Kraichgauer
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Location: Spokane area, Washington state.
14 Jul 2013, 11:19 pm
It was a all purpose tool,like a small machete.Arkansas is the only place in the world where I’ve been sun burned, chigger bitten, and poison ivy’d all at the same time and plenty of all three to assure misery.
Load up that old Valiant and make a summer road trip out of it, then.
It seems the lack of funds is a major obstacle.
-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer
15 Jul 2013, 12:09 am
You must be from a kinder,gentler South.Were you in the Delta or the Timberlands?But it is true that most people that visit claim to be devoured by bugs,you mean you didn't see the giant mosquitoes?You put up chicken wire to keep them out
It was Cherokee Village in northern Ark when I was a kid. We rented a house by one of the lakes there for a week because the old man wanted to move there, but we didn't.
15 Jul 2013, 1:02 am
Kraichgauer
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Location: Spokane area, Washington state.
15 Jul 2013, 1:18 am
15 Jul 2013, 12:42 pm
^^My daugter has lived all over the US,she says we nave more bugs than anywhere.There are wood roaches here,they don't invade your house but they come in with the fire wood,the lizards think they are very tasty.They are a really dark brown and chunky.I've never had the little brown invasive roaches.I remember as a kid the polite term was waterbug.There were big flying roaches in South Ark,I've seen a couple up here now,climate change maybe.We got bumped from zone 6 to 7.Fire ants are not up here, yet,but all over the bottom half of the state.It ended dinner on the ground for the Baptists We also have a small scorpion and a small tarantula.And a stinging caterpillar.The old folks call them stinging worms.lots of wasps,which are called waspers.I still have wild honeybees every year,I'm happy to see them.The worst garden pests are potato bugs,squash bugs and cabbage loopers.
Mosquitoes are not that bad here,they are huge in other places in the state.But the black gnats are bad at times of the year,the Noseeums.Right now we are heading back into a drought,moderate on the drought scale.The last two summers we were in extreme drought.
So the skeeters are not bad,no water.One year giant grasshoppers invaded and they ate holes in my window screens(plastic mesh).I saw them doing it.
15 Jul 2013, 1:27 pm
Yeah, we went there and Norfolk Lake.
I’ve never heard of that many roaches in yards like that anywhere but in garbage dumps, probably so. Wolf spiders devour roaches but must people hate them worse just out of their creepiness.
We also have a small scorpion and a small tarantula.And a stinging caterpillar.The old folks call them stinging worms.lots of wasps,which are called waspers.I still have wild honeybees every year,I'm happy to see them.The worst garden pests are potato bugs,squash bugs and cabbage loopers.Mosquitoes are not that bad here,they are huge in other places in the state.But the black gnats are bad at times of the year,the Noseeums.Right now we are heading back into a drought,moderate on the drought scale.The last two summers we were in extreme drought.
So the skeeters are not bad,no water.One year giant grasshoppers invaded and they ate holes in my window screens(plastic mesh).I saw them doing it.
I bet you have velvet ants there. They are also known as cow killers. I prefer the Blue Ridge over the Ozark region, not nearly as many bugz.
15 Jul 2013, 1:39 pm
^^^Yes,we have those,they do look velvety, my ex tried to stomp one and it didn't hurt it at all.Even with cowboy boots on a gravel drive.Those dudes are tough.
I like the news bees,they are suppose to tell you of good news when they buzz you.The sweat bees are pesky sometimes.And there are white head bumble bees,they don't sting, a carpenter bee that drills holes in wood,big black carpenter ants, a giant tarantula killer wasp,supposedly it's sting is the worst, a giant cicada killer wasp,it's huge. 
15 Jul 2013, 2:33 pm
News bees?
I think you've been growing more than just tomaters in your garden. Whatever it is send me some. 
15 Jul 2013, 2:43 pm
15 Jul 2013, 5:01 pm
Kraichgauer
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Joined: 12 Apr 2010
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Location: Spokane area, Washington state.
15 Jul 2013, 6:01 pm
MissLizard-
I think you've given me more than enough material for nightmares discussing your mini-tarantulas and giant wasps!
-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer
