Unidentified Bugs In My House

[Vox Humana]

"Stara Baba" <skarby@mac.com> wrote in message
news:skarby-A2D566.08562323062004@news.individual.net...
> In article <6mABc.137605$DG4.91031@fe2.columbus.rr.com>, "Vox Humana"
> <vhumana@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Just a thought about the insects. They eat other insects and are
> > generally not harmful to people. Unless there are unusual numbers of
> > them, I don't see any need to exterminate them.
>
> Hah! When the little bastards scare me, I whap 'em -- shoe, towel,
> whatever's closest!!

I think that's a more rational approach than spraying a non-selective
insecticide.

[Amy D]

Julie P. wrote:
> "Amy D" <amykae@joimailNOSPAM.com> wrote in message
> news:10df9m9n6atk92@corp.supernews.com...
>
>
>>LOL.. Funny! I remember my first <hmmmm..actually it was my last -- I
>>got a bunch of worse bugs to deal with now!> encounter with a centipede!
>> I was living in the middle of Nebraska.....more toward the eastern
>>end. I was in college and renting a house <the landlord lived next
>>door>. Anyway, I found one of these horrid things on my wall! This was
>>back before I knew of the internet. I freaked out, spazzed out, swore
>>it HAD to me a centipede or millipede and caught it in a jar
>
>
> Wow! that must hav ebeen hard. They are super fast.
>
> and went
>
>>next door to my landlord/sweet old man neighbor and ranted and raved
>>because I had heard all my life they were deadly poisonous. LOL! That
>>poor old man. He swore up and down they were harmless.....NOTHING with
>>that many legs could be harmless!
>
>
> Well, they so actually have venom, but they usually can't penetrate human
> skin from what I have read on the Internet. Still, I wouldn't want to chance
> it myself. You had to be brave to actually catch one!
>
>
>
>>Anyway, I toughened up and sucked the next one up in the vacuum cleaner.
>
>
> My roommate used to do that with moths. I always worried that they would
> find their way out. LOL
>
>
>
>> My "ex" husband -- who was kinda there on a conjugal visit for a few
>>days had to deal with me having nightmares for two nights....LMAO. I
>>made him get up in the MIDDLE of the night and empty the vacuum cleaner
>>bag and sort through all the crud and cat and dog hair to FIND the dead
>>centipede to make sure it was there. He couldn't find it. I THEN had
>>nightmares about a PISSED OFF MUTANT CENTIPEDE that fed on pet dander
>>coming to attack me......LOL
>>
>>God, now in southern Alabama I am currently dealing with termites, yard
>>fleas <which moved into the house awhile back>, roaches, chiggers or
>>something, a crop of spiders, houseflies and some damn gnat thingies in
>>the bathroom that someone told me were fungi gnats, and the ants are
>>fixin' to make their attack. NOTE TO SELF: Do NOT make the
>>six-year-old catch the next lizard found in the bathroom!
>>
>>Do ya wanna send me some of your centipedes? :)
>>
>>To top THAT the dumb CAT that came with the house has left me a dead
>>bird, rat, squirrel or lizard DAILY for the last month on my back step.
>
>
>
> LOL! My roommate's cat used to steal things like paper clips and the like,
> and bring them to me.
>
>
>

Oh, and how could I forget the LEECH?? Yuck, we had 8 inches of rain in
just a little over 24 hours last week. My son comes up and says, "Mom,
loock at this cool slimy caterpillar...." OMG -- he had a leech on his
finger. Of course he sensed my utter revulsion and then became
terrified screaming, "Get it off, get it off!!"

amy

[Tom Miller]

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 01:23:12 -0400, "Julie P."
<jporpiglia@hotmail.com> wrote:

> | But one time, I tried cooking lobsters, and when I went to eat one, I found
> | greenish/yellowish blood/ooze or whatever inside the lobster flesh, which
> | grossed me out. Apparently I didn't boil them right, or didn't boil them
> | alive (I didn't have the heart to boil them alive). So I threw them away in
> | metal trash can. That night, a humongous raccoon tipped the can over and
> | went after the lobsters. I wasn't as scared of fighting him off as I was the
> | skunk. :)

What's the green stuff?
It's the lobster's liver or more accurately, its digestive system.
Although many people like to eat the "tomalley" it probably isn't a
good idea because this is where pollution in the lobster's own meal
choices would become concentrated in the lobster's body.

What's the red stuff?
It's the roe, the unfertilized eggs of the female. Lobster eggs were
once considered a delicacy, like caviar. The roe is also called
"coral" because of its bright red color.

[indago]

040623 1912 - Tom Miller posted:

> On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 01:23:12 -0400, "Julie P."
> <jporpiglia@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> | But one time, I tried cooking lobsters, and when I went to eat one, I
>> found
>> | greenish/yellowish blood/ooze or whatever inside the lobster flesh, which
>> | grossed me out. Apparently I didn't boil them right, or didn't boil them
>> | alive (I didn't have the heart to boil them alive). So I threw them away
>> in
>> | metal trash can. That night, a humongous raccoon tipped the can over and
>> | went after the lobsters. I wasn't as scared of fighting him off as I was
>> the
>> | skunk. :)
>
> What's the green stuff?
> It's the lobster's liver or more accurately, its digestive system.
> Although many people like to eat the "tomalley" it probably isn't a
> good idea because this is where pollution in the lobster's own meal
> choices would become concentrated in the lobster's body.
>
> What's the red stuff?
> It's the roe, the unfertilized eggs of the female. Lobster eggs were
> once considered a delicacy, like caviar. The roe is also called
> "coral" because of its bright red color.
>
>

These message boards are great for getting all kinds of information like
this.

[Julie P.]

"Tom Miller" <jebainc@xxoptonline.net> wrote in message
news:40da0de1.16873512@news.optonline.net...
> On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 01:23:12 -0400, "Julie P."
> <jporpiglia@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > | But one time, I tried cooking lobsters, and when I went to eat one, I
found
> > | greenish/yellowish blood/ooze or whatever inside the lobster flesh,
which
> > | grossed me out. Apparently I didn't boil them right, or didn't boil
them
> > | alive (I didn't have the heart to boil them alive). So I threw them
away in
> > | metal trash can. That night, a humongous raccoon tipped the can over
and
> > | went after the lobsters. I wasn't as scared of fighting him off as I
was the
> > | skunk. :)
>
> What's the green stuff?
> It's the lobster's liver or more accurately, its digestive system.
> Although many people like to eat the "tomalley" it probably isn't a
> good idea because this is where pollution in the lobster's own meal
> choices would become concentrated in the lobster's body.


Thanks Tom. I've had lobster before at restaurant, and never saw anything
green. I think I must have cooked mine wrong. The green juices totally
grossed me out though.

[BonnieJean]

> > Hi, I have had this problem with a strange bug in my house. I have taken
> > pictures below. It has tons of legs with super long antennae, is 2 to
2.5
> > inches long, and runs really fast. It likes damp places and crevices
along
> > the wall. Here are the pics:
> >
> > http://mallology.lunarpages.com/bug.html
> >
> > I have tried looking at Internet pics of bugs, and none of them match. I
> > need to learn more about them so I can exterminate them. Thanks!

It looks like a cross between a Centipede and a shrimp.

Bonnie in NJ

[PCOpug]

I worked in a restarant cut the lobster in half , butterflied it inside out,
pinched out the guts, poured a little clarified butter on it, and under the
broiler .
If you threw the lobster in a large pot of boiling water and served it hole,
then the customer should not eat that part.

[Don Klipstein]

In <SurDc.56217$MU4.1529171@news20.bellglobal.com>, BigManRestless wrote:
>I took this picture just minutes ago. I hate these things!! Guess there is
>no cure either.

Please put in a website or post to alt.binaries and post here a pointer
(as in "go to alt.binaries and look for buggybug.jpg") rather than post a
binary to a newsgroup where binary posting is frowned on...

Meanwhile, I did manage to receive it.

>"Julie P." <jporpiglia@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>
>> http://mallology.lunarpages.com/bug.html
>>
>> I have tried looking at Internet pics of bugs, and none of them match. I
>> need to learn more about them so I can exterminate them. Thanks!

Different picture, same or similar enough bug. It is definitely a
centipede, and I believe more specifically a "hose centipede", which has
longer legs than the "field centipede".

You may have low web hits if you were looking for insects, since
centipedes are not insects but myriapods (hope I spelled that one right).

All buggy things including leggy seafood with exoskeletons are in the
phylum "arthropods". This includes these classes:

Insects - generally all have 6 legs (some in larval stage have additional
and different "false legs") and most have wings when adults,
while all other classes of arthropods lack wings and have 8 or
more legs throughout their lives (barring amputation).
Arachnids (spiders, mites, ticks, scorpions)
Crustaceans (lobsters, crabs, shrimp, crayfish, sowbugs)
Myriapods (centipedes and millipedes)

I doubt many pest control company websites mention non-insect arthropods
or the arthropod phylum in general to the extent of mentioning things that
many people consider seafood.

- Don Klipstein (don@misty.com)