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one flying around my spare bedroom this morning what the... aren't they supposed to be sleeping he/she is now an ex wasp

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Every now and then we've had a mozzie (or Wizzy-wozza as Karen shrieks them) appear in the house, which is puzzling. Yesterday whilst I stood back to admire my grape vine pruning efforts a Peacock butterfly fluttered by and headed up the garden.

Mark

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hahaha - love the wizzy-wozza, cracking name

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And we had our first butterfly in the garden yesterday!

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I hate wizzy-wozzas more than pretty much anything on this planet!

Wasps I can tolerate, at least they make cool houses for themselves.

I had a ladybird flying around the bedroom the other night. That could be phrased better I know, but at this time of the morning...

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Snowdrop is with you on wizzy-wozza (gawd Mark, now see you have us all calling them that ) hatred HW, you see a 6ft 15stone coppa come over all girly - so funny

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Oh, I don't come over all girly, more like man possessed. If we're on holiday and I hear one in the room I won't sleep until I've annihilated the bladdy thing ggggrrrrr!

*deep breathes*

Of course, LadyWayne loves me getting up in the middle of the night, stumbling round with some form of swat in my hand, all because I've heard a wizzy-wozza flying near my ear.

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My Fella (also a soldier) is totally freeked by spiders- not just camel spiders and the like- lickle itsy house spiders!! WEIRD!!

Agree on the wizzy-wozzas tho, hate the annoying little blighters, they always wizzy woz right past yer ear when yer trying to go to sleep, sure they're smiling while they do it too.

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I hate the wizzy wozza's too - I used to not mind them too much but we were in Cuba (summer hols - realise now that it was a bit nuts...>) when I was 3 months pregnant with the toddler, so I couldn't use most of the anti-moz treatments. So they came in for the kill - I was COVERED in bites. The OH, when he stopped laughing, stopped counting at 56 cos he hadn't moved from my top half and it was only depressing me. I was swatting the room all evening too, despite leaving anti-moz things burning while we were out of it and all the doors/windows closed. Never again.....

I don't seem to get bitten by the flying things - Mr F reckons I'm too nasty! On holiday in Scotland he gets eaten alive by the midgies - our nephew as a tot called them 'creckles' (like tickly freckles I think) so here, mozzies are mozzies but midgies are creckles!

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same here Lainey - I am the one to gently evict the spiders!

I can pick them up and put them out the door with a wagging finger saying 'and don't come back naughty spider' but there is a size thing going on here - if spider would fit the size of my hand I go get a pint glass (yep, I use Snowdrop's but don't tell him ) and cover too-big-for-hand spider and slide paper under and off he goes out the door

liteweight servicemen enemy - no probs shoot on sight, spider - arrrrgh runs away

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LOL! I do the glass and paper thing too if they're too big, don't tell my OH thou it'd ruin the mocking!

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We have been finding lady birds all over our house all winter, at least one a day. Thought they were supposed to be sleeping too, perhaps they've all decided to sleep at our house without telling us.

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This is all sounding very familiar... My OH petrified of spiders too, and if I do the paper & glass thing he insists on putting the glass through the dishwasher afterwards! Of course, if it's big enough (which it usually is - have you seen the size of the things that live in dry-stone walls??!!) I have to show him it trying to scramble out of the glass before I put it out...
Me, I hate anything that flaps, so moths freak me out if there's one inside (can cope with them outside), and I hate flies with a passion (hence spiders being my best friends!)

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“Tell me one last thing,” said Harry. “Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?”
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”

my dislike is earwigs eeewwwwwww
*covers ears in case they get in

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oohhhh, yes, with you on the earwigs - why do they exist??? ..... and yes, I'm the one to put spiders out in our household as well - maybe a man thing?

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Sorry to let the side down girls, but I can't stand spiders!!! Eeeeeeeeeek!!! Living on my own most of the time (OH is in Canada), I've had to learn to deal with them, and being in a first floor flat thankfully they tend not to visit me. Just as well!!

Earwigs are one of the most horrible things I've ever come across in my life (after spiders of course!), they're just so ewwwwwww!

Earwigs don't bother me ('cept when they're chomping the dahlias...!), nothing crawly does really, but put wings on 'em....

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“Tell me one last thing,” said Harry. “Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?”
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”

LadyWayne hates earwigs with a passion, she's none too keen on birds or flappy things either.

I'm chief spider putter-outer in our house, she can't sleep if there's on in the bedroom - even if it's all the way over the other side of the room.

Biggest spider I ever put out was in the doctors surgery last year (I think I may have posted about it on here come to think of it).

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I manage to catch my own spiders these days - glass and card method again. However, when we hadn't been married long (back in the Dark Ages!) I found a HUGE spider on the landing. I upended a bucket over it, then, strangely, I put my hiking boots on top to weigh it down! No, the spider WASN'T big enough to grasp both sides of the bucket and heave it upwards - but it didn't half give Himself a laugh when he got home from work!

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I've always been terrified of the BIG spiders, and have had to get some brave man to put them out for me. I won't have them killed as they eat flies. Since Brian died I've had to be a lot braver and do it for myself. He did give me one of those "stick things with a brushy thing at the end for picking them up" for a Xmas present a few years ago. Couldn't for the life of me understand why at the time as I wouldn't get THAT close to the things .

Mozzies I hate as I get a very bad reaction to their bites. I went round Ephesus with my legs bandaged 'cos of mozzy bites .

Wasps are fascinating creatures and have a very bad press. Read up about them. Even the BBKA site isn't particularly against them .

I'm not scared of snakes, rats, mice or anything else really, just spiders, weird.

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With you on the bite reaction thing (see my blog last year), Bladdy biting bug things!!

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