Bloody insects!

FranknFurter

What is it with all these insects this summer?!?!

Sheesh, if nothing else this is a sure sign of global warming, we never had heat (an insects) like this when I was a kid.

Anyone know of any screens for windows you can get here so the little feckers can't fly in?
In the states you can get mesh window / door screens, is there anywhere here that has taken the initiative to sell these?

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Ruu_Old

I think screens are more common in the US, we have them on our windows to stop mosquitoes and the like.

Bamboozled

Dont know about screens but someone might be able to help with that later.

I have been told that keeping mint (a pot of mint or planted in a tub in the garden close to windows and doors) around the place will keep flies etc from entering the house. I'm currently growing a pot of it so i cant test it yet. If you can get some, try that until you find the screen.

grimloch

I know how you feel, a platoon of spiders penetrated the fortifications yesterday and I was left with no choice but to flee to the nearest refuge. That's not to mention the countless thousands of flys and moths I've dispatched over the last week.

To answer the question though, netting of any description and some sellotape will most likely do the job.

Rb

Would love to know where to buy those screens, desperately need one for my bedroom window, am sick of waking up and there being flies, wasps, bees etc. in my room and with the weather so warm at the moment its not an option to leave it closed.

That said, I haven't noticed anything out of the ordinary, same amount as any other year but at least there's no sign of the flying ants(at least nowhere I've been) as of yet.

Anyway, nothing will ever compare to the time I went away for two weeks and came home to find at least one spiders nest had hatched in my room, thousands of the little sh1ts everywhere...not a pleasant few days to say the least.

ThrownAway

Just a few minutes the queen of all moths flew up next to my face :eek: I've no idea where it's gone I'd say the neighbours are getting worried I screamed so loud.

I found a colony of moths in my bedroom last night and while I tore my whole room apart with my hoover at 1 am I found two spiders

:eek: :eek: :eek:

Piste

Oh God the flying ants....


*sits rocking in corner* They were EVERYWHERE...

ferdi

yeah, hellofalotof insects around http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054932504

Faith

There's absolute legions of giant flies around my place recently. They're the REALLY irritating ones that buzz really loudly and fly at you.

the Shades

Why are you all so worried about spiders in your room when they can take care of the flies for you? And as for moths... they're just no way scary.

cournioni

Must be a non-Cavan thing. The fresh air and the beautiful cultured people up here has them drove away...

Faith

They are scary! I was staying in a hostel in west Cork before and a moth the side of my palm flew it and wouldn't fúcking die! I tried squashing it between the 5th Harry Potter book and a shoe and it STILL didn't die!

Bamboozled

Anything smaller tahn a cat gives me the hee-bee-gee-bees :eek:

Flies and stuf can get up your nose and into your ears. Yuck!

Dave!

dunno...

but last night as i was putting my dog out, there was literally at least 40 slugs just outside the step into the back garden. deadly lookin!

smemon

i once got a bluebottle stuck in my eye flew right in and took ages to get out!!

so long as there is no wasps about i'm grand. i can live with spiders and moths... any foreign lookin yolks though i just murder them

i also hate the way people leave windows and doors WIDE open during the day. i mean ffs, you're asking for it then. if youre one of them people, you deserve everything you get and i hope you get stung by a wasp when you go to put on your socks in the morning

ThrownAway

smemon wrote:

i once got a bluebottle stuck in my eye

I laughed out loud at that one

How the hell could a whole bluebottle get stucking your eye
they're fu'cking huge!!!


I've yet to be stung by a bee people

the Shades

Faith wrote:

They are scary! I was staying in a hostel in west Cork before and a moth the side of my palm flew it and wouldn't fúcking die! I tried squashing it between the 5th Harry Potter book and a shoe and it STILL didn't die!

Moths... what's the worst they can do? Flutter, gently in a random non-threatening pattern before... oh no! you touched it and now it can't fly anymore...

viscious creatures, i can see your problem

smemon

ThrownAway wrote:

I laughed out loud at that one

How the hell could a whole bluebottle get stucking your eye
they're fu'cking huge!!!


I've yet to be stung by a bee people

i dunno, my eyes were open and i seen this one whizzin towards me, tried to close my eyes before he entered obviously but it was too late :mad:

the little fecker took ages to get out and in the end was taken out in bits and pieces not a pleasant experience i must say. eye wasn't the same for about a week afterwards.

Dave!

smemon wrote:

i once got a bluebottle stuck in my eye flew right in and took ages to get out!!

so long as there is no wasps about i'm grand. i can live with spiders and moths... any foreign lookin yolks though i just murder them

i also hate the way people leave windows and doors WIDE open during the day. i mean ffs, you're asking for it then. if youre one of them people, you deserve everything you get and i hope you get stung by a wasp when you go to put on your socks in the morning

I f*cking hate wasps and bees! I had the window open today and all of a sudden a wasp thought it was a good idea to fly in and scare the living daylights out of me :mad: I don't like killing creatures, even insects, but I had to give it a smack of a pillow and then put it outside. Maybe it got better and regained its ability to fly... then went on to live a full and happy life.......

simu

Try citronella candles - it's supposed to repell insects.

zilog_jones

I hade wasps with a passion. I worked a couple of summers ago in one of the campus villages in UL cleaning houses after stinky foreign kids - there must have been a wasps nest somewhere around there as they were fookin EVERYWHERE by september. Us cleaners eventually formulated an intrinsic plan to tackle this problem - using our mighty stash of leftover jam and marmelade, we'd half-fill the jars with water (leaving the leftover jam in), and put them outside some houses we weren't cleaning that day. By the end of the day we'd have jars half-full of wasps, not water. Fun was to be had.

I also became skilled in whacking them with tea towels.