What the hells with the giant bugs

pepper

Oh my god!!!!!!

The last 3 weeks my homes been infested by GIANT bugs- Big MASSIVE spiders and flies the size of malteasers- I cant open my window to air out the place with out about 20 of them coming in!!!

Any1 else havning this trouble?

Karoma

Perhaps you've shrunk.

chillywilly

actually thats funny you said that, there have been huge spiders in my house recently......must be the cold weather:D

Oriel

Who the **** moved this to Animals & Pet Issues?

Wertz

Karoma's crazed with drunken mod power.

As for the insect problem? We've had a very warm summer and a very mild autumn....so things have gotten a little bigger than they normally would and we probably have a few insets that would normally be found further south at this time of year.
With the cold nights and damp coming in, the spiders at least are looking for somewhere nice and dark and relatively dry to hang out for the winter....and since most of what they eat is also trying to get indoors, they'll not go hungry.

Some very unusal looking flies about this year. Feck all wasps though.

grimloch

Wertz wrote:

Some very unusal looking flies about this year. Feck all wasps though.

orly? I was forced to kill no less of three of the bastards one day during the Summer. Wasp attacks were pretty common at my place over the last few months. And to make things even better, they were almost the size of hornets.

In fact, here's an MS paint of one of the more ferocious beasts before a golf club had its say about things:

Karoma

Actually, I didn't move this.

Paulj

Omg, i thought it was because our house was so dirty!
Does this mean i dont have to clean up?


Seriously though, i saw a massive fecker going around the place yesterday. I've never seen this type of fly before, massive stinger looking thing coming out of his arse too! Thats not to mention the big daddy-long-legs spiders and the smaller but fatter spiders too! i took a picture too but firefox keeps crashing here so i can't attach it.

Package

yeah,, some nights i come in and turn the light on,, and ****ing bugs the size of dinner plates are running across my wall,,, talk about messing your head up,,, how are ya meant to sleep with a low flying albatross flying around your lampshade

pepper

my sister suggested their could be a nest outside my window cos last night i left the sitting room window open to air the place out and 7 of these massive flies came in within 5 minutes

Mossy Monk

i blame Global Warming

Ruu_Old

pepper wrote:

my sister suggested their could be a nest outside my window cos last night i left the sitting room window open to air the place out and 7 of these massive flies came in within 5 minutes

Get this for the flies, looks like get craic.

pepper

Ruu wrote:

Get this for the flies, looks like get craic.

hahahahahahahahaha:D

xzanti

Karoma wrote:

Perhaps you've shrunk.

Class... Just nearly choked on my tea

layke

I actually have something similar to that. Don't be fooled it requires some skill in tennis which I sadly lack

Fast little buggers too.

pepper

well these flies are MASSIVE so i can easilly get em

Nevyn

It is the change in weather they are looking for some where warmer to be and really just end up coming inside to die.

Archeron

Thaedydal wrote:

It is the change in weather they are looking for some where warmer to be and really just end up coming inside to die.

The ones dying in my house are being graded out of 10 for artistic talent when they belly flop into my beer. I must say, their abilities have improved drastically over the past year with hardly any scoring lower than 8.4

jaggeh

that fly zapper thing can be turned into a tazer with a wire snips and about 30 seconds work.

not to be tried at home

Heisenberg.

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r3nu4l

The Scientist wrote:

Nothing a bic lighter and some Tesco deodarant wont sort out.

Oh I miss being a student!!! There goes the deposit

A couple of years ago I was killing about four wasps a day in our kitchen, discovered a huge nest in the shed about two weeks later :eek: Killed zero wasps a day following call to Rentokil

Faith

Myself and my friend were eating lunch outside one day and wasps kept flying around us, so we batted them into various glasses and trapped them there. Seems they die the best (fastest) in coke and they just float in red wine. They have amazing buoyancy too! You push them down and they just come right back up.

It's a fantastically fun and satisfying way to pass an afternoon.

Hail 2 Da Chimp

grimloch wrote:

In fact, here's an MS paint of one of the more ferocious beasts before a golf club had its say about things:

Wow that picture really sums up the ferocious battle that took place that day, who is that hiding under the table?

grimloch

Hail 2 Da Chimp wrote:

Wow that picture really sums up the ferocious battle that took place that day, who is that hiding under the table?

My little sister.

Kolodny

There's definitely a nest of mutant wasps somewhere just outside my office, because I see several of the evil looking bastards loitering around my window each day, just waiting for me to open it. However, they're not as scary as the golfball sized hornets that were chasing me around the beach in Turkey a few weeks ago.

chillywilly

they were talking about the huge bug issue on fm 104 today, apparently its happening to houses all over the country and has something to do with the hottest september in a while!!

nogoodnamesleft

Was in East Malaysia about 2weeks ago with work. I Thought we had it bad here midges and doctor flies during the summer. You should see the size of them out there (attached pic). On really boring days the locals used to get 2 of dem and put them fighting. The excitement!

r3nu4l

nogoodnamesleft wrote:

Was in East Malaysia about 2weeks ago with work. I Thought we had it bad here midges and doctor flies during the summer. You should see the size of them out there (attached pic). On really boring days the locals used to get 2 of dem and put them fighting. The excitement!

That looks exactly like a Stag Beetle, surprisingly (they are a protected species) there are plenty at the bottom of my garden here in Cambridge, no need to go to East Malaysia for them They are about 7cm long. More info here

Sarky

I for one welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted internet personality I could be useful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.

trilo

I don't think it's onyl flies and spiders. At work a hile ago i found this caterpillar type thing, except he wasnt caterpilliar regul;ar size.. it was so wierd. He was light green , about 2 an dhalf inches long and 3 cm wide. I nearly got a pic of him untiol someone decided to squash him in front my my face...yikes..

Cormic

It reminds me of when I was on Holiday in Crete a few years ago. I was just coming out of the shower when a flying insect thingy the size of a small bird comes in the window.

He says "Evening"

and flies out the window. I was fairly surprised I tell you what.

free2fly

That's why we have window screens here. They keep the creatures out

chillywilly

Sarky wrote:

I for one welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted internet personality I could be useful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.

classic:D

FranknFurter

free2fly wrote:

That's why we have window screens here. They keep the creatures out

My (American) OH was amazed that screens are so rare over here.
It is impossible to find them pre-made in Ireland, you end up having to spend tedious and frustrating hours with velcro, net curtain and luck.
Somone could make a small fortune manufacturing such, I know I would by them!

B

pepper

i found out where they are coming from

Called my landlord and she searched the place-Turns out the woman below me is just throwing her rubbish bags out on to the balcony and the bluebottles are having a field day!

Dirty cow!!!

free2fly

FranknFurter wrote:

My (American) OH was amazed that screens are so rare over here.
It is impossible to find them pre-made in Ireland, you end up having to spend tedious and frustrating hours with velcro, net curtain and luck.
Somone could make a small fortune manufacturing such, I know I would by them!

B

I'm moving to Dublin next June. Maybe we could start a business selling window screens

popebenny16

For some reason our kitchen became beetle central during the summer, the poor sods would land on the spotlamps and fall to the ground moaning about their little burnt feet with their tiny tiny voices.

At the end of each evening I would sweep them up with a brush and pan, 31 was the most one night, poor critters.

Then in September there was an invasion of daddy longlesses, but they were kept under controll by the mass invasion of the spiders, who lay eggs everywhere and now in the morning the windows are full of little webs and the grass outside is covered in little strings glowing in the dew.

And............... you know when butterflies just stand on your wall or cieling for, like, weeks. Does that mean they're dead and I can remove them, or are they hibernating?

Mutz

Ruu wrote:

Get this for the flies, looks like get craic.

I can already hear the lightbulbs popping and the sudden darkness descending on a room!

ronbyrne2005

Entered bedroom tonight to find this bad boy staring at me about a foot away with not an ounce of fear in him. Luckily the sunday times was nearby and after several swipes and a game of hide and seek i eventually ended his days.

seamus

ronbyrne2005 wrote:

Entered bedroom tonight to find this bad boy staring at me about a foot away with not an ounce of fear in him. Luckily the sunday times was nearby and after several swipes and a game of hide and seek i eventually ended his days.

I always feel a little guilty squishing really big insects, anything that feels like you're crushing a hard-boiled sweet, or that leaves a lot of residue. It feels like I'm violating the "survival of the fittest" law or something.

ronbyrne2005

I normally dont mind them but when it comes to where i sleep then i get freaked.

thebman

Yeah I've been in a few different student houses in the past few years and all have insect problems, mainly giant spiders but you know they have to live on something.

These things are huge and fast and all from the same family/species type thing (same colour, marks etc..).

Anyway some of the lads catch them and throw them out. I just kill them. I figure they've come over here somehow. I don't remember spiders this big when I was growing up. I thought as I got bigger they were supposed to get smaller!

Splinter

bah gettin slight shivers thinking of the buggers in the room as i sleep...but at least be glad of one thing... normal size earwigs!!

Archeron

I turned on a heater in my garage during the week and it was pointing under a work table thats all cluttered with stuff. No joking, over the course of 5 minutes, about 12 of those new big giant monster spiders came sprinting out from under it and towards me. At one point there was three of them in a line. Even my dog who loves playing with spiders just sat there looking all wary when they came out. Needless to say I chickened out and legged it.

Package

the other night i came in, turned on the light, and caught this little fecker running into a corner,,, again,, the picture doesnt do the monster justice, but i threw a phone at him for size comparrason.....

monster

Riesen_Meal

Thats not too bad in fairness, I saw one couple of nights ago bout that size but he was really thick in width, cant believe these badboys are over here, surprised no one has mentioned what my granny (god bless she has alzheimers) says "Tis all them black lads coming to live over here, bringin their new insects with them"

What are the green things that have a real wide arse (big back) and 2 red kinda antler-lookin thing? I dont like the look of them!!!

Package wrote:

the other night i came in, turned on the light, and caught this little fecker running into a corner,,, again,, the picture doesnt do the monster justice, but i threw a phone at him for size comparrason.....

monster

Package

turantulas im not to bad with,, its the little bastarsds with tiny bodies and big legs that scurry around the place that i dont like.

ughhhhhhhhh

free2fly

Package wrote:

the other night i came in, turned on the light, and caught this little fecker running into a corner,,, again,, the picture doesnt do the monster justice, but i threw a phone at him for size comparrason.....

monster

That's a Daddy Longlegs. They're harmless. Creepy, but harmless

limey_tank

Fieldog wrote:

What are the green things that have a real wide arse (big back) and 2 red kinda antler-lookin thing? I dont like the look of them!!!

Is this what you mean? A shield bug?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shield_bug

Harmless and slow.

FranknFurter

Package wrote:

turantulas im not to bad with,, its the little bastarsds with tiny bodies and big legs that scurry around the place that i dont like.

ughhhhhhhhh

Exactly!
When it comes to turantuals, I can let one climb over me no problem.
When it comes to these huge house spiders with the big body, who move faster than linford christie it freaks me out alltogether!

B

madhitchhiker

:eek: :eek: :eek: i'm glad they still haven't found my home. heheh