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falco
Joined: 26 Nov 2005
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 Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2014 8:59 am Post subject: First silverfish sighted...... |
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The warmer weather must be indeed her to stay now.....first silverfish sighting of the year - right behind my microwave in my kitchen at 1.30 am tonight. I think more bug-bombs will be being unleashed in my house before too long!....  |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Location: In Cognito
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| Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2014 3:17 pm Post subject: |
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| I've never had silverfish here. House centipedes galore and the occasional cockroach definitely, but nary a silverfish to be seen. Id' rather the silverfish than the house centipedes, those things are creepy with their bazillion wispy legs all swishing around... ugh |
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SeoulNate
Joined: 04 Jun 2010
Location: Hyehwa
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| Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2014 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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| If I saw one of those things in my place I would freak. They are seriously ugly. |
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PatrickGHBusan
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: Busan (1997-2008) Canada 2008 -
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| Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 8:58 am Post subject: |
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| For what its worth, centipedes eat silverfish. So, if you have a healthy centipede population in your apt, it likely means you have silverfish as well.... |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
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| Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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| PatrickGHBusan wrote: |
| For what its worth, centipedes eat silverfish. So, if you have a healthy centipede population in your apt, it likely means you have silverfish as well.... |
I just read that they also eat cockroach eggs. Just wonderful... |
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PatrickGHBusan
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: Busan (1997-2008) Canada 2008 -
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| Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2014 3:48 am Post subject: |
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| Underwaterbob wrote: |
| PatrickGHBusan wrote: |
| For what its worth, centipedes eat silverfish. So, if you have a healthy centipede population in your apt, it likely means you have silverfish as well.... |
I just read that they also eat cockroach eggs. Just wonderful... |
Well consider them to be your natural pest control then  |
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Died By Bear
Joined: 13 Jul 2010
Location: On the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
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| Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2014 4:10 am Post subject: |
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| Oprah said that we swallow up to 8 spiders a year when we sleep. |
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Stain
Joined: 08 Jan 2014
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| Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2014 4:43 am Post subject: |
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| Oprah said that we swallow up to 8 spiders a year when we sleep. |
It's true, along with other creatures. I'm not worried though. My tapeworm takes care of them. |
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yodanole
Joined: 02 Mar 2003
Location: La Florida
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| Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2014 11:39 am Post subject: |
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| Appearances would indicate that Oprah eats a lot of stuff. Sleep eating might be a part of maintaining her weight, which might be difficult if eating were limited only to the waking condition. |
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Died By Bear
Joined: 13 Jul 2010
Location: On the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
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| Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2014 3:28 pm Post subject: |
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| yodanole wrote: |
| Appearances would indicate that Oprah eats a lot of stuff. Sleep eating might be a part of maintaining her weight, which might be difficult if eating were limited only to the waking condition. |
Do you have sand in your vagina today Yoda?  |
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falco
Joined: 26 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 6:17 am Post subject: |
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When I moved into the 2-room villa that I'm currently living in last year I had a severe silverfish infestation. I'd get home from work and almost almost every time I'd see 4 or 5 of 'em scuttling around on the walls and/or on the floor. I bought a couple of bug-bombs from the local pharamcy one day and let them off before I went to work the next day. When I got home from my school that evening I opened the door and, without a word of a lie, there must have have been about a couple of hundred dead or dieing bugs on the floor. That was about May last year. Until I saw the one behind my microwave the other day, I'd never seen another one until then.
Never spotted any roaches or those centipede things your talking about though....thank God! |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
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| Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Died By Bear wrote: |
| Oprah said that we swallow up to 8 spiders a year when we sleep. |
Did Oprah really say that? I hear it periodically and really have to wonder exactly how that statistic was collected... |
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Hokie21
Joined: 01 Mar 2011
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| Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 6:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Underwaterbob wrote: |
| Died By Bear wrote: |
| Oprah said that we swallow up to 8 spiders a year when we sleep. |
Did Oprah really say that? I hear it periodically and really have to wonder exactly how that statistic was collected... |
lol because it's not a real statistic.
Think about it this way, says Rod Crawford, Curator of Arachnids at Seattle’s Burke Museum and a dedicated buster of spider myths: To swallow even just one spider in your sleep, a number of very unlikely circumstances all have to happen at once.
The first, Crawford says, is that your mouth needs to be open. Sure, some people sleep that way, but not everyone. No open mouth, no swallowed spiders.
Second, the spiders have to get in your bed. “A totally normal, neatly made bed,” Crawford says, “has maybe one or two spiders cross it per year.” Add some humans to the bed, and spiders really don’t want anything to do with it. “Most people roll around in their sleep,” write doctors Aaron Carroll and Rachel Vreeman in their book, Don't Swallow Your Gum!: Myths, Half-Truths, and Outright Lies About Your Body and Health. “This rolling would probably scare the spiders from wandering anywhere close to your face.”
Third and fourth, Crawford says, the spider would have to just happen to cross your body where your mouth is and be so bold as to enter an orifice that’s exhaling warm breath. “Just try blowing on a spider and see how they react to that!” Crawford says. “It’s not attractive to them!”
Finally, you’d have to swallow the spider while sleeping, and Carroll and Vreeman point out that, “we do not automatically swallow every time something goes into our mouths.”
The odds are pretty clearly stacked against you swallowing any one spider, let alone multiple ones over the years. “The chance that all of these things would happen together—that there would be a wandering, potentially suicidal spider in close vicinity to your mouth and that they would actually wander in to the wet dark breathing space and trigger your swallowing reflex,” Carroll and Vreeman write, “is really incredibly small.”
However unlikely, something like this still could happen, but we don’t have any solid proof that it has. Plenty of people watch other people sleep, says Crawford, but he’s never seen or heard a single good eyewitness account of a spider climbing into a sleeping person’s mouth or of someone watching them sleep keeping it from almost happening.
What’s more, says Crawford, “Every time you hear this story, the teller has a different number of spiders and a different length of time in which they are supposed to be swallowed. So even if one version had been correct, nearly all the tellers would still have to be lying! |
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le-paul
Joined: 07 Apr 2009
Location: dans la chambre
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| Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 6:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Died By Bear wrote: |
| Oprah said that we swallow up to 8 spiders a year when we sleep. |
Is that all she ever talks about, food? 
RE: O.P.
I just read that if you can catch a house centipede, they can hunt the silverfish. Here's a picture of one;
http://androxa.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/nightly-visitor/ |
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Died By Bear
Joined: 13 Jul 2010
Location: On the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
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| Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Ya'll racist against fat black peoples. |
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