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Brenda
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 Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 1:34 pm
bootlegga bootlegga: Well, seeing as I was in the shower, I was wet and naked, so there was no way I was going to scoop it up and toss him out the door! Hey, everyone! Apparently, the new teacher from Canada likes to run around naked! Yeah, that's just what I needed...  Besides, once a bug comes inside, it's fair game IMO. Stay outside and do whatever you want, but set foot inside my house and you're toast!  Hear hear! I give them one chance to climb into the glass/onto the cardboard, and if they are a know-it-all and decide to not do as they're told, they're dead  My size 7.5 does an awesome job at that
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Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 1:53 pm
Brenda Brenda: bootlegga bootlegga: Well, seeing as I was in the shower, I was wet and naked, so there was no way I was going to scoop it up and toss him out the door! Hey, everyone! Apparently, the new teacher from Canada likes to run around naked! Yeah, that's just what I needed... Besides, once a bug comes inside, it's fair game IMO. Stay outside and do whatever you want, but set foot inside my house and you're toast! Hear hear! I give them one chance to climb into the glass/onto the cardboard, and if they are a know-it-all and decide to not do as they're told, they're dead My size 7.5 does an awesome job at that No doubt those wooden shoes would do a number on 'em
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Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 2:08 pm
PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9: Brenda Brenda: bootlegga bootlegga: Well, seeing as I was in the shower, I was wet and naked, so there was no way I was going to scoop it up and toss him out the door! Hey, everyone! Apparently, the new teacher from Canada likes to run around naked! Yeah, that's just what I needed... Besides, once a bug comes inside, it's fair game IMO. Stay outside and do whatever you want, but set foot inside my house and you're toast! Hear hear! I give them one chance to climb into the glass/onto the cardboard, and if they are a know-it-all and decide to not do as they're told, they're dead My size 7.5 does an awesome job at that No doubt those wooden shoes would do a number on 'em Na...the clogs are full of carpenter ants. 
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Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 2:11 pm
PluggyRug PluggyRug: PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9: No doubt those wooden shoes would do a number on 'em Na...the clogs are full of carpenter ants. Oh that was bad. Booo. Boooooooo
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Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 2:34 pm
DrCaleb DrCaleb: FurTrader4 FurTrader4: We are lucky to live up north in Canada mother nature has some really nasty insects to the south of us like Bot Flies & Screw Worm Flies. I know of a young girl who went on vacation to Florida and died shortly after the doctors found Screw Worm Fly Maggotes in her body. Unlike regular flies maggotes which eat dead flesh these maggotes eat living flesh very creepy...  There is an inverse relationship between cold climate and how poisonous snakes and spiders are. The Black Widows we have in mid Canada will bareley leave you with a red mark, but in Austrailia they will f- you up. In conversations with my southern friends I often bring up those flys. I say that we got 10cm of snow over night, they ask "What is snow? I need to mow my lawn!" I say, "What's a hurricane? What's a brown recluse? What's a screw worm fly? What's a brown rat? What's a cockroach? I'll take the snow, thank you." Me too DrCaleb I don't trust the bugs, the weather or the politics of the countries south of the states. I've been writing to a girl in Brazil for a while now a few years back she took ill after taking a drive in the country and was hospitalized (screw worms) she was lucky to survive. She stopped writing for a long time and when she resumed she explaned that all she remembered was getting bit by insects, getting very sick and entering the hospital. She asked afterwards when I planned on visiting Brazil (Me thinking to myself never)...I said maybe you should visit me instead (Much safer I thought). I have heard that the United States Military has used Screw Worm Flies in it's Biological War Fare program. They apparently have a facility where they raise them near Mexico City and some other South American countries...(may be like Brazil?). ![[B-o]](./images/smilies/drinkup.gif "Drink up")
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Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 5:06 pm
andyt andyt: Why kill spiders - they keep insects down. Just move it somewhere appropriate. We have geckos for that...mind you they are noisy little bastards. Oh and i forgot to mention we have fire ants. not dangerous, just uncomfortable.
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Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 5:42 pm
FurTrader4 FurTrader4: We are lucky to live up north in Canada mother nature has some really nasty insects to the south of us like Bot Flies & Screw Worm Flies. I know of a young girl who went on vacation to Florida and died shortly after the doctors found Screw Worm Fly Maggotes in her body. Unlike regular flies maggotes which eat dead flesh these maggotes eat living flesh very creepy... Do a google search on Echinococcus multilocularis
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Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 10:08 pm
We have Brown Recluse & Black Widow spiders in southern Ab, as well, Black Widow has been found as far north as Miquelon Lake. And rattlers down around Drumheller.
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 8:58 am
Yogi Yogi: We have Brown Recluse & Black Widow spiders in southern Ab, as well, Black Widow has been found as far north as Miquelon Lake. And rattlers down around Drumheller. I've seen Black Widows all my life in Edmonton. Saw one this weekend in the wood pile. Nothing to worry about; the colder the climate the milder the poison.
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 9:00 am
The news this morning says the Indian government is going to use DDT to wipe out the spiders. Sensible people, the Indians.
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 9:43 am
BartSimpson BartSimpson: The news this morning says the Indian government is going to use DDT to wipe out the spiders. Sensible people, the Indians. Probabally not. Then they will have an infestation of whatever the spiders were eating and getting fat off of. Probabally mice.
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andyt
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 9:49 am
they're saying these are an introduced species not seen before. And they sound very aggressive. So it's probably something you want to wipe out - but beware of unintended consequences as you wipe out all the other arthropods.
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 9:56 am
andyt andyt: they're saying these are an introduced species not seen before. And they sound very aggressive. So it's probably something you want to wipe out - but beware of unintended consequences as you wipe out all the other arthropods. They didn't say they were introduced. They might be a hybrid, or a mutation. This is how new species come to be. If they are reproducing in such great numbers, there must be an adaptation that makes them more successful. Wiping them out might be a big mistake, as these things usually are when we decide to f- with nature.
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andyt
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 10:09 am
$1: They say it could be a tarantula, a black wishbone or even a funnel-web spider -- or it could be a whole new species.
One thing they agree on is that it is not native to the area as there is no record of venomous spiders in Assam. The black wishbone and funnel-web are native to Australia.
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 10:40 am
Exactly. Nowhere does it say they were introduced.
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