Armed Polite Society
Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: vaskidmark on March 21, 2014, 03:08:19 PM
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from this - http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=43644.0
to this - http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/20/the-bugs-in-our-homes/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_php=true&_type=blogs&src=me&_r=1&
It never ends.
In the summer and fall of 2012, I embarked on a postdoctoral study with a team of fellow entomologists from the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and North Carolina State University to discover what arthropods can be found in our homes. It was the first comprehensive study of its kind, with the aim to uncover what people could expect to find, and why they might be there.
From the attic to the basement, ceiling to floor, we collected over 10,000 specimens — dead or alive — in 50 houses (volunteered by the public) within 30 miles of downtown Raleigh, N.C. Homeowners were surveyed and extensive notes were taken at each location.
There are no reports of automatronics/robotics. Personally, I think they were told not to report them. [tinfoil]
stay safe.
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Spiders and centipedes here, mostly. And fleas and dust mites.
(The centipedes bug me a whole lot more than the spiders. I'll help a stuck spider get free. Centipedes get as much crushing death as I can deliver.)
The smokybrown cockroach is not good at surviving in homes, which explains why they are often found dead.
:rofl:
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I thought this was about the NSA. [tinfoil]
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Spiders, scorpions, and snakes....I'll hike my skirt up and run. Centipedes, die where I find them.
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In the 19 years I've been in this house we've had 3 centipedes get in. The 1st one the kids killed in their bathroom. The 2nd one crawled across my face while I was asleep. I thought it was a dream till I woke up and found it crippled on the floor beside my bed. The 3rd and largest one I stomped as it crawled across the living room floor. I kicked it out into the flower bed beside the front door where it lay twitching for 3 days before it finally died.