What Was The Last Critter Invader That You Killed In Your Home?

[arwalden]

Poll question: What Was The Last Critter Invader That You Killed In Your Home?

[MrScorpio]

1. All the above are automatically classified as vermin inside my house

And resolution of the problem comes with extreme prejudice

[Digit]

2. Camelback cricket...those things that look like jumping spiders!

[Briarius]

3. house centipede

at LynzM's request :evilgrin:

[TimeChaser]

4. Aaaaah!

Those things freak me out ><

[Briarius]

6. yea, they are freaky looking

the one I killed died because I only caught half of it under the glass when I tried. They are fast little buggers!

[LynzM]

7. Yeah, they're pretty creepy

Not as creepy once I've read about them and know they can't really hurt me, but damn creepy, nonetheless. x(

[Dukkha]

38. I get those too

and I'm not counting my pet Giant Haitian Centipede. This beast is big and poisonous enough to eat mice whole

[Left Is Write]

5. A spider, about an hour and a half ago.

[gristy]

8. I'm not sure I killed it, but I did flush it down the sink

A frog. Came up through the plumbing and out the overflow hole in the bathroom sink. I kid you not.

[El Fuego]

9. I catch the lizards and set them free

But the spiders, I squish.

[Kire]

10. Mealy Moth

they're all over the place

[applegrove]

31. Do you have birdseed anywhere in your home? Moths come with

the birdseed then live on it for decades. Get rid of bird-seed.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. My roommates take care of the creepy-crawlies.

Sometimes. When they're awake. Maybe.

[Hotler]

12. I recycle mice.

I catch them in a standard trap and put the carcass outside by the bird feeder. I won't see or hear a crow for days and within a 20-30 minutes there is one there enjoying mouse for dinner. How they know it's there is beyond me.

[bigwillq]

13. I don't kill any living thing intentionally

Up here in CT, nothing that serious of a creature has ever been in my house. Spider, bee, ant, mouse (in the garage once) but that's about it.
I try to catch them and put them in a napkin and then bring them outside.

[In_The_Wind]

14. Pantry Moths

They love seeds.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

50. They've invaded my place as well......

Indian meal moths. They got into some crackers I inadvertently left out last summer. And despite containing almost all grains in the apartment, they have returned this spring. I hate killing them, but I know its either me or the moths.

[KitchenWitch]

15. Boxelder beetle

[Magrittes Pipe]

16. Hornet.

They like our house. I am paralyzingly phobic, dolo is anaphalactically allergic. It's not fun.

[doc03]

17. Multi Colored Asian Lady Beetle, they are not Lady Bugs

I get them by the thousands every fall and they stay in the house till spring, should be moving out soon.

[asthmaticeog]

18. .

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[Nicole]

19. Fruit fly

Killed 2 today as a matter of fact.

[leftofthedial]

20. repuke vermin

not really.

[yellowdogintexas]

21. stomped a palmetto bug last night, first one I have seen in a

long time. My old house was permantly and heavily infested with them, this house not so much, so I was quite shocked to see it.

My kitties take care of the rodentia around here.

[arwalden]

29. Ewwwwyuk!

Nasty little things.

[crispini]

36. I have an organic pest control company that takes care of them.

I can't STAND palmetto bugs. Thankfully, whatever they use must not be too terribly toxic since I still have spiders, geckos, et al, none of which I mind. :D

[LSK]

22. what? no vote for king cobra?

[Brigid]

27. Nope.

I've seen them on TV, and in a zoo once, but I've never found one in my home. :D

[SiobhanClancy]

23. A hornet...

that was last year...haven't seen any yet this year. I don't like to kill anything,but I have a phobia about wasps/hornets.

[Brigid]

24. Ants

Pesky little buggers.

[SofaKingLiberal]

25. Other - cat

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O8) Just kidding

[BrotherBuzz]

26. Opossum

[Guy Fawkes]

28. Republican

nasty little buggers. They get in and destroy every good thing they see. Steal your money, too.

[applegrove]

30. I hate killing spiders. So this summer I have a plan.

[TK421]

32. Two wasps

[henslee]

33. a moose.

[Brigid]

48. Wait a minute . . .

Are you telling us a moose got into your house?

[hyphenate]

34. Do people remember the scenes in The Amityville Horror

with all the flies? That's how my place is sometimes--overrun with flies. And I despise them. I kill them daily.

[azmouse]

35. Scorpion

They are nasty things. And we're just getting into the big season for them. I'll probably kill about 6 or 7 of them over the summer. ugh!

[lavenderdiva]

37. I had a snake in my kitchen....

our house has a center atrium. Shortly, after we moved in, my husband was out of town on business, and I had our 2 dogs corralled in the laundry room, with a child's gate over the doorway. I heard them barking, a very distressed barking, that I had never heard before. I came running, and there on the kitchen floor was a big, dark snake. It was probably 2 inches in diameter, and slithering right toward my angels! I was terrified! You don't know why you do the things you do in a moment such as that, but my first instinct was to call my husband. Gee, like that will help, LD, with him out of town! He told me to call my father-in-law to come over, but I didn't have time for that. My mother was raised in the country and would always tell us about how they had oodles of snakes out there, and they would just chop their heads off. I ran out to the garage, and got a spade, and came back in the house, and chopped its head off. That was the most disgusting thing I have ever done. But a mama's protective instincts were greater than my disgust and fear, at that point. I think the snake must have somehow gotten in from the atrium. I can't figure out how otherwise. We've never had another incident like that, thank goodness!

[Dukkha]

40. I had a snake on a plane!

A Snake on A Plane!

and there wasn't a Goddamn thing I could do about it!

[HEyHEY]

39. Jehovah's witness

[Bridget Burke]

41. I squashed a roach quite recently.

A big one. Texans learn to be tough.

I don't mind spiders & have been known to carry lizards outside--if I can catch them.

Mice & Rats? Haven't noticed any. I'm not sure that my elderly kitties would know what to do--but they would surely get nervous.

Not in scorpion country, luckily. And the snakes mostly stay in the bayou--yet another reason NOT to go wading when it floods.

[CanuckAmok]

42. Moose.

And that squirrel who was riding him.

[LaraMN]

43. Large, ominous spider.

An unfortunate by-product of Spring.:scared:

[asteroid2003QQ47]

44. Rabies

Raccoon . . . but I think rabid Jehovah's witness proselytizers will be next.

[China_cat]

45. Jehovah's Witness

[billyskank]

46. I don't kill things without reason

My intruders tend to be spiders; they get trapped under a glass and evicted. No matter how big and hairy they are.

[Fox Mulder]

47. Mosquito.

Last night.

Damn things are coming back earlier and earlier every year! x(

[Blue_In_AK]

49. some kind of little beetle that I washed down the sink...

[TheBaldyMan]

51. Snails in my cable box,

it was like a snail convention: about 20 all different sizes and they'd packed themselves in so tightly they were causing my cable to blank out every few minutes.

on edit: I didn't kill them, I evicted them.

[Chiyo-chichi]

52. Had a 6-foot black snake in the basement

and a possum and raccoon in the garage.

Not all at once, though.

[asteroid2003QQ47]

53. black snake good

I hope you didn't harm it.

[Chiyo-chichi]

54. No. We didn't harm it.

Our plumbers would not go near a leak b/c the snake was nearby. We had a guy come who put the snake in a bag & relocated it. He is hopefully still living happily in the Indiana woods.

[asteroid2003QQ47]

55. Thank you for sharing that with me

A friend of mine once purcased a failed chicken farm. the house and barn were infested with rats. He found a black snake in the woods and turned it loose in the house where it's favorite spot was under the clawfoot tub whenever anyone took a bath. That is, when it wasn't hunting rats. They were terrified of the snake.

[Chiyo-chichi]

56. We lived in a wooded area & this snake

must have been taking care of our mice for a few years. We found several skins that he had shed. He had never bothered us - or shown himself. He was hanging out by an isolated hot water pipe that sprang a leak.

[Chiyo-chichi]

57. For the record, I didn't kill any of these critters.

Didn't read the OP too carefully. Sorry.

[girl gone mad]

58. Carpenter bee.

I felt really bad having to do it, but she was drilling her nest into a support beam. I don't know of any other way to get them to leave a spot they like.

[Digit]

59. Tiniest praying mantis I ever saw in my life

was crawling up my arm this evening as I reclined on the couch. Once I saw what it was, I went upstairs and walked outside in my socks to let it go free in the lirope.

Cute lil' booger was only a half inch long!

[mandyky]

60. Other - Wasp

and we got bumblebees the size of humminngbirds, so if they get in, they'll be next.

[wickerwoman]

61. Silverfish.

Roach season is just around the corner though and it looks like it's going to be a nasty summer for mosquitoes.

I need to move. :-(