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Does it work on fire ants?Unfortunately, I've also had two anaphylactic reactions, one almost fatal. Luckily I always carry an epipen for totally unrelated reasons.Wow! Glad you are ok and hope you don't have any more reactions.
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I've safely used diatomaceous earth many times as a natural insecticide on my home garden. It works on slugs too.
Works on carpenter ants I have them every year. Its not as scary as people are making it out either. Just wear gloves and pour it slowly. Worst thing that happens is it drys the crap out of your hands. Of course i've never thrown it in my face so cant speak to that.
ZOMG HOW THEY BREED IS A NIGHTMARE MADE FLESH
Okay, they deserve to die. Every last one of them. Total Omega option on them. And I would not, repeat, NOT EVER accept one as an animal companion. Not even if it meant saving the entire planet.
Dude. Traumatic insemination is ick.
I wholeheartedly concur about the genocide option.
Look, my parents are ecologists and I've always been raised to believe that all organisms have a role to play in the ecosystem and thus have value but...NOT F$@$ING BEDBUGS!
Kill 'em all!
Well that's nice. Goes to show how shallow our veneer of civilization is, and how easily it flakes away. Someone lives in your bed? Kill them all! Someone procreates using a method you don't like? Kill them all!
Pfeh.
Except they're not just chillaxin. They're not even cheliaxin. They're actively feasting upon us and poking about traumatically in our beds while we sleep.
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ZOMG HOW THEY BREED IS A NIGHTMARE MADE FLESHOkay, they deserve to die. Every last one of them. Total Omega option on them. And I would not, repeat, NOT EVER accept one as an animal companion. Not even if it meant saving the entire planet.
Nuke the site from orbit?
Overkill.
Overkill.
this is why I like fem shep better than you.
Okay. I get the message. Let me put on a new suit.
Better?
Only if this means you slaughter each and every bedbug in existence.
You know how controversial the franchise ended, don't you?
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Works on carpenter ants I have them every year. Its not as scary as people are making it out either. Just wear gloves and pour it slowly. Worst thing that happens is it drys the crap out of your hands. Of course i've never thrown it in my face so cant speak to that.Does it work on fire ants?
I've safely used diatomaceous earth many times as a natural insecticide on my home garden. It works on slugs too.
Heh... I dumped the stuff all over my bed and bedding and basically slept in it. I figured dry skin and sinuses were preferable to bed bugs, so I basically just outlasted the horrible little things. Sleeping in my bed of dust, I thought: "Take my blood and choke on it, you little fiends!"
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I sympathized, but my arch-nemesi are mosquitoes.
I sympathized, but my arch-nemesi are mosquitoes.
At least they are seasonal...
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Fun (copyeditor) fact: The plural of nemesis is nemeses.
I'm also allergic to peanuts, but these buggers actively are trying to kill me (prior to this point, of course, my arch-enemy was Mr. Peanut, who is a minor aspect of Nyarlathotep). I have a big bottle of benadryl and an epipen sitting next to me when I go to sleep.
I'm putting the "interceptor" things on my bed (cups that fit on the bedposts) as soon as they arrive (tomorrow) so I can move off the kitchen floor. Also my bedroom floor is covered in small dunes of DCE. I haven't been bitten today.
The landlord is taking me more seriously after I systematically warned everyone in the building about the bugs.
I sympathized, but my arch-nemesi are mosquitoes.At least they are seasonal...
as long as they stay outdoors..
You know how controversial the franchise ended, don't you?
would have ended better if the overarching enemy was bedbugs. Just sayin.
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Fun (copyeditor) fact: The plural of nemesis is nemeses.
I'm also allergic to peanuts, but these buggers actively are trying to kill me (prior to this point, of course, my arch-enemy was Mr. Peanut, who is a minor aspect of Nyarlathotep). I have a big bottle of benadryl and an epipen sitting next to me when I go to sleep.
I'm putting the "interceptor" things on my bed (cups that fit on the bedposts) as soon as they arrive (tomorrow) so I can move off the kitchen floor. Also my bedroom floor is covered in small dunes of DCE. I haven't been bitten today.
The landlord is taking me more seriously after I systematically warned everyone in the building about the bugs.
Good! Now, please, please let the county health department know. If your landlord owns other buildings, he needs to be on the watch list if he's negligent or dilatory about this kind of issue. Also, is your building on the historic registry? Get the little old blue-haired historian-types on your side, and your landlord will never know what hit him.
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Heh... I dumped the stuff all over my bed and bedding and basically slept in it. I figured dry skin and sinuses were preferable to bed bugs, so I basically just outlasted the horrible little things. Sleeping in my bed of dust, I thought: "Take my blood and choke on it, you little fiends!"Works on carpenter ants I have them every year. Its not as scary as people are making it out either. Just wear gloves and pour it slowly. Worst thing that happens is it drys the crap out of your hands. Of course i've never thrown it in my face so cant speak to that.Does it work on fire ants?
I've safely used diatomaceous earth many times as a natural insecticide on my home garden. It works on slugs too.
captured one after a brief skirmish. Told him he was sentenced to die and it wouldn't br pretty, but it would be scientific. So I dumped him in a baggie filled with de and noted hoe long it took him to expire.
It was a long time, but still, not long enough to satiate my desire for vengeance.
captured one after a brief skirmish. Told him he was sentenced to die and it wouldn't br pretty, but it would be scientific. So I dumped him in a baggie filled with de and noted hoe long it took him to expire.
It was a long time, but still, not long enough to satiate my desire for vengeance.
I like the way you think, sir.
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I know, to them the shower scene in Psycho is literally hot porn action. Yeah at that moment they crystalized in my head as hell beasts that needed to be dead and out of my house more then anything ever. Also I like the idea of using your oven if you have to in place of your dryer to nuke the little buggers. I know that I have the luxury of a pretty new washer dryer in my home but not everyone is that lucky.
That being said I would be apprehensive about having DE floating around my house in any large quantities for fear of either exposing myself when I sleep or having one of my pets or a kid get into it.
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I like the way you think, sir.captured one after a brief skirmish. Told him he was sentenced to die and it wouldn't br pretty, but it would be scientific. So I dumped him in a baggie filled with de and noted hoe long it took him to expire.
It was a long time, but still, not long enough to satiate my desire for vengeance.
Dude the best kill we had in house was also the most horrifying. I had spent the better part of 2 months trying to convince my mom that we had them and that these lesions all over my skin weren't just some kind of rash. I proved it when one day I had come home from college and, after showing her the "rash" growing on my arm we watched as one of the little bastards crawled up and out of my coat sleeve and into plain view. Naturally we reacted with all the grace and candor one has when you see a parasite designed after Norman Bates crawl up around your arm and promptly screamed obscenities, stripped it off, and threw the jacket outside. It snowed 4 inches the next day and buried it. I looked out into that gorgeous white snow and smiled knowing that that little f~!%er froze to death and my mom was now calling the exterminator behind me.
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I like the way you think, sir.captured one after a brief skirmish. Told him he was sentenced to die and it wouldn't br pretty, but it would be scientific. So I dumped him in a baggie filled with de and noted hoe long it took him to expire.
It was a long time, but still, not long enough to satiate my desire for vengeance.
As do I.
I like the way you think, sir.captured one after a brief skirmish. Told him he was sentenced to die and it wouldn't br pretty, but it would be scientific. So I dumped him in a baggie filled with de and noted hoe long it took him to expire.
It was a long time, but still, not long enough to satiate my desire for vengeance.
As do I.
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NOT TO FIFTY!
I like the way you think, sir.captured one after a brief skirmish. Told him he was sentenced to die and it wouldn't br pretty, but it would be scientific. So I dumped him in a baggie filled with de and noted hoe long it took him to expire.
It was a long time, but still, not long enough to satiate my desire for vengeance.
As do I.
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ironic, considering how much I hate that movie...
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ironic, considering how much I hate that movie...I like the way you think, sir.captured one after a brief skirmish. Told him he was sentenced to die and it wouldn't br pretty, but it would be scientific. So I dumped him in a baggie filled with de and noted hoe long it took him to expire.
It was a long time, but still, not long enough to satiate my desire for vengeance.
As do I.
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Why am I not suprised.
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Why am I not suprised.ironic, considering how much I hate that movie...I like the way you think, sir.captured one after a brief skirmish. Told him he was sentenced to die and it wouldn't br pretty, but it would be scientific. So I dumped him in a baggie filled with de and noted hoe long it took him to expire.
It was a long time, but still, not long enough to satiate my desire for vengeance.
As do I.
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if it helps, know that I would not wish bedbugs on Whedon, Brown, or Zuckerberg.
if it helps, know that I would not wish bedbugs on Whedon, Brown, or Zuckerberg.Why am I not suprised.ironic, considering how much I hate that movie...I like the way you think, sir.captured one after a brief skirmish. Told him he was sentenced to die and it wouldn't br pretty, but it would be scientific. So I dumped him in a baggie filled with de and noted hoe long it took him to expire.
It was a long time, but still, not long enough to satiate my desire for vengeance.
As do I.
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~shocked look~ WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH FREEHOLD DM?!?
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~shocked look~ WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH FREEHOLD DM?!?if it helps, know that I would not wish bedbugs on Whedon, Brown, or Zuckerberg.Why am I not suprised.ironic, considering how much I hate that movie...I like the way you think, sir.captured one after a brief skirmish. Told him he was sentenced to die and it wouldn't br pretty, but it would be scientific. So I dumped him in a baggie filled with de and noted hoe long it took him to expire.
It was a long time, but still, not long enough to satiate my desire for vengeance.
As do I.
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that's how much I hate bedbugs. Would not wish them upon the Tripod of Evil.
Let none survive!Currently using my steam cleaner like a flamethrower.
It's very hot in here. Jungly.
+1!
+1!Let none survive!Currently using my steam cleaner like a flamethrower.
It's very hot in here. Jungly.
I approve!
Let none survive!Currently using my steam cleaner like a flamethrower.
It's very hot in here. Jungly.
...but, but you're killing babies.
I approve!+1!Let none survive!Currently using my steam cleaner like a flamethrower.
It's very hot in here. Jungly.
AND I
Currently using my steam cleaner like a flamethrower.
It's very hot in here. Jungly.
I feel like watching Apocalypse Now or maybe Platoon....
I feel like watching Apocalypse Now or maybe Platoon....Currently using my steam cleaner like a flamethrower.
It's very hot in here. Jungly.
Apocalypse Now. Go for the 70s, acid-tripping, over-the-top classic.
Apocalypse Now. Go for the 70s, acid-tripping, over-the-top classic.I feel like watching Apocalypse Now or maybe Platoon....Currently using my steam cleaner like a flamethrower.
It's very hot in here. Jungly.
Or Predator. How's your Schwarzenegger accent, Jeff?
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Or Predator. How's your Schwarzenegger accent, Jeff?Apocalypse Now. Go for the 70s, acid-tripping, over-the-top classic.I feel like watching Apocalypse Now or maybe Platoon....Currently using my steam cleaner like a flamethrower.
It's very hot in here. Jungly.
Goot.
However, Apocalypse Now better defines my mood. The first scene with the fan in the rancid hotel is perfect.
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Or Predator. How's your Schwarzenegger accent, Jeff?Apocalypse Now. Go for the 70s, acid-tripping, over-the-top classic.I feel like watching Apocalypse Now or maybe Platoon....Currently using my steam cleaner like a flamethrower.
It's very hot in here. Jungly.
Goot.
However, Apocalypse Now better defines my mood. The first scene with the fan in the rancid hotel is perfect.
The horror... the horror...
Got here late. How's it going?
Got here late. How's it going?
I'm pretty sure we all still hate bedbugs..chiggers are also still despised, I'm sure. Scabies won't be welcomed into the houseanytime soon. Wife saw a huge waterbug in the kitchen, woke me up to kill it, but it ran off. Now I can't sleep.
Got here late. How's it going?I'm pretty sure we all still hate bedbugs..chiggers are also still despised, I'm sure. Scabies won't be welcomed into the houseanytime soon. Wife saw a huge waterbug in the kitchen, woke me up to kill it, but it ran off. Now I can't sleep.
How about fleas? As a cat mom, I can't say I approve, but of course I can't speak for anyone else.
Yeah, the first time I ever saw a potato bug, I tried to climb up a wall. Would you believe they sell the things by the baggie-full down in the traditional medicine stores in Chinatown? I wonder what they're supposed to be good for.
I used to work for a pest control company (Terminix) and yeah, bed bugs are nasty business. I personally never treated for them (I was the roach, ant and rodent guy), but I've had to identify them in the course of my inspections. They've gotten so bad in recent years, that the company had a guy whose sole job was bedbug treatments.
Fun fact, the word "bug" originally applied to bedbugs. It's only in modern times that we use it as a generic term for all insects.
Also, if you want to see something else that's horrifying, look up bedbug reproduction. They call it "traumatic insemination" for a reason.
Yeah, we saw. Go back a few posts and you'll feel our horror.
I'm gonna do something old school and design a large 3' x 3' mutant strain of Bed Bug for Gamma World. Feeling Old school this week and I don't know why.
Excellent.
Oh, post 100. Squishes a bed bug betweenhis fingers to celebrate.