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Dewgirl Housesitter |
posted 10-24-2002 09:19 AM
   
quote: In Milwaukee (I don't know where else, if anywhere, actually) some buildings downtown still use steam for power. Where I work, the steam runs our heating system, and in several of the breweries, I think the steam actually does something in brewing the yeast. I saw a news story on it a while back (as the tunnels have a nasty tendancy to collapse/explode, and when one did recently it shut down one of the downtown breweries) [This message has been edited by Dewgirl (edited 10-24-2002).] IP: Logged |
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yeefan Head of the House |
posted 10-24-2002 09:37 AM
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blanketbat Housemate |
posted 10-24-2002 09:42 AM
Ok, I don't know if there is any scientific backing for this, but powdered star anise is the ultimate bug repelant... Buy it in bulk at a health food store, (Wild Oats has it in my area) sprinkle it in all the dark corners (behind fridge, conters, etc) and they all just go away. It makes the whole place smell like cookies too! IP: Logged |
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breana Housemate |
posted 10-24-2002 01:22 PM
quote: My tapeworm, his name is Harry. We are the best of friends. No, really, tapeworms are not usually a problem for most people. They are fairly easy to get rid of, so I don't worry much. My cat got them once. I saw some really big ones in a museum once. I am probably the only person to have seen a 12 foot tape worm and said, "Gorgeous!" And it was, if in a truly repulsive way. I feel like my UserName should come with some sort of disclaimer, like, "I'm breana, I'm gross."  IP: Logged |
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fittergal Subletter |
posted 10-24-2002 04:18 PM
Regarding steam tunnels: Yes, steam tunnels are mainly in the cities, underground tunnels that are built with huge pipes inside to carry steam. We need go go in there and repair valves when they wear, replace packings, stuff like that. They're actual tunnels under the streets. They tend to be very hot because of the steam pipes going through them; one of the tunnels I had to go in last summer was 140 degrees. Now you know how I can afford to buy a house, LOL....poor working conditions. By the way, I work at Madison. We have over 360 buildings at the U here, most of them are connected to this steam system. IP: Logged |
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BlueDandy Subletter |
posted 10-25-2002 01:32 AM
I feel like my UserName should come with some sort of disclaimer, like, "I'm breana, I'm gross." [/B][/QUOTE]No way... Coming from someone who gets freaked out by the drawing of the roach on the Raid can.. I think its pretty rad that you know all this stuff.. IP: Logged |
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Pixie Housemate |
posted 10-28-2002 02:34 PM
Ugh, boric acid and big nasty bugs in clothing reminds me of my dear, departed (NOT!) Ghost Roach. I had done a load of laundry a few days before this encounter happened, and had a couple of pairs of shorts to put away. I had a few minutes before work, so I picked up a pair and folded them... the next pair was inside-out, so I put my hand in, and brought one leg out... then I put my hand in the other leg... and felt something. As I pulled the material, I realized that what I was feeling was a roach, and I jerked the leg through... and out popped a 3-inch roach. Oh, gag. I screamed at it and threw the shorts that were in my hand on top of it. I then puzzled over what to do with it, as it was sitting on carpeting, and when you squish those buggers, they're GREASY. Not only that, I was barefoot. So... I ran and got my bottle of boric acid (which is a white, powdery substance), lifted up the shorts, and dumped a heap on top of him. The critter sat there for a moment, then ran off. Ew! So now I have this white roach running around my bedroom that had white walls. I had just camoflaged the bugger. Whoops. I ran and got my vacuum cleaner with the intention of sucking it up, but when I returned, Ghost Roach was nowhere to be seen. Having only a few minutes left until I had to go to work, I stood at my mirror and put on my makeup... only to see the roach crawling on the wall next to me, above my bathroom door. With a triumphant yell I grabbed my vac, jumped up on the counter, and sucked his @ss up. Then I put the vacuum outside for my boyfriend to deal with upon his return home. Did I mention that I was living in East Texas? Near the Gulf? Gah. At least the roaches disappeared when we started spraying the place for the fire ant colonies that kept appearing in our house... IP: Logged |
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prysms Subletter |
posted 11-04-2002 05:20 PM
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prysms Subletter |
posted 11-04-2002 05:27 PM
quote: Daisy I had those brown bugs in my flour,and bag of oats.Keep these items in your freezer and you won"t see them again.I keep a little flour out so its handy and what I"ll use up soon and the rest is stored in the freezer.This works! IP: Logged |
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becca11 Housesitter |
posted 12-27-2002 11:06 AM
How can I keep ants out of the cats food while I'm at work? I like to leave them food in case they get hungry when I'm out or at D's but it gets all ant-y. (I feed them a bowl of canned and a bowl of dry food). I clean out the bowls every day but still... IP: Logged |
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yam Housemate |
posted 12-27-2002 11:31 AM
Draw a line of chalk around the dish. Ants don't like to walk on chalk, I guess it gums up their feet or something. I'm not sure if that would work for big carpenter ants, but it seems to work for wee ants I've had. Bug invasions are so annoying! We just finally got rid of our fruitflies. IP: Logged |
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LittleRed Housemate |
posted 01-02-2003 08:36 AM
I know this has been discussed some previously in this thread, but I need some suggestions. I am extrememly clean and tidy, but I keep seeing small roaches and other little bugs in the kitchen! Gross! I don't even want to eat in there anymore! Any ideas? IP: Logged |
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Lis Housemate |
posted 01-02-2003 09:30 AM
LittleRed, do you live in an apartment or in a city? It's been my experience that there's bigger bug problems in apartments. I guess it doesn't matter how clean you are if your neighbors' apartment is attracting them. My aunt lives in a rowhouse in the Philly suburbs, and "waterbugs" (which I think might actually be some form of cockroach, not the German kind that people call exterminators on though) seem to run rampant in everyone's house in warmer weather. My solution was to buy a can of Raid and carry it with me whenever I entered a dark room (most often the bathroom). Maybe someone else knows of a more permanent solution. IP: Logged |
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LittleRed Housemate |
posted 01-02-2003 11:31 AM
I live in a house that's split up into apartments. I'm going to re-Raid tonight but there's got to be something else I can do! IP: Logged |
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PixieGrl Housemate |
posted 01-02-2003 12:04 PM
This thread has taught me more about bugs than I ever cared to know...but for some reason it was so darn intriguing that I just kept reading...and reading... IP: Logged |
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atw26 Housemate |
posted 01-02-2003 03:16 PM
becca, have you tried putting the food bowls in bowls of water so that there's a "moat"? You might have to experiment with the size of the water bowl though - too little and the ants may still make it over without drowning. IP: Logged |
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becca11 Housesitter |
posted 01-03-2003 06:25 AM
atw: too big and the cats won't be able to reach the food! no actually that might work. I give them a 'place mat' of clear PVC (and I have lino underneath) so chalk won't crumble anyway. (they are very messy eaters, I have no idea why? or how? they spread the food so). At the moment I've used so horribel amounts of surface spray to stop the ants, but the cats do not like the smell when I reapply. at all IP: Logged |
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GoKittenGo Housemate |
posted 01-03-2003 09:15 AM
Does anyone know how to prevent having one's abode become a hostel for spiders? I just moved out of my *second* spider-infested apartment, and beyond spraying like mad and running the vacuum cleaner morning, noon, and night I have no idea what to do. IP: Logged |
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HotGlueMama Housemate |
posted 01-04-2003 11:05 PM
I know getting rid of ants has kinda-sorta been covered, but what if they're coming for no reason? I just moved into a place and spotted a neat line of ants I tracked along a wall, up and over a doorway (the whole thing was a good 15 feet) to...nothing! The ants just turned around and went back to...THE PORTAL TO ANOTHER DIMENSION!!!! (OK, it wasn't the Portal to Another Dimension, it's a spot in my thick carpetting where they appear to spontaneously generate.) Any ideas of getting rid of the suckers if they're coming for no reason? IP: Logged |
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breana Housemate |
posted 01-05-2003 01:07 PM
Here is where I am no help, cuz I LIKE spiders in my house. Keeps the damn cockroaches at bay. I feel like one day I'll wlak into my kitchen and there will be tiny Japanese guys filming a movie in front of my fridge. Cockroach vs Spiderzilla or some junk. With subtitles and everything. Anyway, my parents are having ant issues, due to the cold weather. Bugs need warmth, and they'll come inside to get it. Ant bait works pretty good, and it should be kid/pet/stupid relative proof. I know people like to keep it organic, and we've gone over a lot of that, but if you know where their coming in and you want them gone, poison them. Or unleash the spiders. IP: Logged |
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mrco Subletter |
posted 01-06-2003 08:49 AM
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GoKittenGo Housemate |
posted 01-08-2003 03:49 PM
quote: Okay - I have to admit this is true. However, I'm equally freaked out by both (well, maybe a bit more to the spider side), so I'm toast either way! My mom's tried putting out bay leaves as a roach deterrent, as well as the boric acid/crisco mixture (it seems like there's sugar in this, too, but I can't remember). Both seemed to work fairly well. IP: Logged |
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hermia Housemate |
posted 01-10-2003 12:09 PM
Ok, breana. When I came back from vacation there were new bugs in the house -- previously I had only seen the occasional small roach in the kitchen (which I refuse to use) and once in the bathroom. But now there are these tiny bugs -- they look like baby roaches, and I'm afraid that's what they are -- in the bathroom. I saw a couple around the sink, then they were gone, then I saw one by the toilet on the wall, then one on the back of the toilet. They are tiny, but it grosses me out because I feel like they could be anywhere. Plus the bathroom is next to my room and I wll die if the bugs migrate into my room. I sprayed some raid behind the toilet and along the gross sink unit, but any idea what they might be? IP: Logged |
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breana Housemate |
posted 01-10-2003 12:34 PM
quote: If you had a mama roach, and she left an egg case for you over the holidays, they could be baby roaches. Baby roaches look EXACTLY like big roaches. However, roaches don't tend to be particularly active when youare, so I would suggest visiting this site and trying to identify your bug. You could send me one and I could identify it for you! IP: Logged |
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hermia Housemate |
posted 01-10-2003 01:56 PM
damn. i think they're baby roaches -- they don't look like any of those bugs. i think i'm going to have nightmares about the phrase "pubic lice" tonight, though. I always try to forget that these things exist. *shudder* IP: Logged |
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TMeadows Subletter |
posted 01-12-2003 10:14 AM
Ok, I'm going back to my apartment tomorrow after being gone for 3 weeks and am really nervous about what I'm going to find. This sucks! I have never seen a cockroach in there before, but I just have a weird feeling something gross is going to be awaiting my arrival tomorrow. IP: Logged |
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ralphyr Housemate |
posted 02-06-2003 06:40 PM
I know that there are digsters out there who squeal with delight whenever this thread gets bumped but mostly (like me) a shiver goes down the spine and a "I know I shouldn't look but cant stay away" feeling as you click on the topic. So last night when I was cooking I reached for the garlic in it's little home (terracotta pot) and it was writhing with life. Little white grubs were oozing from the root section of one of the cloves. I had to get my gallant BF to tip the whole thing out. No garlic in the dinner. Now I have used garlic for years and didn't have that trouble before (mainly stored it in the fridge). Is it because of my terracotta storage with it's little air holes? btw no sign that it had ever been wet or soggy. IP: Logged |
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kena Housesitter |
posted 02-06-2003 07:19 PM
quote: In my vast moving experience, I've noticed that when an appartment isn't lived in for a while, spiders set in. I don't know why, but it seems to get back to normal after a while. My previous appartment was infested with spiders for the first few months (no one had lived there for a semester). We started to see less and less of them and eventually they disappeared. I was just catching them and releasing them outdoors when I found them, and wiping off webs when I saw them. They got the idea that it wasn't a nice place to live in I guess. I kind of like spiders, though. The engineer in me thinks they're pretty cool builders and they keep the other nasty buggers away. Plus they come in all sorts of cool designs. IP: Logged |
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Princessjeanne Housemate |
posted 02-07-2003 06:06 AM
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Dewgirl Housesitter |
posted 02-07-2003 08:26 AM
quote: How about if you found this guy in your house? IP: Logged |
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PixieGrl Housemate |
posted 04-09-2003 05:59 AM
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Shamrock Housemate |
posted 04-09-2003 12:58 PM
this thread is so ironic for me this week. it has been hot here, then cold, hot then snow etc... for a few weeks. so the bugs come out and then hide indoors cause they're all confused. i know they aren't gross but i hate cicatas. they bzzzzzz out in the trees and wake me at 5am, they must die!!! and fleas!!!!!!!! *the boy* is pissy with me this week because i refuse to stay at his place.. in his ant infested bedroom. no traps or raid is working. now im not violent, and i usually put buggies outside... i saw "Honey i Shrunk The Kids"... i felt for "Anty"... (btw.. *sniff*)... but these little bastards have to go!!! and now they are biting.. AND ruining my sex life!! IP: Logged |
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hermia Housemate |
posted 04-15-2003 06:52 AM
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yeefan Head of the House |
posted 04-15-2003 08:34 AM
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Lis Housemate |
posted 04-15-2003 10:24 AM
Does anybody know if those contraptions I've seen at Target work? Supposedly, they emit a high frequency sound that scares bugs away? Waterbug (a.k.a. oriental cockroach) season is fast approaching, and I'd love to scare them away. IP: Logged |
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crowjoy Housemate |
posted 04-15-2003 04:19 PM
Maybe this has been addressed but I confess to not reading the whole thread. I have moths. Little tiny ones that seem to be able to get into plastic bags, cardboard boxes, even glass jars! I believe they came in on some "bargain" dog bisquits and have not taken over my kitchen. I've had to throw so many grains and mixes away because there are little webby cocoons in them and such. Any tips? IP: Logged |
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atw26 Housemate |
posted 04-17-2003 08:21 PM
re: moths. I think that throwing out the stuff is the only solution. Supposedly freezing grains and such will help prevent more moths in the future. A quick search also yielded some moth traps that may be helpful but I wouldn't know where to buy them. IP: Logged |
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Beep Housemate |
posted 04-19-2003 08:40 PM
You can order moth traps here. You might also want to check some local pet stores. Do you have birds, or buy birdseed for wild birds? Those stupid moths LOVE seed, and will even infest suet. Ugh. I keep all my wild bird food in the garage, or out on the porch. I also keep my flour in clear plastic tubs, so that I can see what's in there before I open it up. Ugh... yeah, just go thru and throw stuff away. *shudder* Good luck! IP: Logged |
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breana Housemate |
posted 04-21-2003 09:50 AM
When you buy suspicious products, put them in the freezer for a day or two. This will kill everything that has a metabolism, but sometimes eggs are hardy and can withstand it. If you HAVE an infestation, you can freeze it again, but it's impossible to know how many eggs are in the package. As I have said before, I just eat the little suckers. Mmmm...bug sprinkles... As for centipedes, they are predators of big nasties like cockroach babies and ants. Kill them if you like, but I just let them hang out. If you're talking the giant scolipendra or something, then holy crap I'm glad I don't live in your neighborhood. But common house centipedes are very beneficial and pretty quiet houseguests. IP: Logged |
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crowjoy Housemate |
posted 04-22-2003 09:40 AM
Thanks for the tips on traps. Ugh, I do have birdseed in the pet cabinet... it's not in the kitchen but the "pet cabinet" is where it started. I actually saw larve in the dog bisquits so assumed it was them. Off to gather stomach to go look... IP: Logged |
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i hate the sight of fleas! Elvis (my kitty) has never had them before, but somehow they got in the house last spring and i couldnt get rid of them at all. to top it off, the little brat cat likes to eat buggies, so he ate the fleas, and ended up getting worms from ingesting them. thank god i work at a vet, so i could handle it, but do you know how hard it is to get a squirmy kitty to swallow a pill!!!