tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14577813.post114361217362769761..comments2023-10-17T06:21:38.311-07:00Comments on The State of Discontent: Battle of the BugsJaelithehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12081888212421953409noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14577813.post-1151009473958987702006-06-22T13:51:00.000-07:002006-06-22T13:51:00.000-07:00I have had problems with mice and waterbugs a like...I have had problems with mice and waterbugs a like. I like to use the glue boards to catch mice. To me it's better to catch the little suckers than have them invading my home and bringing in diseases for my kids to get sick. We must live in a house that attracts this stuff. We keep our house pretty well clean so can't figure out why we keep having all these problems.I use boric acid for the waterbugs. I thought my waterbug problem had gone away but seems to be back in the basement now. I hate those dirty lil suckers. I'm waging war on them big time!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14577813.post-1143779687053041652006-03-30T20:34:00.000-08:002006-03-30T20:34:00.000-08:00Oh I certainly don't blame you for killing mice in...Oh I certainly don't blame you for killing mice in your house! I'm sorry for my depressing mouse story. <BR/><BR/>Like I said, the live traps don't work very well . . .<BR/><BR/>We had squirrels in the attic of our apartment building lately and I was a vocal part of a whole-bulding posse calling the office once a week trying to get them to kill those squirrels dead. You can't take chances with rodents who chew electrical wiring. Better them than me!Jaelithehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12081888212421953409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14577813.post-1143744765087817632006-03-30T10:52:00.000-08:002006-03-30T10:52:00.000-08:00I don't know about poison on the glue traps, altho...I don't know about poison on the glue traps, although that's a good idea so they don't die too slowly. I have only come across successful traps after the mice are dead. My hubby has come across them a few times while the mice are still alive, and he tells me it's sad, but we haven't heard any screaming mice. I would imagine they do scream though.:( I don't want to kill them, but they keep getting in our house and we've already had to replace chewed-through electrical wiring once. I don't want to have to live in fear of a fire just so the mice can live.Andreahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10612468442701491963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14577813.post-1143736062255979202006-03-30T08:27:00.000-08:002006-03-30T08:27:00.000-08:00Andrea-- You are a far braver woman than I to be a...Andrea-- You are a far braver woman than I to be able to use those sticky traps. When I was a kid my dad lived in a house with an old-fashioned earth-floored coal cellar attached to the basement, and consequently we often had problems with mice. My father tried to live-trap them, but of course they always came back in the house. So, my grandmother started coming by and laying down dozens of sticky traps, and many a night I could hear the trapped mice screaming in the basement. <BR/><BR/>(For those of you who have never heard a mouse scream, it sounds sort of like the stereotypical teenage horror movie girl-who-is-about-to-die scream, only moved up several octaves. Sort of like if someone shrunk a pubescent Jamie Lee Curtis down to mouse-size). <BR/><BR/>My father used to have to go down and get the mice and bring them upstairs and either break their necks or drown them in the sink so that my sister and I would stop crying about the poor screaming mice.<BR/><BR/>(Did I mention I had a pet mouse?)<BR/><BR/>I expect now these days the sticky traps probably have some sort of fast-acting poison that offs the mice much more quickly though. Right?<BR/><BR/>Peter-- Well, there were only the three flying cockroaches that one week. (I am convinced someone in my neighborhood must have brought them in a suitcase from Florida or Texas. At least, I am trying very hard to be convinced they weren't native). And no lizards yet. So I think I'm still latitudes away from anything resembling the Fiji Experience ;)Jaelithehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12081888212421953409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14577813.post-1143693852562144052006-03-29T20:44:00.000-08:002006-03-29T20:44:00.000-08:00Eeek. That is icky. So sorry to hear you are still...Eeek. That is icky. So sorry to hear you are still having pain. That really sucks. You need some better drugs, chickie.<BR/><BR/>Our old house was near a nursing home. When they expanded, they tore up their sewer lines. This meant the rats invaded our neighborhood. Once as I was putting the trash out, a rat flew out of the trash can. Two steps away from me. You made me think of that. We were killing rat babies in our garage for months after. YUCK.Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08527762200993175239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14577813.post-1143654642303898322006-03-29T09:50:00.000-08:002006-03-29T09:50:00.000-08:00oh wow .. reminds me of our times in Fiji ... and ...oh wow .. reminds me of our times in Fiji ... and there the season was the whole year ,.. no frost ever killed anything ... Curious what we will get here in Italy ... so far I have seen nothing and am so glad that i can keep stuff outside <BR/><BR/>I envision you in your bug battle gear ... poor bugs. For inspiration you might want to rent and watch 'Starship Troopers' - all about killing bugs!Peterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00958997398053327348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14577813.post-1143642604337958972006-03-29T06:30:00.000-08:002006-03-29T06:30:00.000-08:00We have a similar problem, only for us, it's mice....We have a similar problem, only for us, it's mice. Cute little creatures in the pet store, sad that snakes eat them, but when they're in your walls and squeaking at 2:30 a.m. they're not so cute. They're devilish little things that know when you're fast asleep so they can make inordinate amounts of noise, waking your child and reminding you of the first horror movie you saw on HBO, Rats, where the babysitter got eaten by surprisingly predatory rats. While the toddler in the high chair watched. Ugh. And when our builder couldn't figure out how to install a tub level, it makes me wonder just how many nooks and crannies they created as well, unsealed of course. We know the mice getting in through the garage, and we just canceled our Orkin account because all they were doing was putting down those glue traps and charging us $86 every other month. We decided we would get our own glue traps (since we have dogs we can't poison the buggers for fear of our dogs eating a poisoned mouse and getting sick)and get them ourselves, saving the high rates of the exterminator, who couldn't seem to get rid of the mice all winter. In our case, the warmer weather might be a blessing since they won't need the shelter of our house anymore in the cold. I about threw in the towel, though, when I found three, that's right THREE, mice in the trash can we use strictly for the dogs' food. Shudder!Andreahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10612468442701491963noreply@blogger.com