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House Is Being Overrun By Bugs


When I settled in the house of the city I am currently in, after living in a dorm (way back in 2009); I have seen so many different bugs in my house. The first bug was this weird shelled bug (kind of looks like a baby roach, but not). Then, 2013, I started seeing these brown spiders (huge azz spiders) nearly as big as my palm when legs are in original orientation. Just towards the end of last year, I have started seeing centipedes. I have been vacuuming them up every time I see one and I caught sight of another one today in the kitchen. There are also a bunch of rolly pollies climbing the wall of the room I am in.

So many bugs and in such little time!

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Get a bunch of foggers!!!! πŸ˜₯πŸ˜₯πŸ˜₯πŸ˜₯

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I remember when I use to be afraid of seeing a daddy long legs. Then I remember seeing black widows. Now seeing those brown spiders, I would say about 10x as big as an average daddy long legs, set a new fear threshold. I fear them as much as I do ants. You throw centipedes into the mix and that is my current fear. Those things are one of the ugliest bugs I have seen to date. Not only that, they are freaking BIG! It amazes me how my vacuum is still able to suck them up. O_O

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Bug foggers, and if those don't work, you need a professional pest control company to come out. If you rent, you can request this from your landlord as he or she is obliged to address issues like this.

Vacuuming --- you have to be sure to dump out the contents out in a trash can outside the house, and/or make sure the critters you just vaccumed are actually dead, or they will just make their way back to your house eventually. Vacuuming sometimes just sucks up a bug without actually killing it, and then it's alive inside your vaccuum bag/dust cup and can still conceivably find its way back out.

People make that mistake with fleas -- you gotta get rid of the bag outside, not in your kitchen trash, or if it's bagless, empty it way outside your home into a closed trash container.

Centipedes can give a sting like a bee sting on your skin if they crawl on you. It's not the worst but it's not pleasant either.

Brown recluse spiders are bad news -- if they bite you the skin begins to die, it's called necrosis, and can continue dying off in an increasingly large area if left untreated. Not sure if your brown spiders are recluses -- they are usually hidden way out of view. But be cautious.

Most other spiders are actually good in the sense that they eat other bugs and their webs catch those bugs for you.

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good advise with the vacuum, I vacuum up ants, or any other bugs with my shop vac, but I kill them first,

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Brown recluse spiders don't get as big as what he described. They're most easily identified by a distinctive black violin shape on their backs which is why they're also referred to as ' fiddlebacks.' You're right about their toxicity though. They are dangerous.

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Yes, I didn't think the size was right from what he described, thus I mentioned I didn't think his were recluses. But I thought I'd give a warning about 'em just in case one day there is a recluse. :)

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No, these are more like big azz garden spiders. Brown recluses are smaller in size and yeah, once you are bitten, it is almost a death sentence.

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