What's with all the bug issues?

[eilen]

Bed bugs, bacterial bugs in the eggs, bugs in the baby formula.

Sheesh.

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. The insect kingdom is no joke.

:/

Species are bouncing back from DDT and our temerity to again use such destructive levels of toxins. Same with some bacterial species.

[Kind of Blue]

2. I don't know but there's a community

in my county plagued with gnats, and people were/are trapped in their homes all summer. http://www.sdcounty.ca.gov/deh/pests/eye_gnats.html
No pictures but from what I saw, it's quite awful. Poor dogs and cats.

[kimmerspixelated]

3. not to mention STINK BUGS!!!!!!

ARGHH!!!!!!!!

[kimmerspixelated]

4. WAIT!!! I just had a thought! Maybe all the bug issues are

ET's in a different form? The plasma energy, or space debris has manifested itself into insects!!!

[MorningGlow]

5. If they come in the form of stinkbugs

I'd still use my patented loosely-nab-with-tissue-and=flush-'em system. x(

[kimmerspixelated]

7. heh, heh,

Me too!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

11. awwww,

I love stinkbugs! They're so slow and friendly and a little bit dopey..... :D

Actually I love just about all bugs.

Just not spiders...UGH!! EEEEEK!





:hi:
One of these days, we really ought to get together!
REALLY! :7

[Delphinus]

6. I know

spiders are not really "bugs", but they are just trying my soul right now.

[Kookaburra]

8. Spiders

At my house they're called cat toys.

Seriously, I really like spiders if they're outside. I think they're kind of cool. If they get in the house, however, they're in trouble. I wasn't kidding about the cat toy remark.

[Cleita]

10. Spiders actually take care of a lot of bugs

if you give the space to do their thing. I don't like them in my house, so they have been banished, but I encourage them in my yard and everywhere else. I did try to let them in my house in discreet corners. They do get rid of household pests, like cockroaches, flying insects and other undesirables. However, they wouldn't stay out of the shower and sometimes my bed, so now I have exiled them to the yard. Don't allow any bug sprays in your yard because it also gets rid of the beneficial bugs and other higher species like toads and lizards. If you allow these guys a place to live, you will find out that the bugs you don't like will eventually be taken care of when Mother Nature restores her balance.

[PADemD]

9. Stink bugs, too.

There is a very interesting book, "Heaven's Breath: A Natural History of the Wind", by Lyall Watson. It describes how insects travel on the wind.