Today I was cleaning in the sewing room. A lot of my stored dry foods are in buckets with Gamma Seal lids. I was getting each bucket out, opening the lid and checking to see how much was in each bucket. Mostly it’s beans, rice, wheat, oats, etc.
I had more things I needed to pub in buckets so I ran upstairs to grab more of them. One of them had an unwelcome, petrified critter.
He’s definitely been there a while.
I’ve been thinking about scorpions and wondering if I should start going out with my black light to see if they are emerging from wherever they hide out all winter. I do not like those things at all but it’s part of living here so . . I’m here . . I’ll live with them but I’ll never stop trying to kill every one of them.
Nelle Coursey says
You have my permission to kill every scorpion and snake you see! I don’t like any of them either! Was just talking to a friend of mine and she said she was bit by a copperhead one night but it must have been an old one or one that had just spit out venom because it was not bad at all! Well considering what it would have been like if the thing was full of venom!
Diana says
Ewwww scorpions … Is there a natural treatment that can take care of them ?
Judy Laquidara says
There are quite a few supposed natural treatments and we’ve tried everything we’ve heard about. Two that come to mind are diatomaceous earth and spraying some concoction with peppermint oil. The peppermint oil didn’t seem effective. The DE may be but we have an almost constant crazy wind blowing and it just doesn’t stay put. An hour after putting it down, it’s gone.
Susan Nixon says
Can’t get more natural than smashing them to death, can you? That’s my preferred way of dealing with them. I’m normally not vindictive and would share the planet with any creature, but those things came right in bed with me and stung me, so no, they get smushed to pieces!