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*Farmgirl Barter™:  what is your LEAST favorite critter?  |
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Bluewrenn
True Blue Farmgirl
1122 Posts
Erin
Texas
USA
1122 Posts |
 Posted - Jun 28 2007 : 09:39:18 AM
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For me, it's probably flies (any kind), ticks and roaches. And poisonous snakes. The rest don't bother me too much. Except maybe for rats in the wild. Domestic ones don't bug me. Luckily I live with a houseful of cats and a dog who are master mousers and rat catchers.
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blueroses
True Blue Farmgirl
1323 Posts
Debbie
in the Pandhandle of
Idaho
USA
1323 Posts |
Posted - Jun 28 2007 : 10:17:47 AM
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Those really gross silverfish thingies, millipedes, centipedes and snakes!!!! Yuck. We lived in a really old house in upstate NY one summer and all 4 were in the house!! I can't stand to think about it.
"You cannot find peace...by avoiding life."
Virginia Woolfe |
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sleepless reader
True Blue Farmgirl
1022 Posts
CA
USA
1022 Posts |
Posted - Jun 28 2007 : 10:59:17 PM
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Snakes (good snake=dead snake), rats and skunks; in that order. Something is living in my attic right now. Seems to happen in the summer months. My husband is going to "check" this weekend. If it's rats, I'm leaving!I think it's bats. Not much better, but not rats!
Sharon
Life is messy. Wear your apron! |
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Shirley
True Blue Farmgirl
734 Posts
Shirley
Olympia
Wa
USA
734 Posts |
Posted - Jun 28 2007 : 11:44:07 PM
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| SNAKES-SNAKES-SNAKES |
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Sitnalta
True Blue Farmgirl
4208 Posts
Jessica
NJ
USA
4208 Posts |
Posted - Jun 29 2007 : 05:34:17 AM
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ooh amen! Kathie!!! I hate love bugs!!!! They are the stickiest nastiest little bugs and they glue themselves to the windshield, or any part of your car actually. They'll fly into you if you're not watching where you are going. Annoying little bugs aren't they!!??!!
Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine; O What a foretaste of Glory DIVINE! |
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Mikki
True Blue Farmgirl
1510 Posts
Mikki
Austin
Indiana
USA
1510 Posts |
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katmom
True Blue Farmgirl
17476 Posts
Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
17476 Posts |
Posted - Jun 29 2007 : 10:31:23 PM
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ok, for me it has to be TERMITES! those little buggers can cause $1000's of dollars in damage to a house, I know 'cause we just spent 2.700.00 to have our house tented & repairs done thanx to them.
>^..^< Happiness is being a katmom.
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Edited by - katmom on Jun 29 2007 10:31:41 PM |
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_Rebecca_
True Blue Farmgirl
568 Posts
Rebecca
OK
USA
568 Posts |
Posted - Jul 09 2007 : 07:10:14 AM
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Yellow jackets!!! They are the devil! They are hateful and demented.
Wasps in general are just buggers!!!
.·:*¨¨* :·.Rebecca.·:*¨¨* :·. http://boinglink.blogspot.com/ |
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verbina
True Blue Farmgirl
231 Posts
randi
n.j
USA
231 Posts |
Posted - Jul 09 2007 : 4:18:04 PM
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| TERMITES for sure! randi |
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PlumCreekMama
True Blue Farmgirl
730 Posts
Heather
Iowa
USA
730 Posts |
Posted - Jul 10 2007 : 5:59:53 PM
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Yuck! This post is giving me the heebie-jeebies!
I hate maggots, asian beetles, and june bugs!
And SPIDERS!
I don't really like raccoons either.
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Bushel n Peck
True Blue Farmgirl
251 Posts
Tracy
Truly
MT
USA
251 Posts |
Posted - Jul 25 2011 : 6:40:38 PM
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Definitely termites.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C. S. Lewis
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brightmeadow
True Blue Farmgirl
2045 Posts
Brenda
Lucas
Ohio
USA
2045 Posts |
Posted - Jul 25 2011 : 7:16:16 PM
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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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LadyInRed
True Blue Farmgirl
6740 Posts
PeggyAnn
Vancouver
WA
USA
6740 Posts |
Posted - Jul 25 2011 : 8:05:46 PM
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I hate rodents of any kind! I also hate moths, slugs, cycadas (sp), no-see-ums, mosquitos, and
that is probably it.
blessings,
peggy
Farmgirl #1326
http://ladyinredsite.blogspot.com
"I'm only as strong as the caffeine I drink, the hair-spray I use and the Girlfriends that I have."
When I was a lonely wallflower, Jesus asked me to dance. Then he asked me to be joyous, to be passionate, and to Be His! |
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Singletons
True Blue Farmgirl
97 Posts
Crystal
flowery Branch
GA
USA
97 Posts |
Posted - Jul 26 2011 : 12:53:19 PM
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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.
And roaches...the big ones. |
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batznthebelfry
True Blue Farmgirl
1257 Posts
Michele
Athol
Ma
USA
1257 Posts |
Posted - Jul 26 2011 : 12:59:27 PM
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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!
The Old Batz Farm
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ceejay48
Farmgirl Legend/Schoolmarm/Sharpshooter
13982 Posts
CeeJay (CJ)
Dolores
Colorado
USA
13982 Posts |
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Wildcrafter
True Blue Farmgirl
340 Posts
Suzanne
Seattle
WA
USA
340 Posts |
Posted - Jul 27 2011 : 07:08:30 AM
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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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levisgrammy
True Blue Farmgirl
9739 Posts
Denise
Beavercreek
Ohio
USA
9739 Posts |
Posted - Jul 27 2011 : 11:41:44 AM
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anything that slithers, wiggles, bites or stings. I think I covered most of them. 
lol!
farmgirl sister#43
O, a trouble's a ton or a trouble's an ounce,
Or a trouble is what you make it!
And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts,
But only--how did you take it?
--Edmund C. Vance.
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thethankfulgoat
Farmgirl at Heart
2 Posts
Dawn
Granite Falls
NC
USA
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Posted - Aug 12 2011 : 3:51:23 PM
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My least favorite type of critter is the centipede. All those legs just get my heart fluttering.
Dawn Mathews
www.prettyfarm.blogspot.com |
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Acowgirlspirit
Farmgirl in Training
28 Posts
Sue
Lecompte
LA
USA
28 Posts |
Posted - Aug 12 2011 : 4:12:17 PM
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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!
www.triplenickelranch.com
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Girl Tornado
Farmgirl at Heart
1 Posts
Susan
South Haven
Kansas
USA
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Posted - Aug 12 2011 : 5:16:39 PM
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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! 
A former city gal... from city lot to prairie grass acres. http://oz-girl.blogspot.com |
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embchicken
True Blue Farmgirl
1487 Posts
Elaine
Ocean
NJ
USA
1487 Posts |
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HealingTouch
True Blue Farmgirl
3448 Posts
Darlene
Kunkletown
Pa
USA
3448 Posts |
Posted - Aug 13 2011 : 3:58:42 PM
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SNAKES FREAK ME OUT!!! They are the
Be Blessed,
Darlene
Sister 1922
God first, everything else after!
When Satan's knocking at your door, just say "Jesus will you get that for me?"
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JessieLovesToCraft
True Blue Farmgirl
115 Posts
Jessie
Loxahatchee
FL
USA
115 Posts |
Posted - Aug 17 2011 : 4:30:43 PM
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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
A wise girl knows her limits, but a real girl realizes she doesn't have any! |
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Pedro
Farmgirl in Training
45 Posts
Diana
Bremen
Ohio
USA
45 Posts |
Posted - Aug 18 2011 : 07:21:14 AM
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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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*Farmgirl Barter™: what is your LEAST favorite critter? |
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what is your LEAST favorite critter?
