I get dragonflies in my house now and then so I’d include them
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Kowowow@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
cm0002@lemy.lol 1 month ago
My web search told me they die quickly indoors apparently, so no team of dragonflies protecting me from the bad bugs, sadness :'(
prenatal_confusion@feddit.org 1 month ago
It threw up on your table. And you are fine with that?!
ignotum@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What’s the point of a table if not for throwing up on?
prenatal_confusion@feddit.org 1 month ago
That is … Something I hadn’t thought about. Very good point sir / madam / human / critter.
imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I like house centipedes
cm0002@lemy.lol 1 month ago
imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
They eat cockroaches and other bugs. House centipedes are friends.
Rhaedas@fedia.io 1 month ago
The downvote was from cockroach lover. Ew.
TheDoozer@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Them and millipedes are allowed if AND ONLY IF they stay either out of sight or up in the corners. If they crawl across my bare foot they’re done.
I went away for two weeks once, and afterwars went to the unfinished portion of my basement at the time to find the aftermath of an absolute warzone. Some yellowjackets (I think) had burrowed their nest through the wall, and there was an epic battle between them and the cave crickets (of which there were WAY more than I had thought). There were dismembered corpses absolutely covering the floors. And from what I could tell, you know who seemed to be the victor?
The millipedes. There was ONE millipede body amongs the masses of cave crickets and yellowjackets. And each of the others weren’t eaten, just ripped in half.
For the next year, we didn’t hear or see a single cave cricket, and that entire nest of yellowjackets was just… gone. But the millipedes… they flourished.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I LOVE house centipedes! They can take all their million legs and crawl all over my house. I’ll even save them from my cats, as I don’t want the lil guys getting hurt! My cats can play with all the ants they want, but centipedes are too leg’d for me not to love.
We do occasionally get venomous centipedes tho, those I do have to kill if they’re in my house. Sorry lil dudes. I’ve only found one in my decade at this place tho, the rest were friends!
0ops@piefed.zip 1 month ago
Where’s jumping spiders?
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
We don’t mind certain kinda of spiders either. But only the ones that hang out in webs in the corner of rooms.
Hadriscus@jlai.lu 1 month ago
add the kouloukoulou to the list
cm0002@lemy.lol 1 month ago
What even is it lmao, searching brings up a band, a tree, an athlete and coffee twists lolol
cepelinas@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
boutique.kouloukoulou.fr/produit/le-kouloukoulou I found this, also for some reason tiktok, instagram and a weather site in the search results.
Hadriscus@jlai.lu 1 month ago
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 month ago
I like lady and pill bugs, but I still wouldn’t want them in my house.
pedz@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
My parents live in a rural area and they have hundreds of multicoloured Asian lady beetles crawling in their windows and in the house.
I have a cabin in the same region and the inside of the walls are filled with their corpses. They agglutinate by thousands in fire wood and I burn so many. They are everywhere and kind of annoying.
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
We live near a small lake and the amount of milipedes and pill bugs that come in and just die is crazy. Cleaned up hundreds of bodies.
rain_worl@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
fruit flies??
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Ded Talk*
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Nah, no lady bugs or whatever the Japanese beetle that has replaced them in the US is called in my home.
Lived in TN for since 09, and when those things find a way in it’s awful. They have crawled into my ears while sleeping (they bite, did you know? I didn’t. Ow.), they have eaten through window screens, chewed a hole in the drywall, and done general havoc. There was a mostly unused room where I found about 1000 or more of then hanging in a corner. The mass was so large I genuinely thought it was some kind of hornets nest or something.
webp@mander.xyz 1 month ago
That group was probably a huge orgy (source: I read it on the internet)
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Harmonia axyridis AKA “Asian Beetle”. Native to Southeast Asia. Artificially introduced to the US for aphid population control, which they allegedly do very well.
And that is their single redeeming quality. Other than that, they are an incredibly annoying pest. I remember being a kid, when they really started to take off in the Midwest, and having to vacuum up thousands of them out of, well, everywhere. I quickly learned that if you used a vacuum cleaner where the dirt gets drawn through the impeller, they would die instantly and that would lessen the awful smell.
We had this antique Hamilton Beach hand vacuum with a large bag on it that was perfect for the job. The distinctive “ping” sound of those little bastards getting obliterated by the cast aluminum death machine was sweet revenge.
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
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sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Oh boy I vaccuumed up so many asian beetles in my life. Those buggers bite too. What a cursed creature.
luxadazy@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
they also stink