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I didn't know that fruitflies bite? I know they have a wicked fire ant problem down there. We thankfully don't have those here.
Between fire ants, scorpions, and rattlers, I imagine in Texas everything bites...
Yup, we have all kinds of critters crawling down here. In this Texas heat, even animals that don't bite humans, turn into overnight Chupacabras. (That's another animal that Texas suddenly attracted.) I haven't seen any rattlesnakes, that would be scary. But we have other snakes that hang around in trees and gardens. We have spiders, lizards, mosquitos, fruitflies, regular flies, cicadas, recently I've seen a bunch of black looking beetles inside stores and everywhere, fire ants, regular ants, big roaches, wasps, bees,hornets, ladybugs, butterflies (if you don't watch out they will get thirsty and bite too) , and in general, anything that sees you will pretty much get ya.
Deer can be aggressive too! I thought they were shy, but I've seen videos. Man you don't want a deer coming after you. And your house is the one with the ducks, right? You disillusioned me about ducky romance. [/quote]
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Deer can be aggressive too! I thought they were shy, but I've seen videos. Man you don't want a deer coming after you. And your house is the one with the ducks, right? You disillusioned me about ducky romance.
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JJ- first my apologies - see DM to you.
Yeah, I live by a river so everything migrates up to my front yard to mate - ducks are violent when they do.
DO NOT WANT. We had a couple of rats back in California that set up house in our garage. I thought they were mice at first but couldn't figure out why the traps were sprung but not doing much. Gaaah. At least they weren't the giant sentient alien robot rats like they have in New York.[/quote]
I've seen them as big as cats in a old warehouse for a company I worked for that recycled paper - they migrated there because of the paper.
I had mice once - ewwwe. They came in through the dog door to snag the dog food. I opened a drawer by the sink to get a scrub pad out and this little thing jumped out of the drawer and clung to my sweater - I was dancing around in the kitchen just screeching.
I couldn't use poison because of the dogs so I got those glue traps - OH disgusting. They don't die instantly, they just get stuck and my little dog would bring them to me at 4 in the morning and throw it down by my bed and stand there all puffed out like "Look at my big kill I have for you." Awwwe man. I discovered the elimination of bird seed in the backyard eliminated them. This after they set up camp in my oven and ripped all the insulation out of it rendering it useless. I had to tear everything out of the kitchen and bleach it to death. Every drawer, corner, pot and pan.
Speaking of old cars and critters. My aunt and uncle lived in Florida and had an old car they had left outside they were finally going to get rid of and when he opened the glove box to get anything out of it all these cockroches came milling out - OH EWWWWWWWWE!!!
Cockroaches?! Ugh. We lived in Northridge ("the Valley" in California) right after we got married. Hot (114 degrees the first time I came to see him), smoggy as hell (I remember coming down the Sepulveda Pass and seeing this opaque brown mist shrouding the city below: GROSS), and an apartment building full of cockroaches.
Sigh. I only wish I had your insect problems. Union Federal, the flies we experience in rural NSW feel like a red hot poisonous thumbtack when they bite. The mosquitos here....well I bet they could airlift a small child. Good thing there are so many deadly spiders here, b/c they're good at keeping some of the 'skeeters at bay. Some of the fatter spiders are kept in check by the red-bellied black snakes, occasionally by the more deadly brown snake. Don't get me started on the dingoes..
Right now in the dead of winter, we only have to worry about being turned out of our home by mice. One peeked over the top of the drapes as we were watching "Mystic River" on DVD, but I think he'd already seen it.
This is getting like Monty Python..."you lived in a shoebox?? when I was young we didn't have anything so luxurious"!
I think that's Australia's way of saying "Get Out!" I read Bill Bryson's "In a Sunburned Country" and was amazed at the sheer number of deadly poisonous things contained in one continent. Not to mention the vast unforgiving desert and the jellyfish.
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