Bugs, Bugs, Bugs

At first I was going to spare you the pictures of my new neighbors but then I decided you wouldn't really get the full effect of what I'm talking about unless you saw them. I may no longer have centipedes, but now I have large, black crickets and wolf spiders. At least they're not in the house! The crickets come out at night and are near the garage and front porch. They're about 1 1/4 inch long (not counting the antennae). The wolf spiders are mostly in the garage but the other day I had a very unpleasant surprise when I had just sat down in the bathroom and one jumped out of a towel on the floor at me like, "Ta-Da!" I yelled for Derrick to put on shoes and stand at the bathroom door so as soon as I opened the door for him he could run in and kill it. I normally can handle spiders very well but these guys are huge! In fact we have what we call our "Spider Wall" outside by the garage where there are tons of spiders, I'm not sure what kind yet, that come out at night and catch mosquitoes in their webs. I've thought about spraying bug spray but after seeing how many mosquitoes they catch right near our front door I've made a deal with them (like they can understand me) that as long as they keep up the good work, they can live. I figure they have about til the end of September and then it will be too cold for mosquitoes. I may have a friendly report with the spiders now, but if they start coming in the house I'm cancelling our deal.

Another comment about bugs. Potato Bugs and Pill Bugs are not the same thing! As California residents (I don't think I have any Ohio readers) I'm sure you are fully aware of this very important fact. At first I thought it was just Derrick who was poorly educated in the nasty world of Potato Bugs, but when I was talking to Rebecca last night she said she calls Pill Bugs Potato Bugs too! I was so shocked that I looked up www.potatobug.com right there on my iPhone and showed her the horror that are Potato Bugs. She freaked out. I'm not sure if they live in Ohio or not, but that is the excuse I'm giving Ohioans for their misunderstanding. It could be a coincidence that both Derrick and Rebecca made this mistake and it's not an Ohio thing, I'll have to poll some random people and see. I will spare you a picture on this topic because Potato Bugs seriously freak me out. I personally think they are aliens because God wouldn't make such an ugly creature. lol.

*A special note: I did not take these pictures. I will not get close enough to take them even with my zoom lens. They are courtesy of a Google Image search.