Guest guest Posted February 6, 2009 Report Share Posted February 6, 2009 On no! I have never seen a basement. Now that scares me. I only see creepy things happening in basements on Forensic Files. Donna Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry akfral Fri, 6 Feb 2009 10:58:07 Re: slugs Slugs are bad here in dark, moist places. My FIL's garden is in a wooded area, he gets them so bad. Doug tells me about the banana slugs he used to see in the Pacific Northwest. Ours are much smaller, thankfully! Earwigs are icky!! I got bit by one once the first night we lived in our house. The house had been empty a few months, it was hot, and one fell off the ceiling, landed on my hip and CHOMP! I hate them. I mostly see them in damp areas too, like the sink and I just try to wash them down. I figure if they crawl back out after I leave the room they'd better hustle up and get gone before I come back! My kids get freaked out by the fairly large centipedes we sometimes get in our basement.amy In a message dated 2/6/2009 7:51:00 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, thelilacflower writes: Now are these a problem in other states? I'm in L.A. And I harfly ever see slugs. Snails will come out after the rain now and then. Judy told me about lovebugs which I thought was a made up name to call a sweetheart. What is an earwig is that a bug too? Donna Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry _akfral_ (akfral) Fri, 6 Feb 2009 10:44:03 <_@vegetarian_gveg_ ( ) > [vegetarian_[veg I'm coming to this late, but the best slug killer I've ever found is a dilute ammonia water spray. My fil's house was on the national Hosta tour one year and we had to minimize the slug damage. Every morning when the slugs were still out I'd go out and mist the gardens. He had so many slugs I was worried about the amount of ammonia I was putting down but there didn't seem to be any detrimental effect. Amy ************************<WBR>**Great Deals on Dell Laptops. S (_http://pr.atwola.http://pr.atwhttp://pr.atwolahttp://pr.atwolahttp://pr.http ://pr.http://pr.at_ (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1217883258x1201191827/aol?redir=http://\ ad.doubleclick.) net/clk;211531132;net/clk;2net [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] **************Great Deals on Dell Laptops. Starting at $499. (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1217883258x1201191827/aol?redir=http://\ ad.doubleclick. net/clk;211531132;33070124;e) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 6, 2009 Report Share Posted February 6, 2009 We have a basement, but I've never seen a slug in it, nor an earwig. Basements are creepy when they're not well lighted, or when they have hulking big pillars that you can't see around. Ours is just a big rough-finished concrete room and the creepiest thing in it is the Halloween sign -- Witch Crossing -- stored on one wall. And the freezer that needs defrosting! ~ irene > Our basement resembled Mammoth Cave before we had the foundation > redone. It > is still ugly and unfinished, but not as bad as it used to be. My > SIL's > resembles the catacombs, but basements like ours are just in old > houses. New > houses mostly have finished basements or walk-outs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 9, 2009 Report Share Posted February 9, 2009 Part of my childhood was spent in a house that heated with coal, of course we had the bin & shoot. Our pure white LH cat, Plume, loved to sleep in the coal bin in the summer. It was nice and cool. I have pictures of her after coming out of there. She was funny. My mother once got her long hair caught in the rollers of an electric rolling washer. Good thing she could reach the plug to unplug it, she was in the basement alone at the time. Plus my uncle used to make sauerkraut in those big crocks. Their house really stunk. Sam There are coal bins with remnants of their previous contents still remaining (and my parent's house still has the chute too!) and pickle crocks big enough to fit preschoolers in and too heavy to move when full of brine so there they sit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 9, 2009 Report Share Posted February 9, 2009 I live in Southern New Hampshire, It was almost ten years ago when I moved into my house.....I had never lived in a house with a fieldstone basement, I get banana slugs.....some of them are HUGE....five six inches long, centipedes, all kinds of spiders.....you name it. About a week after I moved in I went down to the basement to do laundry and there was about ten slugs.....all over the stairs, the floor...I freaked out, I had never seen one before....I called maintenance (I rent) and made them send the terminix guy out......I scooped one up into a rubbermaid container and poked holes in the lid, so he it for himself. He thought it was great that I caught one.......then he laughed at me because I hadn't seen one before and was so grossed out. He told me that the best way to keep them out was to sprinkle Boraxo (not Borax) on the walls and at the base of the walls. Probably not the most humane thing.....but at the time I didn't know any better. I have not seen one in the house since. Michelle (In NH) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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