Saturday, May 2, 2009
Scorpion
So it turns out the south has every kind of bug known to man. Today I let out a very loud bug scream. This is a particular scream that Ben knows means there is a ridiculous creature in the house. Today that creature was a scorpion. Yuck! I've had the heebie-jeebies all day!!! Someday I long to live in a place where there are less bugs and snakes.
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Oh jeez. That would have put me over the edge. Seriously. We have VERY large black spiders here that only show up once in a blue moon. They like damp, dark, cool areas, such as our basement where we play and I do laundry. I can't get near them. So there is a can of Raid that sits in the basement at all times that can spray from a pretty far distance with amazing accuracy. It would be on my list of "Things I Can't Live Without".
Ewww I had a scorpion in the house when we first moved in. Jeremy was in CT and Jack was just over a year old playing with chunky legos when I noticed what I thought was a fake bug. I hit it with a lego and it curled it's tail up and hissed at me. I went crazy beating it over and over again with the toy. I then hauled it's body over to the local college to find out from the science dept if I needed to move out of my house ;)
If there's anything I can say that might make you want to hang around a little longer in the south, I would. In fact, if you were to move to a cooler climate, I would almost feel certain that whatever creepy-crawlies live outside might try to come inside during the colder weather.
Just the same; I deal with spiders the same way I deal with uncontrollable ivy: Fire, and lots of it.
If it makes you feel any better, I can't find anything about any species of scorpions in georgia/northern fl that are poisonous.
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