YUCK! What is This Bug Called?

[RicanDAB]

OMG... Rican - we need to get the hell out of Florida. Oh uh UH!!!! That just made my skin crawl. Thank God I have a screened in patio! Just goes to show you all the nasty little critters we have down in this miserably hot and untamed state!

But I have a screened in patio too!! I checked and there are NO nests inside my patio whatsover. They must be crawling through some opening in the wood that I have identified. I'll have to find some way to close it up!

RE: getting out of FL ... LOL ... I just got here a year ago! But I'll be happy to try somewhere else tho

 

[Centexfarmer]

We call them "dirt daubers" here in Texas.

Insight: Extremely beneficial insects. Their favorite food is the black widow spider. When the mud dauber catches spiders, she doesn't kill them. The sting paralyzes the leg muscles so the spider can't move. She then carries them to a mud chamber, lays an egg with the spider, and seals the chamber. Her egg hatches into a wasp larva; the larva crawls among the spiders, eating their leg muscles first. The larva doesn't feed on the spider bodies until last, so the spider remains alive longer.

Mud Dauber | DirtDoctor.com

 

[willsboy84]

I keep finding these bugs on my patio, thankfully not in droves but every so often I'll see one flying around there and then eventually find one or two of them lying dead on the floor or sill. What's funny is that my patio is screened in completely, no holes -- but I think they are entering via a crevice in the wood. Pest control comes around monthly to spray but I guess no use.

Don't know what they are called though ... here's a pic of a recent deceased:

fuck THAT shit...u should've seen the goddamn MONSTROSITY that i found in my sink one time. never seen anything like it. it was like a cross between a shrimp and huge ass centipede. was keeping it to try and find out what it was but unfortunately my lil nephew got to it.

 

[RicanDAB]

I'll have to (carefully) take a picture of the nests I have seen .. they look nothing like those.

 

[GL]

OMG... Rican - we need to get the hell out of Florida. Oh uh UH!!!! That just made my skin crawl. Thank God I have a screened in patio! Just goes to show you all the nasty little critters we have down in this miserably hot and untamed state!

that's what the glock's for honey!

 

[Marbas]

^
Cool!

 

[GL]

Hahaha... no I have a Springfield XD-45... that'll fix 'em!

oh honey! if you're gonna do it, you gotta do it right!

 

[willsboy84]

anybody seen those things that resemble ladybugs but are actually supposed to be something else. used to have swarms of them at place i worked at, once they almost completely covered the trash compactor. supposedly they bite

 

[willsboy84]

oh honey! if you're gonna do it, you gotta do it right!

that reminds me of an article i'd read about some chick in England i think, who burned down her fucking house trying to kill a spider with hairspray and a lighter.

 

[Shepherd 2]

The bug is called "Bob". "Bobby" by his family, which he's not keen about as it sounds juvenile, and "Robert" by those who don't know him as well.

Two votes for "Bob"
I believe he is a wood borer,
which means that he enters wherever he wants,
when he wants,
and cannot be screened out.
Since they will reinfest repeatedly, keep spray near at hand.
Shep+

 

[Shepherd 2]

Moreover I like Luminum and Marbas's posts. enigmatic or in the Michigan scientific study one of the above. But I believe that is another of Floridas critters,
and I for one have seen Palmetto bugs the size of my shoe,
the up shot of this is I avoid Florida except when I need
a mid winter visit to the beaches.
Shep+