We have a huge pest problem

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MrsK2002

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We have a huge pest problem at home.We now have black widow spiders.....*****shudders*****.I saw mama in the garage as I went to bolt the garage door shut.She is as big,if not slightly bigger than a quarter.In other words...she is huge!!!We have her babies in the house.The other night my brother-in-law was out side with my mother-in-law and he screamed like a girl because he saw two wolf spiders the size of his hand.Gross.And now we have black racer snakes.My husband killed one in the back yard on Sunday.It was as tall as I am,and I am 5'3".Today my father-in-law was screaming for help because there was another black racer in the garage.I had been looking up types of snakes on Google and this definitely was a black racer because when it opened its mouth,it was pink inside its mouth.My brother-in-law picked it up with BBQ tongs and released it in the field across the street.
Welcome to beautiful Florida.....yippee!!!!:bigok: :bigok:
 
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:rofl: I caught this when it was briefly posted in Cedar's b'day thread! :rofl:

:hmmmm2: I was wondering what the connection was........couldn't understand the punchline :stupid:

BTW Time to call the exterminator! :eek:
 
Are you from Florida? I just figured this came with the teriitory. My sister moved down there. When we visit we have to watch out for the scorpions! We've also walked into the kitchen and seen lizards crawling up the wall. After a while you just get used to it.
BTW- we have black widows around my house too. So far all have been outside. (in NC)
 
you must live in a somewhat secluded area and not a subdivision. ive lived in florida my entire life and i swear woman you have more problems w/bugs, reptiles, etc. than anybody i know. ill send my brother over to your house he loves bugs, snakes, gators, whatever. hell catch them for you. seriously though, youll get used to it and after a while you probably wont even notice them for the most part.
 
Oh my goodness! You poor thing, you have been through the mill haven't you with all your creepy crawling critters!:worry: I had heard that Florida was a bit "buggy infested" but not to this extent. Shucks, called the Terminex man, or some local exterminator. We have the cousin to the black widow, the brown recluse here on the island. I have been nailed four times by those suckers....totally nasty bites! Snakes? Yeah we gottem too. At night, we walk with flashlights and lanterns because we live in the boonies, no lights. Never know what will come out to play around here! Be careful, and be well.:wave:
 
When I lived in Florida I changed my son's diaper on the floor and when I picked him up a little scorpion ran away. I used to pay kids .50 each to catch me chameleons for inside to catch the bugs.
I'd Google for a professional black widow exterminator product. I did this for "water bugs" as they are called in New York or "palmetto bugs" as they are called in Florida but they are really big freaking roaches. The stuff works within hours and they are gone for months. For the German cockroach I found another 2 products. One kills them and the other attacks their reproductive cycle. Awesome.
It's not bad to find that you have roaches - it's just bad to keep them.
 
JerryP said:
When I lived in Florida I changed my son's diaper on the floor and when I picked him up a little scorpion ran away. I used to pay kids .50 each to catch me chameleons for inside to catch the bugs.
I'd Google for a professional black widow exterminator product. I did this for "water bugs" as they are called in New York or "palmetto bugs" as they are called in Florida but they are really big freaking roaches. The stuff works within hours and they are gone for months. For the German cockroach I found another 2 products. One kills them and the other attacks their reproductive cycle. Awesome.
It's not bad to find that you have roaches - it's just bad to keep them.
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When I grew up in Manhattan the roaches and water bugs were so disgusting and so prevalent. They were so gross and so hard to get rid of. My flesh still crawls at the thought! :eek: I think that has changed a bit though with the products they have now......now rats seem to run rampant there! :argh:

Those are 2 good things about where we are now, no roaches :bigok: and rat sightings are rare.


*One funny story from childhood. My mother had a friend who loved to paint her apartment. Painted each room with the change of each season..:doh: One day she gets a phone call from another friend saying that she had 'her roach' over there and she should keep them to herself! How did she know it was 'her roach'? Well, she had borrowed a radio from her and out walks a pink roach! She had just painted a room pink! :p

Eeewwww! but funny..:rofl:**
 
What you need is a swarm of lizards.


"Girls like swarms of things, right?"
-Phillip J. Fry.
(anyone else watch Futurama?)
 
Well. it could be worse... You could live in Arizona! We have Rattlesnakes up the wazoo! Our friend got bit a few weeks ago outside his house when trying to retrieve puppy's from under it. The next day, a gal down the road's dog got bit, ands then bit again the following day! Needless to say...the dog died.:( Later that evening, my husband killed one right outside the door while I was at the neighbors a few doors down! They are out in force! I'm afraid to even take the dogs out! We have Scorpions too! Red Biting Ants (OUCH!) & Cockroaches? Ewww! But, OH YEAH! I see em here & there. Haven't found a chemical to vanquish em yet! Got any ideas? Plus It's 112 degrees outside right now! Wanna trade spaces?:help:
 
Oh MrsK, you should consider moving back to MI. ;) No that we don't have our fair share of spiders. In fact that is the main reason I didn't plant any flowers this years. I'd get half a row in and see a spider and have to stop for a bit. :eek:
 
precocious said:
Those are 2 good things about where we are now, no roaches :bigok: and rat sightings are rare.
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I take care of a building in the Times Square area and the only thing I get, in the fall, are mice. I just trap them. Now Florida has rats - they live in the palm trees. If you have mice it's a sure thing you don't have rats because rats eat mice as well as other rats. I once ridded an old hotel of rats in Florida. After days and days of lots of trapped rats someone let me know that they saw a mouse in the pantry. Mice aren't as smart as rats so it was easy to wrap up the job after that.
 
JerryP said:
I take care of a building in the Times Square area and the only thing I get, in the fall, are mice. I just trap them. Now Florida has rats - they live in the palm trees. If you have mice it's a sure thing you don't have rats because rats eat mice as well as other rats. I once ridded an old hotel of rats in Florida. After days and days of lots of trapped rats someone let me know that they saw a mouse in the pantry. Mice aren't as smart as rats so it was easy to wrap up the job after that.
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So I should be happy for the occasional field mouse! :)

Thanks Jerry! ;)
 
Lions and Tigers and Bears! Oh my!

In NJ our biggest pests are in the Statehouse.
 
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