Other creepy-crawlies (was Re: spider story)

[Shirley]

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Amanda:
 Yes, but when you're up at 3 a.m. nursing your baby, and one crawls 
> out from under the couch between your feet and takes off across the 
> floor, it *does* pretty much wake you up for the rest of the night.
> 
> Have lots more recluse stories, including my cat spitting a full-
> grown live (if groggy) one out at my feet (had not bitten him); or 
> finding *two* in the kids' bathtub (ugh). Best story of all 
involves 
> unpacking a box of paperback books (finger-and-thumb method, one 
well-
> shaken book at a time), locating a recluse that fled into the 
> recesses of the remaining books (damn), locating a scorpion that 
did 
> the same (*damn*), and finding them beneath the last book. Scorpion 
> had killed the spider. I did thank it nicely before I killed it, 
too.
> 

Shirley:  now, that's class  ;-)

Amanda:
> At this point, I can tell a recluse from other house spiders by the 
> way they *walk.* Scorpions and recluses = house. Black widows = 
> outside (in mailbox, on lawn furniture, etc., but *outside*, thank 
> God for small favors).
> 
> Welcome to Texas. We won't even *start* on wasps. 
> 
> ~Amanda

Shirley:
But what about fire-ants?  Or centipedes?  Or tree-bores? ...Those 5-
inch-long bugs that look like huge cockroaches, but *fly* - right 
into a 6-year-old's (mine) *very* long hair and get tangled; only 
time I've ever fainted.  That had an impact - I'm 44 now and *still* 
get goosebumps thinking about that!  ::shiver::

See what you started?   ;-)