Insects, humidity - what's the real scoop...thinking about Houston metro? (Dallas: appointed, layoffs)

[tstone]

We don't have microclimates like in California. The hot/humid/bugs thing holds for the eastern 2/3rds of the entire state, roughly speaking.

[arbucle]

What a generation we have now!What wimps, scared of a roach or stinging insects you sure can tell younger people have just not spent much time with nature anymore.Step on the bugs swat the insects and and grow up.

[EasilyAmused]

I'd take bugs over fires, mud slides and a bankrupt state any day.

[movingtohouston]

Originally Posted by arbucle

What a generation we have now!What wimps, scared of a roach or stinging insects you sure can tell younger people have just not spent much time with nature anymore.Step on the bugs swat the insects and and grow up.

Tell me about it. My son, my poor citified son, freaked out over a little mouse that came in the garage during the last cold spell. He comes racing in the house screaming at the top of his lungs that there is a rat in the garage. I of course freak out at the word rat. So I go to investigate and here is this poor little field mouse in our garage. We chased it out and haven't seen it since but goodness to not be able to tell the difference between a rat and a mouse. I need to get my kids out into the country or something.

[carolineb]

movingtohouston -- watch the opening credits of Celebrity Apprentice and you'll see a 3 second clip of a very big rat that's almost as big as guinea pig -- now that's a rat!

[movingtohouston]

Originally Posted by carolineb

movingtohouston -- watch the opening credits of Celebrity Apprentice and you'll see a 3 second clip of a very big rat that's almost as big as guinea pig -- now that's a rat!

Ick I never noticed that. Makes me shiver, when I was a little girl and lived in Ohio we had one that size get into our house and drowned itself in our toilet. Needless to say I "discovered" it at the tender age of 5 and now rats give me the heebie jeebies. LOL Mice can be tolerated outside but no rats or mice in my house no siree!!!!

[johnherrera305]

Huges roaches ( we call them waterbugs in Miami), heat and humidity is not UNIQUE to HOUSTON. To believe that just Houston has these issues is to be retarded. The entire Southeast has these issues. Houston, like Miami, Orlando, New Orleans, is considered to have Sub-Tropical weather patterns. Hot and humid summers and mild winters. There are bugs EVERYWHERE on this planet - so don't sweat it.

[ctrres]

The biggest cockroaches I've ever seen in my life, in my apt. in Dallas: 3 inches--not including antenna. They had horns growing out their tail ends.

[ctrres]

And some really weird looking, fat, black beetle-looking bugs that are about 3 inches long--again not including antenna--with yellow spots all over their shells. Very rarely observed, but in the summer in trees, usually willows.

[texdav]

Some of the worse misquitoes I ever ran into was in maine and then there are the black flies too that bite worst than any mosquito.Ever been to alaska;now than is a buggy place.Roaches ;well any city really and then there are the rats in many of the larger cities.