Are there any exterminators in answers? The past 3 years (I'll be damned if I know where they come from) I've found these hideous l-inch long 'catepillars' (which do resemble, but are not 'tent catepillars..' I check online.) Please do not tell me 'get an exterminator' as my husband won't let me (too cheap.) These little buggers crawl up the basement walls, out to 'seek water sources.' I find' em all over.. one in the tub, 3 in the kitchen sink and I'll be damned if I left coffee out and (you guessed it) I spit one of them out! (Don't U feel sorry for me? I wish the husband did.. he says "YOU can deal w/em.. just 'spray.') It took him 2 years to notice we even HAD em (he's semi blind to stuff like that, a real couch potato jockey.) My daughter calls 'em crunch bugs as get a perverted delight in squishing 'em and they DO kinda crunch. They only appear for about two months (right now!) I've got a couple weeks left to 'enjoy' em. Plus, I cannot figure out where they hatch in the basement!
2006-07-13 12:31:07 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
.. another detail... they've a (not much of one) 'odor'.. my daughter pointed this out. It's not unpleasant really.. but damn I'm sick of 'em! We've got 'em crawling (this year is worst/rainier I think is why) on the outside of the house/in the garage/anywhere they can get 'water.' I looked in bags of Halloween costumes (as I thought perhaps they were 'hatching' as tent catepillars do.. in fake hair/masks.. ugh) I know.. I wrote too much.
2006-07-13 12:33:08 · update #1
We had the exact same thing. We were shovelling them out of the basement the first year we moved into this house! They are not caterpillars they are millipedes. You must be VERY diligent about spraying all of the land that contacts with your basement. Use a product that contains diazanon if you can find one (EPA might have disallowed manufacture). Otherwise use whatever you can find that says it will kill millipedes. Spray EVERY year, even if they don't show up. We now get a few each year, but NOTHING like it was at the beginning.
2006-07-13 12:37:12 · answer #1 · answered by jurydoc 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Send in the fish, strapped with an arsenal of birds, slugs and sheep, the buggers have no chance.
2006-07-16 18:57:51 · answer #2 · answered by steven m 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Think on the bright side, you will have beautiful butterflies some day! (or moths, rhino beetles, etc)
2006-07-14 18:35:55 · answer #3 · answered by Alice Chaos 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
film it make a scifi
2006-07-13 19:37:19 · answer #4 · answered by Raymond B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋