Fruit flies/gnats. Last summer I was driven to the ragged edge of sanity by a massive fruit fly infestation.
I’m burning the house down if they come back this year
@TheGreatNico I get some every spring but it’s never got massive. A couple Gatorade bottles cut in half, invert the top in the bottom and and some water/apple cider vinegar mix with a couple drops of dish soap. They fly down but it’s harder to find a way back out and usually they land on the water anyway which has no surface tension cause the soap so they just drown. YMMV of course there’s lots of versions of those pests. I just deploy one wherever they are showing up and they did off after a bit.
All of the above, plus more. Like flies, gnats, wasps, ants, fleas. All bugs that get in the house are awful. A few things are ok outside as long as they stay the fuck away from me, which they don’t.
We had a wasp problem last year. My husband killed 20ish wasps in one day in our basement. Plus I have a phobia of stinging bugs, so I’d have a panic attack whenever I saw one.
@LaserEyes I had them inside the eaves last year. Tried numerous methods but this stuff was finally the winner. They actually pushed back in between the floors and were coming out dying in my laundry/hvac room. There’s an opening in the ceiling for the vents and they were dropping out of there for a few days.
@somf69@TheCO2
Yep… After the second comment so
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Option one… You support the OP
Option two… You wanted the OP to see the second part and supported that (the second) post.
I couldn’t tell.
@rtjhnstn
I cannot recall the last religious solicitation I got by phone; I’m talking many years gone by.
Got plenty of political calls this past election cycle to support one candidate or another. Most were robocalls, so I had absolutely no compunction in hanging up on those. In fact, my phone’s caller ID is pretty good at flagging “robo”, “spam”, “fraudulent”, etc., so most I don’t even pick up on to start with, unless I am curious. (I wonder what %age of those actually get somebody’s vote? I bet really low.)
Most junk calls I get nowadays concern car insurance, health insurance, roofing repair, requests for donations to the benevolent fireman’s fund in Podunk, PA., etc., etc. Many of these have obviously bogus caller IDs and if I’m in a snitty mood, I pick up and ask them where they are calling from. Then I call them out on their company lying to me relative to their caller ID, and why would I want to do business with such a dishonest company. Doesn’t phase the sales rep much, but I enjoy a righteous chance to chew somebody out, at times.
@phendrick@rtjhnstn@unksol Not that they will ever stop calling. I used to get texts from real estate thieves wanting to buy a property out on the west side that the previous owner of my number sold over 25 years ago. For a while, I texted back to tell them that I wasn’t $NAME, and they should sue whoever sold them the contact list with my number in it because it was obviously so out of date that it was worse than useless. And then I’d block 'em before they could respond. Maybe one of them finally did sue the asshole who had me in their list, because it’s been almost a year since the last text, though I get flipjerks on the land line at least three times a day according to the post-mortem lookups.
@werehatrack I get medical bills from an ex but at least they don’t have my phone number. I just toss them in the burn pile. Debt collectors are weird but if she’d let me help her fill out some forms she would have been covered… Oh well
June bugs. Not because they ever end up indoors, but because I have to spend all Summer listening to the flying dumbasses bonking into the windows and siding non-stop.
“We’ve been trying to reach you about your car warranty”
“We’re buying properties in your area…”
And about a dozen more categories of unsolicited scammer, plus all the fake “survey” calls, etc. I want a button on my phone that causes the one at the other end to detonate. (OBTW, have you heard that they’ve been effectively trying to DDoS Robokiller and the like, by hitting the same number with as many as 112 simultaneous connection attempts via VoIP? Yeah, classy people, those teleslime.)
@callow I am TERRIFIED of getting bedbugs! I have heard nothing but horror stories about how hard they are to get rid of! Every time my husband travels for work, or my kids go away somewhere, I panic, lol! It may be slightly irrational, but I can’t help it.
@katbyter these and lady bugs and ants and wasp and others all show up in spring. Hence spraying the perimeter with bifinenx. Takes 30 minutes no inside bugs.
Especially because our neighbors let their dogs roam freely, but don’t let them inside. They’re flea habitats at this point. We started creating a DMZ of flea death all along our fenceline with them… the long side of our acre, and that finally reduced the problem for us.
More permanent solution is those neighbors were foreclosed on, moved out in the middle of the night (it’s own bummer because one of our dogs was very close buds with one of theirs and she just stands by the fence now, slowly and hopefully wagging, waiting for her buddy to come play. We’re actually trying to contact them to set up a playdate.), and now the weekends have that property infested with house flippers trying to remove the dozen nonfunctional vehicles, clean up, and I dearly hope, bring it up to code.
@Clumber
My friends indoor cat got fleas from the wandering neighbor cat when she would leave the sliding door open. She never thought the need to flea protect her indoor cat but now she does regularly.
@Star2236 It’s maddening. We assumed the issue was wildlife wandering about until one of their dogs came running up to us as we were opening our gate and we could see the poor thing’s flea infestation. And he’s a BLACK Lab mix! We tried offering them a box of the topical flea control, but they got mad at us. We decided not to offer to pay for neutering their intact free-roaming boydogs, though were considering just leaving a gift cert for such in their mailbox… then they vanished.
Just found out about an hour ago how to contact them to arrange a playdate (farewell playdate) for our girls who were such good friends. Crossed digits! I hate seeing our girl so sad, yet still hopeful her friend will come out.
Today being Saturday, I will add Godsellers to the mix; pick the flavor that arrives on your particular doorstep most often. (My partner eventually hung a big Om on the door as a ward; it has worked several times, very amusingly.)
@werehatrack
I remember answering the door in dirty shorts, just done mowing the lawn, dripping sweat with a beer in my hand. Don’t think they expected that (not sure why not… it WAS Saturday after all). Told them IF I was looking for a new religion I would just use the yellow pages and find one like I would a plumber. (Yes… that was a long time ago) Can’t say they ever came back.
@werehatrack We hung a gay pride flag in the window. Never had another visit though we lived less than a block from both an LDS and a JWitness building. Was every damn weekend previously.
@chienfou@werehatrack A friend of mine once invited some of them in and proceeded to give them a long discourse on why he’s an atheist. He’s a guy who can hold forth for a long time if he wants to, so I guess they got pretty antsy and took off and he didn’t have any more proselytizers for a long time.
@werehatrack Did you know that if you tell the JWs that you don’t want them to come back, ever, they will obey that? They have to fill out a card for every address on their assigned route, and they’ll just note it and not come back.
Moles. It’s a weekly battle here for 8 months of the year. The best I’ve managed is to get them to move from the lawn to other (less landscaped) parts of the property for a while. BTW, dumping scooped dog or cat feces down one of their holes causes them to abandon that tunnel. Kind of a lawn maintenance two-fer.
@unksol The trick is to herd them to an area where I don’t mind so much if they dig (moles gonna mole). I haven’t had much luck with traps in the past (nor with the poison worms).
I’m woodsy/the front yard is never going to look good til it’s redone so I don’t worry about them. They can have at it although annoying they are the least of my mowing problem. I guess it you had actual landscaping and they don’t bother you in the yard. Sure.
If cat shit was an effective repellent I bet we could save Ukraine
Bedbugs terrify me because they’re nearly impossible to get rid of.
Lice, even though my kids are older now. Never dealt with it before, and don’t want to start.
And more recently, Lone Star ticks! A good friend of mine got bit by one that now makes him unable to eat meat! I never even heard of that before! And it’s apparently increasing in occurrence. He has been hospitalized twice and it’s awful for him.
From the Mayo Clinic:
“Alpha-gal syndrome is a recently identified type of food allergy to red meat and other products made from mammals. In the United States, the condition is most often caused by a Lone Star tick bite. The bite transmits a sugar molecule called alpha-gal into the person’s body. In some people, this triggers an immune system reaction that later produces mild to severe allergic reactions to red meat, such as beef, pork or lamb, or other mammal products.”
@Kyeh@unksol Makes you sick in PA as well, lol! That’s where we are. And my friend is a hunter, so there’s irony there, too. Good think he likes seafood and chicken.
I deet up for anything out doors in general cause there are deer in my yard. Mosquitoes. Etc. If I were out in my woods regularly I would definitely have some permethrin treated clothes for tick defense
@Kyeh@unksol absolutely! Your link reminded me of exactly what my friend went through. He works outdoors doing environmental work, so he’s certainly exposed to all kinds of bugs, and I know he protects himself…but I guess nothings fool proof.
We are also in one of the highest areas for Lymes Disease in the country, so there’s that, too.
The reason he wound up in the hospital was because he was having an anaphylactic reaction. And what made it so hard to diagnose was that he didn’t start getting sick until about 3 hours after he ate, so it wasn’t easy to figure out what it was. Plus, it’s still kind of rare, so he was lucky (after his second ER visit) to have a doctor that figured it out. The doctor told him that he’s seen it a couple of times and that he was worried it would become as prevalent as Lymes.
I don’t think I could do vegan, so I’m in trouble if it gets me.
@k4evryng@Kyeh well. Fishing is still a sport. And delishous. Chicken is delicious. He can still hunt. Just give away the meat. If he’s married his wife would have started yelling at him about red meat per the trope. IDK. Trying to think of some positives lol
@k4evryng Bedbugs are absolutely the worst. I had them at the best possible time, when there was a treatment for them, but now you don’t even have that. The very idea of getting them again makes my skin crawl.
@Chakolate exactly! That’s why they absolutely scare the crap out of me! I don’t think there’s a good, reliable treatment that gets rid of them and doesn’t cost a fortune.
When my kids go away with friends (like to a rental home or something), all I can think about is ALL the people who have been there with their pillows and blankets and stuff, lol!
I feel like I could rationally handle almost any other pest, but nope…with bedbugs I’m completely irrational.
@unksol Yup! Trying to find the positives is what he has to do, lol! He’s an avid fisherman, so that is definitely helpful. And I’m sure he’ll still hunt.
He just misses being able to have a burger or a nice steak though. And you know how it is when you can’t have something…it makes you just want it more. At least it’s something he can live with relatively easily though…it could always be worse. Plus…he has a great attitude about it, which makes all the difference.
Pantry moths, got them from the fucking grocery store. By the time I noticed them they had taken over everything. I threw out everything in the panty, wasn’t taking any chances. Their webbing was everywhere, underneath all my cupboards, on top of them, they were nesting in the tiny holes of the cupboard that use to put the shelving pin in and even in unopened boxes of food. I had to clean out each one individually hole with a toothpick and spray borax water in them. Then they were in out basement panty too (from the rice). It took me a complete day of cleaning from 9am to 9pm to get everything done. I too would rather burn my house down than deal with that shit again.
@Kyeh
Never had them, I don’t think I own anything wool. I do have those little cedar things on my hangers and blocks in my sweater drawer just in case.
@Kyeh@Star2236 I’ve only had the pantry moths once. And I normally have bags of flour around so idk if it’s that common. But definitely annoying.
Supposedly you can drop bags of grain products in the freezer for a couple days to make sure any are dead before they can get started. but I honestly haven’t bothered/had a problem since that one time. It was very annoying and I only had a 5 lb bag or two. Still find a dead one now and then on top of a cabinet or in a crack though.
@Star2236 I think the moths also thrive on the cat hair that builds up even though I try to control it by vacuuming and using sticky rollers. But having a young cat has reduced the mouse problems, so that’s a big plus.
@Kyeh@Star2236 “pantry moths” are there tiny little things. But will quickly breed/you have to clean it all out or freeze the grain/flour . Let them dieout.
I hope I never have wool/cat hair moths. We’d have to retreat to the bedroom or bug bomb. No way I could get all the hair. Lol.
Then why aren’t my outdoor cats covered with them? Do they know a secret repellent? (They do tend to pee all around my back deck that they hang around.)
As for the cats. Indoors can hair obviously accumulates. In places you don’t clean regularly. Or think about. I have never had hair eating moths but cats have been everywhere with humans for centuries. Sounds feasible
@Kyeh I mean per your definition
“The moths don’t live on the cats, they just feed on the accumulated hair, or any other stationary source of keratin, like wool.”
So I assume it so depends on how stationary your wool panties are.
@unksol Heh. If I had wool panties they wouldn’t be stationary at all - I’d be fidgeting like crazy - wool is too itchy! Or - they’d be stationary from not being worn. I think in the olden days they did make long underwear out of wool. Yuck.
My sister.
The ex.
Fruit flies/gnats. Last summer I was driven to the ragged edge of sanity by a massive fruit fly infestation.
I’m burning the house down if they come back this year
@TheGreatNico I get some every spring but it’s never got massive. A couple Gatorade bottles cut in half, invert the top in the bottom and and some water/apple cider vinegar mix with a couple drops of dish soap. They fly down but it’s harder to find a way back out and usually they land on the water anyway which has no surface tension cause the soap so they just drown. YMMV of course there’s lots of versions of those pests. I just deploy one wherever they are showing up and they did off after a bit.
All of the above, plus more. Like flies, gnats, wasps, ants, fleas. All bugs that get in the house are awful. A few things are ok outside as long as they stay the fuck away from me, which they don’t.
@remo28 it is time to lay down the perimeter spray. If it would stop raining
Cave crickets. They are evil and must be stopped.
House Centipedes
@Icefire109 honestly, they’re a good pest to have because they eat other bugs.
But they creep me out soooo much, and I hate them. They are so big, and fast, and have too many legs.
@Icefire109 @LaserEyes I only see ever see them right before I go to sleep!
@Icefire109 The downfall of seeing them is knowing they’re there because you have other pests. It’s just bad on top of bad.
Wasps.
We had a wasp problem last year. My husband killed 20ish wasps in one day in our basement. Plus I have a phobia of stinging bugs, so I’d have a panic attack whenever I saw one.
@LaserEyes Find the outside entrance to the nest and place near it. These are available thru Lowes.
@LaserEyes @rtjhnstn Avoid them if you have lizards that you kind of like. They’ll get stuck in the glue, and it is damn hard to get them loose unhurt.
@LaserEyes I had them inside the eaves last year. Tried numerous methods but this stuff was finally the winner. They actually pushed back in between the floors and were coming out dying in my laundry/hvac room. There’s an opening in the ceiling for the vents and they were dropping out of there for a few days.
Trump supporters…
@somf69 Trump won.
ducks
@somf69 Folks, we have a winner!
@somf69 @TheCO2
Was that reference to somf69 or tweezak?
That could go either way…
@chienfou I did tag @somf69, and not tweezak.
@somf69 @TheCO2
Yep… After the second comment so
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Option one… You support the OP
Option two… You wanted the OP to see the second part and supported that (the second) post.
I couldn’t tell.
Unsolicited sales calls, all through the day.
@phendrick You forgot to mention religious and political solicitations.
@rtjhnstn
I cannot recall the last religious solicitation I got by phone; I’m talking many years gone by.
Got plenty of political calls this past election cycle to support one candidate or another. Most were robocalls, so I had absolutely no compunction in hanging up on those. In fact, my phone’s caller ID is pretty good at flagging “robo”, “spam”, “fraudulent”, etc., so most I don’t even pick up on to start with, unless I am curious. (I wonder what %age of those actually get somebody’s vote? I bet really low.)
Most junk calls I get nowadays concern car insurance, health insurance, roofing repair, requests for donations to the benevolent fireman’s fund in Podunk, PA., etc., etc. Many of these have obviously bogus caller IDs and if I’m in a snitty mood, I pick up and ask them where they are calling from. Then I call them out on their company lying to me relative to their caller ID, and why would I want to do business with such a dishonest company. Doesn’t phase the sales rep much, but I enjoy a righteous chance to chew somebody out, at times.
@phendrick @rtjhnstn I don’t get many BS calls but I never answer then report.
I do get texts for political crap and I also report that as spam and block.
@rtjhnstn @unksol I’m hungry … Um, Spam!
@phendrick @rtjhnstn Its better to just not answer. Once you do they got an answer. Better to never respond said let it die
@phendrick @rtjhnstn @unksol Not that they will ever stop calling. I used to get texts from real estate thieves wanting to buy a property out on the west side that the previous owner of my number sold over 25 years ago. For a while, I texted back to tell them that I wasn’t $NAME, and they should sue whoever sold them the contact list with my number in it because it was obviously so out of date that it was worse than useless. And then I’d block 'em before they could respond. Maybe one of them finally did sue the asshole who had me in their list, because it’s been almost a year since the last text, though I get flipjerks on the land line at least three times a day according to the post-mortem lookups.
@werehatrack I get medical bills from an ex but at least they don’t have my phone number. I just toss them in the burn pile. Debt collectors are weird but if she’d let me help her fill out some forms she would have been covered… Oh well
June bugs. Not because they ever end up indoors, but because I have to spend all Summer listening to the flying dumbasses bonking into the windows and siding non-stop.
@brennyn Anyone in the South can tell you that you never loan your pickemup to anybody whose nickname is JuneBug.
Fleas.
@OldCatLady spoken like a true old cat lady!
Rats!! Y’all beat to the best ones.
Rodents of unusual size
@OnionSoup I don’t believe they exist.
@OnionSoup @werehatrack Oh, but they do:
@Kyeh @OnionSoup @werehatrack
@Kyeh @OnionSoup @werehatrack The orange teeth are distinctive.
Armed robbers
“We’ve been trying to reach you about your car warranty”
“We’re buying properties in your area…”
And about a dozen more categories of unsolicited scammer, plus all the fake “survey” calls, etc. I want a button on my phone that causes the one at the other end to detonate. (OBTW, have you heard that they’ve been effectively trying to DDoS Robokiller and the like, by hitting the same number with as many as 112 simultaneous connection attempts via VoIP? Yeah, classy people, those teleslime.)
“that guy” at work. Mainly because ethics and standards at work prevent you from dealing with him the way you would really like to.
Noisy neighbors actually.
Bedbugs! Never had them but don’t want the experience. Fleas, roaches, or any other bugs in the house drive me nuts.
@callow I am TERRIFIED of getting bedbugs! I have heard nothing but horror stories about how hard they are to get rid of! Every time my husband travels for work, or my kids go away somewhere, I panic, lol! It may be slightly irrational, but I can’t help it.
Anything that bites without being provoked!
That includes nosy neighbors…
Other people’s kids.
@katbyter
Stink bugs
@katbyter At least they are slow and dumb so easy to catch unless you’re infested.
@katbyter these and lady bugs and ants and wasp and others all show up in spring. Hence spraying the perimeter with bifinenx. Takes 30 minutes no inside bugs.
FLEAS.
Especially because our neighbors let their dogs roam freely, but don’t let them inside. They’re flea habitats at this point. We started creating a DMZ of flea death all along our fenceline with them… the long side of our acre, and that finally reduced the problem for us.
More permanent solution is those neighbors were foreclosed on, moved out in the middle of the night (it’s own bummer because one of our dogs was very close buds with one of theirs and she just stands by the fence now, slowly and hopefully wagging, waiting for her buddy to come play. We’re actually trying to contact them to set up a playdate.), and now the weekends have that property infested with house flippers trying to remove the dozen nonfunctional vehicles, clean up, and I dearly hope, bring it up to code.
@Clumber
My friends indoor cat got fleas from the wandering neighbor cat when she would leave the sliding door open. She never thought the need to flea protect her indoor cat but now she does regularly.
@Star2236 It’s maddening. We assumed the issue was wildlife wandering about until one of their dogs came running up to us as we were opening our gate and we could see the poor thing’s flea infestation. And he’s a BLACK Lab mix! We tried offering them a box of the topical flea control, but they got mad at us.
We decided not to offer to pay for neutering their intact free-roaming boydogs, though were considering just leaving a gift cert for such in their mailbox… then they vanished.
Just found out about an hour ago how to contact them to arrange a playdate (farewell playdate) for our girls who were such good friends. Crossed digits! I hate seeing our girl so sad, yet still hopeful her friend will come out.
I mistakenly read that as “another kid” and quickly voted for it.
@j37hr0 You don’t know that clicking on it a second time unvotes for it?
@werehatrack I did not
Today being Saturday, I will add Godsellers to the mix; pick the flavor that arrives on your particular doorstep most often. (My partner eventually hung a big Om on the door as a ward; it has worked several times, very amusingly.)
@werehatrack
I remember answering the door in dirty shorts, just done mowing the lawn, dripping sweat with a beer in my hand. Don’t think they expected that (not sure why not… it WAS Saturday after all). Told them IF I was looking for a new religion I would just use the yellow pages and find one like I would a plumber. (Yes… that was a long time ago) Can’t say they ever came back.
@werehatrack We hung a gay pride flag in the window. Never had another visit though we lived less than a block from both an LDS and a JWitness building. Was every damn weekend previously.
@chienfou @werehatrack A friend of mine once invited some of them in and proceeded to give them a long discourse on why he’s an atheist. He’s a guy who can hold forth for a long time if he wants to, so I guess they got pretty antsy and took off and he didn’t have any more proselytizers for a long time.
@werehatrack Did you know that if you tell the JWs that you don’t want them to come back, ever, they will obey that? They have to fill out a card for every address on their assigned route, and they’ll just note it and not come back.
Cow-orkers.
@blaineg cow porkers? Yes that would be annoying
@unksol A deliberate typo that started on Usenet many years ago.
Cow-orkers are much worse than normal co-workers.
ticks and fleas. Ticks scare me and I have an allergic reaction to fleas. Can’t stand em!
Moles. It’s a weekly battle here for 8 months of the year. The best I’ve managed is to get them to move from the lawn to other (less landscaped) parts of the property for a while. BTW, dumping scooped dog or cat feces down one of their holes causes them to abandon that tunnel. Kind of a lawn maintenance two-fer.
@macromeh if they abandon the tunnel they will dig a new one right? More dug up dirt. Much easier to set a trap on a known tunnel
@unksol The trick is to herd them to an area where I don’t mind so much if they dig (moles gonna mole). I haven’t had much luck with traps in the past (nor with the poison worms).
@macromeh Have you considered high explosives?
@blaineg I haven’t, but a former coworker had some experience with The Rodenator
I’m woodsy/the front yard is never going to look good til it’s redone so I don’t worry about them. They can have at it although annoying they are the least of my mowing problem. I guess it you had actual landscaping and they don’t bother you in the yard. Sure.
If cat shit was an effective repellent I bet we could save Ukraine
@unksol Maybe not
Bedbugs terrify me because they’re nearly impossible to get rid of.
Lice, even though my kids are older now. Never dealt with it before, and don’t want to start.
And more recently, Lone Star ticks! A good friend of mine got bit by one that now makes him unable to eat meat! I never even heard of that before! And it’s apparently increasing in occurrence. He has been hospitalized twice and it’s awful for him.
From the Mayo Clinic:
“Alpha-gal syndrome is a recently identified type of food allergy to red meat and other products made from mammals. In the United States, the condition is most often caused by a Lone Star tick bite. The bite transmits a sugar molecule called alpha-gal into the person’s body. In some people, this triggers an immune system reaction that later produces mild to severe allergic reactions to red meat, such as beef, pork or lamb, or other mammal products.”
Yeah…that would suck…
@k4evryng Secretly bioengineered by mad vegan scientists???
Weird that it’s called “alpha gal”!
@k4evryng @Kyeh I know this is awful . But. The lone star tick makes you sick in texas. From an allergy to meat. The irony
@Kyeh @unksol Makes you sick in PA as well, lol! That’s where we are. And my friend is a hunter, so there’s irony there, too. Good think he likes seafood and chicken.
@k4evryng @Kyeh it looks like it has a pretty large range. Weird I have not heard of any cases here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amblyomma_americanum#Meat_allergy
I deet up for anything out doors in general cause there are deer in my yard. Mosquitoes. Etc. If I were out in my woods regularly I would definitely have some permethrin treated clothes for tick defense
@Kyeh @unksol absolutely! Your link reminded me of exactly what my friend went through. He works outdoors doing environmental work, so he’s certainly exposed to all kinds of bugs, and I know he protects himself…but I guess nothings fool proof.
We are also in one of the highest areas for Lymes Disease in the country, so there’s that, too.
The reason he wound up in the hospital was because he was having an anaphylactic reaction. And what made it so hard to diagnose was that he didn’t start getting sick until about 3 hours after he ate, so it wasn’t easy to figure out what it was. Plus, it’s still kind of rare, so he was lucky (after his second ER visit) to have a doctor that figured it out. The doctor told him that he’s seen it a couple of times and that he was worried it would become as prevalent as Lymes.
I don’t think I could do vegan, so I’m in trouble if it gets me.
@k4evryng @Kyeh well. Fishing is still a sport. And delishous. Chicken is delicious. He can still hunt. Just give away the meat. If he’s married his wife would have started yelling at him about red meat per the trope. IDK. Trying to think of some positives lol
@k4evryng @Kyeh @unksol You could just eat chicken or fish.
@k4evryng Bedbugs are absolutely the worst. I had them at the best possible time, when there was a treatment for them, but now you don’t even have that. The very idea of getting them again makes my skin crawl.
@Chakolate exactly! That’s why they absolutely scare the crap out of me! I don’t think there’s a good, reliable treatment that gets rid of them and doesn’t cost a fortune.
When my kids go away with friends (like to a rental home or something), all I can think about is ALL the people who have been there with their pillows and blankets and stuff, lol!
I feel like I could rationally handle almost any other pest, but nope…with bedbugs I’m completely irrational.
@unksol Yup! Trying to find the positives is what he has to do, lol! He’s an avid fisherman, so that is definitely helpful. And I’m sure he’ll still hunt.
He just misses being able to have a burger or a nice steak though. And you know how it is when you can’t have something…it makes you just want it more. At least it’s something he can live with relatively easily though…it could always be worse. Plus…he has a great attitude about it, which makes all the difference.
@Kyeh ‘mad vegan scientists’ made me lol!
I’ll have to tell him that!
@k4evryng
It just seems like an ailment specifically aimed at turning humans vegetarian!
Pantry moths, got them from the fucking grocery store. By the time I noticed them they had taken over everything. I threw out everything in the panty, wasn’t taking any chances. Their webbing was everywhere, underneath all my cupboards, on top of them, they were nesting in the tiny holes of the cupboard that use to put the shelving pin in and even in unopened boxes of food. I had to clean out each one individually hole with a toothpick and spray borax water in them. Then they were in out basement panty too (from the rice). It took me a complete day of cleaning from 9am to 9pm to get everything done. I too would rather burn my house down than deal with that shit again.
@Star2236 Clothes moths are even worse, in my opinion - I don’t buy anything made of wool anymore because I just can’t seem to get rid of them.
@Kyeh
Never had them, I don’t think I own anything wool. I do have those little cedar things on my hangers and blocks in my sweater drawer just in case.
@Kyeh @Star2236 I’ve only had the pantry moths once. And I normally have bags of flour around so idk if it’s that common. But definitely annoying.
Supposedly you can drop bags of grain products in the freezer for a couple days to make sure any are dead before they can get started. but I honestly haven’t bothered/had a problem since that one time. It was very annoying and I only had a 5 lb bag or two. Still find a dead one now and then on top of a cabinet or in a crack though.
@Kyeh @unksol
I still buy those panty moth traps and keep them in all my cupboards and basement and check them all the time.
@Star2236 I think the moths also thrive on the cat hair that builds up even though I try to control it by vacuuming and using sticky rollers. But having a young cat has reduced the mouse problems, so that’s a big plus.
@Kyeh @Star2236 “pantry moths” are there tiny little things. But will quickly breed/you have to clean it all out or freeze the grain/flour . Let them dieout.
I hope I never have wool/cat hair moths. We’d have to retreat to the bedroom or bug bomb. No way I could get all the hair. Lol.
Best not have cat allergies here
@Kyeh @Star2236 @unksol
What’s a “panty moth”? Anything I should be concerned about?
@Kyeh @Star2236
Then why aren’t my outdoor cats covered with them? Do they know a secret repellent? (They do tend to pee all around my back deck that they hang around.)
@phendrick @Star2236 The moths don’t live on the cats, they just feed on the accumulated hair, or any other stationary source of keratin, like wool.
@phendrick @Star2236 @unksol
Only if you wear wool panties!
@Kyeh @phendrick @Star2236 I mean. I prefer to ask before installing a panty trap.
As for the cats. Indoors can hair obviously accumulates. In places you don’t clean regularly. Or think about. I have never had hair eating moths but cats have been everywhere with humans for centuries. Sounds feasible
@Kyeh I mean per your definition
“The moths don’t live on the cats, they just feed on the accumulated hair, or any other stationary source of keratin, like wool.”
So I assume it so depends on how stationary your wool panties are.
@unksol Heh. If I had wool panties they wouldn’t be stationary at all - I’d be fidgeting like crazy - wool is too itchy! Or - they’d be stationary from not being worn. I think in the olden days they did make long underwear out of wool. Yuck.
@Star2236 I’m sorry about your pantRy moths…definitely sounds like it was awful.
@Kyeh @unksol @phendrick I’m rolling at the progression the panty moths have taken…
Thanks for the laugh!
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