djm wrote:An effective remedy for earwigs, and a lot of other garden pests, is to half bury a bowl, tumbler or other container with steep sides into the soil, and half-fill this with beer. Don't waste a good beer in this. Any German or American beer will do.
Check your container every day or two. It should be filled with drowned creepy crawlies.
djm
You forgot to mention that you should set up your trap, clandestinely, in next door's garden, not your own. Then all the bugs will migrate out of your patch and into your neighbour's, scoffing his flowers as they go, before dying happy in the beer trap.
"Last night, among his fellow roughs,
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
He should have taken a leaf out of royalty's book and said "Woe is one." There's always a sidestep if you look hard enough.
"Last night, among his fellow roughs,
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
I agree with Dale about those GIANT wood roaches in Birmingham.
They used to get into my living room from the outside deck, and believe me, when you are sitting and watching tv at nite and see something scurry across the floor and then stop halfway up the wall (to smirk at ya, I'm sure)
well...
it can send a really horrible chill down the back, I'm here to tell ya.
I rigged up my vacuum cleaner so that I would point the hose at the bug, flip the switch and suck it up. Had to be quick at it, though. You don't want to piss one of those off. It might decide to ambush you in your bed...
Whistlin'Dixie wrote:...GIANT wood roaches in Birmingham.
I use to see big ones in Augusta GA. Some times when you showered they would crawl up the drain on to your legs. You wouldn't really notice until you washed the soap off your face and opened your eyes.
"Be not deceived by the sweet words of proverbial philosophy. Sugar of lead is a poison."
Bald? Not a bit of it, and even if I'm thinning a little bit it's merely the result of a very healthy testosterone level! There's a guy in this pic who does bald much better than I do (I'm the one on the right) and I can give him a few years, I can tell you!
"Last night, among his fellow roughs,
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
Cynth wrote:"In Australia people can be killed in their own swimming pools by spiders that drop into them from trees or crawl into them."
I've not heard of spiders crawling into people but I have heard of a centipede crawling into someone.
Ian
Oh no! In trouble again! Okay. "In Australia people can be killed in their own swimming pools by spiders that drop from trees or crawl into said pools." How's that now. This is my third go!
I.D.10-t wrote:
Whistlin'Dixie wrote:...GIANT wood roaches in Birmingham.
I use to see big ones in Augusta GA. Some times when you showered they would crawl up the drain on to your legs. You wouldn't really notice until you washed the soap off your face and opened your eyes.
Well, I would either have to put screen over that drain---and judging from the size of that bug it wouldn't need to be that fine----or else wear goggles. A person could slip and get killed if she were suddenly surprised by something that size crawling on her.
Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium. ~ Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence.----Seneca
Tell us something.: A long time chatty Chiffer but have been absent for almost two decades. Returned in 2022 and still recognize some names! I also play anglo concertina now.
They're not insects, and we certainly don't rate very high on the creepycrawl'o'meter compared to the South or Australia, but the black widows and brown recluses seem to be taking over the island. I've had two widow bites this year, and a friend's son had a recluse bite that went necrotic and required minor surgery. These spiders are supposed to be shy, avoiding the vibration of human activity, but they've got a 'tude now!
A favourite place for widows? Under the seats of little-used outhouses. AHHH!!
Bald? Not a bit of it, and even if I'm thinning a little bit it's merely the result of a very healthy testosterone level! There's a guy in this pic who does bald much better than I do (I'm the one on the right) and I can give him a few years, I can tell you! 
