#25

We came back from Canada to find droppings everywhere. So I popped out some mouse traps and killed 18 of them. Released one into the wild. Had to put two out of their misery. The live traps were utterly useless, and one of the kill traps was useless, but “Old Faithful” got near enough 14 of the blighters. Started big a grey and went right down to small and… well, upsetting to be quite frank.

Thought I’d got them after a few weeks of quiet but then found another daddy in the trap and got another six or so. So total kill was around 26 of them, so a proper infestation.

We live rurally so it’s isn’t surprising, and they’re doing a new water piepline through the fields so they are pretty much being forced into the house.

Had ants too, but that was a piece of piss. Put a biat trap down, watched them swarm all over it’s tasty goodness, and taking the bait back to the nest. Dead and gone within 48 hours.

#26

That’ll be from a dead rodent in the floorboards/walls. They lay their eggs and then a few weeks later burst out, go everywhere, and then disappear.

#27

huh. oh well would have tried this if I’d have known. Unfortunately we didn’t have Google back in 2013.

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#28

Yep, internet suggested the same. Either floorboards or somewhere near the house

#29

Previous place I lived, flat on the top two floors of a six storey block, discovered quite quickly after moving in had both cockroaches and bed bugs. Yay. Got the council pest control round and they said that it’s virtually impossible to actually get rid of either out of blocks, you just have to make it easier for them to go elsewhere in the building. Some hard core cleaning, steaming and chemical warfare and neither ever came back.

Have had a few mice over the years in current place. Nothing major fortunately. Next door neighbour had bees make a hive in his loft a couple of years back - paid someone to destroy the hive, which I think might be illegal.

Flat I lived in in Sydney had endless giant flying cockroaches and fairly regular visits from huntsman spiders…

#30

we had bees at my parents house once - built a nest in the loft and started getting into the house etc

A science teacher at the local school was an amateur bee enthusiast - he came round with all his gear and took them to a farm or something

BEEs

#32

Yes Tim, they all went to live out the rest of their natural lifespan happily on a farm…

:skull_and_crossbones:

#33

yes, that’s what I said

:thinking:

#34

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#35

this happened to me once sorta

after moving in somewhere there were mouse bait trays hidden about. didnt see any though during the time living there

#36

Mate of mine had a wasp nest in his house. Sent me this photo. Grim.

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#37

Grim.

#38

Holy fucking shit.

#39

Got really scared when behind the microwave found a load of insect egg looking things, looked on top in the cupboard with the boiler in, thousands of the things, thought a biblical plague was going to take over the flat turned out to be cavity insulation beads

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#40

My wife had an infestation of fleas thanks to her dog being a mucky prick and them forgetting his flea treatment (three of them between them thought the other person had done it).

That was fucking grim.

#41

The exterminator guy was about to gas them or whatever and was saying “This is the really tough part of the job” and my friend was all “Yeah, yeah - bet it’s really sad. Now please get the fucking things out of my house”

#42

My actual worst nightmare

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#43

This thread has put the fear into me. Rats and mice can do one. Goes back to when I was a child and I put my hand in a hole in a wall to retrieve a tennis ball and I pulled out a dead mouse. My fingers in its rotting carcass.

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#44

Keeping going, don’t stop.

#46

Fleas when I first rescued the cat but as a pretty quick fix (although did have to do a second round after they reappeared about 3 months later - only a few and got rid of them sharpish though, permanently.

Other than that the things I get the most of are spiders. Hardly in infestation though, and they stop flies etc anyway so I try and keep the odd one around until B notices them and makes me get rid.