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zanana1

(6,286 posts) Tue Oct 1, 2024, 08:35 AM Oct 1

It's getting cold out so bugs are coming inside season.

I just saw a centipede run across my carpet. I'm freaking out. I can't step on it because I think it could take me.

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It's getting cold out so bugs are coming inside season. (Original Post) zanana1 Oct 1 OP

Put a cloth over it and pick it up carefully and reaquaint it with a pile of wood or leaves or rocks. marble falls Oct 1 #1

that's what I do, I evict them Skittles Oct 1 #4

I drive my wife nuts, I relocate all insects, even flies if I can. Because of global warming and the introduuction ... marble falls Oct 1 #5

The spiders come in down cellar,... magicarpet Oct 1 #2

Awww, collect the centipede up in a cup or small box or something and take him outside. They are the good guys. hlthe2b Oct 1 #3

Ewww XanaDUer2 Oct 11 #6

Noooooo MissB Oct 11 #7

marble falls

(62,051 posts)

1. Put a cloth over it and pick it up carefully and reaquaint it with a pile of wood or leaves or rocks.

Reply to zanana1 (Original post)

Tue Oct 1, 2024, 08:39 AM

Oct 1

Skittles

(159,310 posts)

4. that's what I do, I evict them

Reply to marble falls (Reply #1)

Tue Oct 1, 2024, 06:09 PM

Oct 1

I don't mind that they EXIST, they just cannot, er, LIVE with me

marble falls

(62,051 posts)

5. I drive my wife nuts, I relocate all insects, even flies if I can. Because of global warming and the introduuction ...

Reply to Skittles (Reply #4)

Tue Oct 1, 2024, 06:17 PM

Oct 1

... of some of the tropical diseases, mosquitos are 'eliminated on first zzzzzzzz.

I have no problem with spiders, my working theory is: if you got 'em you need them. However, my wife feels quite different, so I thin the herd every one in a while relocate them on the plants in on the deck. I feed the birds and I believe a lot of them get picked off by the house wrens. i rationalize it, Circle of Life and all of that.

magicarpet

(16,512 posts)

2. The spiders come in down cellar,...

Reply to zanana1 (Original post)

Tue Oct 1, 2024, 08:41 AM

Oct 1

.... and build nests above the gas fired water heater up by the wood beams - where they know it is toasty warm for the winter.

hlthe2b

(106,340 posts)

3. Awww, collect the centipede up in a cup or small box or something and take him outside. They are the good guys.

Reply to zanana1 (Original post)

Tue Oct 1, 2024, 08:53 AM

Oct 1

As to the other bugs coming inside, I take comfort in that my spiders will have something to eat. (Only a harmless few wolf spiders that eat the others; we have a pact. They stay in the basement, don't reproduce, and we can coexist)...

XanaDUer2

(13,850 posts)

6. Ewww

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Fri Oct 11, 2024, 04:28 PM

Oct 11

MissB

(16,091 posts)

7. Noooooo

Reply to zanana1 (Original post)

Fri Oct 11, 2024, 04:56 PM

Oct 11

Sorry, we mostly get sugar ants but that season seems to have passed.

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