06-28-2008, 04:12 PM
ooh, Hooligal, I know, I was the same way for two weeks. Rocketing out of bed if the sheet tickled my toes, like I was spring-loaded. I never ever saw one in my house, and then one night, like you, I woke up out of a sound sleep, in agony.
I had to believe it had hitchhiked in, and I still think that may be it.
But then, just when I had relaxed, I passed my sink one night and DAMN there was a great big one in the bathroom sink. It couldn't get out of the bowl. I'm still mystified whether it came up the drain (how? it's vertical and slippery) or how it climbed a smooth vanity and got in this sink. And WHY.
That was when I got a pest contract. I had been spraying the perimeter stuff from Home Depot. So far so good, but I haven't relaxed yet.
Will any kind of single hibiscus work? I had lots of hibiscus at my old house, but at this house I inherited "fancy" hybrids. I gather those won't work? I hope I never get another pede bite, but I do get ants and spiders regularly, and I'd like to try this hibisus remedy, so maybe I'll buy one because then I'd have one here ... thus the question.
(I know, I could propagate it)
I talked to the pest guy and a lot of other people and they all say the pedes do climb in bed, and they can climb walls (textured), and sometimes they fall down after reaching the ceiling. I know several people who've been bitten in bed. In a way it's not weird, because when we're awake we can see 'em coming!
My son uses tongs to pick em up. That way you can grab em and deal with em at a safe distance.
James, I'm not too sure I'd be OK with cobras in the neighborhood. I've lived around rattlers and dealt with it, but cobras freak me out.
I had to believe it had hitchhiked in, and I still think that may be it.
But then, just when I had relaxed, I passed my sink one night and DAMN there was a great big one in the bathroom sink. It couldn't get out of the bowl. I'm still mystified whether it came up the drain (how? it's vertical and slippery) or how it climbed a smooth vanity and got in this sink. And WHY.
That was when I got a pest contract. I had been spraying the perimeter stuff from Home Depot. So far so good, but I haven't relaxed yet.
Will any kind of single hibiscus work? I had lots of hibiscus at my old house, but at this house I inherited "fancy" hybrids. I gather those won't work? I hope I never get another pede bite, but I do get ants and spiders regularly, and I'd like to try this hibisus remedy, so maybe I'll buy one because then I'd have one here ... thus the question.
(I know, I could propagate it)
I talked to the pest guy and a lot of other people and they all say the pedes do climb in bed, and they can climb walls (textured), and sometimes they fall down after reaching the ceiling. I know several people who've been bitten in bed. In a way it's not weird, because when we're awake we can see 'em coming!
My son uses tongs to pick em up. That way you can grab em and deal with em at a safe distance.
James, I'm not too sure I'd be OK with cobras in the neighborhood. I've lived around rattlers and dealt with it, but cobras freak me out.