On 7/6/2013 8:19 AM, casa bona wrote:
> On 7/6/2013 11:48 AM, dsi1 wrote:
>> On 7/6/2013 7:27 AM, casa bona wrote:
>>> On 7/6/2013 11:24 AM, dsi1 wrote:
>>>> On 7/5/2013 11:56 PM, Ophelia wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Ugh that is awful
Nasty things! How do you get rid of them?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> According to Wikipedia, the Buddhists say that if you like to scare
>>>> people, you'll come back as a centipede when you die. This sounds about
>>>> right.
>>>>
>>>> I'll see small ones a couple of times a year and maybe a big one
>>>> every 2
>>>> years or so. Having chickens around is probably the only thing that can
>>>> keep them away. That's my belief, anyway.
>>>
>>> We get them her also, long red-yellow buggers and we have pest control
>>> spray for them, as well as the even more dangerous bark scorpions.
>>>
>>> Either one will on occasion turn up indoors, but almost always in their
>>> writhing death throes.
>>>
>>> It pays to be regular with spray applications and we keep a small
>>> sprayer of commercial grade insecticide to renew thresholds and window
>>> frames following the monsoon rains.
>>
>> Spraying the areas where they live would help but I rarely see them
>> inside the house and I'm not sure that spraying is worth the effort. I
>> am glad of the chicken skittering about the place. They're like a
>> centipede security patrol.
>
> That's fantastic, a real cooperative ecosystem you have there!
>
>> Speaking of which, our cat also helps with scary pests. The other day he
>> was playing with a large cane spider in our house. When I checked on him
>> later, there was spider legs scattered on the floor. Good cat!
>
> Oh I've seen those, big scary looking buggers.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlbrW55xgX8
Cane spiders have the worst
PR! They try to stay away from humans but
they do raise a fuss when they are spotted. Mostly, they're a victim of
our primeval fears. In some cultures, it's bad luck to kill a spider or
gecko in the house because they eat unwanted critters. Our fears of
large spiders is so great that we're willing to tempt fate to ease
ourselves. That's the breaks.