http://www.idkfa.com/v3 idkfa: syndicated http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6707&msg_id=6712 You should buy a machete. Good for spider webs and moving things around a little bit farther away than arms reach. Also my experience with rats has been rather positive, except that they are really resistant to anesthesia and will chew through their own skin and into their bowels sometimes if they have injection site irritation... which is gross. And what you might be thinking of is Hauntavirus, but that's usually more mouse pee rather than rats. Agree on hornets. Fuck those guys. MrFood@idkfa.com (MrFood) Look down, look down... Thu, 11 Sep 2014 16:32:11 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6707&msg_id=6712 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6707&msg_id=6709 i read this entire post. after the long legged spiders i was hyperventilating after the jumping spiders i started eating my shirt to slow down the hyperventilating after the cockroaches, i had to hold in a hork after the rats, i had a dry heave i came back to it a while later after calming down and started hyperventilating again with the gecko tails, and was back to eating my shirt with the fucking hornets this is why i'm only willing to spend limited time in the tropics approximately once a year kitacek@idkfa.com (kitacek) Look down, look down... Thu, 11 Sep 2014 02:14:11 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6707&msg_id=6709 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6707&msg_id=6708 ASK. FOR. A. RAISE. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) Look down, look down... Thu, 11 Sep 2014 02:04:19 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6707&msg_id=6708 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6707&msg_id=6707 So I will entitle today on Kwajalein 'Pest Day'. I think I've told Josh about how the skimmers are infested with creatures of all types, but for those who are not in the know: we installed skimmers here a couple of years back, which are housed in small wooden storage shelters (the dog houses). We turned them off back in March, and no one has touched them since. Today, I had to crack open a few to get the batteries out of them, and, holy fuck, life. Mike, you might want to stop reading here. First thing was that every skimmer house has literally dozens of long-legged spiders enveloping everything in webbing. These spiders aren't too creepy, but you have to break through them to get anything out of the skimmer houses. Furthermore, even to get in, you have to get past the large jumping spiders that have created nests under literally EVERY padlock. These fuckers are territorial, and were jumping at my face constantly. I even picked one up on my body somehow that rode with me on the cart for a bit until it jumped on my hand, then tried to web away by attaching an end to my wrist. Crazy fuckers. Then, the cockroaches. Grabbed a box in one skimmer, cockroach flew out at my goddamn face. I fucking hate cockroaches. Then, the rats. While these guys hide well, they leave their droppings EVERYWHERE. Isn't there some disease caused by inhaling rat shit? Then, the lizards and geckos. These guys are everywhere, but they're actually rather adorable. They have this bizarro slinky run. But, never try to grab them, they just shed their tails like crazy (and the tail writhes around in super disgusting fashion). In two cases, geckos had laid eggs on the top of the door frame. I had no idea what they were (thought they were tiny bird eggs, about the size of a pinky nail), until a couple fell down and cracked. I went to grab one of the cracked eggs, and it literally EXPLODED into a fucking lizard as I touched it that did the slinky run Scrotor@idkfa.com (Scrotor) Look down, look down... Thu, 11 Sep 2014 01:59:25 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6707&msg_id=6707