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Tiny home invaders!

[(Anonymous)]

Have you ever had to deal with mice, spider hatchlings, fleas or the like in your home?

Were you a fearless exterminator, or did you need someone else to do the killing?

Re: Tiny home invaders!

[philstar22]

Things I have dealt with: mice, rats, cockroaches, giant cockroaches, flying giant cockroaches, spiders, giant spiders, and ants. Exterminator for the spiders because they were poisonous and huge. Traps for the mice and rats. Roach chalk for the roaches. I was always the resident insect killer as a kid, so I've always dealt with smaller insects myself.

Re: Tiny home invaders!

[(Anonymous)]

I was resident insect capturer, too. I'd just be minding my own business when:

"ANON! ANON, HEEEEEEEELP! HURRY!"

*sprints to sister's room*

"GET IT! KILL IT!"

"Where? What is it?"

World's tiniest moth. :|

Re: Tiny home invaders!

[(Anonymous)]

if you don't want to use poison, roaches hate the smell of bay leaves. put bay leaves under the kitchen sink, behind the stove, all the food cupboards and any other places roaches hang out. I do this all the time. there hasn't been a roach in my place in years.

Re: Tiny home invaders!

[(Anonymous)]

Made this thread because my town is experiencing ROACHAGEDDON. Go outside, they crawl over your feet, you step on them every few metres. They're getting inside too, and they're huge.

I swear I've killed the same giant cockroach five times.
I can hear them at night because we have hardwood floors, and they make this scuttling sound.

I hate summer.

Re: Tiny home invaders!

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe if you stop killing them they'll decide they like you and save you from being illegally evicted and help you with your relationship problems and stuff.

...idk man, I got nothing

Re: Tiny home invaders!

[(Anonymous)]

Some years ago we had to move in a rush to an apartment that appeared to be in ok conditions.

After moving in everything was fine, until we opened the cabined in the master bathroom and found hundreds of mosquitos.

The owner refused to do something and about it and we didn't have money for an exterminator, so in the end we had to take things in our hands.
It took months to stop the infestation and during that time that bathroom was unusable.

Re: Tiny home invaders!

[(Anonymous)]

My house got double-teamed one summer: yellowjackets in the outdoor lighting, wasps in the rafters of the garage. Even if I wasn't deathly allergic, there's no way in hell you could have gotten me to deal with it myself, haha. I called exterminators. Apparently it'd just been a really aggressive season for them.

Re: Tiny home invaders!

[nightscale]

I've got cats so I'm used to dealing with fleas, put anti-flea stuff on them and it's all good. Im used to mice as well, especially live mice as one of my cats specialises in bringing in live ones so she can drop them in the house and watch the humans dash about madly trying to catch it before it gets lost inside.

Spiders on the other hand I have to get someone else to deal with for me, and the feckers seem to know I'm scared of them as they appear around me the most.(I have on more than one occasion had to abandon my room in the middle of the night and sleep downstairs because I lost a spider in it).

Re: Tiny home invaders!

[(Anonymous)]

When I first moved out of my parents' house, I rented a duplex with two other women. A few weeks after we moved in, one of my roommates started getting bites all over her. At first, she thought they were just mosquito bites, since it was summer, but then she started getting them in places that she'd had completely covered. Turned out there were bed bugs in her room. Landlord wouldn't do anything about it. He claimed that they weren't there before, so we must have brought them in. But, no, we definitely hadn't. First of all, none of us had had a problem before moving into this place, and we all had mattresses that had been bought new years before. Second of all, the exterminator confirmed that the infestation was in the baseboards, not in any of my roommate's furniture.

Well, despite that, the Housing Authority wouldn't help us, because when they called him and he said that we must have brought them in, they took him at his word.

We wound up having to move after being there less than three months.

Re: Tiny home invaders!

[kaijinscendre]

I have asshole birds living in the wall of my bathroom. :

Re: Tiny home invaders!

[(Anonymous)]

Stink bugs. Fucking stink bugs.

Re: Tiny home invaders!

[kallanda_lee]

We have mice. The keep coming back :(

Re: Tiny home invaders!

[feotakahari]

My mother lives next door to a park, and in that park is a truly massive community of moles. She's done everything she can to block them from tunneling into her garden, and failing that, she paid an exterminator repeatedly to get rid of them. Now he refuses to work for her because he says he's just wasting her money, so she kills them herself. (I do have to wonder how stupid they must be to keep moving into tunnels that have asphyxiated mole corpses in them.)

Honestly, I like moles, so I think the whole thing is kind of fucked up, but if she values her garden that much, I'm not sure how to stop her.

Re: Tiny home invaders!

[(Anonymous)]

We've had mice, spiders, flies (but flies are super common worldwide, right?), and most recently, fruit flies.

For the mice, my dad had to take care of it,and seems like we've been mice free for awhile. I saw a mouse in our garage a few months ago when I was leaving for work, but I haven't seen anything since. No sight of mice, nor hearing those creepy tiny paws scuttling across the floor. I haven't seen any mouse poop either. As for everything else, I've hired exterminators to come along every 3 months to do their sprays. For the most part, they've done a good job for the last 6 months.

The fruit flies situation was the most annoying. My mom brought them in when she was clearing out her garden during the fall. They were mostly in the kitchen and very oddly in our powder room. I cleaned all surfaces and set up the apple cider cup a coworker told me about and they stuck around for a few months, but once we got heavy snow in late December/early January I've noticed them almost completely gone. I see one or two every now and then in the kitchen but I don't see many anymore. THANK GOODNESS!

Re: Tiny home invaders!

[othellia]

Yep, crickets in one of our Virginian houses. Lots of ants and cockroaches in our Hawaiian one. Hawaii was especially bad because there's no AC/houses are built to be really open to take advantage of the wind/etc. Crickets were slowly exterminated over the course of two months, but I had to deal with the ants and cockroaches the entire five years I lived there and for the four next summers I spent home from college.

I've had a cockroach crawl up my pant leg before, crawl over my face as I was sleeping...

*shudders*

We also have an infestation of mice my senior year of high school. My mom didn't like the risk of snapping her own finger with the snap traps so she started buying sticky ones...

NEVER BUY STICKY TRAPS. They are terrible and cruel and completely inhumane to the animal. She didn't even want to kill them afterwards, just toss them in the rubbish cans to bleed and thirst to death. I was forced to try and make their deaths as quick and painless with the little means I had.

But yeah, buy snap traps. They're worth the risk of snapping your own finger.

Re: Tiny home invaders!

[herpymcderp]

Fleas are just a year-round problem in a climate where it doesn't really get cold enough to kill them for most of the year. Most of the time I deal with it by medicating my animals routinely (or whenever I see flea dirt on them) and not living in places with carpeting. I vacuum nearly every three days so that usually takes care of it.

The one time I lived in a place with carpeting and got a minor infestation I dealt with it by washing all the bedclothes and cutting up one of those awful, poison-covered flea collars to stick it in my vacuum bag. I guess my advice would be never use those on your pets, but they work like a charm to kill the bastards efficiently without having to spread more poison around.

Re: Tiny home invaders!

[(Anonymous)]

Our apartment developed a terrible roach infestation roughly a year ago; it started slowly with just a few showing up at night, so we set out Raid traps, but then got to be really, really, REALLY bad, and nothing we tried was working.
We were eligible for free extermination services (benefits of living in our particular apartment complex) and I got the place sprayed pretty much every other week, but it still didn't really get much better, even though I was keeping the house as clean as possible and doing everything I could not to attract them.
Turned out our pest problem was caused by the people who lived behind us, who had a much worse infestation and never bothered to do anything at all to fight it. When they moved out, the entire building got fogged, and with regular spraying and some bait placements, things quickly turned around. The exterminator said we'd probably never be entirely free of them, but we've been roach-free for a few weeks now!

I used to be completely unable to kill bugs and would have to wake up my husband to come and do it, but after this experience, I'm pretty much a pro at killing cockroaches, as long as they're under a certain size (the ones we had only got up to about half an inch, thankfully; any bigger, and I just can't do it).

Re: Tiny home invaders!

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, man. In my old apartment, I once had to deal with THOUSANDS OF MAGGOTS randomly appearing and coming out of the carpet. Fortunately they did seem to be limited to one room (it was the only room with shag carpet) but Iiiii may have slightly freaked out when I discovered them. 8D

They weren't too hard to get rid of in the end, though, I kind of just went overboard with Raid all over that room and that was the end of it. (Well, mostly the end of it. I never saw maggots again but a few of them must have survived because I had a serious fly problem in there a while later.) Still have no idea why maggots HATCHED OUT OF MY CARPET but it was about the grossest thing ever. I wonder if a previous tenant (or one of my own roommates, who'd lived there longer than I had) didn't clean that carpet well enough or something and there were bits of food in it... really wouldn't surprise me, my roommates in that place were kind of slobs.

(Ooh, and we also had a mouse in that building! Never saw him though, we had traps out in the pantry but we only ever heard him scurrying in the walls. Ah yes, that was a super fun place to live, lol.)

Re: Tiny home invaders!

[ginainthekingsroad]

UGH. In late summer of 2013, my mom ordered some bird seed for the wild birds in our yard. This is a normal thing. We keep the seed in big tupperware tubs under the counter. BUT. This time, the seed contained the larvae or eggs of PANTRY MOTHS. Within a week, we were starting to get moths flying around our house. It got bad. We cleared out the tubs, but they were in our pantry by then. We chucked a whole lot of contaminated food around Thanksgiving 2013, and that helped a lot.

But they've been coming back every so often ever since, and it's starting to get kinda bad again. I AM NOT HAPPY ABOUT THIS SHIT. Uuuuuuuuugh.

Re: Tiny home invaders!

[were_lemur]

We don't have a spider problem. The spiders have a cat problem. (She LOVES her eight-legged crunchy snacks.)

The Great Cockroach Saga

[ketita]

Let me tell you the tragic story of our cockroach infestation.

See, there was a problem in the pipes, and suddenly we had cockroaches of all sizes everywhere. Babies, adolescents, I swear I learned more about the stages of cockroach-life than I ever wanted to know. There was no point in bringing an exterminator at first because as long as the pipes were messed up there wasn't any way to fix the problem.

Those were dark days. My sisters used to wake up in the morning with dead cockroaches on their pillows. We had to empty out our shoes before putting them on.

One night, this was Sabbath eve, I went to my room and saw something dark on the floor. We couldn't turn on the lights because of the Sabbath, but we called my dad to come and take care of the cockroach. He stomped on it, but it kept on moving! And we're staring at this dark blob moving across the floor like what the fuck why is it still alive ARE THEY MUTATING
And after he stomped it on it again, I went and sprayed the hell out of it with K300. AND IT WAS STILL MOVING.

Then we realized it was a rubber ball rolling across the floor.
And we couldn't sleep in our room that night because it stank of K300.

The end.

Re: Tiny home invaders!

[kaleidoscope]

I get ants every summer. I've had exterminators before and it worked, but when we stopped, the ants came back. So what's the point of that? I just go to Lowe's and get this liquid ant "killer" which really doesn't kill them but at least I'd rather have them in one spot rather than throughout the kitchen.

I had a mouse last month but thank god that was only one. Just set up the old fashioned snap traps, baited with peanut butter and without trying to think about it too much got rid of the guy. Though last weekend I was moving things around in my closet and saw this weird bits of shredded paper. Would have been something chewed up by *something* but not sure what. Maybe the mouse but I didn't see any droppings. Thank god.

When I was younger and living with my dad, we had a flea infestation. But the fleas only attacked me and not dad so I had to first convince him there was a problem by me sitting in the flea chair and pointing out all the fleas that dived bombed my legs. Yeah that finally got taken care of!

Re: Tiny home invaders!

[(Anonymous)]

There was the time I felt sorry for a Harvestman spider in my bathroom with an egg sac. In hindsight I should have felt sorry for her and put her outside because a few days later there were hundred of tiny baby Harvestmen all around my bathroom ceiling. I despise spiders in general, but I have a weird soft spot for Harvestmen so it broke my heart to have to get rid of them.

Woke up to an ant invasion once, and my cat once managed to infest the entire ground floor carpet with fleas.

What I'd like to know though, is what the tiny little bugs I occasionally find in drawers and food cupboards are?

They're literally tiny, smaller than cat fleas. They're usually a brownish color, seem to have a distinct head and body, and I've seen them in various places, from clothes drawers to the boxes of tea in my kitchen cupboard. The temperature, humidity/dampness etc. doesn't seem to matter, they show up in all sorts of places. As far as I'm aware they've never bitten/caused any sort of reaction. They're just there. They don't look anything like the pictures I've seen of dust mites. I've thought they could be flour mites or similar, but what would those be doing in a clothes drawer?

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[(Anonymous)]

ANTS. I've had ants the two summers I've lived in this house, and it's ANNOYING. But we usually just call our exterminator and they come take care of it. They're just the little black ants, so the most they do is just march in and out of our kitchen. But I'm sure they'll be back!

Last summer we had a small wasp nest at the front of our house (on our porch light no less) and I'll always remember how funny it was to watch my husband whack it with a broom and then run as fast as he could. We eventually just got wasp spray and put the beatdown on them with that.

The worst was when I lived in a condo and I was on the bottom floor. We'd get these camel back crickets which are TERRIFYING because they jump really high and fast. My cats would get some of them, but not all of them! Eventually they had to exterminate the basement below us for some reason or another, and then they miraculously disappeared. It must have been where they were coming from. But I hated those things, I'd shriek whenever one jumped at me, and they're not small either.