Nooo! Peter!

Reader-added tags include "(Cute and) pesky insect", "G" (as in "gokiburi"), "You saw nothing, Kogasa-san", and "Ms. Nightbug takes severe damage".

Something's bugging the survey:

What insects pester you?
• Roachies
• Centipedes
• Rice weevils
• Stink bugs
• Wriggle

...elegant even when smacking cockroaches...?

Hands down it has to be stink bugs. I get them so badly over here. As soon as winter started to come around literally hundreds of them would start storming into the house. I had to find all the possible spots they could get in and block them with dryer towels or a net cloth with some duck tape or anything else that could try to fend them off.

It worked for the most part, but I still get a couple of them from time to time AND THEY CAN FIT EVERYWHERE. It's like I can never fully git rid of them completely because I would always find them in the most unlikely places and by then I might have squished them by accident. And trust me their smell is so ungodly you try to take special care to dispose of them without doing that.

Bellboy: "Nothing to see here, ma'am."

For the poll, I was going to say rice weevils since we keep a supply of rice in our kitchen... Then I saw the stinkbug on the list. Luckily, we don't get that many around my house (birds regularly eat them over here) so it's not much of a problem.

Noooooooo
Gokicha was just trying to help with your bags!

Wriggle just wanted a ride to the rooms. She was too small to press the elevator buttons. ;_;

Other: earworms

Those fuckers are everywhere here, toxins don't work, fire works only somewhat, whacking them leaves a damn mess.

FWP said:

Other: earworms

Those fuckers are everywhere here, toxins don't work, fire works only somewhat, whacking them leaves a damn mess.

Looks like you need to buy a HoiHoi-san! Guaranteed one-hit kills!

Utterly shocked at the lack of usage of the Sakuya image for this comic

Something's bugging the survey:

[...]

What? No ants? Seriously?

Those who live in northern latitudes know not the terror of the Florida Wood Roach.

Survey said:

What insects pester you?
• Roachies
• Centipedes
• Rice weevils
• Stink bugs
• Wriggle

Roaches, definitely. Someone next door brought them in with a move, and now the damn things are absolutely everywhere. I wouldn't mind having Wriggle here, though...

FWP said:

Other: earworms

Those fuckers are everywhere here, toxins don't work, fire works only somewhat, whacking them leaves a damn mess.

Why on earth were you using fire of all things?

Roaches are easily stamped. Others I don't know about.
But them centipedes...

One night during rain season, on my night shift, I saw one crawled passed in front of me. I turned around to find anything sizable enough to crush it, when I turned back I saw another one crawling on the same path.
I wasn't sure if it was the one same centipede or there were 2 centipedes that just crawled in and hided somewhere in the lab.
I used to sleep on the floor. After seeing 2 centipedes moved into the lab, I slept on the chair for half a year.

RiderFan said:

Those who live in northern latitudes know not the terror of the Florida Wood Roach.

...aaaand that's why I don't live in Florida any longer.

@The Shadow:
Don't worry, I'll send you some.

Regarding centipedes...um, you do realize they're actually predators on cockroaches, right? Spiders can't do it all...

Skyknight said:

Regarding centipedes...um, you do realize they're actually predators on cockroaches, right? Spiders can't do it all...

I know that and I appreciate it chewing away them peters.
But I also have seen random bits and pieces about some centipedes have flesh-eating venom or something.
While I was on shift in a hospital's lab, I wasn't quite sure if they have serum for centipede's venom.

Anyway, that was last year and before a renovation. I nearly forgot about them until I saw the poll.

Aldemotte said:

Hands down it has to be stink bugs. I get them so badly over here. As soon as winter started to come around literally hundreds of them would start storming into the house. I had to find all the possible spots they could get in and block them with dryer towels or a net cloth with some duck tape or anything else that could try to fend them off.

It worked for the most part, but I still get a couple of them from time to time AND THEY CAN FIT EVERYWHERE. It's like I can never fully git rid of them completely because I would always find them in the most unlikely places and by then I might have squished them by accident. And trust me their smell is so ungodly you try to take special care to dispose of them without doing that.

Where do you live that you have such a problem?

warellis said:

Where do you live that you have such a problem?

the north east coast in the states

it does not help that its by a forest where they all come out of

also ticks can be a major problem here too

Darkagma said:

...elegant even when smacking cockroaches...?

must be trained by certain maid chief in certain devil mansion.

Iruel said:

Why on earth were you using fire of all things?

Its easy and somewhat effective, can of cheap deodorant+lighter=50% chance for a kill.

• Other

I have two, both of which are equally annoying:

Mosquitoes: I live in a an area that gets relatively warm and lots of rain in the summer, so you practically breath the bastards. It hasn't been as bad these last few years but that's only because our city goes to genocidal lengths to get rid of them. As soon as you get into the countryside, though... EUUUGH.

And Crickets: I challenge anyone to try sleeping with ONE of these hiding somewhere in their home. They do not sleep, nor rest, and they will always find the hardest to reach place to hide. And that chirping! OH GOD THE CHIRPING!!!

I would have to say rice weevils they somehow always find their way inside our rice dispenser and it is a hassle trying to clean your rice trying to get every single bug out there

FWP said:

Its easy and somewhat effective, can of cheap deodorant+lighter=50% chance for a kill.

That seems like a big risk for a moderate reward to me.
Then again, my High school physics/chemistry teacher used have special bonfires for the students in his class where they would roast marshmallows and then roast aerosol cans (while on the other side of a heavy structure, no doubt), so I guess its fine if you know how to do it without getting yourself hurt.

Moonspeaker said:

Something's bugging the survey:

Roaches, M#$%&# F#$%&$# German Roaches... Nasty little f$%@#&s!!!

RiderFan said:

Those who live in northern latitudes know not the terror of the Florida Wood Roach.

S#@t, those little f#@%$&s. The young love to climb into your ears and won't come out. One of these M@#$&# F#$&@%s climbed into my sister's ear and had to be pulled out piece be piece. Also, the adults are called "Palmetto Bugs" they stink like f#$%ing hell when you step on them...