The fight in my shower

[gnoitall]

@markn_1

The Gold Dust Day geckos make that cute little chirping/kissing noise, right?

Apparently the GEICO gecko is one of those, so we have that going for us.

[solost]

Reminds me of an epic bug battle I once witnessed. I was sitting out on my back deck one Summer day when a cicada killer wasp, with a cicada in its clutches, fell out of a big maple tree, right at my feet.

If you’ve never seen a cicada killer, it’s a ridiculously big, colorful wasp. Quite a sight. Pic below.

With fascination I watched the wasp, with the cicada as large as it was, slowly drag the cicada back up the tree with the cicada struggling the entire way. It wasn’t until they were back up the tree out of sight when I thought damn, why didn’t I get my phone out and video that?!?

[Johnny_L.A]

@TruCelt

I’ll deal with the winner

Which won?

We get daddy longlegs (the spider, not the harvestman), wolf spiders about the size of my thumbnail, sometimes giant house spiders, and teeny spiders. I relocate them outside, because spiders are our friends; but I wonder how they fare when I assume they’re adapted to life in house-like environments.

[Jophiel]

Not well. You can find many sources saying that indoor spiders transplanted outdoors tend to die as being inside a man-made structure basically IS their natural habitat. Still, if a domicile partner is insisting on spider murder, I suppose it beats being squished with a paper towel. Just drop it close to the doorway, wink and whisper to wait a couple of minutes.

[wolfpup]

@Johnny_L.A

We get daddy longlegs (the spider, not the harvestman), wolf spiders about the size of my thumbnail, sometimes giant house spiders, and teeny spiders.

The wife and I once vacationed in a newly built resort in the Dominican Republic. It was actually a pretty nice place though with a few things still unfinished (if you’ve ever seen the movie from the “Carry On” series, Carry On Abroad, you may get the idea!). What I remember most was the spider I found in the bathroom. The bathroom had been finished in ceramic floor tiles that were at least 8" square. The spider was bigger than the tile it was sitting on.

In this case “the fight in my shower” was the tale of “the fight in my bathroom with the giant mutant spider”.

I won.

[Spiderman]

@Beckdawrek

Just today. Kids. Couple hours ago. Something tickled my neck. As my lover boy ain’t around I reached for my neck. Centipede! Aaaaccckkk. I nearly had heart failure. Then I had to walk with it squirming in my hand as I go to throw it over the deck rail

After all that time he took to remove his shoes & crawl into bed with cuddle with you you tossed him out nekkid? Do you realize the replacement costs for a full set of centipede shoes?

@wolfpup

Thus, a spider is an “insect” despite the so-called “scientific” claims of entomologists, and deserves to be stepped on and flushed down the toilet along with all its other many-legged brethren…
My motto is “Raid™ is your friend”, although I much prefer the more ecological fly swatter as the weapon of choice

::Rolls up newspaper::…here, puppy, puppy, puppy.

[Chronos]

@wolfpup

My view is well exemplified by Dave Barry, who shuns entomologists and defines “insect” simply as any creature “with way more legs than necessary”, to which I might add, “and with an alien, disgusting appearance, especially under magnification”.

Thus, a spider is an “insect” despite the so-called “scientific” claims of entomologists,

Spiders have exactly as many legs as is necessary for them.

@Beckdawrek

@Chronos my encounter today didn’t relieve my many leggedy creature phobia. No, in fact it may have increased it.

Close encounters like that can abruptly end phobias. They don’t always.

[Sylvanz]

Bugs in general don’t bother me much. I don’t like roaches. We seem to have inherited those from the house next door. We are working on fixing that issue. I don’t like bedbugs as we’ve had those disgusting little blood suckers in the past. Seem to be getting them again. I don’t know where they came from and I’m not happy about either. Little spiders, June bugs, bees and wasps, don’t bother me much. I used to play with spiders June bugs etc. as a kid. Those centipede images, though creep me out big time. And large and/or venomous spiders are a no go.