# Hahahahaha! DIE squash bugs, die!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 24, 2007, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hahahahaha-die-squash-bugs-die/409174 "2007-06-24T00:48:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hahahahaha-die-squash-bugs-die/409174/21 "2007-06-25T16:53:33Z")
We’re re-doing some pavers in the back yard; as anyone who has ever lifted a paver probably knows, there is usually an orgy of ant activity underneath each one. I will think of you as I lift pavers and sprinkle Ant-B-Gone today, **Cinnamon**. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hahahahaha-die-squash-bugs-die/409174/22 "2007-06-25T20:26:50Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou] I will think of you as I lift pavers and sprinkle Ant-B-Gone today, **Cinnamon**. 😃 [/QUOTE] Are they doing anything to you, or just trying to make a living? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hahahahaha-die-squash-bugs-die/409174/23 "2007-06-26T20:09:21Z")
They aren’t a problem for what they do so much (except they do kind of ruin plants when they dig out the roots for a colony) so much as the way they over-run your entire yard. Then, next thing you know, their babies are being born with your face on them, and it just goes downhill from there. ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hahahahaha-die-squash-bugs-die/409174/24 "2007-06-26T20:21:09Z")
[QUOTE=Unauthorized Cinnamon] As for ladybugs being beneficial, this may be true, but did you know they bite? I’ve been bitten a couple times, and my family won’t believe me! [/QUOTE] Of course they bite. You didn’t think they [hugged aphids](http://www.naturescontrol.com/ladybugs.html) to death, did you? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hahahahaha-die-squash-bugs-die/409174/25 "2007-06-26T20:25:16Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou] next thing you know, their babies are being born with your face on them, and it just goes downhill from there. [/QUOTE] We may be witnessing a Biblical prophecy come true - the beasts will reign over the earth. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hahahahaha-die-squash-bugs-die/409174/26 "2007-06-26T20:33:44Z")
[QUOTE=JustinC] Not so poetic but with dandelions just NUKE 'EM. [/QUOTE] I don’t know about you, but I find it damned hard to get the microwave oven out to the garden. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hahahahaha-die-squash-bugs-die/409174/27 "2007-06-26T20:35:57Z")
[QUOTE=Tupug Anachi] You didn’t think they [hugged aphids](http://www.naturescontrol.com/ladybugs.html) to death, did you? :dubious: [/QUOTE] Are you going to eat that? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hahahahaha-die-squash-bugs-die/409174.md?page=1)