How did it get there?

Scruffles · 26-01-2013 02:41AM

it had probably got caught on something from outside and made its way in that way.
last year had found one scuttling across the bedroom floor whilst was sat down on it using laptop,stuk it in a tuppaware box and got it put back out in the grass,also got a photo of the beauty-
http://radiant-bantam.deviantart.com/gallery/38852486#/d5ar68k
was really put off from sitting on the floor,well between that and the bloody ants who have started infesting the room months early.

one of the strangest insects have ever seen was this little cuteepie:
http://radiant-bantam.deviantart.com/gallery/38852486#/d5ar3fg
had took a photo of it and stuck it on DA hoping to get someone IDing it,staff here are the type who will squash anything that looks weird,but thanks to a DA user had found out its called a lady bug [uk-bird] lavae,it also goes under another name which now forget,and it is one of the most harmless insects will find which is funny for such a spikey looking thing.

and allthough it isnt quite an insect [a lizard to be exact],one of the staff here found what they thought was a snake one weekend on concrete near a back door,he took it to the vet, and it turned out to be a british legless lizard,have never heard of that one!
vet told him they live underneath the soil and to bury the lizard back under it.

another one woud pick woud be the madagascan hissing cockroach.
these are amazing,woud love to have these as a pet,theyre harmless to humans but have the reputation of being agressive to them due to the hissing.

Neadine · 26-01-2013 02:41AM

Stealth Recce wrote: »

Damsel in distress?

You found a centipede thing in your bathroom. Will I call an adult?

It's ok, I've dealt with the situation, but thanks!

Praetorian Saighdiuir · 26-01-2013 02:43AM

Or something crawling between your toes, something hairy.

ugh.

Night, sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs b......ooops.

Neadine · 26-01-2013 02:45AM

Stealth Recce wrote: »

Or something crawling between your toes, something hairy.

ugh.

Night, sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs b......ooops.

The existence of creepy crawlies doesn't really bother me, so doubt it will impact on my sleep. Just curious about how these things get inside.

Praetorian Saighdiuir · 26-01-2013 02:46AM

Im creeping myself out here not you.

I suppose they just get caught up in clothes and stuff. Do you hang washing outside on a line? Any pets or anything?

Apparently we eat quite a lot of insects in our sleep.

TheUsual · 26-01-2013 02:47AM

Thank God we don't have cockroaches here.
They are hard to kill.

ITS_A_BADGER · 26-01-2013 02:48AM

Nothing worse then trying to sleep when you can hear a mouse scratching behind the walls

TheUsual · 26-01-2013 02:49AM

keith16 wrote: »

I often marvel at such creatures....our lives incomprehensible to them. Makes you think.

Nope.

Neadine · 26-01-2013 02:50AM

Stealth Recce wrote: »

Im creeping myself out here not you.

I suppose they just get caught up in clothes and stuff. Do you hang washing outside on a line? Any pets or anything?

Apparently we eat quite a lot of insects in our sleep.

Nope, no pets, no clothes dried outside.
Live in an upstairs apartment. No trees or things close by.
A few months back I woke up in the wee hours of the morning to find I was sharing my pillow with the closest thing I've ever seen to a tarantula!

Neadine · 26-01-2013 02:51AM

ITS_A_BADGER wrote: »

Nothing worse then trying to sleep when you can hear a mouse scratching behind the walls

Now mice are a whole different story. HATE, HATE, HATE them. I moved house because of mice.

LETHAL LADY · 26-01-2013 02:52AM

We have an invasion of earwigs in our bathroom during earwig season, I was told it had to do with the copper pipes, earwigs love copper and crawl up inside the pipes, might be the same for centipedes. I just batter them with my shoe until they are dead, flippin crunchy backstards.

Where To · 26-01-2013 02:52AM

ITS_A_BADGER wrote: »

Nothing worse then trying to sleep when you can hear a mouse scratching behind the walls

There is.

Praetorian Saighdiuir · 26-01-2013 02:53AM

Neadine wrote: »

Nope, no pets, no clothes dried outside.
Live in an upstairs apartment. No trees or things close by.
A few months back I woke up in the wee hours of the morning to find I was sharing my pillow with the closest thing I've ever seen to a tarantula!

Fcuk that, I would have moved by now! They must be coming in with you somehow. Placing a shopping bag / handbag / sports bag on the ground before heading up to the apt?

Maybe a neighbour has been placing them at your door.

ITS_A_BADGER · 26-01-2013 02:54AM

Where To wrote: »

There is.

Rat gnawing behind the walls?

*shudders*

Neadine · 26-01-2013 02:55AM

Stealth Recce wrote: »

Fcuk that, I would have moved by now! They must be coming in with you somehow. Placing a shopping bag / handbag / sports bag on the ground before heading up to the apt?

Maybe a neighbour has been placing them at your door.

At the time of the spider would have windows open most of the time, so figure that's how they got in. Like I said they don't really bother me.

Neadine · 26-01-2013 02:56AM

ITS_A_BADGER wrote: »

Rat gnawing behind the walls?

*shudders*

Now that is enough to cause sleepless nights.

1ZRed · 26-01-2013 02:57AM

Zaph wrote: »

Just had a large spider in the kitchen sink. They come up through the plughole.

Hang on, there's a bit of a "how do they get the fig in the fig roll" kind of situation unfolding here.

How did they get in the pipes?

Where To · 26-01-2013 02:58AM

ITS_A_BADGER wrote: »

Rat gnawing behind the walls?

*shudders*

It's not so bad when you hear them, at least you know where they are. It's when you don't hear them that you should start to worry . . . .

ITS_A_BADGER · 26-01-2013 02:58AM

1ZRed wrote: »

Hang on, there's a bit of a "how do they get the fig in the fig roll" kind of situation unfolding here.

How did they get in the pipes?

Incy Wincy spider climbed up the water spout

TheUsual · 26-01-2013 02:58AM

Mister Sandman bring me a dream ... make him the cutest that I've ever seen ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOPr0LqMnW4

ITS_A_BADGER · 26-01-2013 02:59AM

TheUsual wrote: »

Mister Sandman bring me a dream ... make him the cutest that I've ever seen ...

DID NOT VIEW
i wanna sleep tonite thanks

Where To · 26-01-2013 02:59AM

1ZRed wrote: »

Hang on, there's a bit of a "how do they get the fig in the fig roll" kind of situation unfolding here.

How did they get in the pipes?

Looks like someone needs a good plumbing lesson.:pac:

Maybe I better rephrase that . . . .

TheUsual · 26-01-2013 03:02AM

Mister Sandman bring me a dream ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7ZrR7nj5SE

1ZRed · 26-01-2013 03:08AM

ITS_A_BADGER wrote: »

Incy Wincy spider climbed up the water spout

Where To wrote: »

Looks like someone needs a good plumbing lesson.:pac:

Maybe I better rephrase that . . . .

With one at my front and one at my back I'm fuking surrounded! :eek:

Smidge · 26-01-2013 03:10AM

It could be worse in fairness.
Creepy crawlies don't bother me but lately the cat has been on a rampage.

She has brought in mice in every stage ie dead, half dead, mutilated and very much alive(but terrified, poor things).

She has since upped her game.

We have had.............

A dead baby hedgehog(?????? dont know how she got that)

A dead (and sadly adorable) baby bunny

and multiple birds

*fukcing attention seeker cat:D:pac:*

68 lost souls · 26-01-2013 03:34AM

Are you sure it wasnt a silver fish? They are common in bathrooms.

Neadine · 26-01-2013 03:36AM

68 lost souls wrote: »

Are you sure it wasnt a silver fish? They are common in bathrooms.

Nope, it had way more legs than tht.

Ruudi_Mentari · 26-01-2013 03:51AM

way, way more legs?

Was it the lesser spotted Bazillipede

Where To · 26-01-2013 03:55AM

68 lost souls wrote: »

Are you sure it wasnt a silver fish? They are common in bathrooms.

So that's what the third best admin on boards looks like?

IceFjoem · 26-01-2013 04:12AM

Doc Ruby wrote: »

They drop off the trees and land in your hair, then snuggle up close to you while you sleep. Think I'm kidding? Set your alarm clock for 3.12am some day and see what runs off your bed.

Ahhh!

How did it get there?

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