Any unwanted critters in your home? (besides any relatives)

[The Gravekeeper]

In my last rented "suite" I had problems with spiders popping up in my shower every few days. Now, I don't mind spiders provided they don't catch me by surprise or crawl on me. Heck, I think some species are just plain gorgeous. I didn't even think these guys were gross or scary, but it was annoying having to take a few minutes to scoop them into a container so that I could release them somewhere that'd be better for the both of us.

Now I just see the occasional fruit fly buzzing around my plants. I think I might get a venus flytrap to deal with that problem.

[The Burgomaster]

We had a lot of these ugly little things this year:



I guess the weather was just perfect for them or something.  I even found one in the bottom of the cup that we keep our toothbrushes in    They seem to be going down in numbers quite a bit lately though.

Now that it's fall, we usually get a lot of bugs trying to escape the cold and come live with us in our cozy warm house.  I spray some bug killer all around the foundation.  Probably doesn't do any good, but it makes me feel better at least.

One of my favorite NIGHT GALLERY episodes is the one where one of these crawls inside a guy's ear.

[AndyC]

A few years ago, maybe 2002, my wife and I went to Chicago, and we saw an exhibit at the Field Museum that was sort of a scaled-up model of the world in your backyard. The most memorable thing was the earwig nest. It had a six-foot animatronic earwig that would aggressively defend its nest if you came close enough to trigger a sensor, arching its back and snapping its ass-grabbers at you. Scared the living snot out of some little kid while we were there. He just started shrieking and telling Daddy to "KILL IT! KILL IT!" Practically climbed over the top of his dad. I felt sorry for the kid and his parents, but it was still funny as hell.

Looked it up, and it's still there. The Underground Adventure.
http://www.fieldmuseum.org/undergroundadventure/critters/critter_info.shtml#earwig

[Jack]

EEEWWWWWW! EARWIGS!  Cave crickets are creepy enough...but earwigs are just ICKY!

I've got a larger picture of that if you wanted to use it as a desktop background or something 

[Leah]

Roaches, both non-flying and flying......

[indianasmith]

My mother in law's alleged dog!!!!!!!!!

It is a small ball of yellow fur, snot, and fleas that I simply refer to as THE BOOGER.

I fantasize about tossing her into a wood chipper.  Or a crocodile habitat.  Or a shark tank.  Or Mount Doom.  Or an iron smelter.  Or . . . you get the idea.

[Leah]

My mother in law's alleged dog!!!!!!!!!

It is a small ball of yellow fur, snot, and fleas that I simply refer to as THE BOOGER.

I fantasize about tossing her into a wood chipper.  Or a crocodile habitat.  Or a shark tank.  Or Mount Doom.  Or an iron smelter.  Or . . . you get the idea.

well, since you put it that way, my Sister's Chihuahua. Try to be nice to him, he's bs's me everytime!

[Umaril The Unfeathered]

yep.cave crickets.. ugly ones. They are big and brown and look like a cross between spiders and grasshoppers.

Same!  My mom's house has them, and while they're harmless, they DO keep the hosue up in summer. So years back I devised a not-so-original (but effective) use for them-fishing bait.   I used to put them on the hook, float them on the water w\o a sinker to weight em' down.   I pulled some of the best lookin' trout and largemouth bass out of one of our local lakes due to these insects 

[Cthulhu]

Ants....them damn ants!

[Chainsawmidget]

I get ants during the summer, but they always stick around the same window, so it doesn't bother me much.

Roaches are my big annoyance. 

[retrorussell]

I hate houseflies.. last night I reached into the fridge to pull out some cheese and a fly was lying on the shelf in there, dead.  Must have flown in unnoticed when I had the fridge open once.  Yuck!!!

[meQal]

We had flies really bad at one point this year. It got to the point I was looking for the person who had a horde of Hebrew slaves building monuments so I could tell him to let those people go.
Also I have to deal with my neighbors dogs. That's why I have a Ninja Shovel of Dog Poop Flinging +5 because I tend to go out with it and sling their dogs' crap back into their yards with it. Often do this at night with a flashlight and fling it onto their porches, cars, and lawn furniture. Really wish they would have an open grill outside one night so I could load it with their dog crap.

[Jack]

We had flies really bad at one point this year. It got to the point I was looking for the person who had a horde of Hebrew slaves building monuments so I could tell him to let those people go.
Also I have to deal with my neighbors dogs. That's why I have a Ninja Shovel of Dog Poop Flinging +5 because I tend to go out with it and sling their dogs' crap back into their yards with it. Often do this at night with a flashlight and fling it onto their porches, cars, and lawn furniture. Really wish they would have an open grill outside one night so I could load it with their dog crap.

LOL    I found an extremely large dog poop in our yard last time I was mowing.  My wife loves to put those things back where they came from, usually on the front steps or something.  In the grill would be absolutely epic though 

[AndyC]

Still fighting the mice. Body count is up to about five, plus one live catch and release. I think I might be down to the last mouse now, and this one is smart. Sets off the traps (probably from behind) then steals the bait. I've reached the point of entertaining ideas like setting up a mouse blind in the laundry room and laying in wait with a pellet gun. Or I could just clean out all the junk in the basement and probably uncover his little hiding place, but we all know that's not going to happen.

[Paquita]

This year I'm being mobbed by spiders!  I'm terrified of spiders!  Normally, my cats take care of them, but this year there are babies!  Teensy weensy baby spiders dangling centimeters from my face!  At first I think it's a fleck of dust or a little fuzzy, but then my eyes focus on the horror before me!  And then I stumble away gasping for help and no one can see the darn thing and I have to get all close to it again to point it out!  In many ways these microscopic menaces are scarier than the big guys.. what if I inhale one? or one gets tangled in my hair? or plops into my cereal??  I've ran into about 5 of these in the past few weeks.