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| Topic Started: Jul 17 2008, 11:00 AM (115 Views) | |
| New Harumf | Jul 17 2008, 11:00 AM Post #1 |
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OK, out for a cigarette and what do I spot on the side of the building: Posted Image That is a polyphemus moth. Much bigger than the picture implies, about the size of my hand. So, I stroll over to take a better look, and what do you think is following me on the wall? Posted Image Now, the moth startled me, but seeing a brown recluse scares me. I am not a bug person, and do not like little crawly things that can kill me, particularly spiders, which are my numero uno phobia. I leave and head back to the safety of my desk. Edited by New Harumf, Jul 17 2008, 11:00 AM.
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| The CNNP | Jul 17 2008, 03:55 PM Post #2 |
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I detest bugs, I hate mosquitos, wasps, hornets, bees, and spiders deserve the wrath of God himself. I understand perfectly about that. So long as I have a trusty shoe, flip flop, or boot; I can combat the evil in my home or my classroom. |
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| Catholic Europe | Jul 17 2008, 04:35 PM Post #3 |
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Thank God I live in England! |
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| New Harumf | Jul 17 2008, 05:26 PM Post #4 |
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The moth was too big for a shoe. I was afraid if I swatted it I'd make it mad. It was the size of a good sized bat! |
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| The CNNP | Jul 17 2008, 05:38 PM Post #5 |
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So long as bugs stay away from me I can co-exist with them. Otherwise, I will not hesitate to hunt them down wherever they go. And yes, in Cleveland, MS; we have bugs the size of birds and at night you can see in the flood lights what looks like rain...it is an unholy torrent of bugs. Yes, you'd better believe that using a bat is perfectly acceptable. I've used my lighted cigar(ettes) as weapons against them as well. As the song says, "Welcome to the Jungle..." |
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| Menhad | Jul 17 2008, 05:40 PM Post #6 |
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Ha! Down in Florida we have cockroaches the size of your foot, Black widows and Brown Recluses every where, and the god awful mosquitoes which carry off small children. Posted Image |
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| Paradise | Jul 17 2008, 05:52 PM Post #7 |
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I like spiders. When I find one in my home, I usually let it live or I release it outside. There is one insect I dislike however, and it's the earwig. Can't stand these ones. |
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| Menhad | Jul 17 2008, 06:15 PM Post #8 |
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Those things are creepy looking... |
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| Tristan da Cunha | Jul 17 2008, 06:22 PM Post #9 |
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I am researching the possibility of incorporating insects into my diet. |
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| The CNNP | Jul 17 2008, 08:06 PM Post #10 |
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Well, you'll get full in Cleveland, MS. We don't have regular cockroaches, oh nooooo! We've got old ghetto, Negro roaches. Roaches that braid up their antennas. SO big, one woke me up one night after heavy drinking to tell me, "hey, ese! I left my keys on your dresser! Don't look at me like that homie!" I mean just straight up project roaches! I don't get too specific when it comes to bugs, in general...I'll kill it! |
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| Paradise | Jul 17 2008, 08:36 PM Post #11 |
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But spiders are useful, they capture and kill the other bugs of your home! |
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| NRE | Jul 17 2008, 10:42 PM Post #12 |
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I have to say out of all the world's horrors few things creep me the F#$% out like bugs. I don't know why, but I just can't stand the darn things. Down in my neck of the woods, especially when you get closer to the river there no telling what type of manifested horror your likely to find. However, the worst has to be the waterbugs. They breed in the hundreds of pine trees we have and I think a great deal of them swim around in the toxic waste of our local paper mill and GE plant due to their size. That or their some prehistoric horrors that have been released due to recent land development. I usually go for shoe, flipflop, bood, newspaper, book, and sometimes the vacuum if I'm fast enough. If I had my way however, I'd simply just grap a shotgun. |
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| Comrade Queen | Jul 18 2008, 01:38 AM Post #13 |
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You are all a bunch of sissies. Scared of puny little American insects and arachnids. Seriously, you should be grateful that we all don't live in fucking Australia. Posted Image Very, very grateful.... Edited by Comrade Queen, Aug 13 2010, 05:01 PM.
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| The CNNP | Jul 18 2008, 06:46 AM Post #14 |
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Everybody has a weakness. On the football field, I lived to hit somebody as hard as possible. Had a chance to earn a scholarship to major universities in the SEC to play Mike Linebacker...all that tenacity and hatred; then to see a spider a cower! :sad: :lol: Scy, I am glad you brought that up too. You won't see my Latin ass anywhere near Australia. They have some serious biological issues. Just about everything can seriously harm you or kill you. |
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| A.Q. | Jul 18 2008, 08:15 AM Post #15 |
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I like bugs, you have to to work in landscaping ^^ , ... just not ticks. My sister is marrying an Australian, I AM NOT looking forward to visiting. I hear they don't know what toilet paper is. :P |
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| New Harumf | Jul 18 2008, 08:27 AM Post #16 |
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Yeah, meanest bugs in the world down under! I'll avoid it. Menhad, the other thing I remember about Fla was the lizzards - they were everywhere - you couldn't cut your grass without spitting lizzard guts all over the place - yuck! When I lived in New Mexico I was sharing a former TB clinic as an apartment (Doc Holiday died there!), and the walls were, well pourous (sp?). I would wake up mornings with some lizzard or spider or big bug or scorpion or vinegarone sitting on my chest staring at me! Creeped me out something fierce. I did learn that Tarantulas were relatively harmless - they were way too big to squish, but you could punt them long distances, which was a favorite passtime of mine. As for earwigs - I dispise them because of what they do to my garden. Yeah they look creepy, but I'd find their hiding places, get out the Sevin, and nuke them until there was a pile or corpses a foot high! But spiders in general - major creep factor, they are all poisonous, and in spite of your supposed beneficial view of them Paradise I'd rather kill them if they are in my home. My room 101, if you get the reference. |
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| The CNNP | Jul 18 2008, 08:53 AM Post #17 |
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I worked 3 jobs related to landscaping, although it wasn't by choice it was to help my family earn money wherever I could. One was for DeSoto County Schools, I worked with the maintenance department cutting grass one summer at 2 schools. The other, I cut sod and it was HOT!!! Another, was working in southeastern Louisiana pulling up old railroad cross ties out of a swampy ravine...that one was unpleasant and HARSH! Ticks, chiggers, fleas, spiders, snakes, gators, oh my! But the Cajun humor was more than enough to get me through that one! :lol: Well, I can't say if they don't know what toilet paper is, but something tells me you'd better watch what you wipe yourself with down under! :lol: :shy: |
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