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Topic 10 · 19 responses · archived october 2000
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~terry seed
What do you do about all kinds of bugs and pets? Termites! Fire ants! Rats and mice. Lice. Yeccccchhhhhh!
~yves #1
Try keeping them out off the house, pets excepted (I have a dog an she sleep in or bed :o).
~yves #2
I have a question that may be ridiculus but if I want to know, I have to ask. Is there a lot of reptiles in Texas and if so how do you live with that. I'm terribly scared by these animals.
~terry #3
There are snakes, but I don't see 'em too often. Maybe a couple a year at most. Insects abound. Fire ants, fireflies, etc. Texas is bugs.
~yves #4
Snakes are mortal isn`t it? I don't know fire ants. In june whe have lot of black flies.
~terry #5
Not knowing fire ants is a good thing.
~yves #6
Why?
~terry #7
Because if you put stand in a mound of them you'll get stung all over. One of the candidates for Agriculture Commissioner in Texas put his hand in a mound of fire ants during a press conference to show how harmless they were and they ended up taking him to the hospital. Needless to say, they guy lost the election.
~yves #8
Ooops.
~terry #9
I think he said more that ooops when I put his hand in that mound!
~yves #10
Could be unwritable :o)
~stacey #11
nice thing about Colorado... no mosquitos! We have the occassional hungry bloodsucking mama but, for the most part, they don't survive the chilly nights AND it's so dry, they find it difficult to find a stagnant pool of water to replicate in! and no fireants either!!!
~yves #12
Even in wild forest? Is it that dry that you don't have any "water head people"?
~stacey #13
"water head people" (?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?) huh? and, yes, it's pretty dry!
~Wolf #14
ya'll need to get the orkin man. he comes by my house once a month and zero bugs!! the spray is house safe-no need to remove the wild life.......
~autumn #15
I don't know how safe that spray is--the guy that used to come around here looked like someone out of "Deliverance."
~Wolf #16
LOL!! This dude is alright, likes to talk, and i just wanna stay outta his way!
~stacey #17
I don't like to have the house done because I'm afraid what the chemicals will do to the cats. It attacks the CNS in bugs so it can 't be all that safe!
~aschuth #18
Get this topic into SpringArk?
~MarciaH #19
as my ex, the entomologist said, if it kills one life-form it cannot be that good for the health of the others. You are wise to be concerned about your cats!
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