Spiders and you: A tale of mass genocide by suction.
So I'm playing BF2142 last night (finally picked it up on the urgings of Hanta. It really is pretty good) and a spider had decended on a thread to hang in between me and my screen. Now I don't spend a lot of time in my computer room with the lights on as I'm usually upstairs on my couch when I'm not at work however at this point these spiders seemed to be a disturbingly oft-recurring problem. I flip the switch and look up and the little bastards had made a ceiling city. Hundreds of the tiny little things in an intricate mesh spanning a good 4 feet across the ceiling to the light. I don't mind a few spiders in my house, they tend to keep the other more annoying bugs away but sometimes too much is too much.
The dustbuster made short work of them, although I'm fearful of retaliation.
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Next time, use a shop vac. Or a flamethrower.
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You realize they're going to breed and hatch thousands in your dustbuster now right? Next time you go to use it expect them to spill forth as from a cornucopia of spiders.
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I thought this was going to be an Earth Defense Force 2017 thread... the spiders suck you dry in that game too.
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I was on my pc at work when I noticed 8 eyes looking back at me from on top of my monitor. I felt like he was waiting for the right time to spring. I don't like spiders, if he would have jumped on me I'd have screamed like a little girl.
I screamed like a little girl just thinking about that.
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Did you say this was on your ceiling?
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I would've used something a little stronger than a dustbuster. Seriously. A full-size vaccuum with a hose will probably kill them but they might not get banged around enough in the dustbuster to do the job and they can just crawl back out.
On the plus side, they'll probably go away one way or another unless your house has enough insects in it to feed that many spiders. And if it does, WTF?
NOTE: This is not a doodle bug.
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Not that many insects, but I do live in the basement (it's a finished basement, skip the pale nerd jokes
) so the spiders tend to congregate downstairs. It's not the spiders that get to me though, it's when one of these scurries under the bed...
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Next time you reach for the dustbuster, don't be surprised to find it encased in a spidery cocoon.
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lol, psi-storm em
was house hunting this weekend, found a house we love, but its infested with wasps... if it was only 1 hive I'd have gotten on the gear and tried to kill them myself, but I counted a dozen hives
gonna need backup.
My dustbuster is a Dyson, so if they dont get roughed up enough on entry we just crank on the jucie until we have a nice spider puree
Thanks dude Ive been tryin to figure out wtf those things were for 2 years (we see maybe one or two a year). Sound like they are pretty beneficial...guess I can let the kids out of the bubble
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Killing wasp nests was one of my dad's favorite bonding activities. So, you know, that could be good. I guess.
(It was mostly about playing chicken as to who would run away first.)
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Seriously dude, wash out that dustbuster. I know firsthand what will happen if you don't and you don't want a piece of that.
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The house Centipedes despite being fast and creepy eat all the other more destructive bugs in the house, and I've never been bitten by one. They just suprise you because those suckers move fast.
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I hate these little bastards. My last apartment was infested with them. Most are not very big but once i was laying on the bed when i spotted a freaking huge one about 6 inches long running along the wall. I jumped up to splatter his ass but i missed .I moved around everything in the room to find him and when i finally killed him it left a huge mess.
You should probably change it back to "classic" from "throttle monkey" then.
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After seeing what insects that they eat, I sort of feel bad for flushing them down the toilet. I have a huge spider outside of my front window that I'm going to have to post a picture of. I am not sure whether to leave the thing alone or kill it. I think it is an orb weaver judging from its size and the type of web, but I'm not sure.
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Are spiders more protein or carbohydrates? What would Survivorman have done?!?!
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I'm glad to hear that those house centipedes have some redeeming qualities. I've seen a few around my place, but significantly fewer than the past couple of years.
All this science I don't understand. It's just my job five days a week.
I'm so glad I didn't click that link. Not only do I hate centipedes, I'm deathly afraid of them. If I ever see one in my new apartment I'll have an emotional breakdown.
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I think I just...wait lemme check...yup...I sh*t myself.
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We have ants in our place, and a few spiders. Nothing really major..the spiders are all of the common house variety, and the ants are not red ants...just big effing black worker ants of at least two different types that I have seen.
And then we have a couple of 6-7" centipedes to keep them in line. We find dead ants and spiders around the house in corners...so despite the creepy appearance, I am not real interested in hunting them down...better than bringing in the Exterminator.
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House centipedes are very beneficial and really quite beautiful. The Japanese consider them good luck (the god of fortune is a centipede, I think) and sell them as pets, and while they can bite it's less painful than a beesting and they're very non-aggressive.
But they do move very quickly and are creepy, so I usually squish them when I see them.
NOTE: This is not a doodle bug.
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Yeah, but the Japanese also say it's lucky for a bird to sh*t on you.
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Bad bug stories:
Once in a cheap Galveston motel, I left a half-finished coke can out. The next morning, I see a huge cockroach crawl smooth out of it. I have a hard time ever drinking out of a coke (read:soda) can that I "might" have taken my eyes off for even a couple of seconds.
When I was renting a room from a friend of mine, I was sitting around watching football (A Jets-Miami game) when I felt something crawl across my body. Turned out, it was a spider, making his way across the new hill that had formed in the living room floor. I reflexively brushed him off, reflexively killed him, and reflexively put him in a plastic baggy for identification. Little bastard happend to be a Brown Recluse
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Bed bug stories? How's that going, Certis? Night terrors still?
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In that thoroughly Japanese-y game of Otogi 2 there are these two really huge beastly centipedes, and they're not friendly at all.
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