FL - Quarter-sized gallinippers to invade Sunshine State, entomologists predict

[CHERIE.T]

I am laughing so hard at these posts! I am afraid of any type of insect and reptile but I hate killing them. Anything in my bed is fair game though. I would consider it suicide by boot.

:floorlaugh: :seeya:

 

[Donamena]

I am laughing so hard at these posts! I am afraid of any type of insect and reptile but I hate killing them. Anything in my bed is fair game though. I would consider it suicide by boot.

I'm Buddhist. I just say a prayer, a paraphrase of a Buddhist prayer. I say it to stink bugs, fire ants, but not to flies or Mosquitos. 'Your body is not you. You are not limited to this exoskeleton. But you will not live forever.' Stink bugs suck all th juice out of tomatoes. They begin their misery in June. I smash them with my hands. Then I have to wash them with scented soap. It's a smell quie unlike any other. But I want all 20 varieties of my tomatoes to live so I can eat them. Lots & lots of tomatoes. I'm greedy. It's a south Louisiana thing. I'm not sure the stink bugs understand this. It's war. I think Epsom salt solution will be next.

 

[HMSHood]

This calls for RAID!!!!!!

[video=youtube;fQXAX8X9bYg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQXAX8X9bYg[/video]

 

[Justiceforever]

Just saw my very first live scorpion! Where you ask? Yup you guessed it...in the bed!! Thankfully it was in the bed we don't sleep in! After my SO smashed it, I wished I would've gotton a picture but that was the last thing on my mind at the time. I still can't relax.

 

[ArianeEmory]

GUH. My parents lived in the FL Keys, somewhat infamous for their scorpions. Once when visiting I was in the restroom and reached into the cabinet to replace the bath tissue roll. I brought out the roll--with a black scorpion clinging to the side. Freakout, shrieking, uncontrollable shudders. It's not that I have a bug thing, and it's not fear of venom or being stung, it's the way they're so freaking big and more like alien lobsters than insects. Hate hate hate.

Other insects, I pretty much see them and wish them good luck vs. the cats and go on about my business.

 

[Justiceforever]

GUH. My parents lived in the FL Keys, somewhat infamous for their scorpions. Once when visiting I was in the restroom and reached into the cabinet to replace the bath tissue roll. I brought out the roll--with a black scorpion clinging to the side. Freakout, shrieking, uncontrollable shudders. It's not that I have a bug thing, and it's not fear of venom or being stung, it's the way they're so freaking big and more like alien lobsters than insects. Hate hate hate.

Other insects, I pretty much see them and wish them good luck vs. the cats and go on about my business.

I shuddered when I read this! Ewww!

They come in different colors and sizes apparently!

The one in our bed was almost transparent. Maybe 2 inches not including tail.

I'm from WI. the only bugs that I have seen inside are flys ands spiders!

Since we've been in TX I've often said that I wish I'd see a scorpion. NOT in the bed though!

Careful what you wish for!

 

[JustJudy]

Just saw my very first live scorpion! Where you ask? Yup you guessed it...in the bed!! Thankfully it was in the bed we don't sleep in! After my SO smashed it, I wished I would've gotton a picture but that was the last thing on my mind at the time. I still can't relax.

I have no adjectives to describe how I hate scorpions. In your bed...!!? *shiver* Poor little thing, your stomach's probably still in knots.

I lived here in scorpion land 10+ years & never saw one until one night the cat started hissing at what first looked like a big "C" shape on the floor...holy crap! hideous! Lol....I did take a pic before drowning it in raid. I had too too many creepy scorpion interactions until I could get the bug man out here. Sudden influx may have been from the neighbor's 6 new palmtrees (scorpion habitat apparently).

People will act to you like it's no big deal...like get a "black light" & watch them at night & only fear the babies....but really if the housing market wasn't so bad, I would have sold the place and moved away so as to never spot that big "C" shape on the wall across the room AGAIN! *shiver* (...a few months before that I'd had to call animal control to come get a snake I found [nonpoisonous, but still] in our laundry room deep sink. Holy yucck!)

JF,hopefully you've gotten it under control, but HomeDepot has a pet/people safe bug killer that worked well...can't remember the name, but it came with a spraying hose. It was days before the bug man got here to do et al, but the HD product was effective & didn't take much, sprayed a spot about every 2 -3 feet along the baseboards & the drains.

 

[Justiceforever]

I've picked him out of a line up! This is the culprit! Uggh! If my SO hadn't seen it...it would still be somewhere in our cabin! I told the management, they said they spray.

Uggh!

Eww!

I hope they don't, like have nests or come in pairs!

I'd rather have giant grasshoppers in my bed...I think.

NO!!

I spent the day shaking everything out and vacuming. Still...I have the creepy crawlies!

 

[Justiceforever]

@ Just Judy

The housekeeper laughed like it was normal! :what:

 

[Justiceforever]

 

[Gypsy Road]

There are so many reasons I got the heck out of Florida, as an adult, after my parents inexplicably moved me there when I was 8.

Never mind all the unsavory stuff--the mosquitoes and palmetto bugs, the drug dealing, the boiler-room operations in Boca Raton, our inability to complete a presidential election properly--I still have no idea why anyone willingly moves to a place where, 90% of the year, there is no reason to take a shower because once you step outside you will be dripping with sweat and humidity anyway.

Oh the PALMETTO BUGS! I freaking HATE THEM!!!!

Girl, You pegged it! That's Florida in a nutshell right there!

I wonder how long it will take the Gallinappers or whatever they called to make up here to the Florida panhandle!

 

[Justiceforever]

True story! I hate spiders!

In the past...

I have grabbed a can of hairspray and sprayed and sprayed and sprayed...and it was still moving!

 

[JustJudy]

@ Just Judy

The housekeeper laughed like it was normal! :what:

Yep! Yesssss! AND YES!! They will react a little like you're a drama queen! Swear to gosh, next they'll start regaling you with scorpion anecdotes involving a pet who loves to play with them or one of their kids has a Mason jar filled with dead ones....:facepalm:

 

[Justiceforever]

Yep! Yesssss! AND YES!! They will react a little like you're a drama queen! Swear to gosh, next they'll start regaling you with scorpion anecdotes involving a pet who loves to play with them or one of their kids has a Mason jar filled with dead ones....:facepalm:

I SO felt like I was over reacting after handing her all of the sheets and telling her of my horror of finding a scorpion in my bed!

She laughed!

Then, I told her of finding the monster grasshopper in the bed awhile back and she looked all serious and asked me,

"Was it brown?"

Umm

"I think so."

She say's...

"They bite."

REALLY?

GOOD GOD HELP ME!

 

[Justiceforever]

Oh the PALMETTO BUGS! I freaking HATE THEM!!!!

Girl, You pegged it! That's Florida in a nutshell right there!

I wonder how long it will take the Gallinappers or whatever they called to make up here to the Florida panhandle!

OMG! Aren't they like giant cockroaches? I remember spending time with my grandmothers in Florida and seeing them. NASTY!

 

[Justiceforever]

Remind me to tell ya'll about the giant cockroaches that live in the basement of Walgreens in downtown Milwaukee.

The one that was in my smock pocket, which was hanging in the breakroom.

Really.

Not today though.

I can't fully go there yet.

It was over 20 years ago and it's still hard to fathom!

 

[Beyond Belief]

Great just what we need in the sunshine state, more bugs, ugh.

 

[Gypsy Road]

True story! I hate spiders!

In the past...

I have grabbed a can of hairspray and sprayed and sprayed and sprayed...and it was still moving!

HA HA!

I grew up in Maryland and we used to have these black shiny lizard thingys that I was scared to death of. One day I got home from school and saw one running cross our kitchen floor. I ran in the powder room and grabbed my mom's can of Aqua Net hairspray and proceeded to empty the entire contents on that poor lizard. I then grabbed a tubberware bowl that was in eye sight, threw it over the lizard and ran out of the house until my dad got home that night from work. My dad came home to a bowl on the floor with a dead lizard underneath and an empty can of hairspray nearby still on the floor. It didn't take him long to figure out whose work that was. :blushing:

 

[Gypsy Road]

OMG! Aren't they like giant cockroaches? I remember spending time with my grandmothers in Florida and seeing them. NASTY!

Yes! HUGE! I've seen them the size of a small dog!

Okay...a little exaggeration there, but they are BIG!!!! And they FLY! UGH!!!

 

[JustJudy]

Yes! HUGE! I've seen them the size of a small dog!

Okay...a little exaggeration there, but they are BIG!!!! And they FLY! UGH!!!

Oh, the image of that doggy size roach! LOL...:floorlaugh::floorlaugh: