cherrio

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

mjhaess

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..

fayeberry

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

crafty pat

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 .

MarleneC

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.

Dodie

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

sewmom

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.

sewnsewer2

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

ziegamomma

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.

rainagade

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.