We live near a small lake and the amount of milipedes and pill bugs that come in and just die is crazy. Cleaned up hundreds of bodies.
It threw up on your table. And you are fine with that?!
What’s the point of a table if not for throwing up on?
Nah, no lady bugs or whatever the Japanese beetle that has replaced them in the US is called in my home.
Lived in TN for since 09, and when those things find a way in it’s awful. They have crawled into my ears while sleeping (they bite, did you know? I didn’t. Ow.), they have eaten through window screens, chewed a hole in the drywall, and done general havoc. There was a mostly unused room where I found about 1000 or more of then hanging in a corner. The mass was so large I genuinely thought it was some kind of hornets nest or something.
Harmonia axyridis AKA “Asian Beetle”. Native to Southeast Asia. Artificially introduced to the US for aphid population control, which they allegedly do very well.
And that is their single redeeming quality. Other than that, they are an incredibly annoying pest. I remember being a kid, when they really started to take off in the Midwest, and having to vacuum up thousands of them out of, well, everywhere. I quickly learned that if you used a vacuum cleaner where the dirt gets drawn through the impeller, they would die instantly and that would lessen the awful smell.
We had this antique Hamilton Beach hand vacuum with a large bag on it that was perfect for the job. The distinctive “ping” sound of those little bastards getting obliterated by the cast aluminum death machine was sweet revenge.
Oh boy I vaccuumed up so many asian beetles in my life. Those buggers bite too. What a cursed creature.
they also stink
That group was probably a huge orgy (source: I read it on the internet)
Spiders seem to have lost their invitation =(
Spiders are welcome to the basement. Currently I’ve got one posted in pretty much every corner down there. Those guys are chill.
I’m also okay with out of the way corner spiders up near ceilings, but only if they aren’t too big.
The superior wuewuewuewue
Replying with an unspoilered image of a spider to what is quite possibly an arachnophobic declining spiders seems like a bit of a dick move
(They kill mosquitoes)
Maybe because it was for the stricter definition of bugs?
One of the dictionary definitions for “bug” is:
A small invertebrate with many legs, such as a spider or a centipede.
How could you be opposed to this little guy?
Yes, but definitions are ordered by their frequency, and the one I saw listed that usage as third. Technically…
And I love spiders. They’re the cats of the bug world.
True, still listed in official definition.
I have a team of geckos keeping the bugs down in my place. I love their happy chirps.
Are they taking on new contracts??
It’s a multi-generational team at this point. I find their eggs whenever I clean the tops of my cupboards. I see baby ones occasionally. They’re about 15mm from nose to tail, and soooo cute.
Nawwww pics please
We don’t mind certain kinda of spiders either. But only the ones that hang out in webs in the corner of rooms.
I get dragonflies in my house now and then so I’d include them
My web search told me they die quickly indoors apparently, so no team of dragonflies protecting me from the bad bugs, sadness :'(
Where’s jumping spiders?
I like house centipedes
I LOVE house centipedes! They can take all their million legs and crawl all over my house. I’ll even save them from my cats, as I don’t want the lil guys getting hurt! My cats can play with all the ants they want, but centipedes are too leg’d for me not to love.
We do occasionally get venomous centipedes tho, those I do have to kill if they’re in my house. Sorry lil dudes. I’ve only found one in my decade at this place tho, the rest were friends!
Them and millipedes are allowed if AND ONLY IF they stay either out of sight or up in the corners. If they crawl across my bare foot they’re done.
I went away for two weeks once, and afterwards went to the unfinished portion of my basement at the time to find the aftermath of an absolute warzone. Some yellowjackets (I think) had burrowed their nest through the wall, and there was an epic battle between them and the cave crickets (of which there were WAY more than I had thought). There were dismembered corpses absolutely covering the floors. And from what I could tell, you know who seemed to be the victor?
The millipedes. There was ONE millipede body amongs the masses of cave crickets and yellowjackets. And each of the others weren’t eaten, just ripped in half.
For the next year, we didn’t hear or see a single cave cricket, and that entire nest of yellowjackets was just… gone. But the millipedes… they flourished.
They eat cockroaches and other bugs. House centipedes are friends.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend
The downvote was from cockroach lover. Ew.
add the kouloukoulou to the list
What even is it lmao, searching brings up a band, a tree, an athlete and coffee twists lolol
https://boutique.kouloukoulou.fr/produit/le-kouloukoulou I found this, also for some reason tiktok, instagram and a weather site in the search results.
