Something ate my plants...I'm Fu*ken sick to my stomach...can't breath...Nooooo

hypernovax said:

man if i wre you if i see any roaches I would get a can of raid and a lighter and have some fun torturing those motherfuckers

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Hope your quick cause them Palmetto Bugs are like speed racer, and they can also fly. You'll end up burning your house down if you go into Raid flame-thrower mode Also in Fl. are them dang huntsman and hobo spiders. While their poison isn't as toxic as the brown recluse; common in florida, lots of insect books say the Huntsman and Hobo spiders are non aggresive, I've had those giant bastard spiders jump and attack me when they are cornered. I've never seen a spider go on the offensive against a human. Their defense is a good offense if cornered. (If you open up a fist and look at the spread out fingers, from the tip of your thumb to the tip of your pinky finker, that's the size of some of these spiders.

My solution to many of them is my female tabby. She'll rip them apart without being bitten, naturally if I see her engage in battle with a recluse,*these almost never come inside like the wolfsman and other bis ass spiders, but on Lanais you may run into a recluse now and again, I guess they are just looking for a dry spot during Floridas rainy season. Anyway, I try to kill or remove recluses before she does. I have a zapping tennis racket to deal with Mosquitos, wasps and any other bug I want dead that somehow entered my home! (Not going to mention Florida's mutant mosquitos, they're out day and night and some of them are good sized)

Normally when dealing with harmless spiders, I try to get them before the cat does, then remove them and let them go outside, as spiders are nature's ' Can of Raid', but the Huntsman and Wolf spiders sometimes freak me out. Especially if they jump at you, even worse if they jump for your head.

This is a pic of a huntsman spider....FUCK THAT.....If I see one of these in my house I'm movin out of Florida...

JohnnyBravo said:

This is a pic of a huntsman spider....FUCK THAT.....If I see one of these in my house I'm movin out of Florida...

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Seen Huntsmans bigger than that one, No need to move, Just adopt a cat from a local animal shelter. Females are better hunter killers than males, just like in nature, my male cat is pretty funny. He befriends large amphibians, arachnids and other large insects. Twice I've caught him sleeping on his porch timed control heating pad with a Cuban Tree frog. Luckily he doesn't eat them or lick them. I just shake my head and remove his friends off my Lanai. This male cat I adopted as he lived in the wild for over a year as the previous owner tossed him out when they got a dog (Yeah I know, assholes) How he survived is beyond me, he must have been on a grass and dirt died, as he wouldn't harm even a flea. Luckily for me, my female cat doesn't share the same live and let live attitude, she kills anything that moves.

JohnnyBravo said:

Thats what just one looks like....I killed about forty of them back there today

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thats fuckin' gross! Better luck next time JB,I lost about 5 plants to mice, i feel ur pain

Johnybravo,

This thread has created a shift in the YIN YANG balance in the universe.

Another neighbor of mine had a insect problem yesterday unlike no other. She has this little maltese pooch she pampers like the queen of Sheba. Her dog had a worm pop out of the dogs skin right above it's right eye. I knew what it was, but have never seen a mostly indoor dog get it, I've seen livestock with this problem, caused by a fly that lays an egg under the animals skin. As the egg develops a worm lives a small portion of its life subcutaneously under the skin, time goes by and the worm pops out, ready to morph into a fly and repeat the cycle. It was pretty gross, I told her to consult a VET and not me, but I helped her remove the worm.

Filthy Fletch is now probably thinking more crazy things about my neighbors. One with Cockroach egg sacks and now worms popping out of dogs with another neighbor. It's crazy as I don't live in the sticks and in a very nice modern city. The insects are taking over Florida!!

at leats you managed to save the plants, i overdoesed my first gro wit nutes and now its dead. My ew lant popped out of the soil today!

yeah u can take tobacco and sprinkle around the plants not in the fucking soil or on the plant around it bugs will smell it and move away some bugs will and most of all if u look on some bug spray it has nicotine as a chemical LMFAO

theres a product out there called "talstar" (i think). It's a chemical insectacide that i have used in the past,but not for roaches.Have you ever thought about getting those roach traps(roach motel) that might work for you.Good luck dude.Your set-up is sweet.

dude, size of those roaches....you need a gun. i wouldnt go in there after lights out, you may lose a limb.

jeff

ps are they required to pay rent?