It's a spiderbro! Leave it be, and it'll help keep the bug population in the house down.
which looks like a cross between a large mosquito and a spider...
Speaking of bugs, I found ants in my kitchen about a week ago. Normally I just set out an ant trap where they will find it and then watch the line of ants bring the poison back to the nest. 2-3 days later, ants all dead and gone.
But these weren't the usual sweets-eating tiny ants; these are bigger black ants, which I found out are carpenter ants. They don't always go for sweet food, which is why they ignored the traps I set out. That's bad news; carpenter ants can damage your house. I was seeing them in ones and twos, and 4s and 5s.
I searched far and wide to find ant bait that works on them. Solid foods, granulated foods you blow into the cracks in the molding, and liquid food traps. I tore my kitchen apart and scrubbed it cleaner than it's ever been.
For a few days nothing seemed to work. Then, last night, I came home from work and found to my delight a dozen or so ants chowing down on the liquid traps, grabbing the syrupy poison and taking it back under the dishwasher to wherever their nest is.
Today they are still there, but they aren't looking too healthy. With any luck the whole colony is on its way to extinction. :yes:
I admit I have a cruel streak when it comes to little crapheads invading my house and watching them destroy themselves gives me satisfaction.
The ants will not cross it for long, as it cuts up their exoskeletons and causes them to die the death of a thousand cuts.
I can't remember anywhere I lived that didn't have at least a few bugs, at least just for ....looks . I'm usually not bothered by ants, though they seem to be ubiquitous. As long as they don't climb on my food, it's ok
There was a dorm I lived in where the folks at the lower floors noticed tiny bugs (and bug eggs) coming out of the faucets in their rooms (the kitchen water seemed unaffected). This surfaced after I'd been happily drinking from the same water supply for a few weeks. Somebody complained on the campus message board about it, then someone else posted a pic of a facehugger swearing that
he'd seen it in the hallway, and a few people believed it and lost their s$%t over it :lol: (it became sort of an insider joke, whenever something went missing from the kitchens, the facehuggers must have stolen it :lol: )
Living at a higher floor doesn't spare you completely. Living at floor 6, we had a remarkable number of those big mosquitoes flying in from the outsides. And something that resembled crickets that apparently managed to climb the walls, I guess.
Or we'd have evolved larger lung capacities from all the screaming and running we'd do.
Off topic but that reminds me of when I used to process my own film.But last night I shut off all the house lights and was walking through my front room to go to bed and felt a vertical string of silk hit my face and something below it the size of a large marble thumped against my chest.
Kill them all with fire.
Kill them all with fire.