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do roaches swarm? |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
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well...DO THEY? |
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Mysteria 
since 2001-03-07
Posts 18328British Columbia, Canada |
If they do, I say RUN--------->Not to worry I emailed this to Balladeer he kills everything! LOL [This message has been edited by Mysteria (05-03-2002 03:00 AM).] |
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Nan
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since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
Bigroaches might...  |
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Janet Marie Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
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Im not quite sure what you mean by swarm.... but they do nest together in large quanities inside walls and etc.... I worked in this restaraunt and it had a roach problem that no matter how many times the bugman came a week...we kept seeing them in the laundry area .... When the kitchen was being remodeled and they tore out a interior wall we found out why.... a bazzillion of them lived in the hollow wall...even the construction workers ran. ROFL ... We had no idea there could have been that many...the bug man told us they were living off sawdust, each other and the food crumbs they were getting from the dirty table linens that were sorted in that room... they didnt have to come out of the wall. Very very gross....God was in a bad mood the day he gave us roaches, ticks, spiders and fleas. But hey....its job security, right Deer?  |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
Ummm... serenity??? *G* You're in New Orleans... where roaches RULE!!! LOL |
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rosepetals25
since 2000-05-31
Posts 3076PA |
*shudders* I don't know if they do or not. I don't want to know! LOL I have the BIGGEST bug phobia of the world...and roaches are the worst. I can't even watch them on tv without my eyes watering and reacting to it. ICK even talking about them makes me shudder. *runs away scratching and feeling all buggy like* ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww Tara |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
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well, you might wonder why I ask such a thing. suthern hit the nail on the head, actually. Every spring, we seem to have a "parade of roaches"--the big flying variety, and it always happens in one night, where they just seem to be flying everywhere sigh. I killed five in the kitchen alone earlier this week. *shudders* They always seem to fly right AT me too! |
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Janet Marie Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
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*shudders* You didnt say FLYING roaches before..... FLYING ROACHES are beyond the realm of vile...they take bugginess and gross to a higher level of EEEWWWWW  The first time I saw one of those disgusting things... I knew God had a sense of humor. (and that I did not) |
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Poet deVine
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Posts 22612Hurricane Alley |
We have sewer roaches here that are so big they can carry off a small dog! |
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Interloper
since 2000-11-06
Posts 8369Deep in the heart |
Yes! Fleas, ants, roaches and termites all swarm. We are in the termite and roach swarm season, soon to be followed by fleas and ants. Know a good exterminator do ya  |
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Janet Marie Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
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WHO YA GONNA CALL???? ROACHBUSTERS!!  |
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rosepetals25
since 2000-05-31
Posts 3076PA |
OMG. I would have to move. Seriously. There is no way I would be able handle that. I'm talking straight jacket and padded rooms *chuckles* *Adds New Orleans to her places-not-to-ever-move-to list* ugh. I just know I'm going to dream about cockroaches diving for me from the sky  [This message has been edited by rosepetals25 (05-03-2002 04:12 PM).] |
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Ron
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since 1999-05-19
Posts 8669Michigan, US |
The year I moved back to Michigan, 1997, we were infested with ladybugs. Yep, ladybugs. Those cute, sweet, good-for-the-garden creatures that every child loves. Except these were purportedly from South American, had a nasty little bite, came with armor that laughed at fly swatters and cringed only slightly at claw hammers, and multiplied like bacteria. It was impossible to keep them out of the house, and nearly as impossible to kill them when they did get in. I remember covering a gas dryer I had moved from California (and which would require substantial modification to work with rural propane) with tarp in July as "good enough" storage, only to discover a few months later what an ideal breeding ground I had created. When I pulled the tarp back in late Fall, the dryer was covered up to a FOOT deep with ladybugs. Hundreds of thousands of the little critters! Nearly five years later, we still get them sneaking into the house, but it appears they have mated with the more innocuous local variety and lost most of their invulnerability. I guess I can put away the shotgun now. Have you ever heard of frogs swarming? One Autumn evening of each year, the bull frogs migrate. I have no idea where they're coming from or where they think they're going, but they quite literally cover several roads around here for several hours. The first time I saw it happen, I thought I was stuck in that old video game. Splat. Splat. Crunch. |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
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Ew. Sounds downright BIBLICAL. |
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Nan
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SBCYTFA  |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
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HMMM...okay...now I'm curious... You wanna tell me what that means, Nan? Or should we start guessing?  |
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Balladeer
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I think it's Swarming Bugs Can Yield To Fast Action! |
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Balladeer
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Websters...SWARM - a large number of animate or inanimate things massed together and usually in motion. In that case roaches certainly DO swarm!! We have some of the swarmiest right here! You can call them ugly or vile - I prefer to call them job security! My biggest nightmare is that I wake up one day and find that all women of the world think roaches are cute! (not likely to happen though. The flying ones, aside from being the most unnerving are actually the best ones to have, if one has to have them. They normally breed outside and have a much lower reproductive rate and carry fewer eggs than the other species. (desn't make them any cuter, though) As far as Websters definitions is concerned it must be difficult to see inaminate objects in motion but what do I know? I'm a BUGMAN!! KISS A BUG TODAY!!!!  |
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Poet deVine
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Then are we a swarm of Poets? Ron, why didn't you spray that pile of bugs with a spray adhesive and call it 'Lady Bug in Repose'...sell it for millions to a Museum!  |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
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I was wondering when you'd show up!!! I knew you would understand. I even called some state dept one year and they insisted that roaches do not swarm. It reminded me of a Willie Nelson quote: "Are you going to believe ME, or your lying eyes?" (CLEVER answer, but his wife tied him up in a sheet and beat the crap out of him for that) I think I KNEW that they did, I just wanted confirmation. And I agree with you, about how they are actually less annoying than the crawling babies...they are coming in from outside...my backyard is "woods" and dem's be tree lovers! Thanks deer and all! (serenity exits, eyes cautiously searching the ceiling...) |
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Poet deVine
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Some Boys Can’t Yet Take Further Action |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
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So Be Careful You To Fart Anonymously |
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Poet deVine
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Serenity Begins Cranial Yelping To Find Answers |
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Ron
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since 1999-05-19
Posts 8669Michigan, US |
Gee, it never occurred to me SBCYTFA might be an acronym. I always assumed the proper response was, "Gesundheit." If it is an acronym, I think we can fairly easily determine at least the first letter. After all, the two words I've heard women say to me my whole life (starting with my mother) were "No" and "Stop." Michael, I beg to differ concerning the relative merits of walking versus flying roaches. Until twelve years ago (when California passed a helmet law), I took great pleasure in riding a motorcycle through the foothills of Orange County. And I don't think I ever had a pedestrian bug smack me in the forehead at sixty miles an hour. I learned very quickly that bikers aren't really as taciturn as their reputation suggest. They're just afraid to open their mouth at the wrong time. |
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rosepetals25
since 2000-05-31
Posts 3076PA |
Ewwwwwww at lady bugs. Ewwwwwwwwwww. I really don't know why I keep coming back here and reading about bugs LOL A friend of mine lived out in the boonies. One day I was at her house and I went outside. She had a shed out front. I looked at it, and it was glistening. I thought, boy that is weird. Once my eyes adjusted I seen that it was lady bugs. I almost had a stroke!!!! I screamed, ran inside and had a fit LOL. They laughed at me and told me they don't do anything. Me, I don't care, a bug is a bug. I ran out of her house and jumped in my car and didn't go back for weeks LOL. Hey Balladeer? How about you move to Texas with me and be my bug man I promise I'll keep you busy. I won't even have to call you, you will hear my screams *chuckles* Tara |
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Christopher
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since 1999-08-02
Posts 8296Purgatorial Incarceration |
heh - and those STING! (only i'm usually not going quite as slow as sixty miles unless it's a school zone )lived in Hawaii for a time when i got out of high school - the bug there (HUGE roaches) would chew through your paper boxes to get at cereal, etc. we actually had to put everything in tupperware containers. there was no such thing as 'keeping them out' as soon as the nearest cane field was burned down - you're infested... roaches, cane spiders (size of a tarantula, but move and JUMP like a cat), centipedes as long as your arm... the ghekkos were cute though  |
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NapalmsConstantlyConfused
since 2001-05-15
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texas already has a bug man and so do you, Tara. bad girlfriend (inviting strange men to your boyfriend's house) no cookie. -Dave |
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rosepetals25
since 2000-05-31
Posts 3076PA |
Dave dear. I love you, but you can NEVER, and let me repeat that
have to many bug men. It's just not possible. |
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NapalmsConstantlyConfused
since 2001-05-15
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hehehe. i am a firm believer in Raid Max, and failing that, the "percussive maintenance" method - in other words, hit 'em really freakin' hard so they splatter everywhere. REAL hard for them to breed after being crushed mercilessly by a size 12 combat boot. -Dave |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
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hmmm...dave? how are you so sure he's STRANGE? roflmao...what have I started here? |
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NapalmsConstantlyConfused
since 2001-05-15
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have you seen the images he puts in his poetry? i'd say that was proof positive -Dave |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
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hmmm...pondering the implications of MY OWN poetry...rofl... |
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NapalmsConstantlyConfused
since 2001-05-15
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there's that too :P -Dave |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
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or three. Or more, even. |
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NapalmsConstantlyConfused
since 2001-05-15
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Neither shalt thou count two, unless you then proceed on to three... Neither shalt thou count four. Five is right out. -Dave |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
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Hmmm...I'm guessing here, but you are NOT a musician, right? |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
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*and a side note to Ron* Ah...no wonder you have trouble with acronyms...It is either a problem of punctuation, or HEARING... I'm thinking that you HAVE heard only two words, when in all probability, there were THREE said. Let's try a lesson, in punctuation with added injective: You say you heard. "No. Stop." I ask you, if it could be possible that--that what is was said in actuality: "No... (don't) stop." Now. You may think I jump the gun here (chuckle) But think about the very linguistics of it. Say "NO..." aloud right now. See? It's an exhale of a word. Now say "don't." (note the inhalation?) and finally, "stop." another exhalation. Is it not possible, MR. CARNELL, that perhaps you did not hear the softly spoken plea of "don't?" KEEP IN MIND YOU ARE UNDER OATH. I suggest to the court, and you, your honor, that I can submit with absolute incontrovertible evidence, that words spoken in an exhale, or much more forceful, than the whispered implication of an INHALED utterance, are much more easily discerned. (ok, I do get carried away at times...) Oh dear, I do hope you have a sense of humor, because I do intend to hit..."submit". Okay. Now I promise. I'll behave. [This message has been edited by serenity (05-04-2002 01:57 AM).] |
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NapalmsConstantlyConfused
since 2001-05-15
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you don't remember Monty Python and the Holy Grail? OMG.... the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.... "three shall be the number of your counting, and the number of your counting shall be three. neither shalt thou count more, nor less, but three shalt be the number thou shalt count." -Dave |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
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sorry...when I think of that? I think, what is more perfect than, three times three? <--see the logic I have to deal with there? sigh. |
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NapalmsConstantlyConfused
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heh. -Dave |
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Balladeer
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Ron, riding a motorcycle is like marriage....you have to know when to keep your mouth shut! (I wuz gonna make a reference to having a hog between your legs but I don't wanna get sent to Adult!) Drive through the Orlando area during orange-picking season and see how many thousand love bugs you can scrape off your teeth! Clouds of thousands!! Tara, I'll be happy to be your bugman. Dave may feel that he can handle all your needs but he ain't qualified. Well, whaddaya expect? He's constantly confused Serenity, anytime you need help, just remember....I make mouse calls! You people need to understand the affluece and importance of being a bugman. I play golf with doctors, lawyers, professionals on all levels. Does the conversation revolve around what they do for a living? NO! As soon as they know what I am, everyone has questions for me, looking for answers and advice. I am revered by people in every social level 'cause I am a BUGMAN!!! We RULE!!!!  |
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Nan
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My favorite bugman told me a secret formula for ridding oneself of unwanted bugs... but he said I couldn't repeat it... |
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Nan
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Oh, and Ron... Bless you..  |
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Poet deVine
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I think we need a 'bugman' smilie!! Oh KIT!!! |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
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Really? About that secret forumala...y'see, there happens to be this guy...sigh. Yep, Sharon. He's back.  |
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