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Hmmm! According to the map I should be free of the little SOB's. But I've seen them! Actually, I've only seen them at the university, which is also the only place you can find cockroaches up here. They probably come in on boxes and move into the steam tunnels.
-aldon
Yeah. Same thing here. Loxosceles reclusa isn't native to this part of the state, but we occasionally get them here in Chicago, along with black widows even! The thing to remember is that animals can move (or be transported) somewhat beyond their normal range. That's how we wound up with parakeets and collared lizards in Illinois, not to mention all manner of introduced species in the SE (especially Florida).
My main point was just to show that there IS alot of debate about how many 'recluse bites' are really recluses and not something else. Hell... maybe there is another (as-of-yet undescribed) species native to more northernly climes.
Did you know ND is mostly cockroach free? It seems the ones that live in houses freeze dry there lungs in the winter up here!
Yeah, cockroaches are really tropical species. Despite its name, the 'German' cockroach probably originates in SE Asia. In their natural habitat they are pretty beneficial in eating rotting organic matter in the jungle growth. BUT they are adaptable enough to eat just about anything we do, and then some, and have since traveled to just about every corner of the globe.
Cold is hell on cockroaches, one of the few easy ways to kill them, but because we bring with us indoor heating and year-round warmth, just about any place with human settlement is going to be ideal for them. And of course in the southern US (and the tropics) they can live pretty much anywhere.
C. exigua replaces the fish's tongue.-zakariyabey
Isn't there one that's species specific to mothers-in-law?
oh my,
I didn't know it was real. I thought it was bad enough when somebody had faked it.
Just imagine having a bug as a tongue. You couldn't make that up.
*shudders*
d
C. exigua
That was disgusting, made my flesh creep.
agreed -- it's the smug look on the bug's face that get's to me, "Hey, I'm your tongue, what you going to do about it."
And now I'll have nightmares about that creepy parasite! Ugh, when I lived in AZ, the roaches were ridiculous! One night, we were walking by ASU and they were chasing us, trying to hide in our shadows...I actually wrote a story about it a long time ago.
That thing, the state insect of my 'home' for the next few years, is what is beleived to have attacked my leg. You know what it is? A tarantula wasp. You know what it does? Kills tarantulas. You know how? It injects them with venom, drags them to its nest, and then layes its eggs on the tarantula. The eggs hatch and eat the still living tarantula. Oh, but it feeds off of nectar - yeah. And oh yeah, pretty damn big too.
Here's how it was figured out:
Me: So I was walking on the sidewalk, and felt this sharp pain, and this huge ass bug as big as my leg is attached too it. I freak and wipe it away, and end up having to go to the doctor because it's so swollen.
Guy: Have you looked up Tarantula wasps? There's a lot of them around here.
Me: (goes to google) big with brown wings and painful.
Guy: Yup, tarantula wasps, our state insect.
Now, consider a little research shows that they are considered second to the bullet ant in terms of pain. While my leg (a week and a half later) is a little achy, and swollen, and red...the initial sting wasn't horrible making me think that either a. I knocked it off before it got it's entire stingy part in me (which is 1/3 of an inch long) or b. It was another really big venomous flying bug. But it looks approximately like what got me.
Oh, and I had shown that picture (of the wood louse) to someone recently, before seeing it posted here - it was a 'natural or medical' gross out contest - I won :D
ETA: I just found a web forum with people posting pictures of their reaction to the sting/bite, and it looks WAY like mine, so maybe I was lucky with the initial pain, or have blocked it out. . .
That thing, the state insect of my 'home' for the next few years, is what is beleived to have attacked my leg. You know what it is? A tarantula wasp. You know what it does? Kills tarantulas. You know how? It injects them with venom, drags them to its nest, and then layes its eggs on the tarantula. The eggs hatch and eat the still living tarantula. Oh, but it feeds off of nectar - yeah. And oh yeah, pretty damn big too.Here's how it was figured out:Me: So I was walking on the sidewalk, and felt this sharp pain, and this huge ass bug as big as my leg is attached too it. I freak and wipe it away, and end up having to go to the doctor because it's so swollen.Guy: Have you looked up Tarantula wasps? There's a lot of them around here.Me: (goes to google) big with brown wings and painful.Guy: Yup, tarantula wasps, our state insect.Now, consider a little research shows that they are considered second to the bullet ant in terms of pain. While my leg (a week and a half later) is a little achy, and swollen, and red...the initial sting wasn't horrible making me think that either a. I knocked it off before it got it's entire stingy part in me (which is 1/3 of an inch long) or b. It was another really big venomous flying bug. But it looks approximately like what got me.Oh, and I had shown that picture (of the wood louse) to someone recently, before seeing it posted here - it was a 'natural or medical' gross out contest - I won :DETA: I just found a web forum with people posting pictures of their reaction to the sting/bite, and it looks WAY like mine, so maybe I was lucky with the initial pain, or have blocked it out. . .
-victorya
the kills tarantulas then drags them off & lays its eggs in them cracked me up, but it was really like laughing + gagging. dude, EW! glad you're on the mend!
Ughh. I hate wasps. Anykind of wasp. Infact I just got stung/bit yesterday while replacing the lights in our outside walk way lighting. Luckily only one got me before I nuke the nest. But it got me on my left index finger. Now my index finger is the size of my thumb and it sure makes it hard to type.
You wanna talk to Brenda at MOZ, she HATES any waspy type thing.
I used to live in Australia and didn't mind the bugs there because I was just a kid, so found them all kinda cool - now I'm repulsed by pretty much anything with more than four legs (and even some things with two legs BADADADADA BING!). I did get to see a hornet have a fight to the death with a huntsman spider though, that was really cool.
I got to run over a next of ground bees with the lawn mower. They all flew up my shorts!
I got to run over a next of ground bees with the lawn mower. They all flew up my shorts![image]
-dr-pus
were you molested by some bees?
that sucks, my arm swelled so bad just from one bee sting a few weeks ago.
j
Any word on what kind of response time we should now be expecting? I fully understand, of course, that recuperation comes first.
I got to run over a next of ground bees with the lawn mower. They all flew up my shorts![image]
-dr-pus
Hope you're okay, Doc. Same thing happened to me when I was a teenager. Got stung several hundred times and ended up sensitive to it for a few years. Not fun.
First draft is done! "Food Porn" should be headed your way by this weekend. Because a man can hunger for pork products in more than one way.
OMG! It's fish "Aliens". Well that was slightly creepy.
The funniest sting I ever had, was a few years ago back home. I overslept for work. I woke up, and jumped up and pulled some jeans on that had been on the floor, (until I could make some coffee and such). Well I committed the worst sin a Floridian can commit. If its been on the floor, don't put it on, till you shake it out. This includes shoes. Well I was half asleep, pulled up my jeans and a scorpion nailed me in the ass five times before I could get them off. I was screaming running around naked looking for that bastard, while my kids stood there and laughed.
The funniest sting I ever had, was a few years ago back home. I overslept for work. I woke up, and jumped up and pulled some jeans on that had been on the floor, (until I could make some coffee and such). Well I committed the worst sin a Floridian can commit. If its been on the floor, don't put it on, till you shake it out. This includes shoes. Well I was half asleep, pulled up my jeans and a scorpion nailed me in the ass five times before I could get them off. I was screaming running around naked looking for that bastard, while my kids stood there and laughed.
-floridapossum
lol
sorry but that was funny
My kids stood there and laughed.
-floridapossum
Didn't you feed them to the aligators?
Must say, I've experienced the scorpion in the clothes on the floor scenario. The bugger was in my shirt. Luckily he started running around before I buttoned the shirt cuffs, and when he lost his footing he slipped out the sleeve.
Phew!
The thing with my "ground bees" were that they all flew up my shorts (no underwear) and I went screaming into the house. Tam thought I was dying. All I could scream was "Bees!!! IN MY PANTS!!!. So, Tam pulled down my shorts and started smacking me in the crotch to get rid of the bees. Damn did it hurt. Funny thing is, I didn't get stung once, but my junk hurt like hell where Tam smacked it. I spent the rest of the day with a bag of frozen pees on my crotch. OUCH!!
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