Here are a few stories I have....
One time when I was about six years old, I was up visiting some relatives in Colorado. I was walking along this pond, and the heel in one of my foot kept throbbing in pain. (I wasn't wearing any socks)
I took off my shoe, and there was this black spider about an inch across that had been biting me the whole time.
My friend's dad was working on his car in his drive-way, and there was some tall grass bordering the paved drive-way. Well, he rested his legs in the grass, and before he knew it, he was covered in hundreds of ants. He started screaming, his wife got out the garden hose and sprayed all the ants off of him. He had to go to the emergency room after that.
My maternal grandparents once had a dog that was killed by bees.
My grandfather got his revenge on the bees by spraying the hive with gasoline and then throwing a match onto the hive.
At my home there are always those huge carpenter ants (they are about an inch and a half long and have a fuzzy yellow and black abdomen)
I always kill them if I see them because I don't want any biting my dogs, or me for that matter.
I once tried to stomp on one, but only succeeded in stomping off its abdomen. The head and the thorax were still moving after that.
Another time I swatted one with a fly swatter and it was viciously biting the fly swatter... needless to say, it frightened me.
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Flies are the WORST insects. To most people they are an annoyance, but to some they bring fatal diseases.
At my home, we have these mosquito trappers that emit CO2 gas to attract the mosquitoes, and then it traps the mosquitoes. I would say we collect a few hundred of the mosquitoes every few weeks in each mosquito trap. We live near a creak, so that's why we have so many mosquitoes.
I have a hobby of swatting flies. I love going out in my backyard on a summer day and seeing how many flies I can swat.
One time after swatting this large fly, maggots crawled out of it. Ewww....
Since fire ants are non-native to north america, I take great pride in eradicating them. Back in highschool I used to carry around in my car trunk a package of Amdro Fire Ant Killer. That stuff worked miracles. I would pour some of the yellow flakes on a fire ant nest, and in less than a week the entire mound would be dead. I killed off probably a good 50 fire ant mounds doing this.
Another time I took my car and drove over a huge ant pile that was on the grass above the curb in the parking lot. I then drove around the parking lot, getting ants everywhere.
The next day the mound that I ran over with my car still was alive...
Heh, this one is not really scary, but I will tell it anyway.
It was the summer when I was about 13 years old. I had a box turtle (still have him), and I hadn't cleaned his cage in a while. So these fruit flies were just multiplying and multiplying in my pet's cage. I finally cleaned his cage out because the problem got so severe, but the flies still kept coming out in droves. I couldn't brush my teeth without there being fruit flies on my tooth brush. They were all over the mirror. The flies managed to get into my sister's room across the hall where she had her guinea pigs. The fruit flies started growing in that cage as well.
No matter how many times we cleaned those cages, the flies kept coming back in hundreds.
It go so bad that my parents bought two insect bombs, sealed off our rooms, and let the insect bombs go off.
Insect bombs are basically these cans of insecticide that gets released all at once, and it fills the entire room with insecticide. It is considered a last resort.
Well, the insect bombs worked. All the fruit flies were dead, and all we were left with was to air out the room for a while and a massive vacuuming job.
BTW, while we let the insect bombs go off, the guinea pigs and the box turtle were safely out of the rooms, along with their respective cages. We cleaned out the cages while the insect bombs went off.
Never had fruit fly problems go out of control after that.
Well, enough of my stories, let's hear yours!
One time when I was about six years old, I was up visiting some relatives in Colorado. I was walking along this pond, and the heel in one of my foot kept throbbing in pain. (I wasn't wearing any socks)
I took off my shoe, and there was this black spider about an inch across that had been biting me the whole time.
My friend's dad was working on his car in his drive-way, and there was some tall grass bordering the paved drive-way. Well, he rested his legs in the grass, and before he knew it, he was covered in hundreds of ants. He started screaming, his wife got out the garden hose and sprayed all the ants off of him. He had to go to the emergency room after that.
My maternal grandparents once had a dog that was killed by bees.
My grandfather got his revenge on the bees by spraying the hive with gasoline and then throwing a match onto the hive.
At my home there are always those huge carpenter ants (they are about an inch and a half long and have a fuzzy yellow and black abdomen)
I always kill them if I see them because I don't want any biting my dogs, or me for that matter.
I once tried to stomp on one, but only succeeded in stomping off its abdomen. The head and the thorax were still moving after that.
Another time I swatted one with a fly swatter and it was viciously biting the fly swatter... needless to say, it frightened me.
.
.
.
.
Flies are the WORST insects. To most people they are an annoyance, but to some they bring fatal diseases.
At my home, we have these mosquito trappers that emit CO2 gas to attract the mosquitoes, and then it traps the mosquitoes. I would say we collect a few hundred of the mosquitoes every few weeks in each mosquito trap. We live near a creak, so that's why we have so many mosquitoes.
I have a hobby of swatting flies. I love going out in my backyard on a summer day and seeing how many flies I can swat.
One time after swatting this large fly, maggots crawled out of it. Ewww....
Since fire ants are non-native to north america, I take great pride in eradicating them. Back in highschool I used to carry around in my car trunk a package of Amdro Fire Ant Killer. That stuff worked miracles. I would pour some of the yellow flakes on a fire ant nest, and in less than a week the entire mound would be dead. I killed off probably a good 50 fire ant mounds doing this.
Another time I took my car and drove over a huge ant pile that was on the grass above the curb in the parking lot. I then drove around the parking lot, getting ants everywhere.
The next day the mound that I ran over with my car still was alive...
Heh, this one is not really scary, but I will tell it anyway.
It was the summer when I was about 13 years old. I had a box turtle (still have him), and I hadn't cleaned his cage in a while. So these fruit flies were just multiplying and multiplying in my pet's cage. I finally cleaned his cage out because the problem got so severe, but the flies still kept coming out in droves. I couldn't brush my teeth without there being fruit flies on my tooth brush. They were all over the mirror. The flies managed to get into my sister's room across the hall where she had her guinea pigs. The fruit flies started growing in that cage as well.
No matter how many times we cleaned those cages, the flies kept coming back in hundreds.
It go so bad that my parents bought two insect bombs, sealed off our rooms, and let the insect bombs go off.
Insect bombs are basically these cans of insecticide that gets released all at once, and it fills the entire room with insecticide. It is considered a last resort.
Well, the insect bombs worked. All the fruit flies were dead, and all we were left with was to air out the room for a while and a massive vacuuming job.
BTW, while we let the insect bombs go off, the guinea pigs and the box turtle were safely out of the rooms, along with their respective cages. We cleaned out the cages while the insect bombs went off.
Never had fruit fly problems go out of control after that.
Well, enough of my stories, let's hear yours!
