Carpenter ants and a mouse I trapped

[Runwildboys]

I have mousetraps in my basement workshop, one of which is on top of a steel utility cabinet. I bait it with peanut butter, so I sometimes get several mice in a week or two, therefore I check it every day, because I don't want it stinking up my basement.

I hadn't caught any mice in a month or so, so this week I went 2 days without checking it. Sure enough, I checked it today and there was a dead mouse in the trap. I put on a pair of gloves, reached up and pulled the trap off the cabinet, and black carpenter ants were all over it...and then all over my floor and my hands.

After killing all the ants I could find I looked at the mouse, and they had eaten half its head. I didn't think carpenter ants did that, but it looked like a scene from a horror movie...so nasty.

So now I have mouse traps and ant traps down there.

 

[RaZon]

Speaking of mice and ants and crawly things.....

A few months ago my wife actually screams for me to come running, crawling up a wall was this thing, she had never seen one before, I had seen (one as a little kid when it was.....an alien???) I knew what it was but...

Me...I'm to catch it, make it a pet
Wife....no you're not kill it like right now.
Me...ok

Gotta be the most vicious looking critter we have.

 

[Runwildboys]

Speaking of mice and ants and crawly things.....

A few months ago my wife actually screams for me to come running, crawling up a wall was this thing, she had never seen one before, I had seen (one as a little kid when it was.....an alien???) I knew what it was but...

Me...I'm to catch it, make it a pet
Wife....no you're not kill it like right now.
Me...ok

Gotta be the most vicious looking critter we have.

Wow, never seen a spider with mandibles that size! That's one of the creepiest things I've ever seen.

I grew up in a log house, and one day I saw this orange rubber spider on the curtain. It was almost the size of my hand, with the front four legs stretched forward, and it was translucent to the point that I could almost see the pattern of the drapes through it. Obviously someone put it there as a practical joke, so I reached for it, and as I did, it scurried away, leaving me with chills up my spine that still happen if I think too hard about it....but even that doesn't compare to this monstrosity!

 

[cowboyec]

I have mousetraps in my basement workshop, one of which is on top of a steel utility cabinet. I bait it with peanut butter, so I sometimes get several mice in a week or two, therefore I check it every day, because I don't want it stinking up my basement.

I hadn't caught any mice in a month or so, so this week I went 2 days without checking it. Sure enough, I checked it today and there was a dead mouse in the trap. I put on a pair of gloves, reached up and pulled the trap off the cabinet, and black carpenter ants were all over it...and then all over my floor and my hands.

After killing all the ants I could find I looked at the mouse, and they had eaten half its head. I didn't think carpenter ants did that, but it looked like a scene from a horror movie...so nasty.

So now I have mouse traps and ant traps down there.

thanks a whole helluva lot for that mental visual.

 

[cowboyec]

peanut butter works everytime tho.

 

[RaZon]

Wow, never seen a spider with mandibles that size! That's one of the creepiest things I've ever seen.

I grew up in a log house, and one day I saw this orange rubber spider on the curtain. It was almost the size of my hand, with the front four legs stretched forward, and it was translucent to the point that I could almost see the pattern of the drapes through it. Obviously someone put it there as a practical joke, so I reached for it, and as I did, it scurried away, leaving me with chills up my spine that still happen if I think too hard about it....but even that doesn't compare to this monstrosity!

Was that a tarantuala of some kind? An albino?

These things get about a foot long in the middle east....

First one I ever saw one I sitting on the floor next to my grannies rocker trying not to knock over her spit can she chewed snuff, we were watching the rasslin', when all of a sudden this thing runs across the floor, I was wearing a ball cap so I take the cap off and catch this thing. Yep, scared to death to take my cap off, had to call my dad. He knew what it was and mentioned they were rare in California. He put it in a jar and I snuck it to school, nobody had a clue what it was, kid gave my five bucks for it, cool!

Yep, my dad.....you did what? I liked to say he....where is my split I caught it,.....but he didn't he just shook his head.

 

[Runwildboys]

Was that a tarantuala of some kind? An albino?

These things get about a foot long in the middle east....

First one I ever saw one I sitting on the floor next to my grannies rocker trying not to knock over her spit can she chewed snuff, we were watching the rasslin', when all of a sudden this thing runs across the floor, I was wearing a ball cap so I take the cap off and catch this thing. Yep, scared to death to take my cap off, had to call my dad. He knew what it was and mentioned they were rare in California. He put it in a jar and I snuck it to school, nobody had a clue what it was, kid gave my five bucks for it, cool!

Yep, my dad.....you did what? I liked to say he....where is my split I caught it,.....but he didn't he just shook his head.

I still have no idea what kind of spider it was, but I lived in North Jersey, so it definitely wasn't some type of tarantula.

 

[Montanalo]

Aside from bears, our most annoying pests are wasps... and, not just any wasps but ones that seem to be crossbreed with cockroaches (or, vampires) because we can't seem to kill them.

Did I mention I'm allergic to wasps.. hate the little buggers

 

[Creeper]

Mice are the worst. Last year I had this horrible odor coming from a coat closet in the foyer of my house. I clean the closet out and I couldn't find anything. I thought it was coming from the ceiling at first but then I realized it was coming from inside the wall down near the floor. I took out the baseboard molding and cut the sheetrock between the studs from the floor to about 1 ft height. When I took the sheetrock out there in the wall was a dead mouse - and about a dozen of his friends in various stages of decay. Damn the smell was awful. I still haven't figured out how the heck they got in there but I suspect the fell down from the top of the wall into the space between the studs and couldn't get out so they just died. It took a lot of chemicals to get the smell out. I had not seen any evidence of mice before that.

 

[Runwildboys]

Aside from bears, our most annoying pests are wasps... and, not just any wasps but ones that seem to be crossbreed with cockroaches (or, vampires) because we can't seem to kill them.

Did I mention I'm allergic to wasps.. hate the little buggers

I hate wasps, hornets, and anything that flies and stings or bites.

 

[Runwildboys]

Mice are the worst. Last year I had this horrible odor coming from a coat closet in the foyer of my house. I clean the closet out and I couldn't find anything. I thought it was coming from the ceiling at first but then I realized it was coming from inside the wall down near the floor. I took out the baseboard molding and cut the sheetrock between the studs from the floor to about 1 ft height. When I took the sheetrock out there in the wall was a dead mouse - and about a dozen of his friends in various stages of decay. Damn the smell was awful. I still haven't figured out how the heck they got in there but I suspect the fell down from the top of the wall into the space between the studs and couldn't get out so they just died. It took a lot of chemicals to get the smell out. I had not seen any evidence of mice before that.

Nasty! I had one in my washing machine and didn't know it until I ran a load of clothes. Mouse fur and stank all over everything...but the smell of multiple rotting mouse corpses must have been puke inducing.

 

[Tabascocat]

Those carpenter ants will eat anything except wood, kind of an oxymoron in the name, but they especially love meat and sugar.

On a different note……the only good spider is a dead spider!

 

[Runwildboys]

The point of this thread was for people to follow up with their own stories of nasty things, such as @RaZon did...which is why I gave it the title I did.

 

[Xelda]

Speaking of mice and ants and crawly things.....

A few months ago my wife actually screams for me to come running, crawling up a wall was this thing, she had never seen one before, I had seen (one as a little kid when it was.....an alien???) I knew what it was but...

Me...I'm to catch it, make it a pet
Wife....no you're not kill it like right now.
Me...ok

Gotta be the most vicious looking critter we have.

HOLY CRAP! Thank you, RaZon! Now I know what will be featured in my nightmares tonight.

 

[Reality]

The point of this thread was for people to follow up with their own stories of nasty things, such as @RaZon did...which is why I gave it the title I did.

Thread titles have to inform users what the thread is about or they will be deleted or retitled by the staff.

If you had entitled the thread, "What are some nasty things you have had to deal with?" or something like that, it would have been fine.

However, using titles like "Oh this is nasty" or "This is awesome" or "You won't believe this" will either result in the thread being deleted or retitled because its nothing more than clickbait.

Users should have a general idea what the thread is about before clicking on it rather than forcing them to click on it to find out.

 

[RaZon]

HOLY CRAP! Thank you, RaZon! Now I know what will be featured in my nightmares tonight.

I'm sorry Xelda, so won't say anymore about this. Sorry!

 

[Xelda]

I'm sorry Xelda, so won't say anymore about this. Sorry!

Don't stop, RaZon. It was a shocking visual to be sure, but my mind is easily influenced.

 

[RaZon]

Don't stop, RaZon. It was a shocking visual to be sure, but my mind is easily influenced.

Actually you reminded me that my wife said something similiar, yeah....a scary sight.

The one we saw wasn't very big, thank God.

 

[Roadtrip635]

My first experience with dobsonflies, freaked us out, about 8-9 yrs old playing outside my uncle's house at night and a bunch of them flying around. Evil looking things and they get pretty big.

 

[JohnnyTheFox]

Was that a tarantuala of some kind? An albino?

These things get about a foot long in the middle east....

First one I ever saw one I sitting on the floor next to my grannies rocker trying not to knock over her spit can she chewed snuff, we were watching the rasslin', when all of a sudden this thing runs across the floor, I was wearing a ball cap so I take the cap off and catch this thing. Yep, scared to death to take my cap off, had to call my dad. He knew what it was and mentioned they were rare in California. He put it in a jar and I snuck it to school, nobody had a clue what it was, kid gave my five bucks for it, cool!

Yep, my dad.....you did what? I liked to say he....where is my split I caught it,.....but he didn't he just shook his head.

My Grandma used to watch "rasslin" as well, went to the matches here and she cussed like a sailor Came across this little critter walking the dogs the other night.