SIDEBAR #11- Arias/Alexander forum

[lisasalinger]

What happened in jersey last night? Does it seem like they are going to bring anyone new into the melee?:seeya:

Nobody new really, and last night's episode was fairly tame. But they are definitely setting the stage for a spicy season... saw the clips for future shows and holy cr#p, they are full on beating the bejesus out of each other (Joe Gorga and Joe Guidice). Teresa is her usual nutball self. And there is going to be some good drama about Melissa... it appears that she may not be as sweet as we think... dun dun dun.... Yep, I'm roped in... like a moth to a flame with this garbage. :floorlaugh:

BTW, I don't watch the other housewives shows, just Jersey. I'm addicted to all things Jersey.

 

[Bernina]

I live in AZ and have been told that exterminators do NOT work on scorpions and the only effective "treatment" is a barrier. I'm assuming a sticky one? Anything else and they're just taking your money. I've had probably a dozen in the last 5 years or so, but noone's been stung yet. They're usually in the kitchen, although one was in a second story bedroom. Btw, whoever posted about being afraid of the big ones, it's my understanding that it's the littler ones that are actually more dangerous. I scoop them up in a cup and throw them into the wash while my dd screams like a lunatic lol So much for the apple not falling far from the tree.

Also, shake out your shoes before you put them on. Apparently they like moist dank places.

eta: I totally missed the bobcat part. I've had bobcats in my backyard more than once. And once a mother with a cub. And I'm right in the heart of North Scottsdale. Nothing rural AT ALL. It's my understanding that the bobcats are no big deal. My experience was that they drank out of the pool and the baby played while mom laid under a bush while I stayed extremely still! With the animals, a different story I imagine.

Born and raised in central Scottsdale, 68th St. north of Camelback, 1961. ASU students used to hunt through my folk's property at night with flashlights (grapefruit orchard back then) and said we had the biggest Black Widows they had ever seen! 68th Street was still a dirt road.
I'm up North of Prescott/Chino Valley, open range, State Land Trust, and the Bobcats aren't used to people or domestic small animals. The horses and wolfdogs don't like them because of their odor, similar to Mountain Lion, so they freak out. And they are BIG. The one on my wall weighed over 80 pounds. That's the skull of a full grown coyote above it to the left w/feathers hanging off it. (That was my bud who used to come to the fence every morning and sleep under a tree, very old gal, some idiot shot her and I just couldn't let her rot out on the trail. I don't shoot coyotes, I came to some type of respect for them when I was working on the rez)
We had Big Chino wash flood back in '04 (it was a mile across in some places) and he got stuck on this side of the wash, went through my and my neighbor's property over a space of a week and took out everything he could get to, chickens, cats, peafowl, guinea hens, turkeys. He was actually squeezing under our field fences, we have a hot wire on the top and another about 6 inches from the ground. Didn't mess with the emus.
You're right about the small scorpions, they're more toxic than the larger ones. I wonder if Diatomaceous Earth would do anything to them?

 

[zoomom]

Jurassic Park , naturally.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!

(That's what the kids call where I work!)

 

[lisasalinger]

You guys are seriously turning me off from ever going into the countryside.

No ****. I'll stay here at the beach with my cute little ants.

 

[gauntlet]

:rockon: :rockon: :rockon:

Good find, GAUNTLET!

Thanks Nadja but I didn't find this. It was someone who posted in the Others section on the State vs JA page. I can't find her name now though but thank you whoever it was. Come and play on WS!

 

[kkdj]

is this the potato bug..../??

Potato Bug in hand. - YouTube

Yup! Little alien pets!!!
Thanks!

 

[neesaki]

It's About Questionable Fashion Choices!



Bee Gees - How Deep Is Your Love ( Original ) HQ [ NO CONCERT / NO KARAOKE ] - YouTube

Love the Bee Gees. It's so sad that of the four brothers, all except Barry are now gone. :cry:

 

[Mrs G Norris]

Thanks Nadja but I didn't find this. It was someone who posted in the Others section on the State vs JA page. I can't find her name now though but thank you whoever it was. Come and play on WS!

Yes .. whoever you are .. come and play with us :seeya:

 

[geevee]

Jurassic Park , naturally.

Can't wait for the next Jurassic Park movie, I'm kinda a dinomaniac. :blushing:

 

[zoomom]

I dunno, we call them vineagaroons here in So Cal upper High desert area! Sometimes sun spiders, potatato bugs, but whatever they are, I'm always OUTTA Heah.. Pronto!lol

I always thought vinegroons were just "whip scorpions"?

Never Mind!!!!! I tried to look them up - there are just too many species!!!

 

[kkdj]

I think they look like the old cooties game.

Hahaha! They sure do! I never thought about that before! :floorlaugh:

 

[daisymae]

Where we live, they are often called "water bugs". Thankfully we don't see them that much where we live now, though we do have monthly pest control.

Then there's South Carolina, where they give the creatures a more sophisticated name, Palmetto Bugs. :floorlaugh: We only vacation there, but I do know that where we go, they are so prevalent that you do not even think about cooking out on the grill anywhere near dark. Seriously, when they come out at night if there's any source of food around, it's like they're on cocaine. They move FAST. :facepalm:

I live in Charleston and know what you mean ... they mostly come in after rain, but often see them scatter when I go outside.
:seeya:

 

[neesaki]

My sister said that when her and my brother in law were transferred to Panama, that was the hardest thing. She said you could actually hear the huge cockroaches walking around at night. I sense my place would have bullet holes all over. :floorlaugh::floorlaugh::floorlaugh:

Oh gawd, that would be horrifying. ::scared: Uhuh, not me, I'm like you, I'd destroy the place trying to kill them all, or, I'd just have to :hills: :scared:

 

[lil_buddy]

If you need help...
http://www.whatsthatbug.com

 

[Bernina]

Never heard of those, but I am sure they are in my woods. Everything else is.

Had to look them up! They were under "Armadillidium vulgare" in Wiki and not one reference to "Potato Bug"! Sow, Doodle, Rolie Pollie, and Pill bug, but if you try to find a potato bug under "Potato Bug", they have pics of "Children of God" (Jerusalem Cricket):floorlaugh: OK, so I learned something, we have all been misinformed as children!!!!! Put that on the list with Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny!:facepalm:

 

[Tenaciousdae]

Are you serious? A bug zoo? Where is the world is that inside the other zoo? What do you do with the praying mantis? ty

We have a Butterfly Pavillion.

http://www.butterflies.org/animals-plants/animals/insects/index.php

I remember on our vacation to mt Rushmore we stopped at the Reptile Gardens,
The butterfly Pavillion is the same thing only bugs...

 

[Hopeful One]

Been away for a smidgen....

So what was the news that KCL teased us with Friday that was supposed to come out at noon JA time?

:seeya: errbody!

 

[zoomom]

I understand that all creatures are here because they serve a niche in the eco system. (everybody eats everybody else).

HOWEVER, I do have a rule regarding bugs.....if you come into my space (house)....bad idea in your little bug brain! No way, no how are you welcome in my space. And I will retaliate with lethal force.

Sorry, it's either the cave man in me (or the girl!).

 

[SevenSeas]

I always thought vinegroons were just "whip scorpions"?

Never Mind!!!!! I tried to look them up - there are just too many species!!!

I KNOW! (Just like that blonde guy on the Staples commercial awhile back said)

I don't care what their name is, but when I spot something blonde, crunchy and running fast on my carpet, not invited...I freak out!!!lol

 

[banzai]

Are you serious? A bug zoo? Where is the world is that inside the other zoo? What do you do with the praying mantis? ty

Yup - a Bug Zoo. Tis very popular with the tourists and a few of us locals

They have a super long tube that runs throughout the entire space, full of busy leaf cutter ants. And oh my, the roach motel has wee little tables and chairs, beds and rugs. So sweet :floorlaugh:
And they even let you handle many of the special ones, like the stick bugs :fence:

I would get mantid egg sacks, put them in a giant pickle jar until they hatched out. Then it was a mad rush to separate them (they're cannibals :shush: ) into aquariums with dividers. One sack can hatch about 100 itty bitty mantids so I would buy wingless fruitflies to feed them. When they got a little bigger, I (and kids) bred our own fruitflies, crickets etc and watched them grow to adulthood. Of course they didn't all survive but some I put out in the garden - they eat the bad bugs off your plants. I always kept a pair to mate for next season egg sac. So cool!
The female is about 5x the size of the male and she eats him after mating :scared: unless you're there to intervene of course :hiding:

They are very 'smart' and curious. We would take them out and walk them around the house and they would stay with us but when it was time for a feeding, they would fly back to their aquarium and wait patiently for their meal. They always ate the head off crickets first but left the drummies hehe.
(By the way, if you look at crickets with a magnifying glass, they appear to have lips LOL - no joke).

I'll hush myself now before I rave on too long :sigh: