Lizard IN OUR BED!!!
 

It may be time to leave "critter country" (Southeast Georgia). Last night when my husband pulled back the covers to go bed, there in full glory was a large lizard! Yes, UNDER THE COVERS!!!!!!! Still looking for lizard, husband sleeping in the recliner. Glad I didn't see this firsthand. Obviously, Jet cat is asleep on the job. :shock::shock::thumbdown::thumbdown::eek::eek::eek :

Large or small I would rather see a lizard then scorpions. A constant watch for. I put papers around the children's beds at night, you can hear them on the paper. We always checked our shoes in the closet before putting them on and threw back the bedding at night.

Thankfully your DH folded down the covers. We just crawl in. In my youth I had a nasty experience while staying in central America, of a gigantic cat jumped on my tummy in the middle of the night, waking me up to him slurping down a gigantic rat. The rats hiny, wiggling tail and hind feet hanging out of the cat's mouth, all surrounded by blood will stay in my mind forever.

So where is that lizard?

misspriss, we have occasional scorpions too. The first one I found was what I thought was thread in a decorator bowl, but it moved! My dh stepped on one barefoot in the tiled hallway. He said it stung more than a bee but the pain quickly left. Thankfully, I had just read that week that scorpions found in the U.S. are not poisonous.

That would really shake my day!!!!

Oh did this one bring back memories...
Military husband was transferred to Florida, along with our family. Moved in December, and waited for our house to be built. I loved the lizards, as they ate the BUGS! In June of 1987, my mother came down for a visit. We had acclimated by then, and had not turned on our Air full time for the summer. She decided it was stuffy in the bedroom, and went to open the window. There was a Small gecko (maybe 4") on the screen which immediately changed her mind, because she "did not want that thing in the room climbing all over her!". I wondered if she would have preferred one of the flying Palmetto bugs landing on her nose? And, I am sure she would have had a "bit of a fit" if she had found the scorpions, or the snakes that we found on the patio.
Thanks for the memory as mom has been gone 7 years now.
Happy quilting!
Susan

Wow! All of this is bringing back so many memories...40 years ago, very young bride traveling with hubby for his job. First stop southern Georgia. Those *#€* palmetto bugs were EVERYWHERE! I could here them crawling the walls and one night I woke up to one crawling up my arm...it was about 5" long....or maybe 12"! Lol! I screamed and stayed up all night. I cried every night for two weeks just wanting to go back home to my safe NE where we only worried about tornadoes, hahaha! Then the next assignment....Southern TX. First night in the state sitting in hotel room and I looked down to see a scorpion between my bare feet! Boy did I panic...I jumped on the bed and for some reason I guess I thought they were invincible so was so surprised and relieved when my DH calmly crushed it with his work boot. Lol, guess I led a pretty sheltered life. This past year I had been listening to a coworker talk about her plans to retire to Costa Rica and how wonderful it is there. I talked with DH and said we should seriously consider....dreamed about it for several months until someone who had lived there said to me "that's great if you don't mind the bugs as big as your fist." That cured me right then and there! Can you tell I am bugophobic! Lol.

When I lived with my dad in Biloxi, MIssissippi when I started college, we had a cat that we adopted from vet. We had been out of town and the guy staying at the house to take care of the dog and cat, said that he kept finding lizards and birds in the house. He thought that there must be a hole in the house somewhere. Turns out the cat was climbing the inside of the chimney to get in and out of the house. NEVER HEARD OF THIS BEFORE!!!! So we just added a dog door to the laundry room door in the garage.
I usually woke up with SOMETHING in my bed. Sometimes a lizard (mostly dead - sometimes alive), a bird (always dead), or some kind of toy or item of clothing that struck her fancy. Have you seen the video of the cat that was going out at night and bringing home various pieces of clothing from neighbors' houses? I think she was an early version of that.

And to think I worry about house spiders!

Oh gosh, when still living in Texas in a rent house, I went to bed and my foot touched a Tree Roach. They are huge with barbs on their legs. Needless to say I did not go to bed until I found that thing!! That house had roaches galore. Water standing underneath and a rotting tree next to the house, etc. I was so glad when we moved. Roaches in Texas are indeed Texas sized.

Only thing we have to watch out for is a cat in our bed. She actually thinks that the queen size bed is all hers.

On a farm in Texas, I watch for all kinds of varmints! I go out and walk the perimeter many times a day, looking for snakes(killed three rattlesnakes with my 410 shotgun last week). A few days ago, I had a huge swarm of flying ants hatch out on south end of house and spent an hour or more spraying all around and on roof. Inside bugs and spiders are my biggest battle! I love the country, just wish I didn't have as many visitors of the non-homo-sapiens variety!! lol

Ooooooooo, these stories make me shiver!!! I love nature when it stays OUTSIDE!

When we first moved to Louisiana, my DH and I were in a hurry to shower and get dressed. So we decided to shower together. Got in shower and DH put his hands on my waist. I thought, oh he's getting romantic. But then he said there's a great big "water bug" by your feet. Some how I jumped up and out of the tub and landed in the very tiny space between the tub and the toilet. Still don't know how I managed that without falling and killing myself. He later said he wanted to make sure I didn't fall and hurt myself when I found out about the hugh "roach"

ha, ha. I watched House Hunters today and a couple bought a huge house in the Country. The woman said she loved seeing the Deer and wild animals. Yeah, sure. Wait till a bear visits her, not just a big roach.

We used to welcome lizards in the house. They used to keep the bugs down. We had one in the living room window(actually I believe a chameleon). After 3 years in the window we never saw him again. I called him Charlie! had a snake in the back yard and it had babies (called it Hazel). Never hurt anybody just hung around my Dh's container garded and kept the birds away. Yardguy mowed over her! I would've like to mowed over him. After he did that the bird ruined the garden and we ended up with an infestation of rodents. Woke up in middle of night with palmetto bug crawling on my hand, through that b****** against the wall and it woke my DH up. Saw it in the morning belly up. Have yet to have any scorpions and we live in south Texas. I miss Charlie and Hazel! Now though we are having a H******time with wolf spiders! had one in my washer one day!

When I lived in the Phoenix area we rented a washing machine the day it was moved into the house a scropin came in with it Later that day I was laying on the floor scorpin crawled across the floor.It made me feel creepy so I went to take a shower got in the shower a sewer roach came up the drain. I was really grossed out. Where I worked it was very common to see traratulas the size of a saucer and Rattlesnakes, Once we got into the sally port there was a rattler in the corner of sally port. believe me I was scared to death. I have always been afraid of mice so you can imagine how terrified I was.

Take it from AZ, that is not true everywhere. They won't kill you but you usually need treatment.

yeah we had dinner plate sized spiders that came into my Sedona home. Twice. After that the bug man and I were on extremely close terms. no more bugs. oh the scorpians would sneak in too but you just squished those buggers. Spiders ah no. Woke up once in southern California my sisters house. I got out of bed and there coming right after me was this big old black spider. got in the shower to discover I had a bite right on the inside of my leg next to the elastic on my panties. OMG> it was infected for almost a month. I do NOT do spiders. at all. ever. like ever. lol lizards cool enough get a shoe box scoop them outside. or a napkin or a .. snakes get a broom no big deal. heck no to the spiders in this world. you can have them . let them come eat your bugs. I have a bug man :)

Lizards in your Bed
 

When I was a little girl I was picking up rocks by a fence row and got stung by a Scorpion, the pain was so bad, it felt like someone had poured acid on my hand. It swelled up bad too. I didn't got to the Dr. but it was an experience I never want to have again. To this day I am horrified of them. While living Vegas I had to watch for them as well, always looking in shoes and under your sheets. Every time I would take cloths from the closet I would shake then out. Hate creatures, lol.

ok guys ,since ya talking bout bugs and critters, which thoroughly creeps me out. I migrated to tn from wisc 15 yrs ago, and was introduced to palmetto bugs quickly. Ugliest critters i ever saw along with the cecada's here. Don't have these creepy crawlers in wisc. First time i seen a palmetto in my house was in the shower. omg! freaked me out, ran out of the shower naked and wet , screamin for hubby to come and be my hero and kill this monster. Ever since that episode, i walk very gingerly in the bathroom before taking a shower and inspect the room carefully. Even the cats i had then wouldn't have nothing to do with them. That speaks for itself. I now use D.E (diatamatious earth) inside cabinets, under sinks, in between window sills and doorways and any other place they can crawl in. I told folks back home that the criitters come big down here, so big one could saddle them up and have their own rodeo. hmm maybe is the reason for not too many visitors thru out the years. Well to me a roach is a roach no matter how fancy the name gets.

I will take a lizard anyday to misspriss's scorpions! I saw my first one in-person when I was at my step-daughters in Oregon. It was a "small" one according to her and she found it in the laundry room. I worried about those darn things until I left Oregon, they are as creepy as spiders! Snakes, lizards, mice - count me in, spiders and scorpions no way! (I do think lizards have their place, not in our beds!)

that is why I live here and love the cold long winters thought I hated mosquitos but guess they are not to bad

Never have had a lizard in the house, although we've had a few scorpions. The scorpions are usually small, about the size of a 25-cent piece. I imagine that it's difficult for the larger ones to get in, plus they usually live closer to the river.

We have the occasional small lizard around the yard. They eat bugs, which is a good thing, but our main worry is that the dogs will get them. Whenever they do, the dog that gets one ends up getting ill for a day or two. I think they're poisonous to dogs. Our dogs are rat terriers, so they're hunter/killers. Oh well...

Don't feel too bad, I found a dead baby SNAKE on my BDR floor the other morning! I think it is a rat snake. One of my 4 cats brought it in.

I'm originally from South Texas (between Houston and Corpus Christi). When I was younger, one night I awoke to something crawling on the bed. I flipped the cover as high as I could, and a mouse hit the wall and took off. I was mortified at night after that. I made sure the covers were NOT touching the floor anywhere after that in case of mice (not knowing they can climb anywhere!)
In 2009, my husband and I moved from TX to WA. We are in the arid, desert like part of WA with only 7" of rain a year, so we have a lot of spiders, which I hate! Last year early in the morning, I saw a spider on the ceiling, so decided to get a flyswatter to kill it. I had a long robe on at the time. I got a fold-up stool/chair with cross legs from WalMart. The chair/stool is NOT meant for standing on. My husband warned me not to get on it, but I didn't listen. I said, "I don't know what I'll do if the spider falls on me." About that time, I swatted and the spider, and it started falling toward me. I panicked and flipped the chair and fell. I heard three crack, crack, crack sounds. I thought I sprained my ankle. It was the very morning we volunteer at the American Legion to assist with breakfast. I hobbled around on this foot for about a week. When I couldn't take it any more, I went to an orthopedic surgeon to get an x-ray. Lo and behold, it was broken in three places. He put me in a walking cast, but told me not to put any weight on my foot and to use crutches.
So, here I was on crutches with my step daughter and two kids coming in a couple of days to stay a month! THAT was not a pleasant experience! As soon as they left, I boarded a plane - on crutches from WA to Cape Cod for a month where my DH would be working for six weeks. I left my big suitcase with my husband for my flight home so I wouldn't have to deal with it at the airport. On my trip home, my plane got delayed due to weather, so I missed my flight out of Boston - on crutches, and had to stay in a hotel in Boston overnight. I sent my big bag home with my DH Thank goodness I had one change of clothes in my overnight bag, but no night clothes or tooth brush. Thank goodness the hotel had complimentary toothbrushes and toothpaste because I could not see myself on crutches trying to find a store! I just wrapped up in a big towel after my shower to sleep in.
My neighbor who planned to pick me up when I had my original flight in couldn't pick me up the next day, so my BF's teenage son picked me up. And - thank goodness I kept my house keys in my purse so that I could get in the house when I got home rather than in my big bag with my husband (I did that one time!)
Anyway, I survived it all, but what a lessons learned - no more climbing on something I shouldn't. It is NOT worth a broken foot all summer long - and all because of a spider.
We have a garden tub, and some mornings I see spiders in it because they can't get out.

These are so funny.

When I was a small child we lived in Texas - my father was in the service. My mother woke up in the middle of the night, feeling something on her chest, and flicked it away. Turned on the light, and it was a scorpion. Just before we moved to another state, a 'friend' threw his tarantula at me....and yes, they DO grow everything bigger in Texas.
Between those 2 experiences and the HUGE spiders and misc bugs, I am forever scared to death of spiders.

Thank goodness it wasn't a gator My sister lived in Fla. and came home late one night after doing a double shift to find a 4 ft gator in her kitchen and apparently she looked like a nice snack it chased her out the front door back to her car. She called gator control and after not finding it or how it got in she did the same thing. She had our brother go over the next day and move her stuff to his garage. He is a good brother -he never told her about the 7 ft gator he found under his work table in the same week after putting her stuff in there until just before she moved back to Fla a month ago and he teases her about gators loving her scent. He has a quirky sense of humor -he got her deer whistles to attach to her shoes to scare the gators off her scent :)

well, I was looking forward to spending my last years in some state without freezing temps for months on end but maybe NE Ohio with a few spiders and a rarely seen garden snake isn't so bad. The mosquitoes in summer can be managed. scorpions? lg roach populations? house lizards? dang! another dream of warmer weather squashed! lol

LOL...That is too funny. That is part of living in the south. If there is a crack they will come in. I found a pretty green one in the bath tub a few weeks ago...He was in bad shape but was revived when I put him on the patio in the rain..

HORRORS! I hope south GA lizards don't get the urge to move to the big city!

Well as a native Texan I have had my share of scorpion,s . Only stung twice my kids once or twice. Had a rattlesnake in the garage for two weeks until we finally found him and chopped his head off. I had my worst time living on Taiwan we got cobras in the house and a long red lizard that was about 15 inches long that my yard man ran in and killed and told me was very deadly. More deadly snakes than I had ever heard of. I was afraid to let my kid's outside without me. One of the things that really gave me a fright was here in San Antonio a couple of years ago, I had bought a bunch of bananas and when I took them out of the plastic bag I had them in a very poison banana tarantula jumped out and spread his legs ready to jump. Thank goodness I was next to the sink and he and the bananas went in and I turned the water on and washed him into the garbage disposal. I had seen one on the local news a few weeks before found at another store and they showed it and told us if we saw one that that was what it was. I called the store to tell them to watch for more. I had a hard time buying bananas for a long time after that .

Don't know if this really works but we were watching a show filmed in France and the housekeep would put boxes of lavender in the windowsills and around in rooms--she claimed it kept scorpions out.

after reading all of these guess we should stay where we are was thinking of relocating because we are so far from anything but I am convinced isolation is better than these creatures I seldom ever see a spider and if I do most of them are tiny and the jumping kind seldom even have a fly in the house I think if I ever saw some of that stuff I would really have a heart attack

I went to Tx for the first time to help my MIL pack up her winter trailer after FIL went in the nursing home. It had been closed up for a while because they couldn't go down. I used the toilet and when I flushed it, I saw the huge roach swirling around! That thing was that close to my naked butt? Eewwwww! Gross! Now my son lives near Dallas, but I've never seen any at his house. I know it was because the house had been closed up.

OMG, I'm so sorry for laughing, but this is so funny! She should'a called Gater Boys! :thumbup:

I had to look up Palmetto bug. I did not know that is a very nice name for the detested cockroach. Living in Texas we see those things all the time. My nightmare is having one crawl across me during the night. Don't ask me how I know, some things are best forgotten and I don't want to dredge up memories.

Last week we had an episode with fruit bats in the house. They had entered the crawlspace outside under the eaves. We were told to seal it off so they could not use the entrance.

After sealing it, they wanted out, so they came in the cupboards above the microwave.
We had to unseal the outside area so they could use that entrance. We called several companies that do pest control, they are no help in treating bats. Since they have their maternity ward in our attic we need to let it run the course and re-seal the outside when they leave; in about 3 weeks.

In reading about bats, they do not carry virus's like mice and rats. Oh thank goodness.