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JohnRW1621
JohnRW1621 PowerDork
8/1/13 7:19 p.m.

That's a grasshopper.
You attract them with Kung Foo

SnowMongoose
SnowMongoose Reader
8/1/13 7:19 p.m.

How about a...
Roach Clip?

Bahahahahahahaha

paranoid_android74
paranoid_android74 Reader
8/1/13 7:20 p.m.

I will remember this- I think this is the time of year we start seeing them around.

EastCoastMojo wrote: Buy a cheap bunch of roses at the grocery store, put them in a vase in the closest window to last sighting/chirping. ... Profit? It will be attracted to light and the flowers, hopefully both, and you may find her on the sill. Mantis prey on the bugs that eat roses and other plants, so even though you don't have those bugs, hopefully she will take the bait and go toward the scent of flowers.
paranoid_android74
paranoid_android74 Reader
8/1/13 7:23 p.m.

Quite right- guess my wife didn't get a good look at it while she was screaming and running away from it

JohnRW1621 wrote: That's a grasshopper. You attract them with Kung Foo
paranoid_android74
paranoid_android74 Reader
8/1/13 7:26 p.m.

I wish I had one- I've had a couple and they are great dogs.

We have a lab/golden mix now. It's mostly interested in digging in the couch for food the kids drop.

codrus wrote: How about a Rottweiler? :)
mad_machine
mad_machine GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
8/1/13 8:06 p.m.
paranoid_android74 wrote: Ack! Creatures like that make me happy I live in MI.
carguy123 wrote: They are supposed to be good luck. And they'll get rid of the other bugs in your house. I'd much prefer that to scorpions who serve the same function. And yes, those are baby scorpions on mommy's back

Sorry to tell you this... For almost every environment, there is a species if Scorpion that thrives in it. From the deserts to the Himilayas and into the Oceans

1988RedT2
1988RedT2 UberDork
8/1/13 8:48 p.m.
paranoid_android74 wrote: Being we don't have any need for gay porn, we were going to go to the library to check some out. Then I found it- false alarm!
Woody wrote: I saw a thing on the Discovery Channel that said that they like fresh air and gay porn. Open all your windows, throw in a DVD and turn it up really loud.

THAT'S the alleged mantis? Round these parts, we call those things "katydids."

bgkast
bgkast GRM+ Memberand HalfDork
8/2/13 2:47 p.m.

Looks like you need a mantis to get rid of that thing!

paranoid_android74
paranoid_android74 Reader
8/2/13 2:49 p.m.

That's it. I was disappointed.

And you are right, it is a katydid! I didn't remember them getting that big.

1988RedT2 wrote:
paranoid_android74 wrote: Being we don't have any need for gay porn, we were going to go to the library to check some out. Then I found it- false alarm!
Woody wrote: I saw a thing on the Discovery Channel that said that they like fresh air and gay porn. Open all your windows, throw in a DVD and turn it up really loud.
THAT'S the alleged mantis? Round these parts, we call those things "katydids."
yamaha
yamaha UberDork
8/2/13 3:07 p.m.

they get big........just 2 weeks ago I had a young mantis hop on my leg. Couldn't have been bigger than an inch. Lured it onto my hand where it was doing the swaying looking around. It hung around on my hand for a bit and then I put it back into the yard. I had never seen one that small.

MadScientistMatt
MadScientistMatt UltraDork
8/2/13 3:22 p.m.
mad_machine wrote: Sorry to tell you this... For almost every environment, there is a species if Scorpion that thrives in it. From the deserts to the Himilayas and into the Oceans

Apparently, Michigan is an exception.

http://bugguide.net/node/view/2441

Kind of surprised me; they're pretty common here in Georgia, even though it's not a place one usually associates with scorpions.

Spinout007
Spinout007 GRM+ Memberand UltraDork
8/2/13 3:41 p.m.
JohnRW1621 wrote: I have a Cairn Terrier that would be on that thing like white on rice. He kills flies in the house.

My "calm" Boston terrier and ratties do the same. Hunt mode seems to be continuously set at 11. So much so I've actually considered the rattlesnake vaccination our vet offers.

AngryCorvair
AngryCorvair GRM+ Memberand PowerDork
8/2/13 4:57 p.m.
MadScientistMatt wrote:
mad_machine wrote: Sorry to tell you this... For almost every environment, there is a species if Scorpion that thrives in it. From the deserts to the Himilayas and into the Oceans
Apparently, Michigan is an exception. http://bugguide.net/node/view/2441

Michigan! berkeley Yeah!

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