About once a year, my front bathroom becomes FILLED WITH FLIES, due to a crack in the foundation of the house causing them to decide that my place is the perfect spot for the fly equivalent of summer vacation. It's flies gone wild in there, and that makes it insanely irritating to try to do anything other than run in, swat at bugs, and run out. There's a can of Raid Fly-Killer on the windowsill for just such occasions.
Right now, there's also an enterprising three-inch-long praying mantis. Which has decided, for reasons known only to itself, that the perfect place from which to snatch flies out of the air, is...
...the can of Raid Fly-Killer.
Yes, there is a predatory insect currently cleaning my bathroom, while sitting atop a cannister of toxic bug-killing chemicals. Sometimes, I really think that life is just a little bit too surreal to have ever been invented. It just had to happen on its own. (Pictures of my friendly insectivore house guest will be coming later.)
Case in point: A friend of mine and his father were putting a new front door on the house and had some cracks in the door frame space that needed to be filled.
So they used Great Stuff foam and they went out to wait for it to dry.
It expanded so much in that it pressured the door frame inwards and when they returned they weren't able to get into the house from that door. :-D
Pictures will be much appreciated. That's just too funny.
We get my husband's office (which was once my bedroom, when this was still my Mom's house) full of ladybugs once a year. I don't mind ladybugs, but they stink when they die, and you wind up with little dead domes EVERYWHERE. Very annoying. Hopefully once they get the windows replaced we'll have less problem with things getting in easily...
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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand that sounded very dirty for some reason.
Seriously though, Great Stuff sealer works wonders and the bugs will not get through.
Just be careful as it expands and the problem is that people tend to use too much.
August 11 2008, 21:22:47 UTC 8 years ago
So they used Great Stuff foam and they went out to wait for it to dry.
It expanded so much in that it pressured the door frame inwards and when they returned they weren't able to get into the house from that door. :-D
August 12 2008, 04:26:37 UTC 8 years ago
August 12 2008, 10:44:41 UTC 8 years ago
We get my husband's office (which was once my bedroom, when this was still my Mom's house) full of ladybugs once a year. I don't mind ladybugs, but they stink when they die, and you wind up with little dead domes EVERYWHERE. Very annoying. Hopefully once they get the windows replaced we'll have less problem with things getting in easily...