchen needed to be murdered...we have a family friend that was in a cast for like 6 years after she was stung by a black widow on her leg....it was such a shame!!!

 

~*~ Kelly ~*~

) who covers her eyes when she sees cartoon spiders on tv, LOL!!!

 

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chrisziggy

Saturday, October 27, 2001 11:26 AM

Bug Transfers (Was: story for Michele & Marilyn)

>>>heck I don't even kill bugs - many a bug transfer from our old >farmhouse to outside on a daily basis >Okay .... :)This is a poll type question ..... how many folks here, in addition to Cindy and myself actually go out of there way to transfer as many bugs out of the house as possible? I must have "escorted" at least a dozen bees out in the past two weeks! Most spiders I leave be, but a few ugly ones go out into the yard (okay I did murder the one black widow in my kitchen but that is the ONLY SPIDER, EVER that I've killed!)*Smile*Chris (list mom)http://www.alittleoflactory.comMy Pictures of Aromatic Plants and Exotic Places In Turkeyhttp://members.home.net/chrisziggy1/triptoturkey.html

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Yup-

sounds like me- bug transferer-

when I used ti live in tucson in a roach infested house-ICK- I would flush

them down the toilet- with my then 5 year old daughter crying- " they deserve

to live!!! "

I just couldnt keep up w/ putting them outside...

I did murder one black widow in my kitchen there, too-

but the scorpion was taken out- far away-

and I leave most spiders in-

take out others...

michelle

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chrisziggy <chrisziggy1

 

Saturday, October 27, 2001 12:26 PM

Bug Transfers (Was: story for Michele & Marilyn)

 

 

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> >heck I don't even kill bugs - many a bug transfer from our old

> >farmhouse to outside on a daily basis

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> Okay ....

> This is a poll type question ..... how many folks here, in addition to

> Cindy and myself actually go out of there way to transfer as many bugs

> out of the house as possible? I must have " escorted " at least a dozen

> bees out in the past two weeks! Most spiders I leave be, but a few ugly

> ones go out into the yard (okay I did murder the one black widow in my

> kitchen but that is the ONLY SPIDER, EVER that I've killed!)

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> *Smile*

> Chris (list mom)

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> http://www.alittleoflactory.com

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> My Pictures of Aromatic Plants and Exotic Places In Turkey

> http://members.home.net/chrisziggy1/triptoturkey.html

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Sorry Helaine... I would but I've got tons to do today, and I know if I get chatting, it's all over! ha!!! Now I think I need to turn the sound down on my computer.... everytime I hear it telling me I *got mail* I'm compelled to run over here and check it out! Slowing down the cleaning process for sure! LOL!

 

Kelly

 

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herbandteas

Saturday, October 27, 2001 11:46 AM

Re: Bug Transfers (Was: story for Michele & Marilyn)

http://mercury.beseen.com/chat/rooms/g/19502 Kelly or anyone else on the list who wants to chat come check this out! Helaine who has spent 2 days in bed sick My Pictures of Aromatic Plants and Exotic Places In Turkeyhttp://members.home.net/chrisziggy1/triptoturkey.html

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chrisziggy wrote:

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> Okay ....

> This is a poll type question ..... how many folks here, in addition to

> Cindy and myself actually go out of there way to transfer as many bugs

> out of the house as possible?

 

*raises hand*

white-tail spiders are about the only ones I kill - & the only time I see them,

they're in the bath or the shower & there ain't no way they're gonna be allowed

to stay in there ;-)

oh yeah - and fleas - I have a *very* vibrant tansy patch in the garden ;-)

One of my cats found a scorpion a coupla weeks ago - first time I've ever seen

one - didn't even know we had such things here !! Didn't kill it though .. well,

not intentionally ! We tried to find somewhere to take it - some places around

here will take venomous spiders to milk & we thought we might find someone who

does something like that with scorpions, but it died a few hours later. Guess

the cat had damaged it too much.

 

Jane :-))

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Sorry, spiders are usually future carcasses to me. Garfield is my role

model except that I dont have conversations with them before flattening

them, I think that's rude.

Bees and such I try to escort out, wasps and I have a mutual vendetta so

they are dispatched with as soon as I can sneak up on them hopefully

before they can sneak up on me. Horse and deer flies are also regarded

as persona non grata as they have no manners.

Lady bugs go outside, flies are smart enough to stay out of my reach

after I miss them the first time altho they often get a permanent place

on the 'strip'. We dont really get many flies so they are just a

reminder to make sure everythign is covered and put away.

Moths usually go back out assuming they dont' get too damaged in the

capture portion of the rescue.

Now in the greenhouse, it's a different story, as long as the spiders

dont get obnoxious and pushy (like webbing the door closed so I can't

get in or putting out a long web at just the right heighth to breathe up

my nose as I walk past it and they dont fool me I can hear those tiny

little spider giggles!)they have pretty much a home year around until

they get too numerous then the population has to be culled. That's

pretty much when they form the gangs and lay the above mentioned traps.

The population usually drops towards spring anyhow as it gets chilly in

the corners and any mites and such slow down their raunchy little sex

parties and stop reproducing for a while and so do the spiders.

Oh and the rats in the wood pile, I'm sorry but they get stomped. Mice

are cute but they are the only thing we condone our GS to hunt, oh and

chase away th egroundhog and squirrels that are tryign to move in with

us. Mice are not cute in my house, the geriatric cat just watches them,

I think she can find other things to amuse herself with, like the

centipedes that come in on the wood. However, in her senility she likely

is looking to try and figure out what they are, she certainly never

tries to stop any. She used to hunt flies and moths but she's over the

hill now and can't even jump up on the counter but we love her anyway.

DD will gently sweep spiders outside anywhere but here at home.lol Then

she gets murderous, she lost her tolerance when a critter the size of a

small tarantula wanted to come down in the kitchen and sit down beside

her. She vacuumed that one up and it was so huge we were able to easily

identify the body in the vacuum bag the next day. She no longer eats her

curds and whey in the kitchen anymore. Picture this little person, all

of 100+ pounds standing on a kitchen counter with a vacuum yelling and

hollering like a Marine going into battle as she sucked that beasty up.

She was afraid it was going to grab ahold of the end of the hose

attachment and crawl out and come after her.She called us at work and

told us about it from the beginning of the episode so we had to tallk

her thru all this so she wouldnt' freak. It was hilarious. How many 23

yr olds call up their Dad and say there is this huge spider in here and

what do I do?

Guess we're just a bunch of terrible critter murderers.

-Ilene, the Unrepentant Slaughterer of Millions(ok maybe thousands)

 

 

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> Okay ....

> This is a poll type question ..... how many folks here, in addition to

>

> Cindy and myself actually go out of there way to transfer as many bugs

>

> out of the house as possible? I must have " escorted " at least a dozen

> bees out in the past two weeks! Most spiders I leave be, but a few

> ugly

> ones go out into the yard (okay I did murder the one black widow in my

>

> kitchen but that is the ONLY SPIDER, EVER that I've killed!)

>

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I put things out but don't like handling spiders.

David - husband - is very good at this. Once when we were at a friends house he was asked by the near hysterical owner to get rid of a spider. It was winter and he is very soft particularly for a big hairy Scotsman!! Deciding it was an 'inside' spider he picked it up, opened the back door and then shut it again loudly while he dropped the fortunate spider behind the fridge!

 

Regards

Ann - Scotland

 

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chrisziggy

27 October 2001 16:26

Bug Transfers (Was: story for Michele & Marilyn)

>>>heck I don't even kill bugs - many a bug transfer from our old >farmhouse to outside on a daily basis >Okay .... :)This is a poll type question ..... how many folks here, in addition to Cindy and myself actually go out of there way to transfer as many bugs out of the house as possible? I must have "escorted" at least a dozen bees out in the past two weeks! Most spiders I leave be, but a few ugly ones go out into the yard (okay I did murder the one black widow in my kitchen but that is the ONLY SPIDER, EVER that I've killed!)*Smile*Chris (list mom)http://www.alittleoflactory.comMy Pictures of Aromatic Plants and Exotic Places In Turkeyhttp://members.home.net/chrisziggy1/triptoturkey.html