@ironcheftoni Most annoying for sure. My favorite way to take care of one is to take a spray bottle filled with water and the nozzle on wide dispersion, spray the fly as it buzzes by. It drops to the floor, where you can pick it up and get rid of it.
@narfcake
But, I think the more important question is do you own an alligator/caiman/crocodile?
If so, then why do you own one?
Never mind- over the past multiple decades, I have owned anoles. boa constrictors, a plated lizard, a savannah monitor lizard, a green iguana, an African Grey parrot and an umbrella cockatoo, not to mention more than a few furry quadrupeds, so I understand that sometimes, you just want a pet that is something out of the mainstream because it’s intriguing to you.
Good luck with it- especially as it grows to its mature size…
@Kyeh@Pavlov
True that- to the point where they have genetically modified human beings- through survival of the fittest.
E.G, Sickle cell trait, Spherocytosis, Thalassemia, Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency, Duffy antigen negativity, and Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) polymorphisms are all genetic traits that have been found to help humans survive in mosquito endemic [read malaria-prone] areas.
@brennyn I had one inside last week. My wife had left some stuff open that didn’t have screens. It’s not bad bug season yet.
It was a small dark thing on the ceiling. I was thinking what IS that? There are natural bats here. (Outside, normally). It was daytime so it was chilling quietly for the day. Decided to re-open the door (big glass sliding door) overnight. Sure enough, it was gone by morning.
Bats apparently eat mosquitoes; they are good natural predators. People build bat-houses to encourage them to stay. A local nature trail has several “bat condos.” They are up on high poles to protect them from ground predators. They seem to get along well with all the bird life, though they are active only in the evening when most birds are not.
@brennyn@pmarin I like bats. Not so much having them indoors I think I’ve told this story here before in a previous bat discussion but a bat got into my sister’s room and my dad went in with a suitcase and caught it and took it outside. My dad was a legend
We actually love seeing the bats return every year- as they are very aerobatic and they swoop around over our pond [apparently in the process of catching mosquitoes].
We have not had any luck getting them to move into bat houses, although until I closed the [tiny] gap that used to be between our chimney and the fascia, there were some roosting in our attic one year.
I waited until late fall to close it to avoid trapping any in there.
@brennyn@PhysAssist@pmarin Bats took over the attic of my mother’s condo building (she’s on the lower level, luckily for her) and the guano was building up and there were flies attracted by that - so while I’d love to have some bats roosting nearby, I don’t want them in the attic!
@pakopako I haven’t talked to him since 2001 when he went to jail for physical and sexual assaulting me. But from what I understand he’s a drain on society.
I used to grow my own hops when I was really into brewing beer. I seemed to always have a problem with aphids on my hop bines and my rose bushes. So, I would buy live lady bugs from Amazon to help control the aphids.
The lesson learned was, before releasing 3000 live ladybugs, close your windows
@rockblossom cool. Restoration project for someone. Not me.
But I do wish my mother kept her original Karmann-Ghia; she had ordered to pick up in Germany when I was 5. But maintaing it over years is hard to do with an old classic especially if you don’t have a lot of money to dump into it. And doing it right. She used gas station mechanics and a bargain paint job.
I watch some auto auction shows and it’s clear you need a garage and mechanic staff on the scale of Jay Leno. You see a lot of things where people dump $30-$50K into an “adequate” restoration but unless it’s excellent and the car is a real classic they rarely get even 1/2 of that back at auction.
Yellow Jackets, which seem to be the only one of the stinging insect species able to figure out how to infiltrate our home every year.
To which, I am literally deathly allergic- with anaphylaxis requiring an ambulance trip to the ER after the last time I found them [outside in our yard] by accident- because I didn’t have an Epi-pen at the time.
@PhysAssist I don’t mind bees, but wasps and hornets I have no patience for. I, too, was quite allergic as a kid and remember getting stung in the forehead by a wasp as a child. I ended up looking like a Baluga whale In the spring we end up with a few carpenter bees in the house because my wife leaves the deck door open. They rarely sting, so I don’t mind catching them in my hands and getting them into the outside.
But if see a wasp or hornet in my house, I go into murder mode I may have once used a chair
@JohnQ118 I got a Chinese money tree from one of the local home-improvement stores. Instant fungus gnats. I tried everything to get rid of them and simply couldn’t. Eventually, I gave away the plant to somebody on nextdoor. I did warn them about the gnats
Brother in law brought home a large hornet nest he found while hunting. It was January and the temps were single digits. He put it in the garage with not another thought. The garage was heated, about 70 degrees or so. The next day he opened the door from the utility room to the garage….you know the rest. The whole house had to be fumigated and then the cleanup began. The two of them stayed in a hotel for three nights. A room with two queen beds was required.
@pakopako@pmarin that seems like a lot of work for not much… Meat. If pretending it was like a lobster
If edible like most insects fine.
Google “eating giant centipede”
_AI Overview
Giant centipedes can kill prey 15 times bigger than they are …
Yes, certain large centipedes are consumed as food in some parts of the world, particularly in Southeast Asia and China. They are often prepared by grilling or deep-frying after being skewered. Some companies also offer farm-raised giant centipedes as a snack, roasted and seasoned. Thailand Unique sells dried, roasted centipedes that are described as having a taste similar to shrimp or fish with hints of grass and a jerky-like texture.
… Have no idea if this is true. I am actively removing Google or finding ways to block their idiotic AI garbage
Roach
All of them
typhoid
@jouest ooh or raccoon
Cave crickets
Roaches!
June bug.
Queen Bee
Flies!
@ironcheftoni Most annoying for sure. My favorite way to take care of one is to take a spray bottle filled with water and the nozzle on wide dispersion, spray the fly as it buzzes by. It drops to the floor, where you can pick it up and get rid of it.
@ironcheftoni @ItalianScallion
Good to know
@narfcake That is a pretty cat!
@narfcake
But, I think the more important question is do you own an alligator/caiman/crocodile?
If so, then why do you own one?
Never mind- over the past multiple decades, I have owned anoles. boa constrictors, a plated lizard, a savannah monitor lizard, a green iguana, an African Grey parrot and an umbrella cockatoo, not to mention more than a few furry quadrupeds, so I understand that sometimes, you just want a pet that is something out of the mainstream because it’s intriguing to you.
Good luck with it- especially as it grows to its mature size…
@PhysAssist Nah, it’s just a pic off the internet. Maybe a Florida thing, though.
Mosquitoes!!!
@Kyeh Agreed. They cause the most human deaths - more than any other animal on the planet.
@Kyeh @Pavlov
True that- to the point where they have genetically modified human beings- through survival of the fittest.
E.G, Sickle cell trait, Spherocytosis, Thalassemia, Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency, Duffy antigen negativity, and Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) polymorphisms are all genetic traits that have been found to help humans survive in mosquito endemic [read malaria-prone] areas.
If you live where they exist, you know it’s palmetto bugs.
Bats, which I’ve been assured are bugs.
@brennyn I had one inside last week. My wife had left some stuff open that didn’t have screens. It’s not bad bug season yet.
It was a small dark thing on the ceiling. I was thinking what IS that? There are natural bats here. (Outside, normally). It was daytime so it was chilling quietly for the day. Decided to re-open the door (big glass sliding door) overnight. Sure enough, it was gone by morning.
Bats apparently eat mosquitoes; they are good natural predators. People build bat-houses to encourage them to stay. A local nature trail has several “bat condos.” They are up on high poles to protect them from ground predators. They seem to get along well with all the bird life, though they are active only in the evening when most birds are not.
@brennyn @pmarin I like bats. Not so much having them indoors
I think I’ve told this story here before in a previous bat discussion 
but a bat got into my sister’s room and my dad went in with a suitcase and caught it and took it outside. My dad was a legend 
@brennyn @pmarin
We actually love seeing the bats return every year- as they are very aerobatic and they swoop around over our pond [apparently in the process of catching mosquitoes].
We have not had any luck getting them to move into bat houses, although until I closed the [tiny] gap that used to be between our chimney and the fascia, there were some roosting in our attic one year.
I waited until late fall to close it to avoid trapping any in there.
@brennyn @capnjb @pmarin dad sent that bat packing!! (i’ll show myself out…)
@brennyn @PhysAssist @pmarin Bats took over the attic of my mother’s condo building (she’s on the lower level, luckily for her) and the guano was building up and there were flies attracted by that - so while I’d love to have some bats roosting nearby, I don’t want them in the attic!
Cicadas. Zooming all over the place like a drunk & banging into things. When you’ve had enough & try to catch it, they scream for hours like a toddler
@sway976
…and now that I can hear again [Props to my Phonak hearing aids] the sounds that they and katydids make is soooo annoying.
My ex-husband
@kittykat9180 are they a blood sucking parasite too?
@pakopako I haven’t talked to him since 2001 when he went to jail for physical and sexual assaulting me. But from what I understand he’s a drain on society.
I used to grow my own hops when I was really into brewing beer. I seemed to always have a problem with aphids on my hop bines and my rose bushes. So, I would buy live lady bugs from Amazon to help control the aphids.
The lesson learned was, before releasing 3000 live ladybugs, close your windows
You do your best to keep them out, but they still manage to get in anyway.
@rockblossom cool. Restoration project for someone. Not me.
But I do wish my mother kept her original Karmann-Ghia; she had ordered to pick up in Germany when I was 5. But maintaing it over years is hard to do with an old classic especially if you don’t have a lot of money to dump into it. And doing it right. She used gas station mechanics and a bargain paint job.
I watch some auto auction shows and it’s clear you need a garage and mechanic staff on the scale of Jay Leno. You see a lot of things where people dump $30-$50K into an “adequate” restoration but unless it’s excellent and the car is a real classic they rarely get even 1/2 of that back at auction.
But yes that’s a beautiful car.
Yellow Jackets, which seem to be the only one of the stinging insect species able to figure out how to infiltrate our home every year.
To which, I am literally deathly allergic- with anaphylaxis requiring an ambulance trip to the ER after the last time I found them [outside in our yard] by accident- because I didn’t have an Epi-pen at the time.
@PhysAssist I don’t mind bees, but wasps and hornets I have no patience for. I, too, was quite allergic as a kid and remember getting stung in the forehead by a wasp as a child. I ended up looking like a Baluga whale
In the spring we end up with a few carpenter bees in the house because my wife leaves the deck door open. They rarely sting, so I don’t mind catching them in my hands and getting them into the outside.
But if see a wasp or hornet in my house, I go into murder mode
I may have once used a chair 
My Brother… hey go buy your own food!
Tiny bugs like gnats and fruit flies aren’t “accidentally let inside.” They EMERGE FROM YOUR OVERWATERED HOUSEPLANTS like zombies.
@JohnQ118 I got a Chinese money tree from one of the local home-improvement stores. Instant fungus gnats. I tried everything to get rid of them and simply couldn’t. Eventually, I gave away the plant to somebody on nextdoor. I did warn them about the gnats
@JohnQ118 I think I’ve got them from garden fruit (organic), or sometimes store-bought.
Brother in law brought home a large hornet nest he found while hunting. It was January and the temps were single digits. He put it in the garage with not another thought. The garage was heated, about 70 degrees or so. The next day he opened the door from the utility room to the garage….you know the rest. The whole house had to be fumigated and then the cleanup began. The two of them stayed in a hotel for three nights. A room with two queen beds was required.
@accelerator Hilariously/ironically I read that last sentence as
@xobzoo
/youtube natgeo giant centipede
@unksol Nooo! Does it taste like shrimp?
@pmarin @unksol
/giphy more butter
@pakopako @pmarin that seems like a lot of work for not much… Meat. If pretending it was like a lobster
If edible like most insects fine.
Google “eating giant centipede”
_AI Overview
Giant centipedes can kill prey 15 times bigger than they are …
Yes, certain large centipedes are consumed as food in some parts of the world, particularly in Southeast Asia and China. They are often prepared by grilling or deep-frying after being skewered. Some companies also offer farm-raised giant centipedes as a snack, roasted and seasoned. Thailand Unique sells dried, roasted centipedes that are described as having a taste similar to shrimp or fish with hints of grass and a jerky-like texture.
… Have no idea if this is true. I am actively removing Google or finding ways to block their idiotic AI garbage