And cicadas waking up after 17 years, and numbering in the billions and falling off of trees???? I would die of a heart attack if I ever saw a vulture, let alone billions of any kind of insects.

Thank God, I can stay inside my apartment, where I can spray my bug spray into the crevices (every few months I do this, and I do it very carefully),and the worst thing I'll get is a stray ant or two.

I was looking at TV the other night and they had a movie called Pacific Heights on. There's a seen where Melanie Griffith opens up the cabinets under the kitchen sink and hundreds of roaches are swarming. I thought I would die. I turned that off in no time.

Give me no bugs, no vultures, no cicadas. Imagine if I lived in a swamp? I'd never survive. I am NOT A BOY SCOUT, BELIEVE ME.!!!!!


JEEZ. VULTURES, CICADAS, HOW DO YOU PEOPLE DO THIS????

Mel

Then I wont send you a picture of a pet I had to get rid of last year because everyone was afraid of her - "Charlotte" - my tarantula! One of my cats I lost last year would spend hours watching her (yes, I kept her in a terrarium) but she was tame enough to walk around on me if she was in a good mood....) (tarantulas arent venemous to people - just hurt if they bite cause they do have some big teeth!)

I've heard that Australia has some of the nastiest spiders - no thank you! (dont you have one that will come in the home and attack a person? - keep em down under!)

Ok I will tell you what happened. I am sure Brian probably has a simlilar experience.

I was lying in bed watching television and I felt something crawling on my legs,lifted the cover and saw a big hairy hunstman spider the size of my hand (open), in my bed. Just think of a turantula and then double it's size.

Another time one jumped on my head when I was in the loo!

At night when I walk my dog, now and again, I accidentally walk into spider webs and I have had spiders get stuck in my hair.

I have had 2 bats ram into me late at night,and the bats down here are ugly!!! No they don't look anything like the movies. Just think of the most horrible looking creature you can imagine with wings,and then think of him in your bedroom! LOL!!

I am still speaking of a bat, by the way!! I'm killing myself laughing right now cause this sounds a bit funny, but they can get into your house through the chimney and believe me they are scary.

I live on the east coast in OZ, redbacks seem to like it down here in Victoria, but only ever seen them outside, they seem to like getting underneath things and if you disturb them ya gota move quick.

The biggest spider i have seen down here was one day when my nephew was washing his car on the front lawn, he stuck the hose in the back wheel arch and this spider come out this thing was a monster, much much bigger than a mans hand, like a crab , i never seen anyone move so fast i my life
i couldn't stop laughing, my poor nephew got a hell of a shock, he turned white and all, i grabbed a long shovel and chased it to try to kill it but it was to quick for me, but from that day onwards he only took his car to the car wash.
So yeah there around but don't bother us unless we happen to bother them.

Brian

In Virginia we have poisonous snakes as well. Tons of bees and not the mostly mild-mannered honey bee either. All kinds of bugs everywhere. It's almost like living in the tropics at times in the summer when it's been real hot and humid. I got used to most of it over time. At first it freaked me out terribly....but you do get used to it.

http://www.austmus.gov.au/bats/records/bat51.htm

I can barely deal with the little spiders we have up North!

I don't think I could handle those monster ones at all! EEEEUUUUUWWWW!

Aussie, talking about those Hunstmans , one really hot night i happened to leave my car window down all night & parked under a tree at friends place, in the morning we drove for 2 hours until we got into the big smoke and were driving through peak hour traffic in Melbourne and i happened to see something move out the corner of my eye, on my window, so i looked around and about 2 inches from my face was one of those great big hairy huntsmans crawling accross the drivers side window i was in the middle lane and traffic and cars were every were, i could not get over to pull up for a few minutes whilst this horrible looking thing crawled back and forth across my dashboard, anyway i got a break in traffic and got over to the curb, we jumped out and this thing was going crazy running all over the inside of my car, i managed to get a news paper out of the back seat and i tried to brush him out the car, i got him to the edge then he ran up the paper at me, so i dropped the paper and luckily it fell into the gutter, thank god , it then ran down the gutter and easily skipped over the kerb on to the the pavement, were some ladies started screaming when they seen it, it was a big one, anyway it found a nice hiding place in someones front yard.
I haven't left my window down again since

Well, Brian & Aussie,

I guess you've pretty much guaranteed that you two won't be getting many visitors

I kinda like the bats

Big flying insects and cockroaches of ANY KIND freak me out. Isn't there a Stephen King movie about cockroaches eating their way out of a man's chest

Thanks for sharing :NOT:

Barb

its really not that bad