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The horror!

diamondlil

diamondlil

Mice! They taste so nice!
I've had to do a mass clean-out today, because of a fly infestation in the snake tubs:puke01:
There was no regurges to attract them, and I only feed Mr Bonney in his home, which had no flies at all. I can only guess that it was the snake-poop they were after. I've treated their new bedding with diatomaceous earth powder, which I have got in case of mites. It'll be interesting to see if it works as well as it's supposed to.
For the 5 million flies that were buzzing around my room, I sprayed the net curtains and lampshades with a cage and hutch spray insect killer, now that there's the snakes, gecko, treefrog, cockateil and kittens in here, as well as the dog and myself, I don't want to risk using general purpose fly spray. Hopefully they'll land on the treated areas and die. I've been using the spray this way in my bedroom with good results, to keep flies away from the mouse farm without poisoning us as we sleep.
 
Ew.. flies...
I know how you feel.. in a way. My house is infested with flying ants and they come back each summer, too. I have a huge phobia of most insects so it wasn't good. I don't think you want to hear the whole story but when I was alone at home only to wake up with them crawling on me AND my pets I started crying and I hurt my arm very badly as well whilst trying to kill them all..
Seems pretty funny now.. but I was horrified... Stayed up 'till 9 am watching episodes of Doctor Who and Never Mind the Buzzcocks...
 
My worst insect story involves long hair, being drunk, and blundering into fly-paper. I actually had to be cut out of it by equally drunk friends all screaming with laughter.
 
diamondlil said:
My worst insect story involves long hair, being drunk, and blundering into fly-paper. I actually had to be cut out of it by equally drunk friends all screaming with laughter.
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Those fly stripes that hang from the cieling are a total pain if you have a low cieling!! In my old house it seemed like someone was walking into it. One time my niece ended up with her hair caught in it... when we got her free she had dead flies in her hair, too. I died laughing. :dgrin:
 
SnakesRule1234 said:
Ew.. flies...
I know how you feel.. in a way. My house is infested with flying ants and they come back each summer, too. I have a huge phobia of most insects so it wasn't good. I don't think you want to hear the whole story but when I was alone at home only to wake up with them crawling on me AND my pets I started crying and I hurt my arm very badly as well whilst trying to kill them all..
Seems pretty funny now.. but I was horrified... Stayed up 'till 9 am watching episodes of Doctor Who and Never Mind the Buzzcocks...
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I LOVE Dr Who, but its not a show to watch if you want to sleep. Alot of the things he encounters completely freak me out!

I've had those flies before. Not this year yet (knock on wood) but I suspect that the maggots had a hand in killing one of my freshly pipped eggs 2 years ago.
 
We had flies in the winter 2 years ago. In our house we have quite a few large plants. In the summer the plants decorate the patio, in the winter they fill the house. About 2 weeks after the plants were brought in we noticed flies, just a couple every day, but it was cold outside. One day I came home and there was about 20 flies in the house, after that day they stopped for the rest of the winter.
It seemed odd that we never had that happen before, Some of the plants had been shuffled back and forth for 15 years. At first we didn't realize where they were coming from. I thought some animal had died under the house and was sustaining a fly colony!
 
As of a couple of years ago, every bag of bark chips I buy seems to come with an infestation of eggs for tiny black flies. If I use it without baking it first, my house is buzzing until I clear it out again and throw it away. It's a right pain to have to spend days baking the stuff, but it's the only way of avoiding those wretched little pests whizzing about, two inches from my eyes.

Doctor Who.... I'm a HUGE fan. If you don't like creepy-crawlies, make sure you avoid the classic stories from the Seventies like The Green Death (giant maggots) and Planet of the Spiders (giant ... er... spiders). New Who is definitely much darker though, and naturally the effects are a wee bit better (even if still pretty low-budget). It's actually given me nightmares a couple of times in the last three years.
 
Eeew. I had a bad experience with a mass hatching of maggots in my kitchen- they got started under the dog water bowl. I'll never have carpet in a kitchen again!! And a friend of mine used to buy dogfood in bulk and keep it in her garage. She had the attack of the "magapillars," she called them.
 
Termite swarmers. Coming from somewhere INSIDE the house. Shop-vac comes in handy sometimes. Shop-vac 1, termite swarmers 0 (but they were still nasty!!!)

~Katie
 
Ewww, flies. I hate flies and ants. I swear they're attracted to the snake poop. I just had an ant issue, so I dumped out all of the fairly new aspen on cleaning day, and replaced it with paper towels. The few ants that were in two of the cages freaked me out.
 
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