Comments on: Name This Bug

By: freakgirl

freakgirl — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:42:36 +0000

Lara, I’m never peeing at your house again.

By: Lara

Lara — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:22:39 +0000

Dude, y’all got nothin on us! I was sitting on the throne in the bathroom the other week during a cold spell counting about 10 stink bugs, 20 box elder bugs, 12 ladybugs, a couple of black flies, a huge spider (and a partridge in a pear tree). They were on the hanging plant, window, light fixtures, vanity, toilet paper roll & shower curtain. Lucy came in to purr around my feet with a tick on the back of her head….I just about lost my mind. I vacuumed up every bug I could find in the house that day…hundreds. When you vacuum a stink bug, they smell like cilantro…very refreshing! Little bastardos like to fall into my wine glass as I’m drinking, too. Sometimes bugs must die.

And yes, getting bit by an assassin bug is supposed to be super painful, but they are very beneficial bugs. They kill Japanese beetles and don’t normally bother humans.

By: Rona

Rona — Thu, 01 May 2008 20:12:36 +0000

heh!

By: GeekBoy

GeekBoy — Thu, 01 May 2008 20:01:04 +0000

Rona, just to pay you back for telling Freakgirl that there are bugs living in our walls, I’m sorry to inform you that there’s been a recent spate of monkey sightings in New Jersey this spring. I hear they like to hide in closets and under beds … some have even been known to establish entire colonies in attics and basements. So beware.

There, now we’re even.

By: Soosan

Soosan — Thu, 01 May 2008 20:00:04 +0000

I am so happy I no longer live in an area ridden with ticks. TICKS. Bugs are one thing… but bugs bore into you? hell to the no.

By: freakgirl

freakgirl — Thu, 01 May 2008 19:56:24 +0000

IN THE WALLS? IN THE WALLS?

Yay, I’ll never sleep again.

My logical brain understands they are harmless, but my fragile girlie brain can’t stand the sight of them. I have such a fear of bugs molesting me while I sleep.

Last week while we were biking, Beth told me I had a huge bug on my shirt and I nearly rode into the Delaware River trying to flick it off me without actually having to look at it.

By: Rona

Rona — Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:23 +0000

OHMYGOD we have the same ones and they freak me the fuck out. I explained them to our exterminator, and he said they wake up in the warmer weather and get confused and come inside instead of outside (apparently they slumber in the walls during the winter). He said they’re harmless, like lady bugs, and he wouldn’t bother spraying for them - I guess it wouldn’t do anything except maybe give us cancer. I kill the fuckers, and get grossed out when their shell cracks, but i just HATE them so much.
They never stunk, though.

By: ali

ali — Thu, 01 May 2008 19:16:59 +0000

GB - wait til she steps on it and kicks it at you!! the smell is definitely larger than life.

FG - my boyfriend kindly relocates bugs. i kill them. mainly b/c i had an assassin bug in my house that i captured under a glass to see if i could figure out what it was (this was back in my bug relocation days!). my cat knocked over the glass and it bit her - it was AWFUL for her!

like the old saying goes - one bad apple ruins the bunch. and now all bugs must die!

By: GeekBoy

GeekBoy — Thu, 01 May 2008 18:51:31 +0000

Rain, just so you know, that bug is bigger on the screen than it was in real life. It was only about the size of a fingernail, if that. Not sure if that assuages your fear at all.

By: Rain

Rain — Thu, 01 May 2008 18:06:48 +0000

I name that bug “AAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHH!”

Seriously, if that thing was crawling around my bedroom, I’d just have to up and move.