hey lost, my dog wont either. 
lost:
u know dogs have a 6th sense, right? Myabe you have a ghost down there… :sure:
:P:P:P
I don’t have any rodent problems, and few insect problems. Sometimes we get crickets, but my dog Chance catches them, crushes them in his mouth, and then carries them to his travel crate. …it sounds wierd, but it’s awfully convenient.
I never had a rodent problem either until last week when one rodent (who I swiftly named Jerry) started gnawing on the wall from within the hollow spaces in the wall - strange thing was we couldn’t find out where it came from.
Long story short, the yummy rat poison did him over today 
He was kinda cute too - for a rodent that is.
Cheers!
Kirupa :bandit:
we get these red bugs, that we call halloween bugs or something and when you swat it, it squirts red dye and it totally will not come off the wall.
but i’m glad we dont have c*ckroaches up here
man o man
lost: no brains in buts for roaches… they are extremely resilient, but no brains in their buts…
question… does your dog go down narrow stairs at all? I had a friend who’s St. Bernard wouldn’t go down stairs that he couldn’t turn around on…
ahmed: Boric acid (dry, sprinkled in the back of cupboards, etc. )works very well, should you not have kids or pets around.
QueenB: I’d rather have a roach than have to splat permanent red spoo on my igloo… It must be bad enough just dealing with the smell of fish and blubber…
:beam:
Rev
haha…blubbers not bad
dont get me started on the fish
and on a side note:
rev u been talkin to sintax or somethin…this queenbe thing still around
*Originally posted by reverendflash *
lost: no brains in buts for roaches… they are extremely resilient, but no brains in their buts…
Rev, I am serious. Roaches do indeed have a secondary brain within their “tail”. They do not need both to survive and can live off either one.
I believe their secondary brain is connected to the cerci at the end of their abdomin and the legs. The cerci can detect vibrations, which then send signals to the legs to get moving before the brain in their head even gets the information. If I am not mistaken.
[SIZE=1]sorry, entemology is something I was always interested in[/SIZE]
*Originally posted by reverendflash *
ahmed: Boric acid (dry, sprinkled in the back of cupboards, etc. )works very well, should you not have kids or pets around.
err… yeah, its boric acid i was talking about. But made into a paste-like mixture with milk and suger :beam:
lost:
I remember you have a buggy interest. do you have any documentation on this? I will search on my own, but you could save me some time…
thanks,
Rev
I have my “bug book”, but I don’t know any sites. I will search and if I find anything I will post a link.
okay, I think I found what you were talking about:
BRAIN: The ****roach brain is spread throughout its body. The head holds a bit of a nervous system, while the rest of the brain is scattered along the ventral (belly-side) part of its body. So, now you understand that if you cut off the head of a roach, it will still live for as long as one week; eventually dying from starvation or thirst.
I did not know that…
I give you 2/3 point…
Rev
“Booyah!”…lol.
I didn’t feel like digging out my bug book to read up on if I was right or not, I guess I was close enough 
darn punks…
::kicks dirt::
Rev
Perhaps the pepper scared away the small pieces of food left around because everyone knows the pepper is the bully vegetable. So there was no food for the ants, so they went elsewhere. So your theory is wrong Jubba, but still works
But do your research next time, you made yourself look like dummy!
Soul… LOL!
Ants annoy me, but spiders are the ones I really can’t stand. Oh, and earwigs. And creepy crawlies in general really. It’s not the look of them, more how they feel when they crawl over you.
And how they look, who am I kidding?
Freaks me out.
While in Hawaii, I went house hunting with a female co-worker, who was also just moving over, when we looked at a house nestled up in this beautiful little valley, basically in the rain forrest, but 15 minutes from town. I walk into one room, hit the light switch, and watched the carpet move… The entire room was covered in 3" roaches…
I still shiver when I think about that…
Rev
We never have any ants or rats in our house… Not even in the basement… which suprises me b’ we have one problem though!
Dunno what they’re called in English but here’s a pic:
They’re gross! They’re just everywhere! Wherever there is a little area between two object there are at least 50 of 'em there. They only come in summer! OMG summer is not very far away! I just hate 'em. Nothing can stop 'em… but radiation (mwahahhaaa not c0ckroaches) They are going to take over!
Worse than aliens!!!
I just hate insects!!!
Thats an Earwig Syko. Those things hurt when they pinch. I learned that one the hard way.
my cats like showing off their hunting skills so when they catch an animal (rat, mouse, bird, squirrel, etc.) they make sure they eat a half of it and leave the other half in front of the front door with the guts lined up nicely beside them. once there was a little stomach right by the masticated mouse. poor thing.