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*Farmgirl Barter™:  what is your LEAST favorite critter?  |
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
 Posted - Jun 27 2007 : 8:06:32 PM
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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?
True Friends, Frannie
CABIN CREEK FARM
KENTUCKY
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mikesgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
3659 Posts
Sherri
Elma
WA
USA
3659 Posts |
Posted - Jun 27 2007 : 8:07:41 PM
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| I don't like aphids in the garden or mice in my house. (But I'd prefer either to snakes!) |
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AliShuShu
True Blue Farmgirl
150 Posts
Alison
Charlotte
NC
USA
150 Posts |
Posted - Jun 27 2007 : 8:15:07 PM
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snakes & rodents... EEEEEK!!!
thank goodness our cats are GRRREAT hunters!!!
Alison
I think that if ever a mortal heard the voice of God it would be in a garden at the cool of the day. ~F. Frankfort Moore, A Garden of Peace
Namaste'
www.shumusings.com |
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22944 Posts
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Posted - Jun 27 2007 : 8:19:48 PM
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I hate slugs!!!
Alee
The amazing one handed typist! One hand for tying, one hand to hold Nora! |
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
11381 Posts |
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smoothiejuice
True Blue Farmgirl
6309 Posts
Jessica
Bloomington
Indiana
USA
6309 Posts |
Posted - Jun 27 2007 : 8:52:04 PM
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Well, I understand about the lady bugs!!! Yuck...open a can of house paint, that usually drives them out of my house, long enough for the guests to come have a stay and leave, then they return...but they love to lay eggs in your curtains, so wash them often and they will go away...eventually!! I have done this, and have seen less than a handful this summer!!!
I hate...just hate opossums!!! They keep getting in my basement...and my patience is running out!! I have invested lots of time effort energy and money in keeping those little #@%&$**@'s out, and they keep finding new ways in!!! My hav-a-hart trap has earned it's keep 100 times over!!! But my heart for these pesky little creatures is wearing thin!! I can take the snakes and just about anything else, but opossums...NO WAY!!! |
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Lavendar fields dreamer
True Blue Farmgirl
1032 Posts
little monkeys mommy
washington
USA
1032 Posts |
Posted - Jun 27 2007 : 9:02:54 PM
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ok so in the bug department, what takes the cake for me is ticks......
they give me the hebby jebbezz....shiver.....hairs stick up on the back of the neck..... and last but not least aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.................... |
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Huckelberrywine
True Blue Farmgirl
1607 Posts
Michelle
Rosalia
1607 Posts |
Posted - Jun 27 2007 : 9:05:55 PM
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Starlings...don't get me started. I love birds, but Starlings are evil incarnate.
We make a difference. |
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Buttercup
True Blue Farmgirl
1433 Posts
Talitha
Vermont
USA
1433 Posts |
Posted - Jun 27 2007 : 9:20:49 PM
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hmmm I have a few!! Roaches...hateeee those things! Fire ants!!! awful and so hard to get rid of!! Wasps, mostly cuz they can just keep stinging and so once they start.... owwie!! ticks cuz they are naughty and cause sickness! aphids cuz they distroy too many things.... hmm and I think that is it...lol....well of course mosquitoes!! for birds...blue jays and crows are the ones that seem so mean and such bullies..but haven't seen sterlings for a long time so they may get added to my list of "grumpy" birds!
Hugz to All!!
Talitha
"If we could maintain the wonder of childhood and at the same time grasp the wisdom of age, what wonder,what wisdom,what life would be ours" |
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BotanicalBath
True Blue Farmgirl
1014 Posts
Elizabeth
Ohio
1014 Posts |
Posted - Jun 27 2007 : 9:31:22 PM
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Mice, Rats and Opossums the "Skin" tail freaks me out... and I know lots of peeps keep mice and rats as pets.... I have cats!
Spiders, millipedes, centipedes, grubs (which look like big fat maggots), Flies all varieties and mosquitos.
not very farmgirl of me.
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BotanicalBath@peoplepc.com www.Botanical-Bath.com www.BotanicalBath.etsy.com http://botanicalbath.blogspot.com/
"I do my housework in the nude. It gives me an incentive to clean the mirrors as quickly as possible." |
Edited by - BotanicalBath on Jun 27 2007 9:34:36 PM |
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Huckelberrywine
True Blue Farmgirl
1607 Posts
Michelle
Rosalia
1607 Posts |
Posted - Jun 27 2007 : 9:40:34 PM
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Oh, Jessica, you just reminded me of a 'possum story. Get cozy or skip ahead...I don't mind :)
I lived in Costa Rica for a time, and one night I heard a scritching sound while I was in bed. It wasn't my fan. Then I heard my lovebird start his panic chittering. I knew there was something else in the room. I flipped on the light, looked for my bird, and there was a big-eyed rat thing crawling along the chair rail around the room homing in on my little lovebird.
I screamed, grabbed a broom (farmgirl's weapon of choice in a surprize critter attack) and whackety-thump scream, chitter-squawk, thump. Needless to say, a crowd had gathered on my porch to witness the epic duel between good and evil. Finally that ugly who-knows-what mutation from the rainforest night lay dead on my floor. Most of the show was extra whacks to make sure no one rose from the dead.
As I carried the offender out by his prehensile tail, one of my friends stopped me and said, "But you're a vegetarian."
"I'm not going to eat him." I explained.
Later I did some research and no, it wasn't some rare critter. Just a small kind of rainforest 'possum. EX 'possum, I mean. Don't mess with a farmgirl's family. :)
We make a difference. |
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Lavendar fields dreamer
True Blue Farmgirl
1032 Posts
little monkeys mommy
washington
USA
1032 Posts |
Posted - Jun 27 2007 : 9:51:40 PM
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lmao huckleberrywine that was so funny
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cinnamongirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1682 Posts
Carrie
Canada
1682 Posts |
Posted - Jun 27 2007 : 10:30:17 PM
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| For me its mosquitos and those caterpillar like worms that hang from trees and land in your drink. |
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Carol Sue
True Blue Farmgirl
4033 Posts
Carol Sue
Washingtonian
USA
4033 Posts |
Posted - Jun 27 2007 : 10:53:34 PM
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Okay, I hate mices to pieces. When I was 9 months old my parents moved out of our first house in Seattle, because they had to run rats out of my crib. Major gross.....
Don't like yellow jackets, allergic
flies, pesky brats
snakes poisnouis(sp) freak out
spiders, yikes, I know they are goog but I don't have to like them
Enjoying the moments. |
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Miss Bee Haven
True Blue Farmgirl
4331 Posts
Janice
Louisville/Irvington
Kentucky
USA
4331 Posts |
Posted - Jun 28 2007 : 04:20:06 AM
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Japanese beetles(they eat ANYTHING, except daylilies), Catalpa worms(they're eating my tree!), ticks and whatever those roach-like enormous things are that actually have WINGS(that just ain't right - a roach that can FLY at me!)
"If you think you've got it nailed down, then what's all that around it?" - 'Brother Dave' Gardner |
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a rose
True Blue Farmgirl
443 Posts
Linda
Waterford
NY
USA
443 Posts |
Posted - Jun 28 2007 : 04:42:36 AM
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DEER TICKS............I am a victim of their bite and I suffer their consequences. Lyme disease is a treacherous thing to live with.
Remember me as a rose. |
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Nance in France
True Blue Farmgirl
1438 Posts
Nancy
St. Laurent de la Salanque
France
1438 Posts |
Posted - Jun 28 2007 : 05:43:01 AM
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| SLUGS (escargot for the more sophisticated) in France and mosquitoes in Norfolk! No wonder the French eat so many snails.....they are everywhere, here in the south at least! I prefer to "greet" them with the business end of a hoe, and then retire to the patio for a glass of merlot! And mosquitoes, good grief! When I garden in Norfolk in the good ole hotter 'n heck summertime, I am in long pants, long sleeved shirt, and sometimes even socks, having spritzed myself with some good herbal bug spray. However, like farmgals at a fleamarket, they line up to take a bite outta me. I often look like a trick pony, stomping out the answer to a mathematical question, as I try to stand still as I hose down the orchids on the back porch and the plants in the raised beds! Momentary Misery!! As my French husband says to try to calm me down, "the big never can eat the little".....be that as it may, the little dickens "bug" the crap outta me! Nance (doing battle) in France |
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
4853 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
4853 Posts |
Posted - Jun 28 2007 : 06:01:37 AM
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Blech. Slugs. One morning, my three "watch" cats let a slug crawl under the door, and slimy-slither across my kitchen floor, all the way up my wall so I could find him when I went to plug in my iron. I guess he moved to slow to be interesting to the cats!
I think the ones that get me the most are what they call "house centipedes"...I realize they are my friends (they eat "bad" bugs), but I DON'T like them scaring the daylights out of me when I open the shower curtain first thing in the morning!!!!
Also, another blech...wolf spiders. I haven't seen one in a while in our house and that is OK by me, but living near the woods you never know. My dh made fun of me when I called, rambling, trying to tell him I found a small tarantula inside one of my high heels while I was trying to get ready for a wedding. The next day, there was another one, much larger, in the shower, waiting for him! You've never heard such a scream!!!! Then I laughed and sang, the "I told you so" song repeatedly.
"In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt." Margaret Atwood
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levisgrammy
True Blue Farmgirl
9739 Posts
Denise
Beavercreek
Ohio
USA
9739 Posts |
Posted - Jun 28 2007 : 06:15:17 AM
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Eeeewwww! Snakes, ticks, mice and bats in that order.
We have many of all of these. And one stubborn starling that will not get out of my dryer vent!!!! AAHHHH.
LOL
"The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof and all that dwell therein."
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Sitnalta
True Blue Farmgirl
4208 Posts
Jessica
NJ
USA
4208 Posts |
Posted - Jun 28 2007 : 06:37:49 AM
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Critters?? Hands down--lizards, Geckos..whatever you want to call them. They are nasty nasty nasty!!! BLEK!!
Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine; O What a foretaste of Glory DIVINE! |
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babysmama
True Blue Farmgirl
931 Posts
Elizabeth
Iowa
931 Posts |
Posted - Jun 28 2007 : 07:00:20 AM
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| Bats!! I know that they eat a lot of bugs and are good, but after having one in the house a few weeks ago and one fly out of the shed and brush through my hair a few days ago I could do without them! Or, at least without them anywhere near me. Now we think they are in the attic since hubby saw droppings. So we will have to figure how to get them out. Anyone else have that problem? |
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smoothiejuice
True Blue Farmgirl
6309 Posts
Jessica
Bloomington
Indiana
USA
6309 Posts |
Posted - Jun 28 2007 : 08:50:55 AM
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Yes, but I let them stay, as it is just a few, and we clean up after them and they arent doing any damage...we will be getting a new porch soon, and with that I suspect their entrance will go away, so away they too will go!! I live in a very urban area, that is somewhat rural...we are on the outskirts...every month it is something...bats, wasps, hornets, always flies and mozzies, ferrel cats, squirrels, yes a family of starlings in the roof , raccoons, opossums, mice and ladybugs(which I think we have almost completely kicked out), and the ever so irritating ground hogs! I do not mind any of these guys...as long as they stay out of my house!!! Now, in my gardens I have some issues sometimes with the ever persistant japanese beetles(...do not burn a bunch in a fire pit, you will vomit ,) aphids, those soft bodied suckers, occasional caterpillar infestations of various species, and the ever loving increasing deer population. I do not so much mind the things that attack my garden , as I think I should probably share with them a little bit...just stop chewing at my house, I put way too much effort into my old house for them to just chew it up!!!! Okay I have said my piece and now I will shut up!! |
Edited by - smoothiejuice on Jun 28 2007 08:53:47 AM |
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willowtreecreek
True Blue Farmgirl
4813 Posts
Julie
Russell
AR
USA
4813 Posts |
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Kathie
True Blue Farmgirl
2436 Posts
Kathie
Thonotosassa
Florida
USA
2436 Posts |
Posted - Jun 28 2007 : 09:01:34 AM
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love bugs!!!
In a World Where you Can Be Anything, Be Yourself.. |
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22944 Posts
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Posted - Jun 28 2007 : 09:17:10 AM
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I was out in the back yard yesterday and I thought mice were running through my grass because it was moving so much. On closer inspection it was these itty bitty green grasshoppers! I have never seen grasshoppers so small! They were a little bigger than a grain of rice! I wonder if they were babies that has just hatched or if these were adults?
They better stay away from my garden!!!
Alee
The amazing one handed typist! One hand for tying, one hand to hold Nora! |
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therusticcottage
True Blue Farmgirl
4439 Posts
Kay
Vancouver
WA
USA
4439 Posts |
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