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Old 03-23-2015, 01:32 PM
 
Location: Denver, CO
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Oh, Lord. Bugs. I moved here from Houston a long time ago, and I still cringe remembering those HUGE cockroaches that would show up in the house down there in Houston. You didn't have to be a dirty housekeeper to have them. I remember being young, and in my first Houston apt., and how happy I was to have a new set of pretty green ceramic coffee mugs.

Then one morning I reached up and got a mug down from the cabinet, and as I was about to pour the coffee in? Saw a huge m***fer cockroach all comfy there inside it. Yikes!!!

As a result I switched to tempered clear glass coffee mugs, so as not to have such surprises in the future. It cracks me up that after all these years I still prefer glass coffee mugs. Although I don't worry about bugs in my dishes here in Denver.

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Old 03-23-2015, 10:02 PM
 
Location: Edina, MN, USA
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I'm from western Colorado and western New Mexico. The closest I can relate is from when I was in grade school just north of Gallup, NM and every spring the school playground would explode with tarantulas. I didn't mind that one bit, though. One of the teachers was married to a high school science teacher. She would pay me 25 cents for every tarantula I caught so her husband and his colleagues could use them in class. I would bring her everything from the spindly, hairless little hatchlings to the full-grown six-inch buggers.

There were a few scorpions on that playground, too. I got 50 cents each for those, when I could find them. They were trickier, tarantulas will climb into a jar put over them, scorpions have to be herded in the jar. I haven't thought of that in years...

Only in travels do I see the bugs that are in such abundance in other places. I don't envy those places. The only bugs I see in any amount where I live in the Springs are spiders and I leave them alone since they keep the other bugs at bay by eating them.
I'm going to have nightmares over this. Can't believe they let children "catch" these things.
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Old 03-24-2015, 09:13 AM
 
Location: Pikes Peak Region
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I'm going to have nightmares over this. Can't believe they let children "catch" these things.
It really wasn't terrible. The tarantulas and scorpions in that area are small and relatively harmless. Tarantulas are pretty shy and benign. We used to just let them crawl on our arms (neat sensation because their feet are sticky on the bottom) and they move pretty slow. The scorpions were never over an inch long and were too small to do much more harm than a bee sting.

I was a resourceful kid. Between selling those critters to the teacher during the school year and collecting aluminum cans in the summer I always had a few bucks to spend at the local Circle K convenience store. Worked out just fine for me.
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Old 03-24-2015, 09:51 AM
 
Location: CO
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I don't mind bugs back east except for the mosquitos. At least I never had bugs in the house.

On the other hand, here in New Mexico, there are huge cockroaches galore. They swarm on the sidewalks at night, anywhere there is water. Do you not have them up in Colorado?
I've never seen a cockroach in Colorado but I'm sure there are some somewhere here. They aren't the world's oldest pest for no reason.
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Old 03-24-2015, 10:42 AM
 
Location: Southwestern, USA, now.
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I lived in Florida and TX for years...
DON'T MAKE ME REMEMBER! No..o...oo..o...
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Old 03-24-2015, 02:41 PM
 
Location: Texas
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I lived in Florida and TX for years...
DON'T MAKE ME REMEMBER! No..o...oo..o...
.

LOL. I am moving back to Texas in July and I am seriously dreading the idea of cockroaches. I was just thinking about that today, in fact.

The mosquitoes are terrible along the Gulf Coast as well..........but, I will say that I have never, and I mean NEVER, had mosquitoes as bad anywhere as I have had living in the middle of Denver in Stapleton. Dusk in the summer is almost unbearable and the city refuses to mitigate them in the proper manner. By proper manner, I mean spraying for them so they are dead, dead, dead. Don't tell me how we should all remove old tires from our yards, because the issue is the standing water retention areas the developers designed. Don't mention releasing bats, or live traps, or any of that crap. It doesn't work. Don't tell me about all the terrible cancers we will all get, because mosquitoes are a far more serious public health issue that kill millions of people worldwide.

The only good mosquito is a dead mosquito. {End Rant}.
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Old 03-25-2015, 08:04 AM
 
Location: Downtown Co Sps
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Out here a bird bath is a bird bath and not a mosquito mating zone.
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Old 03-25-2015, 08:10 AM
 
Location: The Springs
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No. But I do remember getting eaten alive by mosquitos fishing the lakes atop Grand Mesa one summer. They might have been small, but their aggressiveness more than made up for it!
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Old 03-25-2015, 08:12 AM
 
Location: Southwestern, USA, now.
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LOL. I am moving back to Texas in July and I am seriously dreading the idea of cockroaches. I was just thinking about that today, in fact.

The mosquitoes are terrible along the Gulf Coast as well..........but, I will say that I have never, and I mean NEVER, had mosquitoes as bad anywhere as I have had living in the middle of Denver in Stapleton. Dusk in the summer is almost unbearable and the city refuses to mitigate them in the proper manner. By proper manner, I mean spraying for them so they are dead, dead, dead. Don't tell me how we should all remove old tires from our yards, because the issue is the standing water retention areas the developers designed.
Don't mention releasing bats, or live traps, or any of that crap. It doesn't work. Don't tell me about all the terrible cancers we will all get, because mosquitoes are a far more serious public health issue that kill millions of people worldwide.

The only good mosquito is a dead mosquito. {End Rant}.
Oh my goodness...I have never heard anything about this problem!
This should be in the news here! IMO.
Appalled...
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Old 03-25-2015, 08:14 AM
 
Location: Texas
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Oh my goodness...I have never heard anything about this problem!
This should be in the news here! IMO.
Appalled...
Yeah, it's bad. The local Stapleton website forums always get comments in the summer. I seem to recall snippets on the news here and there- maybe not about Stapleton, but how towns that previously never sprayed before, finally had to break down and do so (want to say Boulder, of all places).
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