You need house centipedes. No house I have ever lived in that had house centipedes had roaches. House centipedes are bug predators, and I suspect they eat roach nymphs.
On roaches, hoped when living south a few years my cat would kill roaches since he loved cicadas, but he got one taste of them and left me to my own devices... damn cat.
Heh. I'm so lucky to have a roach-eating cat. Yes, not just roach-killing, but roach-EATING. All I have to do is make sure the roach catches Minya's attention, and I can rest assured I'll most likely never find a trace of it.
Why is it that every time one of my cats takes care of an insect/rodent/whatever for me, they feel the sudden urge to give me kissies immediately after doing the deed? Ewwww ...
Nothing! That's like saying, "If I get a cat to kill mice, how do I then kill the cat?" Or, "If I get giant manatees to eat all my water hyacinth, how do I then get rid of the manatees?" Well, no, not exactly, because it's just as bad to have your waterways jammed full of giant manatees as it is to have them jammed full of water hyacinth, but the cat analogy is still valid.
A few house centipedes are nothing. They're sweet! It's *good* to have house centipedes. They bring good luck.
I gotta agree with you Robin. I've had HUGE household centipedes in one of my old apartments before and they scared the every lovin' hell out of me. I mean, they were half as big as my hand. I made my friend Jill come over and kill them for me. (they were on the ceiling and since I slept in a loft bed at the time there was NO WAY in hell I was going to bed with two of them fellas up there.)
I see them occasionally in the basement in my house now, but I've never had them on the main floor. Eww.
(Besides, between the four cats, I had BETTER not have any creepy crawlies. Mice either. I told them, I see one and it's the pound for the lot of them.)
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Date: 2005-10-22 04:54 am (UTC)--Kris
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Date: 2005-10-22 02:40 pm (UTC)On roaches, hoped when living south a few years my cat would kill roaches since he loved cicadas, but he got one taste of them and left me to my own devices... damn cat.
Loving the road trip comics.
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Date: 2005-10-24 01:18 am (UTC):-)
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Date: 2005-10-22 03:05 pm (UTC)A few house centipedes are nothing. They're sweet! It's *good* to have house centipedes. They bring good luck.
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Date: 2005-10-24 01:16 am (UTC)::shivers::
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Date: 2005-10-24 12:41 pm (UTC)I see them occasionally in the basement in my house now, but I've never had them on the main floor. Eww.
(Besides, between the four cats, I had BETTER not have any creepy crawlies. Mice either. I told them, I see one and it's the pound for the lot of them.)
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Date: 2005-10-22 04:12 pm (UTC)Would you believe she's about twice as big now as she was when he got her?