Oh EEEEEEEEEK!!! A roach on my neck!!!

ugaimes · Jul 28, 2005

Originally Posted by Kellyyfaber

Oh Amy, you poor thing!!!! How brave of you to go "one on one" with the roach and squash it, though!!! I hate roaches, too

. Unfortunately for us, living in the south and living with bugs kinda go hand in hand. I'll send Oscar down for a few days so he can eat all the bugs out of your apt complex

I was JUST about to comment about how I want to rent Oscar and train him to get the evil roaches (or at least for him to show Cosy and Eppie how to KILL the bugs and not just watch them and bat at them occasionally

).

Renee, what landed on my neck (I get ooged out just thinking about it now!) this morning was a cockroach. The bug that I saw in that grocery store parking lot was a palmetto bug.

To quote Starship Troopers: "The only good bug is a dead bug."

pushylady · Jul 28, 2005

Cockroaches are so gross because they're not only big, but so damn fast! My husband and I were in Tonga once, which is a hot and humid South Pacific island. So at night because it was so hot, I was sleeping naked. In the middle of the night, something HUGE ran down my entire body, head to foot. I jumped up screaming, turned on the lights and we saw the biggest grossest cockroach ever! Eeewww! I can feel it still when I think about it.

I don't like spiders. Most bugs I can handle, but spiders freak me out. Ever since getting my cats though, I don't have to worry anymore! My Wiggies is an excellent little spiderman. He comes running when I call him and eats up all the spidies for me!

Katspixiedust, you've just explained something to me. The other day I was out walking my cats in my neighbour's garden. We were checking out her bird bath when I noticed this really neat little bug that looked like a twig. It was moving along by hooping up it's body then stretching out again. We watched it for a while, then Wiggies decides to have a closer look - big mistake! Next thing I know, he's spitting and hissing and freaking out! He just wanted to get out of there! Poor guy - whenever we pass the bird bath now, he looks around nervously.

Well, that was the night my puppy wasn't doing so well. I was waking up checking on him constantly, and when the bug woke me up, I decided to check on him. That's when I found him, and he had died.

That's just awful! Poor wee puppy.

beckiboo · Jul 28, 2005

Cassie, what a sad story about losing your puppy! That is the saddest bug story I have heard!

Amy, that is too gross. I lived in Charleston, South Carolina for a few years. Once I found a LARGE roach/palmetto bug belly up in my bathtub. And once I just saw the long legs reaching down, from a giant roach on top of the shower door. I was afraid to move the door, because they can fly and then I really get freaked out!

In fact, once I had new neighbors, and that is how I first met them. I went over and knocked on their door to ask the husband to come kill a big roach for me. It was the belly up in the tub roach. I was afraid if I tried to squish it and didn't totally kill it, it would be flipped over and crawl off!

Now I only have earwigs and box elders. They are gross, and I don't like them. But they are outside bugs. So even if they come inside, they don't move in and have babies. I had lots of the little roaches at times when I lived in SC, and it was so gross! A professional exterminator is a MUST if you live down south!

ginger's mum · Jul 28, 2005

Now I'm not normally scared of bugs but when TWO HUGE cockroaches come out from under the bathroom mat and I'm starkers WELL talk about scream. Honestly, these things were the size of my thumb!!!
I think I used and entire can of bug spray on them.

ugaimes · Jul 28, 2005

Originally Posted by Beckiboo

A professional exterminator is a MUST if you live down south!

Amen sister! Our apt. complex is so cheap. They have an exterminator that comes in every Monday, but you have to call in and REQUEST that he spray your building (even though OUR rent pays for the service!). Well, I did that months ago. He came ONCE that I know of. We have so many bugs in our stairwell it isn't funny. So I called again this morning and they ensured me that our building would stay on the list to be sprayed. I wonder how our building "disappeared" from the list in the first place?

Oh yeah, and I'm thinking in investing in a couple few cans of Raid! It's not dangerous to kitties, is it?

rockcat · Jul 28, 2005

Originally Posted by ugaimes

Amen sister! Our apt. complex is so cheap. They have an exterminator that comes in every Monday, but you have to call in and REQUEST that he spray your building (even though OUR rent pays for the service!). Well, I did that months ago. He came ONCE that I know of. We have so many bugs in our stairwell it isn't funny. So I called again this morning and they ensured me that our building would stay on the list to be sprayed. I wonder how our building "disappeared" from the list in the first place?

Oh yeah, and I'm thinking in investing in a couple few cans of Raid! It's not dangerous to kitties, is it?

Amy, what do you do with your cats when the exterminator is there? I think Raid is very toxic.

Oops, that reminds me, I was supossed to find out the name of an antkiller for someone on another thread!

ugaimes · Jul 28, 2005

Originally Posted by Rockcat

Amy, what do you do with your cats when the exterminator is there? I think Raid is very toxic.

The one time the exterminator came into my apt (good thing I was home sick that day or he never would've come in!), he sprayed everything but the bedroom (where I put the cats and their food) and I kept the kits in there for the next hour and a half (he said it was safe after that).

beckiboo · Jul 28, 2005

I recently sprayed our bedroom with the fresh scented Raid. (The kitties rarely come in our room.) I sprayed around the edge of the floor, the edge of the ceiling, and of course the bottom edge of the waterbed. I didn't want all the spidies moving into my bed,now did I? Well, dh got sick. He had congestion and a sore throat for a few days. So it probably isn't good for kitties.

Maybe you could pay a "bugman" to come once, and put down a barrier so the neighbors roaches don't come into your apartment. Thats the problem with spraying one apartment at a time, all the bugs just move next door, or like you said, into the stairwell.

DH likes to "bomb". Once they disapate (sp?), he thinks they are harmless for the pets. But we remove the animals for the day while the "bomb" is set off. I don't know if that is an option for you? And I don't think it would last very long, because in a few weeks, I think the neighbors bugs would come back.

rockcat · Jul 28, 2005

Originally Posted by ugaimes

The one time the exterminator came into my apt (good thing I was home sick that day or he never would've come in!), he sprayed everything but the bedroom (where I put the cats and their food) and I kept the kits in there for the next hour and a half (he said it was safe after that).

Cool. I always wondered what people did about their pets. I know theres a lot of complexes where the exterminator has a skeleton key. It would freak me out having someone in when I wasn't home that might not pay attention that I had cats and... well, I won't even go there.

BTW, I LOVE your drama queens!

gilly · Jul 28, 2005

Originally Posted by ugaimes

My grandmother (RIP) had one try to get in her EAR once!

They're a bit TOO common down here in the deep South!

Errrr yuk

I got a mosquito in my ear once... it was horrible! We were on holiday in Crete, Greece. It laid eggs and everything. Made me really ill. Luckily, the docs washed my ear out with iodine and stuff and gave me strong antibiotics, which killed off everything. Even now when I am abroad I put cotton wool in my ears in case bugs climb in!

katspixiedust · Jul 28, 2005

Originally Posted by Rockcat

Cool. I always wondered what people did about their pets. I know theres a lot of complexes where the exterminator has a skeleton key. It would freak me out having someone in when I wasn't home that might not pay attention that I had cats and... well, I won't even go there.

BTW, I LOVE your drama queens!

Our complex sends the bug guy out the Wednesday after you ask for him, but he doesn't spray anything, which is nice. He has some special jelly type stuff that he lays down along the walls that has no smell and is absorbed quickly so animals are in very little danger with the stuff. Right now I seem to be having a problem with earwigs in my apartment. I've also noticed a couple of spiders as well. Luckily my mom gave me a kids toy called a "Bug Vacuum" that works really well to suck the little creepy crawlers up! Once you get them up there you just dump them outside. It's pretty nice.

katspixiedust · Jul 28, 2005

Originally Posted by pushylady

Katspixiedust, you've just explained something to me. The other day I was out walking my cats in my neighbour's garden. We were checking out her bird bath when I noticed this really neat little bug that looked like a twig. It was moving along by hooping up it's body then stretching out again. We watched it for a while, then Wiggies decides to have a closer look - big mistake! Next thing I know, he's spitting and hissing and freaking out! He just wanted to get out of there! Poor guy - whenever we pass the bird bath now, he looks around nervously.

Well I'm glad I could clear that up for you!

ugaimes · Jul 28, 2005

Originally Posted by Rockcat

Cool. I always wondered what people did about their pets. I know theres a lot of complexes where the exterminator has a skeleton key. It would freak me out having someone in when I wasn't home that might not pay attention that I had cats and... well, I won't even go there.

BTW, I LOVE your drama queens!

Fortunately, the exterminator cannot get inside my apt. if I'm not there (I'd be freaked if he got in and sprayed and the cats were not contained in another room!

)....now if only I could get him to spray our building every Monday like he's supposed to!!!!

And I'm glad you love my drama queens- they're my angels (even if they're not great exterminators

).

squirtle · Jul 28, 2005

I live in Florida so no matter how clean your house is or how many exterminators you call you are bound to have one of those big nasty ugly flying cockroaches get into your house. This happened the night my grandmother (maternal) died. I was 15. We had received the call from the hospital that my Grandma has died of an anurism (sp?) following surgery. My mom was nearly hysterical sitting on the couch. My grandparents (my dad's side) had come over to pick my sister and I up to go and stay at their house while my parents went to the hospital. I was standing in the living room while everyone was consoling my mom and I felt something crawl near my shoulder. I turned my head to find myself face to face with the largest, nastiest roach I had ever seen sitting on my shoulder!

I immediately started screaming and jumping all over the place to get him away from me. He FLEW around and I just kept screaming. My grandparents and dad were trying to kill it and it was just total chaos. There could not have been a more inappropriate time for this to occur. I know this sounds awful but every time I think about the night I found out my grandmother died, I remember that roach and it makes me crack up.

cjandbilly · Jul 28, 2005

Once, while celebrating my birthday party years ago, my brother opened a can of soda, and set it on the table, and walked away to come play a game with all the kids, including me. Well, just before we left, he went to get a drink of his soda, and he took a big mouthful, went to swallow, and there, in his mouth was............. A BUMBLE BEE!?

I have never seen him spew anything out of his mouth so fast! I think that bee buzzed a few words as it flew away!

From then on, he checks his soda before he gulps!

journey · Jul 28, 2005

Originally Posted by Gilly

Errrr yuk

I got a mosquito in my ear once... it was horrible! We were on holiday in Crete, Greece. It laid eggs and everything. Made me really ill. Luckily, the docs washed my ear out with iodine and stuff and gave me strong antibiotics, which killed off everything. Even now when I am abroad I put cotton wool in my ears in case bugs climb in!

Ok #1 - I am NEVER moving to the South!!! LOL.
#2 - That is one of my biggest fears about bugs, that they will crawl into my ear.
#3 - My brother who is the cheapest person alive stayed in the most remote places in the Indonesian islands, and he said the cockroaches there were so strong that they would actually come up the bathtub drain and LIFT the screen/plug by themselves to come into the bathroom.

That is just WRONG.

Did you know that cockroaches can live one full week without their heads, and 30 days on a drop of oil?

Anything that can live a week without its head deserves to be obliterated.

jakkies · Jul 28, 2005

We're lucky with roaches, not many of them around but we do have the ugliest bugs around called Parktown Prawns. Ugliest critter alive, super curious so gets into everything (apparantly makes good pets!) and when nervous sprays/poops this horrible stuff that you are actually better off throwing the thing it did it on away it is almost impossible to get rid of the smell.

It kinda looks like a grasshopper but brown like a roach and very difficult to kill not that I'd be able to get near one anyway.

Of course the cats just love bringing the darn things inside and then promptly loses it under the coaches.

jakkies · Jul 28, 2005

Oh yes, I just remembered a really funny "bug" story:

I have a phobia when it comes to spiders and this particular night I had found a really big dead one downstairs. So needless to say I was sleeping rather lightly because of paranoia (kept wondering where was the rest of the family) At about five I wake up with the confused sensation that something big had just landed on my shoulder and tumbled down on to the bed. Instantly awake and frozen with fear that it was the rest of the clan I just lay there trying to feel if anything else was moving. Finally I slowly sat up and "bravely" but really quickly swept across the area in hopes of sweeping the thing off the bed. I get to my pillow and this furry thing drops on my hand!! I nearly had a heart attack at that point but I figure I gotta get this thing off my bed so I bring up my other hand to scoop it up and throw it when yet another furry thing drops on my hand!! At this point I am totally frozen, can hardly breathe and certainly not move when suddenly there is this soft little meow....my four month old kitty got cold and came to sleep by mommy...

Next time I'll just switch the darn light on!

maherwoman · Jul 28, 2005

I had a really large moth nuzzle itself in the corner of my eye (while it was closed) once while I was asleep. I guess the thing was cold, but I threw that thing clear across the room once I realized what it was! It freaked the heck outta me, and my husband just laughed at the fact that I TOTALLY screamed! Lol...I think he was still asleep. Never found the dang thing...think the cats must've gotten it. LOL!!

ckblv · Jul 28, 2005

Originally Posted by ugaimes

Y'all, the grossest/freakiest thing EVER happened this morning.
I awoke around 4:30am because I felt something on my neck and I KNEW it was a large cockroach (and cockroaches are my #1 phobia)

. Half asleep, I grabbed it (it was all crunchy feeling) and just threw it across the bed (hey, I was half asleep and not really thinking). Of course, I couldn't really go back to sleep after that.

So when I was getting ready for work this morning, I was on the lookout for the large roach. I noticed Cosette paying extra-special attention to a purse that was sitting on the floor of my closet. I didn't think too much of it b/c she has a purse fetish (smart girl). Well, I went to pick up the purse and out flew the large roach.

I didn't really know what to do, so I shrieked and yelled "Get it Cosette!" Of course, she couldn't really do anything but stare at it, so I summoned up all of my courage (Bradley had already left for work by this point) and squashed it! Woo hoo!

Of course, now it's time for the apt. complex to come in and do some serious exterminating....

Does anyone else have any really freaky bug stories to share?

If that had happened to me, the funeral arrangements would be pending. That is a TERRIBLE story, I HATE those things.

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