They're Coming!!!.........................They're Coming!!!!!!
By sconibear
@sconibear (8016)
United States
April 20, 2009 10:31pm CST
as most of my friends here know, i live in Las Vegas, Nevada.
for those who don't know......Las Vegas is a city that many years ago some geniuses decided to build SMACK DAB IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DESERT!!!
it's a place where other geniuses come from around the world to donate their kids college funds to the slot machines.
anyways, it's been a rather quiet winter, but now the temperature is starting to climb and we should be in the 90s by the end of the week.
and as i just came from the bathroom, i started thinking.........they're coming.........they'll be here before you can roll up a newspaper.
i'm talking about our world famous cockroaches and they're notably larger cousins the water bugs.
i thought about it while in the bathroom because that's there stomping grounds......and where i'm sure to stomp on a few before the seasons up.
oh sure, they sometimes try to take over the kitchen area, i just squirt boric acid under the fridge and stove and the nooks and crannies under the sink and cupboards.
boric acid is like kryptonite to cockroaches.
when i lived in Minnesota, it was all about mosquitoes and ticks.......but out here in the west, the mighty cockroach is the top summertime pest.
and the disgustingly HUGE waterbugs.
and the cicadas will start buzzing in the trees pretty soon.
oh yeah, and surely i'll have to match wits with Musca domestica(common housfly) and those dam wasps that try yo build a nest in the exact same spot on my balcony every year.
heck if i dig deep enough in my outside storage.......i might stumble across a big fat black widow.
or an even rarer site......a scorpion.........i had one run across my hand once, that'll wake you up.
but out here......definitely.......COCKROACHES ARE KING!!!
what kind of critters do you have in your neck of the woods???
cuz you know they're waking up from their long winter slumber and they're HUNGRY!!!
...............they're coming. 
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12 responses
@missybear (11391)
• United States
21 Apr 09
Oh yeah I know what you mean, lucky for me I have a Bear that'll take care of all those critters[b].
I hate Water bugs, YUCK[/b]
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@sconibear (8016)
• United States
21 Apr 09
yes dear.
you just catch them under the toilet plunger like you always do and i'll take care of the rest. 
@missybear (11391)
• United States
21 Apr 09
Or I can put my milk glass over them and watch them run in circles
@sconibear (8016)
• United States
21 Apr 09
THE SKY IS FALLING!!! THE SKY IS FALLING!!! 
oh no.......that's just them flying cockroaches! 
good to see you mell. 
oh no.......that's just them flying cockroaches!
good to see you mell. 
@guybrush (4658)
• Australia
21 Apr 09
We have EXCELLENT and huge cockies in Aus, Sconi ... and although they're supposed to be the only creatures to survive a nuclear blast (apart from our Prime Minister), I've recently discovered something that finishes them off (apart from my cooking). Rat bait! I use cockroach baits regularly, and they don't seem to help much - but we put some rat baits under the fireplace a couple of months ago, and every morning there are hapless cockies all through the house with their legs in the air! (Dying, not waving!) They must be nibbling on the rat baits - and not liking the results too much. I'm guessing you probably get some rather nasty human pests in Vegas, too ...
thanks for the tip.@sconibear (8016)
• United States
21 Apr 09
here's something you can try with roaches.
i haven't tried it, but they showed it on the news and it seemed to work pretty good.
take a large empty glass jar.
fill the bottom with old coffee grounds.
place the jar where you notice a lot of critters (on the news they put it outside by the back door of the house)
the roaches will climb in the jar but can't get out.
did i mention save the jar lid??? 
it doesn't kill the bugs but the coffee sure makes them jittery..........JITTERBUGS!!! 
it doesn't kill the bugs but the coffee sure makes them jittery..........JITTERBUGS!!! @guybrush (4658)
• Australia
21 Apr 09
It worked a treat - unintentionally! I'd seen a mouse (for the first time in about 12 years) - and thought I'd get bait down before things escalated. I haven't seen a mouse since, thank goodness, but the cockies sure are being whumped! I hope you don't get a cockie problem in the first place ... but it's handy to know they don't thrive on warfarin!
@camomom (7535)
• United States
28 Apr 09
We are having problems with ants and mice. We can't seem to get rid of either one. We have a cat
, mice shouldn't come around where a cat lives. We aren't dirty people, yet we have ants like crazy. Oh, and outside, we have bee's. LOTS of bees. I'm terrified of bee's. Guess I'll stay inside with the ants and mice all summer
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, mice shouldn't come around where a cat lives. We aren't dirty people, yet we have ants like crazy. Oh, and outside, we have bee's. LOTS of bees. I'm terrified of bee's. Guess I'll stay inside with the ants and mice all summer. @sconibear (8016)
• United States
28 Apr 09
maybe you could train the mice to eat the ants, and the cats to eat the bees.
........i'm just saying.
@camomom (7535)
• United States
28 Apr 09
Maybe????? The cat is supposed to eat the mice though and all he does is play with them until they die and then leave them as presents for me. I appreciate the gesture but I'd rather get no gifts at all. I got out of bed once and stepped on one that he left for me. I was bare foot, GROSS!!! The mice don't get into anything but they leave behind droppings everywhere which is SOOOO unsanitary. I think I'm going to have to go against my animal loving nature and invest in some glue traps.
I don't know what to do about the bee's. The bee's don't even really bother us but I'm so scared of them and I don't want the kids or cat to get stung.
We did put ant stuff outside and inside and they seem to be slowly going away.
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I don't know what to do about the bee's. The bee's don't even really bother us but I'm so scared of them and I don't want the kids or cat to get stung.
We did put ant stuff outside and inside and they seem to be slowly going away.
@Theresaaiza (10487)
• Australia
21 Apr 09
If they hibernate like sconibears in your place and come out like some mighty Vikings when its summer, it's a bit different here. In the Philippines, they're a common and constant attraction. And those wasps, they even lay their offsprings inside our sewing machine!
@sconibear (8016)
• United States
21 Apr 09
well there you go............you guys get to host the little critters all year round.
kind of like regular little pets.
do you name them???
@Theresaaiza (10487)
• Australia
22 Apr 09
not yet but you gave me a great idea. There's a constant roach in our bathroom who only got 5 legs because I guess it underwent a post-traumatic experience with a gecko 3 days ago. I should name it Charlie but chances are, it's female!
@maezee (41997)
• United States
21 Apr 09
LOL! I live in Minnesota (Minneapolis), and you put it totally well - we have mosquitos and ticks (although no ticks in the area that I live in..but in the country? Yes!) But we also have horrendous june bugs (you would think, because of their namesake, they would come out in "june" - but they actually annoy us ANY TIME between the beginning of MAY and the end of JULY. Ugh!), mosquitos, and we definitely have horrible huge flies in August. Oh, and centipedes are pretty common too - especially in basements and the like. But still, I would MUCH rather have these than cockroaches..YIKES! It sounds like you have it pretty bad there.
@sconibear (8016)
• United States
21 Apr 09
yeah, we got some good huntin' out here.
i remember june bugs quite well........you would think those guys would just kill themselves the way they continually smash into the same wall over and over again.......pretty tough critters them june bugs.
another cool thing in Minnesota is when you're driving in the woods at night and you get them glowing firefly splats on your windshield.............COOL.......
@maezee (41997)
• United States
21 Apr 09
LOL I never seem to see any fireflies.
So, when you were in Minnesota, did you take a liking to taking a TENNIS RACKET and HITTING june bugs as they try to fly near you? These things are literally DUMB and have no purpose but to land in your hair or buzz around in your face and freak you out. They don't sting you, they don't suck your blood - it seems like their sole purpose is to annoy and/or scare you. Whenever I hang around outside in the summertime, I keep my tennis racket next to me for some good hitting practice!
Call it insect cruelty..But whatever!!
@uath13 (8192)
• United States
21 Apr 09
I'd totally forgotten the June bugs. Around here the kids tie strings to their legs & let them fly around over their heads. All kinda fun, especially when they land in a girls hair & get all tangled up in it. My daughter loves the flying around part...not so much the landing on her head part.
@uath13 (8192)
• United States
21 Apr 09
here in Tennessee it's mosquitoes, ticks wasps & hornets. The ticks are already out . Fortunately I can feel them when they crawl before they bite so they rarely get me. The overabundant frog population my pond is breeding is handling the mosquitoes. The wasps & hornets are a problem. I have to kill several a day that are sneaking in by the back window. They also seem to like building nests everywhere, even in the convertible if I leave it sitting more than a day. It's time to stock up on spray.
@sconibear (8016)
• United States
21 Apr 09
sounds like you have a FUN summer coming up.
may i suggest an Army surplus flame thrower???
may i suggest an Army surplus flame thrower??? 
@Little_Stormy (6883)
• United States
21 Apr 09
We have ticks and fleas and spiders mostly sometimes ya might see a slug or a
rolley poley (bugs that roll up in a ball and roll away if ya touch em) or a centipede.. I HATE bugs! they scare the beejeebies outta me!
OH! we have honey bees too! when they sting ya.. they die (unlike hornets or yellow jackets) so if ya get stung by a honey bee, ya feel like ya got even without even trying! lol!
@sconibear (8016)
• United States
21 Apr 09
mmmmmmmmmmm...........CHOCOLATE HONEY............
GET OVER HERE GIRL!!! i wanna eat you up! 
@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
21 Apr 09
Hey sconi! Well, here in NY, the state that never sleeps,
neither do those phucking cockroaches! They are year round
suckers here! They don't himbernate! They have no problem
running amok during the winter too! And yes, we have their
cousins the evil water bugs too and we have even worse the
flying cockroaches, the biggest suckers of all the Palmettos!
Now they belong in Florida and Puerto Rico, but since most
of those people are here in NY, so are their damn bugs!
Have you ever seen a Palmetto? The are humongus! The are the
biggest roaches you've ever seen, bigger than water bugs,
ugly, and have hard shells and they phucking fly! They are
the scariest bug I have ever seen! I came face to face with
one in the bathroom! Pray you never see one of them! If my
then boyfriend wasn't here I would have called the police
to come and shoot it!
@savak03 (6684)
• United States
21 Apr 09
When I lived in South Georgia, almost Florida actually, Roaches were king there, too. It always amazed me that some people, who had lived all there life there, would have the foulest things to say about anyone who had roaches in there house. I'm here to tell you that I spent a small fortune on pesticides and cleaned like it meant my life and still had the odd roach now and then. There is just no way to eradicate them completely in the south.
Sine I moved to Tennessee deep in the fall I haven't seen to many critters yet so I don't know exactly what I will have to battle here. Although I have had a problem with red wasps getting in my truck everywhere I park. I hope they have a short life span.
@sconibear (8016)
• United States
21 Apr 09
i think cockroaches love a mansion just as much as they love a trailer park.......prolly even more..........FRIGGIN' SNOBS!!!
i hope you have some fun critters to play with once it heats up down there, Tennessee sounds like it would get quite humid in the summer.............perfect environment for some of the funner bug species.
please share with us who comes to visit you over the summer. 
@TLChimes (4822)
• United States
21 Apr 09
EWWWW... ick.... yuck.... and did I mention GROSS MUCH!!!!!
I can handle snakes, kid puke, mice, and spiders... but I hate bugs. The ants are already out here in Michigan, the little knat fly things too. The mosquitoes will be horrid around here because the empty house across the street has a basement FULL of water.
I've hung several bird feeders (for the squirrels so they think) hoping they will eat some of the flying yucky things.
Now I need to find away to get some nice bug eating bats to come live in the hood.@sconibear (8016)
• United States
21 Apr 09
out of the things you mentioned i guess puke would be my downfall.........the sight and smell of it makes me want to puke.
ants are a pain in the a$$ and i don't miss the blood sucking bugs at all.
if i come across any bats, i'll send them your way.
@cicisnana (772)
• United States
21 Apr 09
I live in KY and ours are ticks, the mighty, the hungry, the blood thirsty ticks. Oh, and lets not forget the mosquito. We can't go out past dark or they will rob us of our blood. Hahaha, I loved your post.
@sconibear (8016)
• United States
21 Apr 09
yeah, i did the whole tick and mosquito thing when i lived in Minnesota and Wisconsin.........little vampires.
