I killed it.

@marguicha (228765)
Chile
October 12, 2025 12:13am CST
Spring has come. And my legs won´t let me go up to where the vaccuum cleaner is. My room is in great need of a better cleaning and maybe a spray with Raid to kill bugs. Yesterday I killed a tiny spider in my bed and today I found another one. I am terrified of spiders, specially after I was bitten by one around 3 years ago. I am sure that that spider was a close cousin to the brown recluse. The bite took 3 months to heal and it left me a mark that is there up to now. Tonight I found another tiny spider in my bed. I used my hands but it scaped. So I had to throw the laptop and start searching. At night, with old eyes and clumsy hands and fingers it is not easy. But finally I got it. In spite of it running around bed among all sorts of things (my bed is also my desk) finally I could see a still black mark of what had been IT. Triumph!!! I wish bugs stayed out of the house. I don´t mind them in the garden and neither does Luna. But the inside is for people. Do you have such problems?
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@LadyDuck (484839)
• Italy
12 Oct
I hate bugs, right now we have those very small fruit flies coming in. I am busy killing them.
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@marguicha (228765)
• Chile
12 Oct
I don´t have them here but Dixie is always full of them. And they are hard to kill. Nobody wants to have the house smelling of sprays for bugs.
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@marguicha (228765)
• Chile
12 Oct
@LadyDuck dixie says that they come with the bananas but my bananas are free of them.
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@LadyDuck (484839)
• Italy
12 Oct
@marguicha - I killed 3 this morning, I am finally getting rid of them.
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@LindaOHio (203074)
• United States
12 Oct
I get ants and mice. Hopefully with a lot of entry points plugged up, they will be less...Terminix has baited and trapped in the basement; so hopefully the mice won't come upstairs.
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@marguicha (228765)
• Chile
13 Oct
I could not live with mice. I am terrified by them. Tania has some where she lives. While she was in Spain, they got into her jeep and destroyed the foam of the sitting places.
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@marguicha (228765)
• Chile
5h
@LindaOHio I loathe them.
@LindaOHio (203074)
• United States
21h
@marguicha They are very destructive and full of disease. I can't stand them.
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@wolfgirl569 (123505)
• Marion, Ohio
12 Oct
This is the time of year everything is trying to get inside here
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@marguicha (228765)
• Chile
13 Oct
I know. And depending on the climate is what we get.
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@wolfgirl569 (123505)
• Marion, Ohio
12 Oct
This is the time of year everything is trying to get inside here
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@marguicha (228765)
• Chile
12 Oct
I want to open windows but I don´t want flies in my house.
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@RasmaSandra (89738)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
12 Oct
The main thing I am now bothered by is a palm tree rat. A little thing that comes and goes so to keep peace sometimes I put out some bread for it,
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@marguicha (228765)
• Chile
13 Oct
Rats are terrible. They are cunning so they know how to open pot lids and the like.
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@anya12adwi (10255)
• India
12 Oct
We have problems too! But I am curious, how do spider bites look like?
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@marguicha (228765)
• Chile
12 Oct
I did not see it because it was in my back. But the whole area was itchy and it hurt.
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@jstory07 (146075)
• Roseburg, Oregon
12 Oct
Not spiders but tiny sugar ants in the summer. I spray to get rid of them.
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@marguicha (228765)
• Chile
12 Oct
I have had ants inside the house twice in over 20 years. But they are pests. In many places I got rid of them the way my grandma did: I poured boiling water in the holes.
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@jstory07 (146075)
• Roseburg, Oregon
12 Oct
@marguicha We can not figure where they are coming from. Lemon water kills them to.
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@marguicha (228765)
• Chile
12 Oct
@jstory07 I had them at the kitchen and in the bathroom last summer.
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@Kandae11 (56794)
12 Oct
I have to deal with the dangerous ones - like the centipede! One or two appear every three months or so and l kill them with a spray.
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@marguicha (228765)
• Chile
12 Oct
I mosptly use Raid spray to kill roaches. Once in a while they come in. I don´t know if The spray kills them or I drown them with it.
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