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Racing Bugs

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  1. If you have two overhead lights you can have real ladybug races. Leave on light on, one off, ladybugs will crawl across the ceiling to the light that’s on. Switch lights every 15-20 minutes. It helps to be really bored and/or drunk.

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  2. The Bugman likes this! Flies deserve demise!

    Lady Bugs are one of God’s pest control forces.

    Although it might be fair to call the flies God’s waste management. They recycle recently expired meat, among other things. Trying to avoid a TMI response here.

    I had a tenant that refused a regular pest control service because he didn’t want a part of putting chemicals on the property. OK. Not a problem to me. He wanted things to be as natural as possible. I approve! See ya!

    Two months later I get an emergency call about insects all over a tree and the house he was in. He was frantic and had bought an end-hose sprayer to apply chemical to the tree and house to kill these “little black crawly things”.

    You could see the pressure from the hose could only go so high in the tree, but had no problem spraying the house wherever he wanted. There were dead black bugs wherever that hose could hit. He wanted me to spray everything he couldn’t reach.

    I wish I had started a recorder once I saw everything and started to tell this anti-chemical guy that he just killed thousands of Ladybug larvae – the only stage that eats other insects – the only thing that makes them beneficial.

    Me, in a state of disbelief and slight anger: ‘Do you want me to finish them off?’

    Him in a state of shock: “Uh. You’ve got to be kidding me! I killed Ladybugs?!”

    Yup.

    “Well, NO! I can’t believe I’ve done this!”

    Me to myself: Yeah, me either, Mr Clueless.

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