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Oh waaahh they are just bugs guy! The only bugs im afraid of are bees.

I swear I should smack the, syche. LOL!
 
LOL - vacuum "trap"

Did this once out of necessity. Had a lower-level studio apt in Queens (part of NYC) once.

Got really crazed with bugs, so I sprayed every corner, nook and cranny (I dont like toxins in my home, so you KNOW I was annoyed!!) anyway I sprayed where the steam pipe came into my apt near the ceiling and then again where it went out.

Apparently there was a roach nest just at the other end of that there wall where the pipe came in, which happened to be the bathroom.

Well, after using the facilites for a major purge I shut the door until the air was again breathable. (Yes the window was open a tad.) When I went back in, there was a F _ _ _ ING roach parade all along the walls.

I had no choice but to get the vacuum and suck 'em in.

One hand with the wand in it, the other over my mouth to stop myself from hurling.

*AH SWEET MEMORIES OF CITY LIFE!!!*

That bag got changed so fast it was like an electron cloud.
 
Roaches In Apartments

When we first moved to Texas we lived in an temporary apartment that was a Roach Hotel. A neighbor gave me a trick to use that worked really well.
Take a can of Boric Acid (available at most pharmacies) and then take off your electrical outlet covers and dump two or three tablespoons of the stuff in the wall. Then take your vacuum cleaner and put it on "blow" and put the hose in the wall for thirty seconds or so. This will distribute the boric acid in the wall. Replace outlet covers. Make sure you do this at each outlet cover in the home or apartment.
We didn't have any more roaches (not even one!) for the next five months we lived their. Not even any of our neighbors had any either!
 
toggleswitch: I can relate to your expereince-cockroaches LOVE apartment houses!! The buildings harbor all kinds of 'em.when the landlords have the exterminator spray your apartment(the landlord means well and is TRYING to rid the place of the "Deedlers")but the effort ends up chasing them into your apartment then they spray yours-then drives the bugs to the neighbors house and so on.The roaches get to visit everybody living in the building before they finally die out.It's like a scene from a roach horror movie-I had a cloth bag Kirby at the time and had to WASH the Kirby bag to rid the roach smell-since of course the roaches and their bug friends were "mulched" in the Kirby fan.After that experience got vacs that had the paper bags so you could throw them down the trash chute when full or had the bug smell.I also don't like the bug spray "toxins" in my home either-if it can kill bugs--it can kill you.I had to wash down the sinks and tub in the apartment after their "bug hunter" visited.Left his spray residue UNDER the sin ks though.Had to vacuum the roach bodies that collected.-and their egg cases.
 
Critters

I will agree with Launderess that if a mouse,rat or snake is in my house I am outta there ! I would rather have a mean dog after me than a mouse. I was repairing a ladies Whirlpool dryer many years ago when I pulled the control panel forward I found a electrocuted mouse .I told her she was lucky .She asked me if that mouse could have set her dryer on fire. I said that if it would have been alive I would have grabbed my light and tools and been out of there so fast she wouldnt have known what hit her.She asked if I would knock her down and let her lie ? I said yes but only if that mouse was alive .
 
mouse in the house

mice are cute. I had white ones as pets as a kid. But they don't belong in your house eating and making mess.

Glue traps are fun because if you put a dab of peanut butter in very center they get stuck while trying to reach it. And if you find them when still alive they look at you and they try and move but they're feet are stuck. They may even try and bite even though they are as good as dead. I had at least a dozen once living in a basement cinder blocks. I would catch them, then use a pliers to grab them, pry them from the trap then hold them under water in the toilet until drowned and then flush. But you need to make sure all edges of the glue trap that dont' have glue on are cut off so they can't use it for leverage to escape.

Roaches!! EWWwwwe

give me ants, bees, mice, earwigs, even an occasional snake but please, no roaches ! I've heard that Cammelians as pets in Florida are popular because they eat them.

Does anyone know what those little aligator like "pests" that climb up interior walls in Florida are called?

Steve
 
I Hate Meces to Pieces

Or whatever that cartoon cat said about those two little mice.

Was watching BBC news last night and apparently some remote island which is home to nesting and breeding sea birds has a mouse problem. Well the island is not inhabited that much by humans if at all IIRC, but the humans and ships which did land there in the past brought along mice.

Each year the sea birds return to this island to breed and rear their young, and it is the young baby birds the mice are eating *ALIVE*. Apparently the mice simply come upon a nesting baby bird and simply start feeding upon it, eating away it's internal organs. The news program showed this (night vison cameras) and it quite put me off dinner. Oh yes, the mice existing on this high protien diet have over the generations grown to three times the size of the common house mice they are descended from (BBC also showed this, and yes the damn things are *HUGE*. Imagine mice the size of small rats. Small,fat rats that is.

The high protein diet these mice live on also means they have quite allot of fat reserves and survive the winter quite well when they would normally die of cold and lack of food (nesting birds do not over winter on the island).

Long story short unless something is done soon, the birds will die out as over 90% of the baby birds are being eaten alive by the varmits. Apparently there is a way of dealing with this problem sucessfuly; it envolves air lifting massive amounts of mouse poison and is quite expensive, but has worked with similar situations on other islands.

So when head for that secluded island holiday, check you accomodations for mice. If they are waiting with little bibs and knives and forks at the ready, run fast and run far!
 
Quote: Then take your vacuum cleaner and put it on "blow" and put the hose in the ...

HMMMM, that would be interesting..I would never need to depend on anyone else..
 
fleas

One of the tricks I do is to sprinkle pet flea powder on the carpet, then vacuum it into the bag. Probably kills other things that would be in the dust bag, too
 
Speaking of mice....

I bought a couple of those glue traps a few days ago. ( so much for my built in mouser=THE CAT.) These were the ones with the peanut butter scent.

It caught one in the middle of the night and by the next morning this poor thing was barely struggling to keep alive.

I will never use one of those traps again. An old fashioned snap trap does the job quickly, though it seems cruel no matter how you look at it. At least it is over instantly.

I don't hate the little critters, they jus don't belong in the house.

Pat
 
Creepy critters

I think what Bostonwash is trying to get at is Geckos. We have them here. On one hand they are good because they eat all the other bugs, but then they poop all over. Luckily, we don't have any geckos in the house because our kitty makes short work of them. I do have a bunch of geckos out on the lanai were they poop all over my washer and dryer. If you look closely at gecko poop, you can see that it is nothing but a dried up, squished up roach. (Gee, hope no one is trying to have a snack at their computer)

My cat would be delighted if we had a mouse in here.

The thing I always used to use for apartment roaches was a mixture of flour, powdered sugar, corn meal and borax. I used this in an apartment I lived in once and never saw another one there.

Picked up a used dryer here recently and in the bottom was a dried out mouse carcass, where the mouse died by getting stuck in one of the holes in the dryer baseplate. It was like something from a horror movie!

Martha told me she killed a huge flying roach at her place and after she crushed it, the remains had a stench to it. Pooey!

Once, when we lived in Colorado (SW part of the state near four corners) I did janitorial work. A lady I knew rented this house out in the sticks and asked me to go clean it for her first. When I got there, found that every window on the 2nd floor of this old house had about a billion flys buzzing around. Took my vac, sucked em up. 10 minutes later, there would be another billion flies. Told the lady, she said "Oh, I guess I will have to plant some basil." Basil, hell! You need an exorcist honey!
 
EWWWWW.

My ex is, 6 foot 2 broad shoulders narrow waist "V" shape, pretty rugged, masucline deep voice, no mannerisims (outside the bedroom-) to speak of...but had a overly close bond to "the mutha" (only child).

This big "bruiser" was SO AFRAID of every little bug.. just like she was. Like "mutha" like "dotter".

Anyway I opened up a kitchen wall to rewire (a rented aparment!) and took the opportunity to dump mega-doses of boric acid in the open cavity. Later, out comes this HUGE (for this area) water-bug.

Sissy boy (that would be HIM! ahem...) ran for the hills and was screeching like a little school girls. I killed the bug with the yellow pages, but the smell, and the blood and the guts and the gore, I could not handle.

I killed it, He picked it up.

I also had the pleasure of throwing out the yellow pages and washing the floor.

The best part is the ex calling to mother to share a horror story.

Good riddance to bad rubbish-- sing it girls! I'm gonna wash that man right outta my hair.. --NEXT!

GROSS!!!!
 
HA!

Same deal with my downstairs neighbor, pretty-boy NYC cop.

(Technically that makes him the bottom).

We had to go under the crawl-space of his apt to fix something that would have taken the maitenance dept. weeks to get to.

Do you know the guy was scared SH _ _ LESS of the spider webs and leaves and potentially dead kittens/mice/birds. (We had wild cats there).

When I asked him in front of his wife, if he wanted to hold my hand, he turned beet red and she and I had to hold back busting out laughing.

YOU defend ME on the big bad streets of my city and carry a gun?

To quote the OTHER Steve R.. OH UH HUNNY PUHHLEEEEZE..
 
I'm SUCH a man...

Got that dreaded phone call..somthing smeels REALLY bad in your grandpa's apt.

So I went over there (the other side of the county) since I was closest to him besdies my mom and my uncle (daughter and son to him).

He had expired a week prior durning a heat-wave such as this.
The coroner was amazed at my composure (Frankenstein looks WAY better than what I saw). He asked me if I was in the medical profession, I answered truthfully that I was not (I was an accountant at the time). He was amazed and asked how I was able to cope with the sights and smells... (death is like roll-your-own funny cigs.. smell it once you know EXACTLY what is is). I simply siad I have to do this right now and I will process it all later..and sure enought I was royal mess later.

Now here is the interesting part. LISTEN UP!

I was Thursday night of an upcoming fourht-of July long weekend. EVERYONE dear to me was out of town except mom. WE called each other that night and asked "Did you hear from PAPPOU (grandpa)". No and no. However he had A/C only in the bedroom and was getting deafer by the minute, so it was normal for him to not hear the only phone that was in the living room. We sort of let it go... Then she giggled and said "Ya know I am cooking up a storm for no apparent reason..it's a vat of chicken soup and stuffed peppers. This is where it gets freaky...

I was cooking the same thing to feed an army on the hottest day of the year and for no good reason, there was nto a soudl who coudl possibley have come over to eat it..

ready.. "That is your grandpa's favorite meal..we should call him he'd laugh at how ridiculous we both are."

I belive he had just expired and was trying to tell us.

I got to him on Sunday... :-(

and yes there were tons of flies beating against his window screens to get to their meal..

He was in the living room with a cloth around his head (most likely rubbing alcohol on it to cool and comfort him. The a/c was still running in the bedroom with the door firmly closed.

I knew i was a "real man" right then and there when Ii saw the shell of grandpa.

PS my uncle and my mother collapsed; and I would not let them see the body, the coroner had the police force them out without so much as a peep/peek.

Sorry to get so deep...
 
Awwww, that's so sad. I probably would have collapsed too. Though I did watch my dad die right in front of me. Talk about feeling helpless. Mom of course was in hysterics. Okay back on to Butch nelly bottoms and the tops who love them :)
 
Butch Nelly bottoms and the tops who love them...

Steve, you deserve your own "Ask Toggle" section here.

"I need to know more about about fixing my BD kenmore preferably by a butch nelly bottom. Can someone help?"

or

"I need suggestions removing certain stains left by a muscle bound mountain man I met in a bar last night. Any suggestions? Faithfully, Fannny Rumpf, Albany, NY.

and who wouldn't like to hear more about your Ex(and perhaps pix). :oP

You have a special skill.
 
Glue traps

I hate those dammed things-if you have to trap the mice-at least use a trap that kills them instantly.The snap ones still work well.The poor things suffer too much in the glue traps.At one radio station-a mouse was caught in a glue trap.He was making so much squeaking noises I thought the new transmitters blower bearings had gone out!!He was making more noise then the tranmsitter.I freed him with needlenose pliers and let him go outside-he skampered away quickly.I then rounded up all of the glue traps and when I bushhogged the tower feild the traps were chopped into bits.Used regular traps after that-and cleaned out the building of junk and debris.Sadly some mice would get caught in the bushhog as well. I know the critters are harmful-but they are cute.I do have a soft side for them.The bushhog also found a snake-couldn't tell what kind it was.
If you are in Florida and have "Alligator like" pest on the walls-it just may be baby 'gators-some momma gator may have a nest not too far from the house.They are getting more brazen and used to people.also in Florida they do have lots of critters there.Used to live there.
The protein eating mice sounds weird-Mice and rats are omnivores like us and will eat just about anything.Those "mice" may not be so cute after all.
 
AS for the meces...

I didn't mean to sound like I was into seeing any creature in pain. I think the old fashion snap traps are best too because it is over fast.
I just thought it looked kind of funny. But it is not a sustainable thrill, no worries.
 
other mouse traps

I beleive "Victor" may make them-they are minature "box" traps just for mice-that way you could catch the things and release them somewhere else-How-bout letting them go at a hated neighbors house?Or that big vacant feild.
 
QUOTE: Steve, you deserve your own "Ask Toggle" section here.

Not sure if a compliment! LOL, or if I need to get off the main boards! LOL


As much as I try to hold back, and stick to topic,there are moments that it all comes spewing out..

I have been told that some people look fwd to my posts and that they crack up laughing..

Hope this is true!

sign me,

BIG MOUTH NY-er
Steve
 
Did you know that that any starving cat or dog will eat their deceased owner when they become hungry?

They know it's not their master anymore!

Big mistake to put animals in that situation down....it is simply survival.
 
"I need suggestions removing certain stains left by a muscle bound mountain man I met in a bar last night. Any suggestions? Faithfully, Fannny Rumpf, Albany, NY.

Write to me off-line for a copy of "MASCULOUT"- a great spoof video that aired on national TV about just this "problem"

[email protected]
[email protected]

I would post it with a link but even I have my limits!
 
The MasculOut video is HILARIOUS!!! Of course we all know the label was based on Shout, but in a "different" bottle...LOL!

It also features an early-80's Helical Drive Maytag (first right-timer design, with ivory-colored controls) with a Power-Fin agitator. You need those Maytag waves if you want to get out...ummm...nevermind!!

--Austin
 
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