Call me Hunter of All Things Creepy-Crawly..and a chicken
The local Bug & Weed Mart sold me a can of...something. All I cared was that it was relatively inexpensive ($28) and could kill a scopion on contact. I sprayed part of the block wall where I see a big fat scorp hanging out every night. Then I went to the front of the house and sprayed the sidewalk crevices. I found one large gap in particular and unloaded a huge amount of poison into it. I looked up and noticed a guy across the street walking his 2 dogs. I looked back down....
....about 20 little baby cockroaches were spilling out of the hole in the cement. I'd hit a nest. I stepped on some to make sure the poison wasn't just going to scare them. I knelt down closer when they seemed to be slowing down and sprayed the hole some more. Then I heard a cat screech. I looked behind me, still kneeling by the infested hole, and watched as the guy across the street reprimanded his dog for trying to chase a poor scared orange tabby cat.
RULE #1 WHEN SPRAYING FOR BUGS: Never, ever let anything distract your attention from an infestation site when you are close to it.
After I realized I was daydreaming, I looked back down. A HUGE black roach was running around my foot, frenzied and twitching. It scared me so much I jumped up and yelped. When I stood up I realized I had a medium sized, long reddish blonde roach frenzying up my torso. I squealed and brushed it off of me. Both twitched on the ground for several minutes, but the strawberry blonde was flitting around all crazy-like. I stood there feeling itchy and noticing every touch of wind the night offered to my skin. Had to get out of there and back into the house. I kept catching whiffs of the spray, which always makes me paranoid because, hello, neurotoxins. I went into the house and looked out to the backyard.
There, sitting on the fence in broad daylight, was the monster scorpion. The poison had chased him out of hiding. I went out and got a good look at him, bearing my can of deadness with it's special extention tube attatchment. I'd read the can earlier and noticed it didn't say anything about killing scorpions in its long list of potential victims. But the bug man had told me that a couple often come in and buy it for their special blacklight scorpion hunts, and that they said it kills them immediately. I decided to give FatScorp a direct spray--a contact kill, as the bug man called it. He froze up and his stinger went straight, usually a good sign. After a minute he started to move again, slowly, his freaky pinchers pulling him across the cement block. I thought he might just be impenetrable--but then he dropped. Indeed, he fell from the wall into a pile of leaves behind (or in?) a plant pot. I heard him scurry a bit and then silence. Luscious, utter silence.
The only thing that bothers me is that the walls are also home to lizards. I like lizards and I don't wish to harm them. I saw one perched on top of a dirt mound near part of the wall I sprayed. There's a huge hole in the brick and I know that all God's small backyard creatures use it from time to time, including some of God's more ugly, disgusting creatures like scorps and roaches. Whether I seal it or poison it, I wish I could send the lizards an eviction notice first....ah well. :(
....about 20 little baby cockroaches were spilling out of the hole in the cement. I'd hit a nest. I stepped on some to make sure the poison wasn't just going to scare them. I knelt down closer when they seemed to be slowing down and sprayed the hole some more. Then I heard a cat screech. I looked behind me, still kneeling by the infested hole, and watched as the guy across the street reprimanded his dog for trying to chase a poor scared orange tabby cat.
RULE #1 WHEN SPRAYING FOR BUGS: Never, ever let anything distract your attention from an infestation site when you are close to it.
After I realized I was daydreaming, I looked back down. A HUGE black roach was running around my foot, frenzied and twitching. It scared me so much I jumped up and yelped. When I stood up I realized I had a medium sized, long reddish blonde roach frenzying up my torso. I squealed and brushed it off of me. Both twitched on the ground for several minutes, but the strawberry blonde was flitting around all crazy-like. I stood there feeling itchy and noticing every touch of wind the night offered to my skin. Had to get out of there and back into the house. I kept catching whiffs of the spray, which always makes me paranoid because, hello, neurotoxins. I went into the house and looked out to the backyard.
There, sitting on the fence in broad daylight, was the monster scorpion. The poison had chased him out of hiding. I went out and got a good look at him, bearing my can of deadness with it's special extention tube attatchment. I'd read the can earlier and noticed it didn't say anything about killing scorpions in its long list of potential victims. But the bug man had told me that a couple often come in and buy it for their special blacklight scorpion hunts, and that they said it kills them immediately. I decided to give FatScorp a direct spray--a contact kill, as the bug man called it. He froze up and his stinger went straight, usually a good sign. After a minute he started to move again, slowly, his freaky pinchers pulling him across the cement block. I thought he might just be impenetrable--but then he dropped. Indeed, he fell from the wall into a pile of leaves behind (or in?) a plant pot. I heard him scurry a bit and then silence. Luscious, utter silence.
The only thing that bothers me is that the walls are also home to lizards. I like lizards and I don't wish to harm them. I saw one perched on top of a dirt mound near part of the wall I sprayed. There's a huge hole in the brick and I know that all God's small backyard creatures use it from time to time, including some of God's more ugly, disgusting creatures like scorps and roaches. Whether I seal it or poison it, I wish I could send the lizards an eviction notice first....ah well. :(