Demon Centipedes

[ChshreCat]

Anything with more legs than a dog needs to be stomped on and sent back to whatever level of Hell it came from! The more legs they have, the more they freak me out!

We used to go razor clam digging all the time when I was a kid. If you've never done it, here's how it goes. You walk along the wet sand when the tide is going out and watch for a little dimple in the sand that tells you there's a clam a couple feet down. You dig a few shovelfulls of dirt to start your hole and then get down on your knees or belly and start digging the wet sand out with your bare hands to find the clam. You have to be fast because as soon as you start, the clam starts digging for the sea. When your finger brushes the clam's shell (careful, they don't call them razor clams for nothing) you clamp on to it and fight the suction of the wet sand to get it out.

Well, I found out the hard way that millipedes live in sand, are about as big around as your finger, nest in groups (LARGE groups) and they leave the same kind of dimple in the sand that a razor clam does. If "the willies" could be terminal, I'd have died right there on the beach.

 

[the bunnay]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! That is all.

 

[Rick500]

Well, I've never dug for a razor clam, and now I certainly never will.

 

[uglygoat]

when we first moved into this home, it had been empty for years. there were huge huge huge wolf spiders in the basement (about the size of half dollars). one morning, i went down the basement stairs, and there at the landing were three small mice stiff as a board, with puncture marks on their bellies and five or six of these huge spiders sucking out their precisous bodily fluids... the mice probably only just were big enough to be out of the nest, but they were breakfast.

we've gotten rid of the mice, but i tend to leave the spiders alone. they don't give me the wilies, and if they stay in the basement, they are pretty much free to roam.

 

[Evan!]

Holy sh*t...I never knew wolf spiders went after mammals like that. You sure they're wolf spiders and not some of those evil cocksuckers from Arachnophobia?

 

[Evan!]

Yep, and don't forget to check your shoes every morning for scorpions!

And a new one I just learned... check your lawn prior to mowing for yellow jackets nests! (Different thread.)

I think it's about time our tax dollars go towards complete and total eradication of useless evil bastards like the tiger mosquito and yellowjackets. Can't they just figure out some kind of chemical that only kills those two useless pieces of sh*t? And crop dust the entire US with it? That's one service I'd be happy to give my tax dollars to support. :cross:

 

[Julohan]

Thread resurrection!!!!

Starting to see spiders and centipedes in the basement, now that spring is here. I hate insects. Any recommendations for products to use to git rid of these nasty things?

 

[ChshreCat]

Thread resurrection!!!!

Starting to see spiders and centipedes in the basement, now that spring is here. I hate insects. Any recommendations for products to use to git rid of these nasty things?

Fire.

 

[Julohan]

Fire.

That may be plan B.