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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Jun 27 2007 : 8:06:32 PM
you know .. the 'pesky' kind ... i think i mostly dislike those 'asian beetle LADYBUGS' cuz' there are zillions of them that visit when i want to have 'people' visitors .. but don't want them to wake up with a mouthfull of ladybugs!
what's YOUR least favorite pest?
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| Calicogirl |
Posted - Sep 09 2011 : 7:47:05 PM
Oh Megan I am with you!
Centipedes, millipedes and I CANNOT stand earwigs. Eeew! I can tolerate spiders (with the exception of Black Widows) and snakes but I jump when I come across an earwig.
~Sharon
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| Bensgrandma |
Posted - Sep 09 2011 : 7:37:37 PM
I am still laughing at the bat story but in sympathy not in making fun because we have (had) bats too. We have fought them for years in our attic. No matter what we did they came back year after year. Last year we got a new roof and the roofer closed off the end they got in - no more bats.
We even hung screening down from the roof over the vents so they would fly out but couldnot get back in. That was fun to watch. Then they figured out they could use the other vent at the other end of the house.
My list
Bats
Snakes
Stink Bugs - they may be number one and let me tell you do not make the mistake of using raid on them. That really makes them mad.
groundhogs
but mostly snakes and stink bugs this year.
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| walkinwalkoutcattle |
Posted - Sep 01 2011 : 5:32:42 PM
millipedes, centipedes, and HOBO SPIDERS! EEEEEEEK!
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| Kampercatt |
Posted - Aug 30 2011 : 5:50:23 PM
I hate the cow-birds coming thru right now and trashing my bird feeders and taking all the food for my song birds. Add a pesky squirrel into the mix, as well!! Augh!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| Oggie |
Posted - Aug 27 2011 : 10:48:25 PM
LMAO Ladies!! For me it seems to be a different one each month. May is Blackflies; June is ants, July is Cabbage worms, August is slugs (and bats), September is mice, October is those ladybugs that stink, and then in November, December, January, February, & March it's snow, and April it's mud. Did I cover them all?
I just had two bats in my house last week and today preparing for Irene I took down a window box and found one sleeping behind it! UCK UCK UCK! You probably don't know anyone who will get as frantic when she sees a bat as me! Here's my bat story from last week!
Imagine my DH who is recuperating from foot surgery and can only be in bed or in the bathroom for 3 - 5 months. He cannot put any weight on his foot at all. To get from the hospital bed to the bathroom he uses a "knee walker" (like a scooter for your leg). Just him riding on the walker is funny! Anyway, he yells for me one night and I come to his hospital bed in the sunroom. He asks me, very calm, to sit down on the bed which I do. He then says look into the kitchen, which I do but I don't see anything. He keeps proding me, "don't you see it, can't you see it, just look closer". I see nothing. He FINALLY says "there's a bat flying around and you have to get it". WHAT!!! I panic, I almost (or maybe did) pee my pants, tell him hystically I can't do it. He must get up right then and there and get that bat!! Even if it means foot surgery again!! I just can't do it! He looks at me and says "So are you telling me we are going to wait until I get out of a cast, say October, November to catch this bat?". I quickly contemplate boarding up my kitchen until then. Really, we can eat take out for the next couple of months, 3 times a day can't we? It can't be that expensive I"m thinking and the benefit would be I don't have to cook. Realizing we couldn't do that, the rest of the night is like a blur until I hear him say "Look honey, you did it".
Well, let's make the story short, my livingroom curtains, rod and all, went out the door with the bat! My husband did get up, and "scooted" around the house trying to get the bat. It was actually hilarious except for the bat part. He doesn't believe in killing anything so he always chases a bat with a tupperware container and heavy cardstock paper. Once he catches them, he releases them back outside. Me, I don't care, at least where bats are concerned. It must have been God who stepped in because I don't think it was me. I was to busy moving furniture out of DH way, putting up blankets over doors to contain it, getting the curtain rod off the wall, etc... I can't imagine I did anything to help get this bat out of my house!
Ginny
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| cranberryrose55 |
Posted - Aug 26 2011 : 11:02:54 PM
Because I get to volunteer as a Master Gardener, I was listening to the missed messages, a voice slightly hysterical, frantically called out, "Help, help, there are iridescent green beetles, and they're attacking me! When I come out the door!".. .
(They filled in their inground swimming pool with compost, put in a garden and the Green Fig Beetles laid eggs in the compost which they need and all hatched out) They are not small, about 1 1/2" long and when they hit you, they hurt.)
Green Fig Beetles eat peaches-hate 'em.
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| texdane |
Posted - Aug 23 2011 : 1:54:36 PM
Love the Costa Rican possum story! Too funny. For me, it's bats. Actually, I tend to freak if anything flying comes to close to my head or face. Otherwise, I'm only scared of the snakes and critters I don't see...
Nicole
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| Just LaLa |
Posted - Aug 22 2011 : 7:25:30 PM
snakes and japanees beetles ! |
| longbeachfox |
Posted - Aug 19 2011 : 9:37:36 PM
Here on the WA coast, it is definitely SLUGS!!!! I'm not kidding when I say they can munch down in one night the beautiful hydrangea that your daughter bought you for Mother's Day. We go on "slug patrol" every night just to keep them at bay, especially in the vegie garden. I planted lettuce...the nice mixture kind and was so proud to see them all coming up in different colors and thought how nice that will be in a salad and...no kidding...the next morning all were GONE! Yes, that is my worst critter for sure. :>)) FG Hugs to you all. Mary
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| Sheep Mom 2 |
Posted - Aug 18 2011 : 09:56:41 AM
Mice, ground hogs and most of all....SKUNKS. Those buggers will steal my eggs, kill chickens and spray my dogs. Followed by porcupines.
Blessings, Sheri
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| Pedro |
Posted - Aug 18 2011 : 07:21:14 AM
Racoons. Its a love-hate thing. Last summer they made a terrible raid on my chickens. Then the other morning driving to work, a momma and three babies run into the road. The last baby gets confused and goes back and the others make it across. Here I am praying for the little guy to make it safely to the rest of his family. And I don't even begrudge them this time every year, when they snack on our apples. They just need to stay away from the girls in my henhouse.
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| JessieLovesToCraft |
Posted - Aug 17 2011 : 4:30:43 PM
spiders!!!!!!! red ants, and love bugs. Do love bugs even serve a purpose other than to destroy cars?
mean little critters!!!
Farmgirl Sister #3404
Jessie
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| HealingTouch |
Posted - Aug 13 2011 : 3:58:42 PM
SNAKES FREAK ME OUT!!! They are the
Be Blessed,
Darlene
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| embchicken |
Posted - Aug 13 2011 : 3:02:51 PM
Right now my least favorite critter is the flipping groundhog eating its way through my garden.
~ Elaine
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| Girl Tornado |
Posted - Aug 12 2011 : 5:16:39 PM
Without a doubt, TICKS take the prize. I never knew what a tick was until I moved from Akron, Ohio to south central Kansas. They are disgusting! Last fall we finally got some guineas. This summer? No ticks! I haven't found ONE tick on any of the dogs and none of the dogs are wearing any toxic tick/flea repellants. Then again, maybe it's the extreme heat this year! 
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| Acowgirlspirit |
Posted - Aug 12 2011 : 4:12:17 PM
What Levismommy said! Good thing for my shotgun!
For the skeeters, get a purple marlin house! I live on a bayou and never have to worry about many if any bites at all. Love those birdies!
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| thethankfulgoat |
Posted - Aug 12 2011 : 3:51:23 PM
My least favorite type of critter is the centipede. All those legs just get my heart fluttering.
Dawn Mathews
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| levisgrammy |
Posted - Jul 27 2011 : 11:41:44 AM
anything that slithers, wiggles, bites or stings. I think I covered most of them.
lol!
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But only--how did you take it?
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| Wildcrafter |
Posted - Jul 27 2011 : 07:08:30 AM
Wolf spiders and raccoons. The spiders for obvious reasons. The raccoons because they are moving in to my area and I have chickens, a rabbit in my garden and indoor/outdoor cats. They will take on and possibly kill all of my outdoor babies. In fact, my main coon came home last week injured and I suspect it was the raccoons. I have a live in apprentice who stays in our camper near the chickens and she said she saw a family of them a few days ago. Nice...not. We've never had coons before this.
Oh! Also, we keep our bedroom door cracked open at night so the cats can walk in and out all night and not keep waking us up with their crying to get in and out. I do NOT need raccoons coming in the bedroom, especially since I'm closer to the door! 
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| ceejay48 |
Posted - Jul 26 2011 : 1:30:46 PM
Cockroaches!!!! Filthy! Nasty! Ugly!!! UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
A close second would be squash bugs!!!
CJ
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| batznthebelfry |
Posted - Jul 26 2011 : 12:59:27 PM
I too worry about deer ticks up here since we are next to a forest & have had lyme hit this area....Bless your heart Linda my cousin has lyme disease also & the poor girl is on all types of meds to help her...shes been battling it for over 10 yrs now...
I get nuts of the flies here partly because of the chickens so I can't get rid of them....thought I try thats for sure.....Michele'
Chickens rule!
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| Singletons |
Posted - Jul 26 2011 : 12:53:19 PM
Slugs in unexpected places - like under something you confidently pick up, just like you've done a hundred times before without incident, only to feel the sticky squeeze between your fingers. Horrible.
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| LadyInRed |
Posted - Jul 25 2011 : 8:05:46 PM
I hate rodents of any kind! I also hate moths, slugs, cycadas (sp), no-see-ums, mosquitos, and
that is probably it.
blessings,
peggy
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| brightmeadow |
Posted - Jul 25 2011 : 7:16:16 PM
I guess I have a whole list!
Right now I am battling:
Cabbageworms
My neighbor's pet ducks in my pond
Mosquitos
Killer garter snake (It attacked my tiller before slithering away- I wish I had my camera with me!)
Groundhog in my compost pile
Mosquitos
Bats in the barn pooping on everything
mosquitos
Black flies
Grasshoppers landing on me when driving through the fields
Mosquitos
Attack robin with nest on front porch
Neighbor's chickens in my yard
hornets
Mosquitos
But I love
my honeybees
Hummingbirds
Goldfinches
Cardinals
Nice neighbor's dogs
deer in the orchard
Cute kitty-cats
"good" garden bugs - ladybugs, lacewings, and preying mantis, for example
It is so hard to take the good with the bad..
But it is all part of nature.
You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands - You shall be happy and it shall be well with you. -Psalm 128.2
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| Bushel n Peck |
Posted - Jul 25 2011 : 6:40:38 PM
Definitely termites.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
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