Michelesky said:

There is a library about an hour from me that has had an outbreak of bed bugs. My pest control guy says they are making a come back in a big way. They can travel in suit cases or back packs. He said it costs a mini fortune to get rid of them too because they are very hardy. Like someone mentioned before, always check out your hotel room before you sleep in the bed. Keep your suitcases off the floor.

Scabies, don't they burrow in the skin? YUCK!

Scabies behave a lot like botflies (sp?)

I live in Boston, two years ago many TSA employees @ Logan airport were infected with scabies... as they padded cutomers they infected them as well.

I have no idea why this story didn't make national news... also, babies in daycare centers had scabies also. The infected were all immigrants that traveled from various countries, the very same way bedbugs made a comeback to the states. Every home provider that had a scabies outbreak has a recent visitor from abroad.... but I don't know. Local news reports warned parents and many moms pulled their babies out of home care providers homes... infected or not.

With scabies.... 3 homecare providers were affected last year... over ten babies had become infected because they home had become overrun with scabies bug.

Can you imagine that crap? Take your baby to a home-daycare center and your baby comes back with scabies.... because the careprovider brought some person in their home from abroad that had scabies.

ewwwwwwww!!! Scabies is making the rounds now as well. I guess that is what happens when people from all over come to lay in the same beds. :skincrawling:

[Edited 4/16/11 6:36am]

Oh! Off track but simliar.... POLIO is back also! I thought we killed germ off like 50+ years ago.... I guess not.

Boston gets the college students from all over the world... I guess it is important to get vaccinated.

Beg bugs..... there is this powder called ditomecacous earth or something like that.... I know I butchered the spelling... but the powder kills all bugs and its organic.

this thread is making me itch.

like, srsly... .... glad I didn't read it last nite b/c I probably would have had a nightmare..

only bugs/insects I like are ladybugs, fireflies (lightning bugs) and butterflies

everything else needs to die -- except bees 'cause we need them for flowers & honey.

PositivityNYC said:

this thread is making me itch.

like, srsly... .... glad I didn't read it last nite b/c I probably would have had a nightmare..

only bugs/insects I like are ladybugs, fireflies (lightning bugs) and butterflies

everything else needs to die -- except bees 'cause we need them for flowers & honey.

I know...reading Spinny's thread has jinxed me!

I opened my front door just now and a lizard hopped into the house, AAAARRRRGGGH!

I have dispached my son to battle the hideous beast while I cower and whimper here in the bedroom,

Thank heaven it wasn't a spider or a worm or my neighbors would be calling the cops about the screaming.

Thankfully I have never encountered a bedbug.

babynoz said:

I opened my front door just now and a lizard hopped into the house, AAAARRRRGGGH!

I have dispached my son to battle the hideous beast while I cower and whimper here in the bedroom,

Thank heaven it wasn't a spider or a worm or my neighbors would be calling the cops about the screaming.

OMG, that would seriously freak me out! I remember, a couple of years back, when I stayed with my brother and his family in Charlotte, North Carolina. While I was there, a saw a lizard a couple of times. I guess it's common to see them down south, but I'm not used to them, since I live in the Midwest.

Speaking of worms, have you ever watched the show, "Monsters Inside Me" on the Animal Planet channel? I was watching it yesterday, and it was several different stories about people who had larva in their bodies. This one kid had a fly larva in his eye (of all places!) and he lost his vision in that eye. He had to have an operation to remove the larva, and they weren't sure if he would suffer permanent vision loss in that eye. Luckily, once the worm was removed, he was okay. That show was really grossing me out, to think that a worm or a parasite could enter and live inside of a person's body. Damn!

now I will have nightmares 2nite...

psychodelicide said:

babynoz said:

I opened my front door just now and a lizard hopped into the house, AAAARRRRGGGH!

I have dispached my son to battle the hideous beast while I cower and whimper here in the bedroom,

Thank heaven it wasn't a spider or a worm or my neighbors would be calling the cops about the screaming.

OMG, that would seriously freak me out! I remember, a couple of years back, when I stayed with my brother and his family in Charlotte, North Carolina. While I was there, a saw a lizard a couple of times. I guess it's common to see them down south, but I'm not used to them, since I live in the Midwest.

Speaking of worms, have you ever watched the show, "Monsters Inside Me" on the Animal Planet channel? I was watching it yesterday, and it was several different stories about people who had larva in their bodies. This one kid had a fly larva in his eye (of all places!) and he lost his vision in that eye. He had to have an operation to remove the larva, and they weren't sure if he would suffer permanent vision loss in that eye. Luckily, once the worm was removed, he was okay. That show was really grossing me out, to think that a worm or a parasite could enter and live inside of a person's body. Damn!

psychodelicide said:

babynoz said:

I opened my front door just now and a lizard hopped into the house, AAAARRRRGGGH!

I have dispached my son to battle the hideous beast while I cower and whimper here in the bedroom,

Thank heaven it wasn't a spider or a worm or my neighbors would be calling the cops about the screaming.

OMG, that would seriously freak me out! I remember, a couple of years back, when I stayed with my brother and his family in Charlotte, North Carolina. While I was there, a saw a lizard a couple of times. I guess it's common to see them down south, but I'm not used to them, since I live in the Midwest.

Speaking of worms, have you ever watched the show, "Monsters Inside Me" on the Animal Planet channel? I was watching it yesterday, and it was several different stories about people who had larva in their bodies. This one kid had a fly larva in his eye (of all places!) and he lost his vision in that eye. He had to have an operation to remove the larva, and they weren't sure if he would suffer permanent vision loss in that eye. Luckily, once the worm was removed, he was okay. That show was really grossing me out, to think that a

worm or a parasite could enter and live inside of a person's body. Damn!

I've never had the guts to watch that show. The title scares me!!!!!!! We live in the country so you'd think I'd be used to bugs. Last year, it was rainy and muggy so we had a large amount of bugs and some I'd never seen before. I was freaking out all over the place.

We get big hairy, spiders in our basement and they like to get under or in the piles of my dirty clothes down there. I think they are called corn spiders and they are scary looking! They are bad in the fall so when I do laundry, I will find one once in awhile and shriek at the top of my lungs!

I hate bugs!

Michelesky said:

psychodelicide said:

OMG, that would seriously freak me out! I remember, a couple of years back, when I stayed with my brother and his family in Charlotte, North Carolina. While I was there, a saw a lizard a couple of times. I guess it's common to see them down south, but I'm not used to them, since I live in the Midwest.

Speaking of worms, have you ever watched the show, "Monsters Inside Me" on the Animal Planet channel? I was watching it yesterday, and it was several different stories about people who had larva in their bodies. This one kid had a fly larva in his eye (of all places!) and he lost his vision in that eye. He had to have an operation to remove the larva, and they weren't sure if he would suffer permanent vision loss in that eye. Luckily, once the worm was removed, he was okay. That show was really grossing me out, to think that a

worm or a parasite could enter and live inside of a person's body. Damn!

I've never had the guts to watch that show. The title scares me!!!!!!! We live in the country so you'd think I'd be used to bugs. Last year, it was rainy and muggy so we had a large amount of bugs and some I'd never seen before. I was freaking out all over the place.

We get big hairy, spiders in our basement and they like to get under or in the piles of my dirty clothes down there. I think they are called corn spiders and they are scary looking! They are bad in the fall so when I do laundry, I will find one once in awhile and shriek at the top of my lungs!

I hate bugs!

You mean this??

[img:$uid]http://www.markleyspest.com/images/GardenSPIDER55.jpg[/img:$uid]

That thing is DISGUSTING and I would die if I saw it in my clothes.

babynoz said:

PositivityNYC said:

this thread is making me itch.

like, srsly... .... glad I didn't read it last nite b/c I probably would have had a nightmare..

only bugs/insects I like are ladybugs, fireflies (lightning bugs) and butterflies

everything else needs to die -- except bees 'cause we need them for flowers & honey.

I know...reading Spinny's thread has jinxed me!

I opened my front door just now and a lizard hopped into the house, AAAARRRRGGGH!

I have dispached my son to battle the hideous beast while I cower and whimper here in the bedroom,

Thank heaven it wasn't a spider or a worm or my neighbors would be calling the cops about the screaming.

Thankfully I have never encountered a bedbug.

We have a problem with lizards at the door too. They are called jehovah witnesses.

thanks to this thread I had a dream about bedbugs last night!

Largest Fossil Spider Found in Volcanic Ash

Fossil female golden orb-weaver spider (Nephila jurassica) from the Middle Jurassic of China. CREDIT: Paul Selden.

The largest fossil spider uncovered to date once ensnared prey back in the age of dinosaurs, scientists find.

The spider, named Nephila jurassica, was discovered buried in ancient volcanic ash in Inner Mongolia, China. Tufts of hairlike fibers seen on its legs showed this 165-million-year-old arachnid to be the oldest known species of the largest web-weaving spiders alive today — the golden orb-weavers, or Nephila, which are big enough to catch birds and bats, and use silk that shines like gold in the sunlight.

The fossil was about as large as its modern relatives, with a body one inch (2.5 centimeters) wide and legs that reach up to 2.5 inches (6.3 cm) long. Golden orb-weavers nowadays are mainly tropical creatures, so the ancient environment of Nephila jurassica probably was similarly lush. [Image of fossil spider]

"It would have lived, like today's Nephila, in its orb web of golden silk in a clearing in a forest, or more likely at the edge of a forest close to the lake," researcher Paul Selden, director of the Paleontological Institute at the University of Kansas, told LiveScience. "There would have been volcanoes nearby producing the ash that forms the lake sediment it is entombed within."

Spiders are the most numerous predators on land today, and help keep insect numbers in check. So these findings help us "understand the evolution of the insect-spider predator-prey relationship," Selden said, suggesting that golden orb-weavers have been ensnaring insects and influencing their evolution since the Jurassic Period. [Read: Ancient Spider Guts Revealed in 3-D]

"There were many large or medium-sized flying insects around at that time on which it would have fed indiscriminately," Selden said.

In modern golden orb-weaver species, females are typically much larger than males. This new fossil was a female, suggesting this trend stretches back at least as far as the Middle Jurassic, Selden said — that is, back before the first known bird, Archaeopteryx, or giant dinosaurs such as Brachiosaurus and Diplodocus.

Although this is the largest fossil spider known to date, it is not the oldest. Two species from Coseley, England, Eocteniza silvicola and Protocteniza britannica, both come from about 310 million years ago.

Selden and his colleagues are now investigating other fossil spiders from China, "as well as those from elsewhere in the world — currently Brazil, New Zealand, Australia, Italy and Korea," he said.

The scientists detail their findings online April 20 in the journal Biology Letters.

Follow LiveScience for the latest in science news and discoveries on Twitter @livescience and on Facebook.

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TheDigitalGardener said:

Spinlight said:

Okay that is a dealbreaker for me. I could never, ever manage that. I hate bugs of all kinds - flies, bees, butterflies, moths, spiders, roaches, those skinny things with pinchers on their asses, beetles, etc. I do not fucks wit no bugs. And to know there are bugs residing next to my bed or in my bed would petrify me, lol.

As it is, these big fucking California exotic scary wooly mammoth spiders see fit to make a nest out of my front stoop. If I go out at night, I need to bring my lighter with me to burn the support strands of webbing so the webs collapse and stick to themselves and blow away or I get a mouth full of something that came out of a spider's butthole.

I'm shit scared of all insects, they are evil, they should be abolished.

I know that feeling of walking into webs, we were forever getting webs on our faces in that house.

I'm sure the neighbour must have thought I was beating my g/friend at the time, as there was just constant screams comming from that house, though half the time they came from me.

Even Scottish spiders are big these days.

I have a bottle of this stuff called "Flash," it is a kitchen cleaner/spray thing and contains bleach. I bought this stuff specifically to kill spiders and any other bug that dares to darken my door. It's great, no ore hunting for a shoe or rolled up newspaper, just one little squirt of that shit and it's instant death to the wee shites.

[Edited 4/15/11 14:43pm]

nice tip!

i saw a programme where they analysed seats in public places, the findings were horrible.

especially on the train, if i have to use public transport i whip out a carrier bag & sit on that.

my mum always says she never sits at the from of a bus because that is where incontinent grannies sit.

paintedlady said:

Oh! Off track but simliar.... POLIO is back also! I thought we killed germ off like 50+ years ago.... I guess not.

Boston gets the college students from all over the world... I guess it is important to get vaccinated.

Beg bugs..... there is this powder called ditomecacous earth or something like that.... I know I butchered the spelling... but the powder kills all bugs and its organic.

diatomaceous earth... i keep that stuff handy. i have it in chalk form at home, but yeah, you can also get it in non-solid form. i use it for ants and spiders mainly, but you can rub it on cats, dogs, horses, etc., if there is a flea outbrerak.

also, i never live without tea tree oil! that stuff is amazing!

i actually like spiders... i usually just get a cup and take them outside. but last year there was a mass of hobo spiders in the house... they are pretty dangerous. i like bees. i like insects. i try not to kill them, if possible. i work with vegetables, so i see a lot of spiders, slugs, silverfish, ladybugs, aphids... if possible, i just take them all outside.

speaking of, i actually bought some flea shampoo, a comb and some herbal stuff for my little friend lumbia... she is NOT going to be my friend when i get to dealing with all that stuff...

DoffieParker said:

i saw a programme where they analysed seats in public places, the findings were horrible.

especially on the train, if i have to use public transport i whip out a carrier bag & sit on that.

my mum always says she never sits at the from of a bus because that is where incontinent grannies sit.

the handle bars must be a germ paradise

omg throw up

a roach like this was walking around my friends country shack

bastard was fast as hell so we couldnt catch it

i couldnt sleep that night knowing that a big daddy roach was causing havoc

[img:$uid]http://i53.tinypic.com/30vepo0.jpg[/img:$uid]

formallypickles said:

a roach like this was walking around my friends country shack

bastard was fast as hell so we couldnt catch it

i couldnt sleep that night knowing that a big daddy roach was causing havoc

[img:$uid]http://i53.tinypic.com/30vepo0.jpg[/img:$uid]

wow, that is a big one... i remember seeing two cockroaches having sex in new orleans, in front of a barber shop named 'the godbarber'. i took a photo of it, it was interesting. either they were having sex, or just stuck together in a very difficult way.

formallypickles said:

a roach like this was walking around my friends country shack

bastard was fast as hell so we couldnt catch it

i couldnt sleep that night knowing that a big daddy roach was causing havoc

[img:$uid]http://i53.tinypic.com/30vepo0.jpg[/img:$uid]

oh yuk. look at that thing's feelers & legs. oh god don't look

i worked somewhere once, the gardens were flanked by bay trees & these horrible insects lived in the trees. every so often they would get in the building.. work stopped, people screaming..

these things FLY

MJJstudent said:

formallypickles said:

a roach like this was walking around my friends country shack

bastard was fast as hell so we couldnt catch it

i couldnt sleep that night knowing that a big daddy roach was causing havoc

[img:$uid]http://i53.tinypic.com/30vepo0.jpg[/img:$uid]

wow, that is a big one... i remember seeing two cockroaches having sex in new orleans, in front of a barber shop named 'the godbarber'. i took a photo of it, it was interesting. either they were having sex, or just stuck together in a very difficult way.

and then you stomped them, right?? please???

kill them... kill them all!!!!!

:shudder:

DoffieParker said:

formallypickles said:

a roach like this was walking around my friends country shack

bastard was fast as hell so we couldnt catch it

i couldnt sleep that night knowing that a big daddy roach was causing havoc

[img:$uid]http://i53.tinypic.com/30vepo0.jpg[/img:$uid]

oh yuk. look at that thing's feelers & legs. oh god don't look

i worked somewhere once, the gardens were flanked by bay trees & these horrible insects lived in the trees. every so often they would get in the building.. work stopped, people screaming..

these things FLY

eww that thing looks gross

tweezer headed cockbeetlespider

DoffieParker said:

formallypickles said:

a roach like this was walking around my friends country shack

bastard was fast as hell so we couldnt catch it

i couldnt sleep that night knowing that a big daddy roach was causing havoc

[img:$uid]http://i53.tinypic.com/30vepo0.jpg[/img:$uid]

oh yuk. look at that thing's feelers & legs. oh god don't look

i worked somewhere once, the gardens were flanked by bay trees & these horrible insects lived in the trees. every so often they would get in the building.. work stopped, people screaming..

these things FLY

That big huge roach can fly?

Spinlight said:

I am paranoid of bed bugs. I often take the BART train to commute in the morning and evening and I have picked up the flu once, a few colds, and probably HPV from the train (just kidding on the last one), but I am pretty nervous about bed bugs. I had a coworker who would explain his bed bug trauma to me and how awful his apartment complex was about it.

Thankfully, I've not yet seen one in person, but they are not the cutest little buggers.

[Edited 4/15/11 15:18pm]

What a huge coincidence by the way, right in the crook of my arms I have a rash and it got me wondering if I had been bitten by something. Never had these rashes before either...

PositivityNYC said:

MJJstudent said:

wow, that is a big one... i remember seeing two cockroaches having sex in new orleans, in front of a barber shop named 'the godbarber'. i took a photo of it, it was interesting. either they were having sex, or just stuck together in a very difficult way.

and then you stomped them, right?? please???

kill them... kill them all!!!!!

:shudder:

hee hee... nope. i just let them do their business. i'm one of the few who actually likes insects. i remember seeing a pregnant roach when i was a kid, i didn't kill her either. it was one of the strangest things i ever saw at that point though.

MJJstudent said:

PositivityNYC said:

and then you stomped them, right?? please???

kill them... kill them all!!!!!

:shudder:

hee hee... nope. i just let them do their business. i'm one of the few who actually likes insects. i remember seeing a pregnant roach when i was a kid, i didn't kill her either. it was one of the strangest things i ever saw at that point though.

ahhh, I should have known ~ given your avatar

you've seen this, right?

http://www.youtube.com/wa...FziQ7u1ymo

PositivityNYC said:

MJJstudent said:

hee hee... nope. i just let them do their business. i'm one of the few who actually likes insects. i remember seeing a pregnant roach when i was a kid, i didn't kill her either. it was one of the strangest things i ever saw at that point though.

ahhh, I should have known ~ given your avatar

you've seen this, right?

http://www.youtube.com/wa...FziQ7u1ymo

how did you know??!! hee hee... yes i have seen it... i believe it was the munich show this happened, on the HIStory tour. i actually liked insects before i saw this, but when i did see it, it made me really happy, of course.

insects just wanna live too. some of them help us out, they give us food and eat other insects. i always wonder what it's like from their perspective, since they're so small. the world is so ginormous to them.



You are fucking me up with these pictures, I am going to be looking like Tyrone Biggums all night now.

Spinlight said:

You are fucking me up with these pictures, I am going to be looking like Tyrone Biggums all night now.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!

MJJstudent said:

PositivityNYC said:

ahhh, I should have known ~ given your avatar

you've seen this, right?

http://www.youtube.com/wa...FziQ7u1ymo

how did you know??!! hee hee... yes i have seen it... i believe it was the munich show this happened, on the HIStory tour. i actually liked insects before i saw this, but when i did see it, it made me really happy, of course.

insects just wanna live too. some of them help us out, they give us food and eat other insects. i always wonder what it's like from their perspective, since they're so small. the world is so ginormous to them.



yes, Munich

them last 2 bugs...

Spinlight said:

I am paranoid of bed bugs. I often take the BART train to commute in the morning and evening and I have picked up the flu once, a few colds, and probably HPV from the train (just kidding on the last one), but I am pretty nervous about bed bugs. I had a coworker who would explain his bed bug trauma to me and how awful his apartment complex was about it.

Thankfully, I've not yet seen one

in person, but they are not the cutest little buggers.

[Edited 4/15/11 15:18pm]

Bad Gets Worse: Bedbugs May Bring Deadly Bacteria to Bed By Jennifer Welsh
, LiveScience Staff Writer
LiveScience.com | LiveScience.com – Wed, 11 May, 2011

Itchy bites and tossed-out mattresses may not be the only things to worry about during a bedbug infestation. Researchers have found that the tiny bloodsuckers can also harbor antibiotic-resistant bacteria. "The findings from the study are by no means conclusive," said study researcher Marc Romney, of St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver, British Columbia, in Canada. "They suggest that bedbugs, which were primarily just a nuisance before, may be able to transmit diseases."