First off, bugs terrify me. They are filthy disgusting creatures and when I manage to muster up the courage kill one I feel like I've bettered our world just a little bit.
Two days ago I see this jumping cricket thing in my laundry room making these loud ass noises when it jumps because it springs like 4 feet into the air and lands on the tile. I haven't seen one of these in a couple years but they're so annoying and unfortunately bugs scare the shit out of me so I just leave it alone and figure one of my pets will take care of it or it will find its way to the furnace area of my laundry room and never be seen again.
The next day I go into my bedroom and the fucking thing IS IN MY GOD DAMN BEDROOM STICKING TO THE SIDE OF MY BED. It seems almost ridiculous the thing hopped all the way up two sets of stairs but apparently it did.
Immediately I grab a towel and swing at the fucking thing and it dodges (how the fuck?) and hops its ass around to my desk. I take another swing multiple times missing the thing knocking stuff down all over the place. It jumps behind one of my shelves. Naturally I go get some fucking RAID to nuke the son of a bitch, who cares about poison all over my room, right? I can't find any so I get some scrubbing bubbles since cleaning something so filthy has to be fatal to it I assume. So I see the thing at the bottom of my shelf and I nuke the fuck good covering it in scrubbing bubbles and its like completely white and soapy. This is where it should fall over and die but NO, the thing jumps up again and hops over to another corner of my room behind my bureau and I'm just drenching my room in soap in the process.
I lean over and take a peak under and see it sitting there. I try spraying it again and it remains completely unaffected. I go get my cat Tazzy, she's killed multiple mice in our house so surely she can handle this 2 inch bug. I drag her away from our sofa in the living room plop her on my carpet. I move the bureau and the thing just jumps out and startles me and my cat of course does nothing but stand there. I've completely lost track of it at this point, so I spend 30 minutes looking for the fucking thing and can't find it and give up.
I'm really tired so I turn off everything in my room and lie down and try to go to sleep.. but I can hear it. I hear the noise it makes when it jumps.. but everywhere I check it isn't there. It's taunting me...mocking me... I give up and go to sleep downstairs.
Today I try lying down in my room a bit, thinking it could be gone but nope. I hear it every few seconds, making the hair rise on my skin. I search everywhere and I can't find it and have completely lost hope. I spent like an HOUR looking for the thing I'm starting to question whether it even exists and I'm just having a psychotic breakdown. I go to one corner of the room and start hearing clicking on the other side and then one I go to the other side I hear little noises elsewhere.
also, you didn't kill it because you were probably using roach or ant RAID, you need to get a special cricket one, do some research on the cricket that's lurking in your room and when you identify it, google it's scientific name and get that specific RAID (like Gryllus veletis, if that's the one).
On October 02 2009 11:22 neobowman wrote: What in interesting story. Did you know, humans consume an average of 15 bugs in their sleep during their lifetime?
On October 02 2009 11:22 neobowman wrote: What in interesting story. Did you know, humans consume an average of 15 bugs in their sleep during their lifetime?
That the statistics include the Africans, South Americans, Filipinos, or what not, might have something to do with this.
Hi, You should probably look into whether or not the insect killing products are good for your cat, since you seem to be using them with some indiscretion.
Also - in the future, have a paper cup handy. It covers a larger area and since nothing is coming down directly ON the insect they will have a harder time dodging it. Then, slide a piece of paper (or ideally thin cardboard) underneath, and take it outside. Even if you choose to kill it later this is still a much more effective method (at least for bugs that can't fly). Also, insects aren't really as unclean as you seem to think (look at their small surface area... you are carrying way more filth than they possibly could in their lifetime - for many insects anyway).
Also - if it is this bad for you maybe you should consider therapy?
At any rate, if nothing else, hold back on the Raid for the sake of your cat (or at least make sure it's not unhealthy for him, which I doubt (it's probably not so great for you either as you seem to realize)).
I love stories from people who are terrified of bugs. To me its like hearing a story from an uncharted planet. How can you be scared of something so small and insignificant?
Whats also amusing is that you would have had 0 problems with it if you just manned up and killed it right away. From the sound of it you were just swinging blindly in a fit of rage.
People can usually get over their phobia of bugs though, once they realize being scared of them usually does more harm than good.
Good luck getting rid of him, even now he is plotting his next move.
On October 02 2009 11:30 Hypnosis wrote: The only solution: liquid fire also known as napalm. what you need: Gasoline styrofoam lighters
what you do: soak styrofoam in gasoline and let sit overnight
in the AM: light styrofoam and apply to face and arms roll around your bedroom to attract the bug GG
better idea, make an ss mine put a nail in a board and bury the board nail up then place a shotgun shell right over the nail and bury that so maybe a quarter inch of the shell is exposed. wait for the spider to step on it. If you're lucky its really fuckin big and weighs enough to fire the shell. GG.
On October 02 2009 11:22 neobowman wrote: What in interesting story. Did you know, humans consume an average of 15 bugs in their sleep during their lifetime?
I swear every time someone states this bullshit statistic the number gets bigger..
On October 02 2009 11:22 neobowman wrote: What in interesting story. Did you know, humans consume an average of 15 bugs in their sleep during their lifetime?
i read this quote somewhere too, but then i read it somewhere else in this book that refuted popular facts and apparently its completely made up and untrue
I'm sure you're all right that it's made up - how could anyone measure that and why would they want to do so?
However it's not implausible at all that we inadvertently ingest insects and/or spiders - it's sort of funny how uncomfortable some people here are with the idea, particularly considering how insects are common in the diet of some cultures. I wonder if these same people are comfortable eating arthropods such as lobsters and shrimp?
I used to have those at an apartment I live in. I think they're called asian burrowing crickets or something..they're incredibly disgusting, but that's it. They don't ruin anything and they're fun for cats to chase.
On October 02 2009 11:22 neobowman wrote: What in interesting story. Did you know, humans consume an average of 15 bugs in their sleep during their lifetime?
On the subject of eating bugs, I went to a CSN concert this summer at an outdoor amphitheater. During one song, Nash kind of choked up a bit in the middle of it for a minute, and afterward Crosby grabbed one of the mics and told everyone "Nash just did one of the hardest things in show business: he inhaled a bug during that last song."
So I'm sure the "statistic" is fake and all, but it does happen. :s
On June 13 2007 13:57 BuGzlToOnl wrote: Their was a 4.5 inch spider in my basement about a week ago, I thought it was a tarantula it kinda of had hairs but I wasn't sure if was dust or hairs. I put it in a cup and fed it crickets it died about 2 days later.
Fucking Hell! BuGzIToOnI still speaking back in the day!
on another note: remembered killing a big ass bed bug on the floor with my leathery slippers !
On October 02 2009 12:14 Freyr wrote: I'm sure you're all right that it's made up - how could anyone measure that and why would they want to do so?
However it's not implausible at all that we inadvertently ingest insects and/or spiders - it's sort of funny how uncomfortable some people here are with the idea, particularly considering how insects are common in the diet of some cultures. I wonder if these same people are comfortable eating arthropods such as lobsters and shrimp?
it really feels like i wrote this blog myself i experienced almost exactly the same thing omg
im scared as shit of bugs and the damn crickets are in my house too they dodged my firebat bug spray (maybe i will really use fire next time...) so i was like wtf and hes like gg no re and dipped out somewhere dark
now i know he still lurks there burrowed with his lil spines getting ready to stop lurker me any time soon -_-
and i believe half the posters have reading comprehension problems
Naturally I go get some fucking RAID to nuke the son of a bitch, who cares about poison all over my room, right?I can't find any so I get some scrubbing bubbles since cleaning something so filthy has to be fatal to it I assume.
On October 02 2009 11:22 neobowman wrote: What in interesting story. Did you know, humans consume an average of 15 bugs in their sleep during their lifetime?
That the statistics include the Africans, South Americans, Filipinos, or what not, might have something to do with this.
On October 02 2009 11:22 neobowman wrote: What in interesting story. Did you know, humans consume an average of 15 bugs in their sleep during their lifetime?
I swear every time someone states this bullshit statistic the number gets bigger..
Haha I was just thinking the same. Makes my skin crawl, and not with bugs.
A very strange kind of insect eating something on a road. We found it near the mediterranean border between France and Spain. Me and a friend stopped our motorbikes to film it. The insect was eating another one like "him". It's horrible.
This is a locust before it morphs into one, they are known for being cannibals as well.
And if there is any insect in the world to fear it is locusts, they are as bad as a hurricane or some other natural disaster.
On October 02 2009 12:14 Freyr wrote: I'm sure you're all right that it's made up - how could anyone measure that and why would they want to do so?
However it's not implausible at all that we inadvertently ingest insects and/or spiders - it's sort of funny how uncomfortable some people here are with the idea, particularly considering how insects are common in the diet of some cultures. I wonder if these same people are comfortable eating arthropods such as lobsters and shrimp?
It's completely implausible actually.
Hah, well now I'm convinced.
Please elaborate.
I'll do the same: Open mouth -> insect walks in -> swallow.
This is only one scenario of a number of possibilities. Exceptionally likely? Who knows, but with a small enough insect sure it's plausible. No one's suggesting you're going to accidentally choke down a goliath beetle or anything, (but feel free to try!).
I personally ingested an ant inadvertently as a small child, and I was awake, so surely it is possible while sleeping.
You may be being sarcastic of course, but there was no real place for it here so...
A very strange kind of insect eating something on a road. We found it near the mediterranean border between France and Spain. Me and a friend stopped our motorbikes to film it. The insect was eating another one like "him". It's horrible.
This is a locust before it morphs into one, they are known for being cannibals as well.
It isn't a locust. Most Locusts are herbivore and that's why they ruin crops in Africa.
This thing is completly different. It is some large katydids ( also know as bush-crickets even if they aren't real crickets. They aren't grasshopper either. ) The main difference with grasshopper/locusts is that they have longer antennas and are omnivore.
When i was a kid i caught one in the moutain ( a large specie living in the moutains in Southern France which was quite similar to the one in the vid except it was green ). I put it in a cage and i feeded it with dead flies, worms and some salad. They have big mandible and although you won't bleed if they bite you, you can feel it.
The "stinger' they have is actually an harmless ovipositor for females.
Hope that could help.
edit: they are know as "sauterelles" in French. Some are small but some species can be as big as your thumb like the moffo in the vid.
EPT
Makes my skin crawl, and not with bugs.
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