I have a caterpillar problem... in my room

[JustinHesychast]

This is so gross. I have SOOOO many plants and flowers in my room. Once has been outside before, and I noticed all sorts of holes appearing in the leaves, and later I found a small caterpillar on my bed. So I took the plant outside.

Just now, I found a VERY LARGE caterpillar of what appears to be the same kind on my Spongebob beanbag. As much as I love my plants (and one is pothos that was my great grandma's) I am thinking of getting rid of them. The thought of big gross looking caterpillars all over my room is just so disgusting and it really creeps me out as much as I love bugs and such.

Gross, I found it and put it on a napkin. It just... puked... this really thin green stuff all over the napkin...

What on earth? What should I do? :help:

[DarkNLovely]

Learn to love catrpillers! They turn into butterflies! LOL! Seriously, mayby get some treatmeant for your plants or invest in a praying mantis. I'll ask my mom as she keeps plants too!

[JustinHesychast]

Sorry, but I don't want a praying mantis wandering around my room either... :P

Oh, and I DO luff caterpillars. I have "my" caterpillars" that are fuzzy and really gentle. They turn into moths; I caught about 10 once and they turned to moths. Very exciting. But this kind looks gross and puked this thin green stuff twice... and it was (and others might be) in my room out of a cage...

[Tsarina]

I wouldn't mind caterpillars compared to my problem. We have a garden right out our front window, and these disgusting huge centipedes are crawling in the house. It's gross! They're long and fast with hundreds of legs.

[JustinHesychast]

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I would move. Centipedes, spiders, and waspers are 3 things I simply CANNOT handle...

*shudders*

[Tsarina]

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I would move. Centipedes, spiders, and waspers are 3 things I simply CANNOT handle...

*shudders*

I can't handle them either. Not only is this precious garden brining in centipedes, it's bringing in ants and spiders too.. it's crazy.

I find myself standing on a chair all day crying.

[RobNJ]

Isn't there some type of indoor plant insecticide?

[JustinHesychast]

I'll have to see. But it will have to be organic... :P

[RobNJ]

I'll have to see. But it will have to be organic... :P

Yup, kill the suckers, but be green about it!!! :doh:

^_^

[JustinHesychast]

Haha. :D

Well, I'd prefer that this guy be the last one and I release him tomorrow morning. But if I find more (or hear anymore weird noises..) >_>;;

[fuerein]

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I would move. Centipedes, spiders, and waspers are 3 things I simply CANNOT handle...

*shudders*
Centipedes are quickly dispatched, luckily though they don't tend to come around in groups (at least for me, YMMV). Spiders though, eh, as long as they don't bother me I don't really bother getting rid of them... get rid of their webs now and then yes, but I rarely go in search of them. Then again I live in a "garden" apartment, in other words it is slightly below ground - my windows are just above ground level, and the few small spiders I have wandering around seem to keep some of the other insect populations from coming into my apartment. When I first moved in there were no spiders but a number of ants. Now I have I have no ants but a couple spiders... The spiders stay in the nooks and crannies of the apartment and don't bother me plus by and large they are small spiders, so they can stay.... That and I'm just too lazy to go after them.

[DarkNLovely]

Hey! Would moth balls help? I'm gonna look through my mamas plant book and see if I find anything on caterpillars!

[paleodoxy]

Try living in Houston where you are bombarded by cockroaches eight months out of the year.. :)

[fuerein]

Try living in Houston where you are bombarded by cockroaches eight months out of the year.. :)
They say roaches are a problem here in DC area, but luckily I've yet to have an issue in the two apartments I've lived in thus far.

[JustinHesychast]

I could handle cockroaches. They're cool. :D

[DarkNLovely]

I could handle cockroaches. They're cool. :D
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TrueHope]

This is so gross. I have SOOOO many plants and flowers in my room. Once has been outside before, and I noticed all sorts of holes appearing in the leaves, and later I found a small caterpillar on my bed. So I took the plant outside.

Just now, I found a VERY LARGE caterpillar of what appears to be the same kind on my Spongebob beanbag. As much as I love my plants (and one is pothos that was my great grandma's) I am thinking of getting rid of them. The thought of big gross looking caterpillars all over my room is just so disgusting and it really creeps me out as much as I love bugs and such.

Gross, I found it and put it on a napkin. It just... puked... this really thin green stuff all over the napkin...

What on earth? What should I do? :help:
I'm laughing so hard, I'm crying....I almost puked! lol.

I got a great shot off a praying mantis on our balcony last week....I love those. Centipedes...ya gotta be careful some are poisonous and fearless...at least I know they are in Greece....shudders...and cockroaches....ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww Even my hubby turns into a little girl screaming if he sees one. Oh, do I have stories ....... Here's one....what do cock roaches and Cher have in common?


They survive everything and always come back to haunt you! lol.

(Actually...I kinda do like Cher...it's the other little gits that I can do without....although in parts of the Middle East, I hear they can walk em, they are so huge.....)

[Dewi Sant]

When I first arrived at my new student accomodation at uni last year I found in my basin a HUGE giant house spider.

I tried to fit it under a glass to take it outside but I couldn't find one large enough.
Eventually someone lent me a wide pint glass.
I caught it between the glass and the paper and took it down to the ground floor (some three stories down a winding staircase).

I let it loose on the lawn outside.

Just a few months later I realised why it was so big.
The porch of the accomodation was filled with baby giant house spiders.

Pretty much everyone in the accomodation became hermits and those outside started staying at other peoples' places. :D

It's not very nice really because when spiders are pitching their webs they sort of hang from the ceiling and suddenly drop maybe a foot or two, then scuttle up again. Your're just sort of paranoid that they'll decide to drop when you're below them....I've seen it happen on a girl but she noticed us looking at something just above her head and jumped out the way before it landed. :P

[Dewi Sant]

Hey! Would moth balls help? I'm gonna look through my mamas plant book and see if I find anything on caterpillars!

Apparently drycleaning has the same effect as mothballs.
It's the chemical used in the cleaning.

Soooo, maybe you could have your curtains dry cleaned :P


I'm weird...I like the smell of dry cleaning, paint, white spirit, petroleum, tobacco.......all those things you're told not to smell^_^

[eoe]

+1 for the Mantis

[DarkNLovely]

Apparently drycleaning has the same effect as mothballs.
It's the chemical used in the cleaning.

Soooo, maybe you could have your curtains dry cleaned :P


I'm weird...I like the smell of dry cleaning, paint, white spirit, petroleum, tobacco.......all those things you're told not to smell^_^
I like the smell of rubbing alcohol!

[TrueHope]

I like the smell of rubbing alcohol!
LOL...I like the smell of gasoline...or I used to.....we are all WEIRD!!!

[Dewi Sant]

+1 for the Mantis

Manti are awesome...plus, it's a spiritual reminder to pray :P

[RobNJ]

LOL...I like the smell of gasoline...or I used to.....we are all WEIRD!!!

I couldn't resist

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5eXFeW0aI0

:D

[TrueHope]

Manti are awesome...plus, it's a spiritual reminder to pray :P
IF the pic is not too big....this is from a few nights ago....

http://i19.servimg.com/u/f19/11/39/95/26/prayin10.jpg

[DarkNLovely]

Great pic, True!

http://www.hiddenworlds.co.uk/gallery/wildlife/mantids/images/Orchid_Mantis.jpg

Isn't this one beautiful? It's called an orchid mantis!

[fuerein]

I've only come across a mantis once. It was in central Indiana sitting on a tree limb, almost missed it thinking... 'leaf.' Never seen one since. Maybe they are not common in N. Indiana or DC areas (the two main places I've lived)?

[TrueHope]

Great pic, True!

http://www.hiddenworlds.co.uk/gallery/wildlife/mantids/images/Orchid_Mantis.jpg

Isn't this one beautiful? It's called an orchid mantis!

WOW!!! That is GORGEOUS!!!!!!!!!!!

[DarkNLovely]

WOW!!! That is GORGEOUS!!!!!!!!!!!
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They are the only insect I actually like! Don't think they are found anywhere but Asia though. So beautiful!

[TrueHope]

I've only come across a mantis once. It was in central Indiana sitting on a tree limb, almost missed it thinking... 'leaf.' Never seen one since. Maybe they are not common in N. Indiana or DC areas (the two main places I've lived)?
When I was a child, growing up in N.Y, I found praying mantis' all the time. I used to catch them and play with them. I loved them so much. I gently tried to catch this one to show my girls, but it had no interest in me, except to stare into this big black thing that was taking pictures of it. But this was the only clear shot I had minus a few others in which it was not zoomed in. (Night and avail. light photo)

[Dewi Sant]

I love the "normal" Green Mantis, but the orchid one is increadible. The sheer amount of detail, even the withering of the petals is included in the design.

I would love to keep a Mantis as a pet. It'll be pretty cool and, it'll keep the pests down from my plants.

I once lost a whole window full of plants because of Spider Mite.
I kept cleaning the plants of the fine webs to remove the mites and then one day I saw them covered in webs again. I got the damp cloth again and was removing the webs when, to my surprise, a spider jumped out at me.
The spider must have eaten all the spider mites :)

I used to be a real Aracnaphobe but I love spiders now though I wouldn't want to wake up in the morning with a Sydney Funnel Web on my face.

[Shubunkin]

Apparently drycleaning has the same effect as mothballs.
It's the chemical used in the cleaning.

Soooo, maybe you could have your curtains dry cleaned :P


I'm weird...I like the smell of dry cleaning, paint, white spirit, petroleum, tobacco.......all those things you're told not to smell^_^
Not to mention popcorn now.... Orville's popcorn causing lung cancer if you sniff it too much, now. On the news a few nights ago. :(

[TrueHope]

Not to mention popcorn now.... Orville's popcorn causing lung cancer if you sniff it too much, now. On the news a few nights ago. :(
Are you serious?!?! I gotta look this one up. Ihad forgotten about Orville Reddenbockers Popcorn...(Did I spell it right?) Memories......from the corner of my mind.............

Tsk tsk...cancer from popcorn fumes, what next?

[Shubunkin]

I love caterpillars too, but would not like them in "my" living space. I'd take all the plants outdoors, and spray them with something to get rid of the bugs, let them air out a bit, and then bring them back into the room. Since we have been having our yard sprayed regularly, now, there has been no incidences of spiders or other creepy crawlies coming into the house. It made a huge difference.

[DarkNLovely]

I love the "normal" Green Mantis, but the orchid one is increadible. The sheer amount of detail, even the withering of the petals is included in the design.

I would love to keep a Mantis as a pet. It'll be pretty cool and, it'll keep the pests down from my plants.

I once lost a whole window full of plants because of Spider Mite.
I kept cleaning the plants of the fine webs to remove the mites and then one day I saw them covered in webs again. I got the damp cloth again and was removing the webs when, to my surprise, a spider jumped out at me.
The spider must have eaten all the spider mites :)

I used to be a real Aracnaphobe but I love spiders now though I wouldn't want to wake up in the morning with a Sydney Funnel Web on my face.
The orchid mantis is beautiful, isn't?

Spiders? EEEEEEWWWWWW! These are the little critters I love!

http://www.dbreptiles.com/normalballbig.gif

[Shubunkin]

Are you serious?!?! I gotta look this one up. Ihad forgotten about Orville Reddenbockers Popcorn...(Did I spell it right?) Memories......from the corner of my mind.............

Tsk tsk...cancer from popcorn fumes, what next?
yep.... the buttery flavor is some chemical, and now the popcorn companies are scrambling to find something else to use. Even the workers at the plants were coming up with many cases of lung cancer, and a guy that used to eat Orville's every day and would sniff the fumes of the freshly popped stuff each time before eating it came up with lung cancer. I'm glad we don't have it very often. We may just do it the old-fashioned way from now on.

[TrueHope]

yep.... the buttery flavor is some chemical, and now the popcorn companies are scrambling to find something else to use. Even the workers at the plants were coming up with many cases of lung cancer, and a guy that used to eat Orville's every day and would sniff the fumes of the freshly popped stuff each time before eating it came up with lung cancer. I'm glad we don't have it very often. We may just do it the old-fashioned way from now on.
Sigh...well, I remember it tasting like chemicals....so sad. I have always made my own, since I was a kid. Funny thing is this. When we came to Greece, and the kids would have friends over, I'd make it, and everyone was like.....WOW...HOW DO YOU DO THAT??? Like I was the Pop-Corn fairy of the East or something! lol.

[fuerein]

The orchid mantis is beautiful, isn't?

Spiders? EEEEEEWWWWWW! These are the little critters I love!

http://www.dbreptiles.com/normalballbig.gif

That's a 'little critter'? I'll pass on having a snake meandering about my apartment, even if he is non-venomous.

[DarkNLovely]

That's a 'little critter'? I'll pass on having a snake meandering about my apartment, even if he is non-venomous.
I love them! One of my friends teased me once because I love snakes but I can not abide the thought of a lizard! *shivers*

[TrueHope]

The orchid mantis is beautiful, isn't?

Spiders? EEEEEEWWWWWW! These are the little critters I love!

http://www.dbreptiles.com/normalballbig.gif

This just reminded me....there is a fear amongst many of the Greeks that if you go...psst...pssst...pssst. (Like calling a kitty) that the snakes will come out! LOL......We foreigners just can't get enough of that one!!!!!!!!!! I mean...DOH!

[fuerein]

Sigh...well, I remember it tasting like chemicals....so sad. I have always made my own, since I was a kid. Funny thing is this. When we came to Greece, and the kids would have friends over, I'd make it, and everyone was like.....WOW...HOW DO YOU DO THAT??? Like I was the Pop-Corn fairy of the East or something! lol.
Never been a huge popcorn fan, but a couple I knew in college made a tasty kettle-corn, mmm, sweet and tasty popcorn. Really good fresh, but still good even once it got cold... Something I cannot say about microwave popcorn. That stuff is nasty once it cools, my dad still seems to like it cold though. Go figure.

[TrueHope]

Never been a huge popcorn fan, but a couple I knew in college made a tasty kettle-corn, mmm, sweet and tasty popcorn. Really good fresh, but still good even once it got cold... Something I cannot say about microwave popcorn. That stuff is nasty once it cools, my dad still seems to like it cold though. Go figure.
I make mean flavored popcorns too. All flavors! The kiddles go nutty when I go to town on it. An old roommate and I used to experiment with everything we had, and were thinking of opening a pop-corn cart in Boston....but we figured if anyone died from our popcorn, we'd be outta business!;):D

[Dewi Sant]

That's a 'little critter'? I'll pass on having a snake meandering about my apartment, even if he is non-venomous.

Awww, but the non-venomous varieties are so much more fun!

They prefer to kill via strangulation or, eat their prey alive :P


I would love to see a Black Adder (European Adder...actually part of the viper family).
I've "sensed" snakes when walking on the hills in the long grass and on the rocky lavendar covered crags, but I've never seen one.

We have two varieties that are native, Grass Snake and Black Adder.


BTW, Blackadder is an amazingly awesome sitcom which I suggest everyone watches.
Rowan Atkinson, Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry in one show is simply increadible! (I particularly like the WWI themed ones)

[DarkNLovely]

I make mean flavored popcorns too. All flavors! The kiddles go nutty when I go to town on it. An old roommate and I used to experiment with everything we had, and were thinking of opening a pop-corn cart in Boston....but we figured if anyone died from our popcorn, we'd be outta business!;):D
Lol! That's funny! I have nevered made flavored popcorn. There is this place in Florida called Craker Country where you see how the early settlers came to Florida and how they lived. The have the sweetest kettle corn ever!

[TrueHope]

BTW, Blackadder is an amazingly awesome sitcom which I suggest everyone watches.
Rowan Atkinson, Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry in one show is simply increadible! (I particularly like the WWI themed ones)

I used to watch that!!!^_^

[fuerein]

Awww, but the non-venomous varieties are so much more fun!

They prefer to kill via strangulation or, eat their prey alive :P


I would love to see a Black Adder (European Adder...actually part of the viper family).
I've "sensed" snakes when walking on the hills in the long grass and on the rocky lavendar covered crags, but I've never seen one.

We have two varieties that are native, Grass Snake and Black Adder.


BTW, Blackadder is an amazingly awesome sitcom which I suggest everyone watches.
Rowan Atkinson, Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry in one show is simply increadible! (I particularly like the WWI themed ones)
I almost stepped on a snake at my grandmother's farm once. Granted it was just a black garden snake, but the thing was a good 3 ft. long. The farm is surrounded by woods so they occasionally get snakes coming down from the woods, normally only a big issue if they are copperheads. But this one was just laying on the ground and I was walking and talking with my cousin. Look down and my foot was literally just inches from coming down on him.

[DarkNLovely]

In my complex there is one that my neighbor tried to kill that is about 5 feet long and is quite thick around but he was told that if he killed it he would be fined $50,000 because it's threatened. Weird!

[TrueHope]

I almost stepped on a snake at my grandmother's farm once. Granted it was just a black garden snake, but the thing was a good 3 ft. long. The farm is surrounded by woods so they occasionally get snakes coming down from the woods, normally only a big issue if they are copperheads. But this one was just laying on the ground and I was walking and talking with my cousin. Look down and my foot was literally just inches from coming down on him.
Boy, when I was a kid, I used to grab every garden snake, bug, frog, worm....now....uh......no thanks. I used to love the baby garden snakes because they would try to choke my wrists, and it felt like a massage! Though, the cats got a few....and ewwwwwww what a mess~!

[JustinHesychast]

I love snakes. Like TrueHope, I would catch EVERYTHING.

I remember in one day I found: 2 snakes (one just shed of its skin, and one eluded me and got away), a huge hairy brown spider, and 3 baby scorpions here in Tennessee. I caught them all... it was awesome. :D

[MamaBug]

BTW, Blackadder is an amazingly awesome sitcom which I suggest everyone watches.
Rowan Atkinson, Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry in one show is simply increadible! (I particularly like the WWI themed ones)

The last episode of the WWI series has always stood out in my mind as one of the best tragic-comedy pieces.


Boy, when I was a kid, I used to grab every garden snake, bug, frog, worm....now....uh......no thanks.

Hate them, hate them, hate them. Always have, always will. No idea why - they just induce a near-phobic response in me. Used to get a lot of them up where my grandparents lived and in the rural areas - I don't see them as often anymore but the whole region has become more urbanized. On our senior pilgrimmage in HS the boys would keep jumping into the rain ditches to grab 'em. One idiot tried to poke at one WITH the giant 8-foot cross he was carrying.:doh:

We get lots of frogs at our house - the little babyish looking ones. They are so cute and I love the sound on spring and summer nights.

[Dewi Sant]

The last episode of the WWI series has always stood out in my mind as one of the best tragic-comedy pieces.

I just watched that one today.
Yes, deeply deeply moving.
Especcially the bit at the very end when instead of coming in with the credits, music and images of military marching it is just complete silence fading the image of the trenches into that of Flanders fields. And then quietly in the corner you get "BBC MMCXXXVIX"

I do love the Elizabethan ones though (2nd series).
I can't take myself to watch the first series, it's just too weird. I guess I love the satirical script writing of Ben Elton....and Stephen Fry.

[Dewi Sant]

http://tv-links.co.uk/listings/1/15

:P

I love "The Cavalier Years"...but it's probably because Oliver Cromwell is in my view, my number 2 in British Villains...King Henry VIII is number 1.

[Tsarina]

I could handle cockroaches. They're cool. :D

Freakin' GROSS!!!
I'm so scared of cockroaches, that i make them run away from me with the high pitch of my scream when i see them. *shivers*
How can you handle cockroaches and not like caterpillars? Caterpillars are the best!

LOL...I like the smell of gasoline...or I used to.....we are all WEIRD!!!

I like the smell of gasoline too, for some weird reason, lols. :sorry:

[JustinHesychast]

I <3 to sniff: garlic, onion, alcohol, and gasoline.

My mom enjoys sniffing the latter two as well... she will get an alcohol pad an just lay it on her nose and inhale. :D So.. we're all weird.

I always read on the gas pumps that prolonged exposure to the fumes has caused cancer in lab rats. That always makes me feel bad for getting gas... poor critters.

[Dewi Sant]

I always read on the gas pumps that prolonged exposure to the fumes has caused cancer in lab rats. That always makes me feel bad for getting gas... poor critters.

Hmmm, but it seems that everything causes cancer :(.

Still since I was but a wee young boy, I always wound my window down when we got a petrol station and would inhale the fumes deeply.

I've tried tobacco smoking, it just doesn't compare to petrol fumes....but the smell Incense is truely the finest :)

[Dewi Sant]

I <3 to sniff: garlic, onion, alcohol, and gasoline.

My mom enjoys sniffing the latter two as well... she will get an alcohol pad an just lay it on her nose and inhale. :D So.. we're all weird.

I always read on the gas pumps that prolonged exposure to the fumes has caused cancer in lab rats. That always makes me feel bad for getting gas... poor critters.

I had a cut once before a driving lesson and (foolishly) applied alcohol to it to steralise it....I got drunk during my lesson ^_^ . (or at least tipsy).
I was like, hmmm, my eyes are playing up again, oh poo! I'm tipsy :P

I didn't know you could get drunk from external alcohol but it makes sense. It's basically going into your blood stream.

[TrueHope]

Hmmm, but it seems that everything causes cancer :(.

Still since I was but a wee young boy, I always wound my window down when we got a petrol station and would inhale the fumes deeply.

I've tried tobacco smoking, it just doesn't compare to petrol fumes....but the smell Incense is truely the finest :)

This is final...Justin, I would like to change the name of this thread to "Gasoline (fume) loving Orthodox of the World." Better known as GLOW! Because we weirdies are so loving gasoline we should form a club!:D ;)

[DarkNLovely]

This is final...Justin, I would like to change the name of this thread to "Gasoline (fume) loving Orthodox of the World." Better known as GLOW! Because we weirdies are so loving gasoline we should form a club!:D ;)
LOL! Yeah, but if we aren't careful, people will start to think we'er geting high!