NIGHT BUGS

I usually get those fucking massive spiders in my room. It's always nice waking up in the morning and seeing one of them.

We had ants in our kitchen for months, until about a week ago WHEN I FOUND THEIR NEST AT THE BACK OF A SELDOM USED KITCHEN DRAWER.

Ugh. I killed them all one by one using a box of kleenex. I'd move a piece of tupperware, a bunch of ants would start scurrying around and I'd crush them. Repeat until all the items from the drawer were emptied. There were a few piles of larva/eggs, too, and the queen.

It was fascinating, actually, if a bit disgusting. When I moved a lid that covered the eggs, in the frenzy a lot of the ants started grabbing eggs and running to the next lid.

I haven't seen an ant since, so it must have been the main nest!

I still think ants are cool.

author=kentona link=topic=3439.msg69101#msg69101 date=1238689906
Ugh. I killed them all one by one using a box of kleenex.

Next time, use a spray bottle with detergent water. Apparently detergent water dissolves their exoskeleton and makes it so that they can't breath or something. All I personally know is that spraying them with this stuff causes them to spazz out for a couple of seconds before ceasing to twitch.

It's morbidly fascinating!

author=demondestiny link=topic=3439.msg69073#msg69073 date=1238659447
I usually get those fucking massive spiders in my room. It's always nice waking up in the morning and seeing one of them.

christ, I am glad I do not get that. I am painfully arachnophobic due to a traumatic childhood memory in China, and it has spread to bugs in general, and just reading about them like this makes my skin crawl.

author=Neok link=topic=3439.msg69109#msg69109 date=1238691965
Next time, use a spray bottle with detergent water. Apparently detergent water dissolves their exoskeleton and makes it so that they can't breath or something. All I personally know is that spraying them with this stuff causes them to spazz out for a couple of seconds before ceasing to twitch.

It's morbidly fascinating!

I might do this. I hate bugs.

author=Neophyte link=topic=3439.msg69150#msg69150 date=1238710818

author=Neok link=topic=3439.msg69109#msg69109 date=1238691965

author=kentona link=topic=3439.msg69101#msg69101 date=1238689906
Ugh. I killed them all one by one using a box of kleenex.

Next time, use a spray bottle with detergent water. Apparently detergent water dissolves their exoskeleton and makes it so that they can't breath or something. All I personally know is that spraying them with this stuff causes them to spazz out for a couple of seconds before ceasing to twitch.

It's morbidly fascinating!

This sounds painful.

You can tell the strong ants from the weak, because the strong ones would cling to life for far longer, struggling inch by inch, to get away from their corrosive acid bath, before finally gasping their last..

Though honestly, I'd be more sympathetic. But when I was living in India for a couple of months, they'd regularly (read: daily) infest the kitchen, the dining room table, the pantry, the toilet (#2's were at least as much fun as you might expect).

And if it was your lucky day, you could wake up in the middle of the night, and realize that you weren't alone in bed..

author=Neok link=topic=3439.msg69174#msg69174 date=1238715721
and realize that you weren't alone in bed..

:o

Lucky for me I live in America, I don't have to sleep with nets cause there are no bugs at all where I live. I can see the occasional roach, that I kill, but that's pretty much it. Back in my country of origin, you had to sleep with a mosquito net. I hated it.

Having bed bugs just means that you won't be sleeping alone every night. :)

Personally, I'm fine with spiders, but caterpillars/centipedes/millipedes are absolutely dreadful. My excuse for its origin is that back when I was a kid I almost ate a caterpillar that was cooked in my bowl of vegetables. It was medium rare.

Edit: Why did I just read this when I'm about to sleep