Intruders!

[aquietpath]

Originally Posted by Okey Dokie

We had baby lizards in the garage walls. We would see one every now and then. Finally got some glue boards and OMG. We must have caught 40 or more.

Lizards eat mosquitos and other insects. Why in the world would you want to eradicate them? What were they hurting? Whoever invented glue boards should be stuck to a giant one and left to suffer, starve and die. They are an incredibly inhumane method of pest eradiation.

[TamaraSavannah]

Originally Posted by CatwomanofV

We get the usual intruders in our house-spiders, flies, bees/wasps, beetles, ants, and mice. Our house in Puerto Rico use to get the occasional lizard. I remember one time a bird flew down the chimney at my mother's house. We once had a cat who just walked into our house and stayed for 18 years.

What kind of intruders have you had?

Cat

They are not intruders because, after all, to them, WE WERE HERE FIRST!

After the house was built and before the pretty penny to ABC, had scorpions, ants, red wasps, and an occasional field mouse or so. ABC came out, found that the red wasps had a nest in the attic. They sealed up all those entrances, sprayed around the house (and do so monthly), but commented how generally well sealed the house was to begin with.

On the outside of the house, oh lots of things. General spiders, walking sticks, humming birds, window crashing birds, black widows, rattlesnakes, foxes, deer, feral hogs, raccoons, scorpions. Of this collection, the only ones I see in the house, from time to time, are scorpions, June bugs, house and fruit flies.

The fruit flies come from feeding cats. The house flies and June bugs get in when I have the doors open.

Poor little scorpions. They don't get in in force but when a solitary scout gets in, it is usually from one cat, "What's this thing?" to which the next cat will be like LETS PLAY WITH IT!

Poor, poor, little field mice. I came home one day and the caught and release cat, Melas, was so excited, having so much fun. Came to find that a field mouse had managed to get into the house and Melas was having a BALL playing cat and mouse with it. I rescued him, put him out on the porch for the evening, but he didn't survive the night. Another time, I found another cat batting around.....a very dried out, dead mouse.

[rfomd129]

Originally Posted by aquietpath

Lizards eat mosquitos and other insects. Why in the world would you want to eradicate them? What were they hurting? Whoever invented glue boards should be stuck to a giant one and left to suffer, starve and die. They are an incredibly inhumane method of pest eradiation.

We have lots of little lizards on our property in Florida and occasionally one will get in the house. We gently escort it back outside. They are vital to the ecosystem here and they don't cause any harm (unless you're a bug.) I enjoy watching them. Even our dogs leave them alone

[LoriNJ]

Originally Posted by A.Typical.Girl

2-wks ago, something seemed off when I had my doors/windows open. Took a bit of time to figure out that there was utter silence outside, which is very unusual. Then I saw there were about 6 vultures all over the properties on either side of the canal... they stayed around for 3-4 days. Every animal from squirrel to bird to rabbit knew to be quiet & stay hidden. Vultures are frightening looking up close, but such huge, tall, powerful animals.

Why would live animals be afraid of, and hide from, vultures? Vultures eat dead animals; they do not kill animals themselves. We have plenty of vultures (turkey and black vultures) around here, and the feral cats and other animals don't even pay attention to them.

[LoriNJ]

Besides assorted insects and the occasional mouse, we have had bees in our chimney. That was not fun. And we've had the occasional feral cat stroll in and never leave.