General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Himu on April 13, 2009, 03:03:08 PM
Title: How to get rid of these bugs?
Post by: Himu on April 13, 2009, 03:03:08 PM
I'm a pretty clean person. I pick up after myself, don't leave food in my room, and throw out the trash often. I wash my sheets at least every other week too.
Often I've come in contact with these little orange bugs biting me. They don't leave a rash, and the bites aren't even painful (more like itchy) but they're still annoying and a blight on my hygiene.
Google suggests that these bugs are thrips, which are common around pools. There's a pool nearby, but I'm tired of encountering these things. Anything I can do? The worst thing ever is walking, minding your own business and you encounter a small ass bug crawling at the top of your glasses.
Title: Re: How to get rid of these bugs?
Post by: Eric P on April 13, 2009, 03:04:17 PM
let me be the first to say "ew"
Title: Re: How to get rid of these bugs?
Post by: Himu on April 13, 2009, 03:04:37 PM
Totally.
Title: Re: How to get rid of these bugs?
Post by: Himu on April 13, 2009, 03:06:25 PM
Title: Re: How to get rid of these bugs?
Post by: Himu on April 13, 2009, 03:10:18 PM
rofl
Well, I wear blue and white a lot. One of my habits though, is to grab a small leaf off a tree or bush and rip it in half. I'm reading that these things love plants to death so maybe I'm grabbing a leaf or two with thrips on them.
Title: Re: How to get rid of these bugs?
Post by: fistfulofmetal on April 13, 2009, 03:36:09 PM
recursive seems to be pretty good as sifting through bugs
Title: Re: How to get rid of these bugs?
Post by: drew on April 13, 2009, 04:03:57 PM
my place is full of those orange ladybugs
how they survive through the winter i have no idea
Title: Re: How to get rid of these bugs?
Post by: Tauntaun on April 13, 2009, 04:09:26 PM
Luckily they are basically dormant in the winter and summer and only a little active in the spring. But when fall hits, fuck... you could kill all of them and a dozen more will be back the next day.
Title: Re: How to get rid of these bugs?
Post by: Robo on April 14, 2009, 11:48:17 PM
I have like a thousand stink bug corpses littering my bedroom at my parent's house. I throw out a ton of them every time I visit, but there never seems to be any end.