The worst pests.

[Stringy]

Which one is the WORST to have in or near your house? Like would cause you to lose sleep.

And when I say near I don't mean like in the woods behind your house. I mean you encounter them regularly if they are there.

[ABobLoblawLawBomb]

[Stringy]

You can't vote by gif ABobLoblawLawBomb,

[ABobLoblawLawBomb]

Dangerous spiders is up there too, but not nearly awful to me as rats.

[ovenrack]

[ABobLoblawLawBomb]

May 2, 2017 12:19:38 GMT -5 Stringy said:

You can't vote by gif ABobLoblawLawBomb,

I already voted before gifing.

[ovenrack]

Is this a poll?

[Stringy]

Great, this is going to end up being a creepy crawly gif thread..

[Stringy]

May 2, 2017 12:23:56 GMT -5 ovenrack said:

Is this a poll?

ITS A POLL!!!!

[sarenu]

Spiders are annoying, but I think Mice are worse.

I don't think we have any in our house, but it is always a possibility.

Plus they can hide anywhere, pee everywhere, can get into your car and make nests and short the wiring, be in my attic and not even know it (unless I hear them at night). My house is not spotless or clean, but the thought of mice in my house just grosses me out.

Spiders at least eat bugs. And most of ours are harmless.

[TJ]

May 2, 2017 12:40:03 GMT -5 @milano said:

I picked snakes but realistically, all of the options are awful.

Yes, where is the "all of the above" option? I would burn a house down for all of those options.

[dramaphile]

I had to help my brother once when he was renovating my grandparents' house and they had an addition that was not well built and ended up infested with rats. We were ripping out drywall in the bathroom and a rat jumped out at me and almost hit my face! It was pretty terrifying and I screamed like a girl.

But really, I put spiders that bite because those are the worst. Or just really big spiders to begin with. Little ones I will tolerate and not kill if they are outdoors and don't build webs in my way (like in front of my door), or if they are up in the corners indoors. Big ones can GDIAF, especially hairy ones. And biting ones. And any size spider in my car. NOPE.

[MapleMe]

Bed bugs! Most of those listed are a "call the exterminator and be squicked out until they're taking care of" kind of pests. But OMG bed bugs. Mitigation is lengthy, expensive and not even guaranteed to work. And the steps that you have to go to to avoid them are nutso. Blech.

[piccyami]

MapleMe made me change my vote. I was going to say centipedes, but bedbugs are the worst. I had an officemate that had them once. I was terrified for months.

[ovenrack]

May 2, 2017 12:26:08 GMT -5 Stringy said:

May 2, 2017 12:23:56 GMT -5 ovenrack said:

Is this a poll?

ITS A POLL!!!!

[dramaphile]

I didn't even think of bedbugs....



We had a kid bring lice to the daycare once (it was going around the elementary school) and I was itchy for weeks just thinking about it!

[mintyblueair]

Bedbugs would be the absolute worst.

Followed by fleas and cockroaches, then termites and mice.

[ovenrack]

Snakes aren't my real vote. I haven't voted 'cause Tapatalk.

[MapleMomma]

Rats. We had rats in the barn last summer. Omg. So disgusting. I've never been a fan of setting out poison, but we did for those. These were like 10lb big disgusting things.

[grumpycakes]

I keep reading this thread title as "The Worst Pets" and I'm like, "THEY ARE ALL THE FUCKING WORST!"

[grumpycakes]

My parents had their washer and dryer in the basement, which tended to be a wet basement. One time, I took my clothes out of the washer and noticed a small piece of paper or something at the bottom of the drum that must have come out of a pocket. I reached in to retrieve it and it was NOT paper. It was a waterlogged centipede that had gone through the wash cycle. I will never forget the gelatinous way its body felt in my bare hand. I believe I screamed as if it were still alive. Horrible.

[freezorburn]

My XH.

Ba-dum-chhhhh

[ovenrack]

May 2, 2017 21:19:52 GMT -5 freezorburn said:

My XH.

Ba-dum-chhhhh

[freezorburn]

But seriously -- wool moths would drive me nuts. I hate when a favorite sweater gets eaten. And my yarn stash is one of my prize possession. I would be so sad if a wool moth invasion were to occur.

[jnu76]

Theoretically, bedbugs.
Worst I've ever dealt with- I lived in an apartment that had an issue with bats. The issue being bats flying around my apartment at night.
I moved in with my now husband shortly after the bat encounters started.

[dancingsphinx22]

I chose scorpions, because obviously.

I just read a blog post about scorpions, written by a mom that lives in Arizona. She said she and her husband would have to "hunt" for scorpions at night with a black light before they went to bed. One commenter found a scorpion IN HER BED. Fff that.

I consider my family lucky to not have it THAT bad with the scorpions. I haven't seen any more, knock on wood, so I think we'll be ok.