Do I even need to explain this?Yes. (and yes, I thought 3 pictures were needed)
Sometimes I think I'm so clever. (It is rare, and really random) Tonight I had a glimmer of that.
A few weeks ago something mouse sized (really) scurried to the back of my cabinet where I USED to store my pans. (they are all now kept on my stove) Anyway, not long after, I purchased a muffin tin and noticed when pulling the paper off the tin how extremely sticky the stuff on the back of the paper was.
If my fingers were hard to release imagine the struggle of the mouse sized creature?
Like a Dork I carefully laid the strips across the edge of the critter/critters lair, then rubbed my hands together while chuckling. I checked my trap the first few days and then mostly felt really stupid. Left the gooey stuff there though, as I am not really into using that shelf so much these days.
Today... vindication!! If there are any roaches rights activists among you who are appalled at the pain and suffering of this creature....well avert your eyes, or better yet, you prepare your food on the surfaces they inhabit... and we'll talk.
The roach is not the most note worthy of events in my life of late, but I do think it is the most interesting. Other events include; almost putting a bid on a townhome, not putting a bid on a town home, looking at homes, scheduling to look at homes, looking at homes online, doing math to see if I can afford homes (you know that is a rough one for me), driving by homes... oh yeah, and now and then I'm also doing that teaching thing I do sometimes. (a bit behind on that front)
7 comments:
That my dear is supper nasty! I have never seen a cockroach myself before (I know I live a sheltered life).
How smart are you to figure out some organic, cheap way to trap bugs.
I wonder if it will work for Hobo spiders? They have been a real pain around here lately.
You ARE a clever beastie woman! That is indeed a nasty lookin specimen. Miss Kels gets those ALL the time. Now if they only had a lovely color instead of the drab brown maybe, and that;s a big maybe, they wouldn't be SO disgusting.
So the hunting continues unabated eh? Hopefully your patience and persistence will be rewarded so you can dedicate your full attention to eradicating those critters - oh and teaching too :0)
Gross. You were so clever to catch it. Is it worth hoping there are to many more? At least it isn't mice? I don't know, but good luck.
Oh there are more. This was a puny little brother to some overgrown thugs.
One scuttled away last night in the opposite cupboard from the first sighting.
I'm close to emptying everything out and not using the bottom cupboards at all. iiickkk!
EEEEWWWWWW! How completely gross. And bugs don't really bother me that much. How creepy. You are a clever girl!
Awesome! I've always proclaimed to not be bothered by bugs...however...I've never been around your kind of bugs!!!! I'd be catching them any way I could, too.
I see entomology as your fall-back career. :)
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