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Well the end of winter means that it is heating up outside, and heat means scorpions are looking for a cool place to live. So why not in my house?
I smashed this little bugger the other day, and ran into another one this evening. What kind of crazy critters live in your area?
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you are pretty handy with the fly swatter :lol
The fly swatter merely cripples them, I had to let it suffer and die under a jar before I dared to dispose of it.
How nasty are the stings of that particular type of the little buggers?
Not sure, fortunately I've never been stung by one.
They would give you a nasty sting, its the smaller scorpions you need to be wary of, of course I know this living in the UK :lol I used to be really into scorpions/spiders/snakes all that
Wow, good thing you found it!:)Quote:
Originally Posted by GCNgamer128
Last year while I was outside in my backyard at night, I saw a Bat fly away from our roof! At first I thought it was
simply a bird, but a couple of days later I saw it again. It was no doubt a bat! Our neighbor even confirmed he saw a bat at his house.
Luckly, we never saw the little thing again.
I frequently get herds of deer and elk through my back yard. I counted over twenty of them once. We've also had a black bear under our porch and there was once a mountain lion warning.
screw that. those things hurt. I once had a centipede in bed with me in Hawaii. Freaky little bastard
List of places not to live:
Nevada!
Okay, a Black bear under your porch isn't good either but that's a Scorpion!!! :suprise Bats are cool though, nothing wrong with them, I often sit out of an evening and watch them hunt
Hey, we had a cougar trotting through the neighborhood streets of Chicago last week...:doh
CENTIPEDES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I kill at least a dozen of those things a week!!!
ICK! I hate those things more than spiders and snakes!
Oh yeah. We sometimes have copperheads around our house. We've killed about 5 of those. We've had 2 of them sunning themselves on our back porch. I mowed over a small baby one a couple days ago when I was cutting our grass. I am incredibly thankful that I was on a tractor mower!!!!!!! I knew it was a copperhead because of the smell of cucumbers right after I ran over it.
Ran across a couple black widows as well.
We also get the deer, wild turkey, buzzards, red tailed hawks, and coyotes. We've also had 3 bears, and I think one bobcat.
Bats? We have fun with them. LOL! Put a tennis ball inside a tube sock, go out to a street light at night, and throw the sock straight up into the air and watch the bats dive bomb the tennis ball. Just got to be careful they don't dive bomb you!! LOL!
I live out in the country. I see quite a bit. My mother look out for "critters" whenever we go out. LOL! And we almost always see a few deer, and sometimes a huge flock of wild turkey!
And I was an army brat, so we lived in Panama right outside the jungle. And I saw all kinds of critters there. Tree sloths, iguanas, bird eating spiders, all kinds of monkeys, more bats and centipedes. Even ran into a pit viper nest in a sand box when I was 4!!
But I have never encountered any scorps!!!
Here were I live, there are no native wild cats left, except for bobcats, but there's an urban legend about a panther than roams around. Not too sure about the accuracy of this claim, though.:lol
Noooooooooooooooo!!!!!!! I love scorpions!!!! I've had quite a few of them as pets. However, I completely understand that they are pests dowm in your area Andy. If I had them loose in the house & not in cages, I'm shure I would get to dislike them fairly soon. Hey, maybe you can box one up & ship it up to me in MN :lol
Up here we have those dang Aisan beetles. They were brought in to eat the aphids that decemate crops in the northern areas of the US in the late 90's and have been proliferating ever since. I have an older house, so every fall (after harvest when all the fields are gone) they swarm my house. I end up with letterally thousands of them coming in through every crack. they sting if you get them on you. At first I thought it was biting, but after some research, I learned that it is actually feces they excrete & its very acidic. Not pleasant!!!!! They also get in every light fixture and sit there & cook!!! Smells terrible!!!! Its not uncommon for me to wake a handfull of times in the evening when the dang things are crawling around in my bed. I go around with a vacume & vacume them up, only to have 2x as many in the house the next day. They get under the siding, and continually come n the house all winter depending on how warm it is. Know what the funny part is: the dang things don't do anything to the aphids they were shipped in to take care of!!!!!!!! Now they are talking about bringing in some kind of giant stingless wasp to take care of the beetles!!!!!!!!!! Can anyone say, "there was an old woman who swallowed a fly!!!!!!!!" Crazy!!!!!!
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I have a neighbor cat with a temper. :lol
Damian, I had the same probolem here last year, I got one of these kits that has a little X cross section at the top, and has a bag at the bottom. You apply this sticker of smelly stuff (DON"T GET ANYONE YOU!!!!) that applies to one of the sides of the X, and just as soon as I opened the sticker, they swarmed me and this bag. It was absoutly crazy. I went throught two bags fairly quickly, both of which where full to the brim. They fly up into the X, and then fall in to the bag and can't get out. Don't put it by your bedroom though, they got fairly loud when the bag was full. :lol
And about not getting any on your hands....try not to...They're attracted to the smell...and well, its realy weird seeing hundreds of bettles flying over your house just to poop on you. :lol
EDIT - YES...I forgot all about the centipedes I had here a while back. I don't like the look of them most of all. Its realy weird to see something like that in a group. When I came home once, there where 4 -6 of them on the first step of my porch. Screamed like a little girl. :lol
I could look into mailing one to you, I don't know how good of a condition it will be in when it arrive though! :lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Jango's kid
Seagulls and cows mostly -_^
We typically get one or more water moccasin's a year, last year we had a gator in the koi pond though.
There was an ostrich in an apartment complex near where I live, but that's about it.
not any crazy critters ...but we do get these little black spiders everytime winter come, the swarm in like the black plague or something
i hate spiders so much hehe
Reminds me, I was at an FTX for ROTC, and they had the Opposing force (the cadets playing the enemy) stay in baracks at camp blanding. Anyways, in open bay barracks, I was about to get in my rack, and the cadet in the rack next to me yelled "DONT GET IN!!" He pointed, and there was this huge freakin scorpian sitting right there in the middle, minding it's own business.
Me and him proceeded to smash it with are boots...the thing just wouldnt die...
looks like a face hugger from aliens! haha. all i got to worry about is rats the size of dogs and cockroaches the size of rats.
I'm getting the spiders popping up all over the house. They always sit up in the corners of my high ceilings, watching me.
we're pretty free of nastiness here in the boston area. there are brown recluse spiders in the region, but i've never even seen one. we have an occasional black widow that gets into something that gets shipped up, but not a lot in the way of native monsters.
That god we have below freezing point temperatures around here... all the nasty poisonous stuff stays down south.
We did get the Asian beetles from your farmers. They are disgusting.
We have wolves, cougars, lynx, bears and such but I have only encountered one bear in my life... and it was up north on a fishing trip. Also had a pack of wolves near our camp (they were howling) but we never saw them. I have never been more scared in my life. At first we thought it was funny because they were maybe 2 miles away so we would answer them back at their howlings. An hour later they were 100 feet away... when we heard that first 100-feet-away howling we got chills through my bones!!
mmm...Scorpians...
We get scorpians....and at my old house which was next to a big wetland/foresty area we had some rattlesnakes in our backyard every once in awhile
Not much in the way of nasty critters in my part of the world. I hear there's a spider in these parts that can deliver a rather painful bite (brown recluse, I think) but I've never had a problem with them, and I don't think I know anyone who has. No poisonous snakes up here. The worst sting you can get is from a bee. There are bears around, but again I haven't heard of any encounters to be concerned about. When I've gone out on archaeology digs (depending on who I was working with) we sometimes had to carry bear spray, but I never so much as heard of anyone who saw one, let alone see one myself. The racoons can be called nasty if you consider the fact that they make a mess of any garbage can they find. LOL To be honest, I'm more concerned about the pit bulls and dobermans people take out for walks on the trail by our house than I am about any wild critters.
::edit:: I wanted to mention that we have something called a "pseudoscorpion" (probably can be found in many parts of the world). It looks like a tiny little scorpion, but with no tail. They're not at all dangerous, but very interesting little beasties. Every once in a while you can see one climbing on a wall or something... if your eyes are keen that is. They're only about 2 mm across.
Hmmm, mostly black widows, few snakes and lizards, a coyote here and there. Biggest concern are great white sharks. One ate a guy's legs near here last week. :(
the only pests in my house are my siblings:lol
Right there with you Andy we had 2 show up in the last two weeks fortunately the pest control guy showed up too. Well we had him spray the whole house for scorpions so hopefully that the last I will see of them till monsoons!
Dear lord, Andy ... I don't know if I can spend another night at your place if there are scorpions getting in.:suprise
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yikes! i really really REALLY want to see a live great white at some point. but no leg eating. i'm thinking maybe a VERY large boat.Quote:
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for a second, i thought you were saying you encountered all of these "critters" in one place...if i ran across copperheads, black widows, centipedes, bobcats, bears, and coyotes...well, i think i'd just pack up and move.Quote:
Originally Posted by jenchuan
i live in a suburban area in NJ right by a reservation, so the worst we get are deer eating your flowers.
and tk...no matter what size you get, you'll always need a bigger boat.
A.T. :skull
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I have an exwife in the area, does that count?:)
That scorpion reminds of those suckers that have a scorpion embedded in them. Has anyone else tried those? I thought it tasted like burnt popcorn.
Most of what I see around our house are smaller spiders and box-elder bugs (I'm sure they are called something else, but we call them that around here). We also have pheasants that live in the lot behind our house. I haven't seen them yet this year though.
Couple of weeks ago though, i was outside working on my car and I heard a couple of people talking. I turned and could see an animal control officer climbing over a fence right by my house. I figured he was after some of the cats that roam around the neighborhood, but figured I'd keep watching. I went over into the corner of the fence area and slammed his net down on something I couldn't see. After watching him struggling with it for a second, the next thing I know this HUGE PEACOCK takes flight and lands in the yard next to where he was trying to catch it. There is a local zoo here that let's the peacock's roam free, so I'm guessing it had escaped from there, but man, I didn't see that one coming!
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Originally Posted by shortimer52
I HAVE encountered all those critters!!!!!!!!!!!
Deer, buzzards, and turkey are quite safe. LOL! Coyotes, bears, and bobcats are safe from the car and inside the house. LOL!
And we've killed a few snakes!!! I still get the creeps when I think about the huge copperhead that was crossing the street from a creek. Darned thing stretched halfway across the road!!
Now we've got a lot of baby squirrels, cows, and deer. So CUTE!!!
And a friend of mine just recently rescued an abandoned baby otter. Now THAT was something different!
Hey! It's fun living out in the middle of nowhere!! You never know what you're going to see!
But regarding the "big critters". As long as you don't bother them, they won't bother you. Don't go running after it to see what it is!!!
Speaking of pests, our neighbor has three very annoying yap dogs that they leave out in their backyard (the stench!). They bark continuously everyday and night! Since it's getting pretty hot now, I want to save money by not using the AC so we just open the windows, but the barking is just too much so we leave the windows closed and use the AC. Maybe I should have them pay for my electricity bill!
In the house, we have tons of big daddy longs legs which doesn't bother me much coz they eat ants, but there is the occasional brown spider that I catch on the wall once in a while. But scorpions tops it all for me, I'm glad we don't see them around here! We have two little ones and if they get stung by one of those critters, it could be fatal!
What about the Chupacabra?????
I had to chime in on this one once more. I see a few people mentioned bats. I had bats in the ceiling above my room. They would keep me up all night long scratching and squeeking. A few summers ago, we tore off the roof cap above my room, and about 50 flew out & almost knocked me off the roof. Not good since it is almost 3 stories!!! This part isn't for the sqeemish (sp?) There was about a 2 feet of quano in there!!!!!!! (I always wondered what that odd smell was.) I had to suck it all out with a shop vac & it was one of the worst jobs I ever had to do. since there is really nowhere to stand up there, I had to work while standing in it!!! I live in what used to be a church, and my room is in the old bell tower....(see pic) So yeah, I litteraly had "bats in the bell-free!!!!!!"
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Oh man where to start with the creepy crawlies... Well where I'm stationed here in Missouri we get some nasty wolf spiders and the occasional brown recluse, in one of the shops I worked in we would catch a good sized wolf spider and keep it far a pet, we called him "Moon Shine." We also have a sizeable population of coyotes living just off base and they go nuts at night when they find something tasty to eat lol. Now back home in florida where my parents live (and I wish I still lived) you can hear the gators in the pond behind their property and we have what we call the "Boogie Cat" lurking in the vacant lots in the neighbor hood, it's like a bobcat but too big to be one and the wrong color and the tail is too long. And don't forget the snakes, my grandparents had a pair of blue racers living in their back yard and a king snake in the front yard and then there's the occasional pigmy rattler that I would get the distinct honor of hunting for my elderly neighbor (old people in Florida imagine that) and my favorite beach on Boca Grande has iguanas instead of squirrells. I think I have my own fair share of beasties :b
well, nothing big, unfortunetly. brown recluses, black widdows, and at one point a cat. i still dont know how the little buggar got in, but it was the same cat that bugged me at my old house. however, it was caught and put into the pound. so i adopted it.
...still have spiders though... lots of spiders >=(
One day I was coming home late from work and I was extremely tired, so I dropped my work clothes off in the hamper, settled in my bed in my skivvies, and proceeded to fall asleep.Quote:
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All of a sudden I felt multiple sharp pains in my rear end. It felt like someone was poking me with a needle, so I got up, turned on my light, and lo and behold a scorpion was sitting in between my sheets!
I smashed the sucker and thought nothing of it. I woke up in the middle of the night fully drenched in sweat, my body felt numb, and it was hard to swallow or speak. Luckily, I live about 3 blocks from a fire station, and since we're in the desert, they had a bark scorpion anti-venom.
So in short, the sting doesn't hurt, but it'll make you feel like crud (slight understatement). And the smaller their claws, the more potent the sting.
This guy...
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is more dangerous than this guy...
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Definately, the smaller the claws, the worse the venom is!!!! I've been studying scorps for ohh...almost 10 years now. Like any other predator, they have to minimize damage to themselves inflicted by thier standard prety. One way to do it, is to have a very toxic venom which paralyzes. The other, is to have massive claws that can crush a prey item before it inflicts damage. I've had many emperor scorpions in the past...(the black one that puddi posted...those are typically the ones you see for sale in pet shops.) I think I've had 5 or 6 of em, & never once did I see them sting anything!!!!!!!!! In fact, I could pick them up & let em crawl around on me & they were always very dosile. A few years back, I had a chance to pick up an arizona hairy scorp. I had that one only a day & he was trying to sting everything in sight!!!!! Very fascinating creatures...except if they are crawling around loose in your house!!! Scorrpion fun fact here: Less than 30% of scorpions are deadly to humans..however, some of the very nastys are super bad!!!! From my understanding, the ones we have in the states aren't to bad. If you go over to the middle East, some of the fat-tails they have there are responsible for like 70% of all fatalities annually. Again, for you guys who have to deal with them down south & have them loose in the house & stinging you, I can't blame you for hating them. But I really do find them fascinating!!! Hey, have any of you guys ever tried shining a black light on one???? They light up like a halloween glow stick!!!
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I found a scorpion in our hotel room in Carlsbad, New Mexico. Just a little bugger, hiding under the television. My mum tried chasing it outside but it came right back in, so she smashed it with my walking stick. And then she didn't want to sleep because she thought there were gonna be scorpions all over the room.
When I lived in Easton, Pennsylvania, we used to get lots and lots of critters from the woods behind our house. Rabbits, fox, deer, groundhogs, squirrels, owls, and dozens and dozens of wild turkeys! (I would toss bread to them, and when they'd finish I'd run after them and watch them fly into the trees)
In North Carolina, we got brown recluses. They're VERY poisoness, don't get bitten. They can kill you in a few minutes. I've seen people who've survived and were left with ugly scars as if the area bitten just rotted away. Once, when coming home from diner, there was this big spider on the kitchen floor. Maybe about the size of my palm. As soon as my mum saw it she let out this strange scream, kinda like "UWAAH!" She didn't want to smash it so she put a peanut butter jar over the spider, and it started biting the jar and leaving little droplets of I would guess to be venom, and we threw it outside.
I've been in El Paso, Texas for over a year now. There's doves and pidgeons that sit next to my window and just make this "Ooo! Oooo!" noise all day. And sometimes I can here the scratching of their feet as they run around on the roof. I think they're fighting... or mating. Right now, lots of freakin' little cockroaches! Ergh, they keep getting into the house and just dying.
Here's a question: Why do roaches always die on their backs? :?
The smaller the scorpion, the more venomous they are. Don't get stung by a baby!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Sareth Dorn
And about that spider, I would have murdered it several times with many different blunt objects.
Ick. I've heard there are brown recluses around here too. Just never seen one yet. GLAD I HAVEN'T!!! I HATE SPIDERS!!!!!!!!! But I've heard about the damage they can cause when they bite.
And about "the smaller they are, the more poisonous they are". That is TRUE!!! Also in snakes!!! I heard that baby pit vipers are much more poisonous than adults!!! I think that's why I am so afraid of snakes. Something must have happened when I was little when we ran into that nest of baby pit vipers in the sand box. And I must have blocked it out. I dunno. I just know that I am terrified of them!!! So afraid of them I just freeze.
BUT right now, we're dealing with bag worms. There are tons of their cocoons all over the trees!!!
Ok, where do i start...
1)We have the top three most venomous spiders in the world.
2) somewhere around the top three out of 5 most venomous snakes in th eworld.
3) 4 species (roundabouts) of man eating shark.
4) Portuguese man of war, otherwise known as the box jellyfish.
5) Crocodiles.
6) Dingoes
7) Stonefish
8) Blue ringed octopus.
9) Pauline Hanson (Look it up)
10) Giant Squid (we share/ have custody of with new zealand)
11) Goannas.
12) Wombats. While not aggressive, if they decide to headbut your knees you will lose them or if you run one over kiss the bottom of your car goodbye.
13) Kangaroos that Kamakazie in front of high speed cars.
14) Magpies that are mostly dangerous to the young and the elderly. Can be mistaken for a German Stouker diverbomber when attacking.
15) Bogans, otherwise known as "westies" or "yobbos" Often seen hanging around in shopping centers with butt hanging out of pants (visual assault) chain smoking (cancer causing) noise polluters. See also CUBBIES, aka Cashed Up Bogans. Much like their cousins except more money to waste on useless stuff.
To sum up: Everything here hates us, wants to maim, kill, eat, poison, steal our babies or otherwise harm us. God's lucky country indeed, but i wouldn't live anywhere else.
double post, whoops. :P
I just had my first kill of the season!! a HUGE brown recluse spider!!! Oh MY GOD!!!!!!! That thing had to be at least 3 inches across!!!!!!!!!!! It's body had to be as long as a quarter!!!!!!!!!
I hope I can sleep after that. My nerves are completely shot!!!!!!!
Nothing like waking up to go to the bathroom and seeing one of those on the bathroom wall!!
So as I'm walking to class today, I feel something pinch my tongue, then the roof of my mouth, I spit into my hand, and oh my, somehow a spider had gotten into my mouth.
I don't know what kind of spider it was, but it was small and black/brown. I flipped out as soon as I realised what happened, and then I started to suck my mouth as much as I could to remove any and all venom that was injected. Last I knew, I was in the hallway spitting for about 3 minutes.
My tongue right now has a little sore on the side, the roof of my mouth is fine though.
Well here in southern UT, we get the dozen or more black widows, wolf spiders, bees, paper wasps stuff like that, luckily at my house we've only encountered 2 scorpions in the past 19 years, just scooped'em up in a jar and let'em go someplace out in da hills,I did almost sit on one while repelling one day. I have caught and released several good sized tarantulas, two of em about 6-7 inches across, they were pretty cool.
I wouldn't consider them a pest but, every year we get 1 or 2 hummingbirds that nest in our yard, I love watch'n them hover around, and love the sounds they make. :)
Oh anyone have any good ways of get'n rid of goffers? I've tried traps, and soon the hose/drowing, but was wondering if anyone had so better way of doing it?
I HATE creapy critters!, The fact that I live in a bacement and I know theres spiders in my room, I need to do something this year cause last year the spiders got really bad outside, when the nights get really humid they like to come out and infest my porch.
Of all the things I cna not stand its spiders.
Spiders and wasps are the worst for me, I become completely irrational if they are around..! I have walked in on a jaguar in the night once, that was quite a cold-sweating adrenalin kick one could say.
Gophers? I heard that putting chewing gum down into the holes helps. They can't digest it and it blocks up the digestive system. Sounds strange, but apparently it works.
What kind fo gophers???? Up here in MN we have a few kinds...(pocket gophers, striped gophers etc. I used to trap pocket gophers for local farmers as a kid. I was actually quite good at it!!! (those are the kind that make the great big mounds that plug up farm machinery) I'm not shure on the other kinds, but if they are are pocket gophers I can definately tell you how to get rid of those.Quote:
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Gum ey? would never of thought of that lol. hhhmm not realy sure wat kinda gophers, the holes arn't that big, maybe a little larger than a fist. My dad set traps wit out me knowing and they didn't work, the dang thing just plug the holes and made a new one lol, so before I move in again I thought I'd get some help. Thanx jenchuan, and Jango's kid i sent pm.
Out here in So Cal when we had the nasty fires, it brought out the worst as far as creatures are concerned. we had Snakes, Coyotes and even Mountain lions were spotted in my area. we have at least several maulings a years by Mountains lions. this happens often when people get the urge to go for a run or hike in the valleys??
I lived in Arizona for a while and we had an episode with scorpions. we had an apartment in Tempe where the city workers were digging up the roads and they came in and decided to nest in our place. we were told to use a blacklight to find them and when we did, holy cow, there must have been close to 60 in our place alone. they were everywhere!!! in our bed, our closets, shoes, bathroom and kitchen. I don't know how we never got stung and I kept those things in a jar outside. there were even big scorpions with little babys on thier backs. I had an Indian buddy who came over for a couple of beers and when he saw the jar, he pulled the biggest one out and let him sting his hand about a half a dozen times. nothing happen to him at all, crazy bastard.
I would rather put up with big animals that could rip my head off than little multy or no legged creatures.
*shutter*
...do annoying Jedis count??? :lol
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I think finding a spider in my mouth would traumatize me. My mum told me about a little kid who came into the hospital complaining of an ear ache. They found two spiders in his ear that had been biting him. Nasty little buggers.Quote:
Originally Posted by GCNgamer128
got black widows here. Nasty buggers
Poor Scorpion. (I love Scorpions)Quote:
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...I love Spiders too, my favorite is the Sydney Funnel-Web. XD