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I hate grasshoppers!!!

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These are my pet hate. Those big brown, or black ones. My skin is cringing just thinking of them.

My problem is that the kids know about this too. Today I was talking to my husband while he was doing some gardening. I turned around and there one was on the stake holding up the basil bush. I squealed and ran to the laundry as my husband is looking to find it. My eldest was down there helping out, and found it so then they had to kill it. Then they realised there were 2!!

So my lovely oldest son, reached in and grabbed then came running toward me with his hand held out. Of course I ran screaming upstairs, my heart pumping at a thousand mile an hour, skin crawling, while my lovely son is doubled up on the ground laughing his head off. Of course he didn't have one in his hand! The little stinker.

Later on this evening, as I was cooking dinner, I turned around and up on the wall was another one. It had flown in the window at some stage. So it started again. This time I was in the lounge room with the door closed while I hear calls for bug spray, thumps and bumps and "there it is". Steps getting closer as I head toward the other end of the lounge.

My youngest then decided he wanted to have a look and see what was happening. The next thing I know he is screaming and crying, hubby and middle son are laughing, as COnnor comes into the lounge saying it jumped on me. My heart stopped as I yelled where is it, to be told, through the laughter that it was thrown outside. It only got his pyjamas, but that is enough for me. Hubby had to finish getting dinner as I would not go in the kitchen.

And I have been checking every room I walk into as I go in. I am such a sook when it comes to these horrible creatures.

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	5.00 (Excellent) \| April 2008 \| Domestic-warrior

Re: I hate grasshoppers!!!

lol...i hate the way they are all sticky and seem to jump right onto you if you walk by one. I think they are just a scared as we are!

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	April 2008 \| Ngairi

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I don't care if they are as scared of us, I just hate the way they jump at you.

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	5.00 (Excellent) \| April 2008 \| Practical-Princess

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lmao! Poor little grasshoppers. Actually, when I was young, my mother had a lovely rockery with plants that would get eaten by the brown grasshoppers. My brother had a bug catcher so we'd catch them, take them down the back yard, take them out one by one, and (hehehe) pull their heads off!

Nasty little buggers, weren't we? lmao!

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	April 2008 \| Ngairi

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I just hate the fact that they can jump and fly at you. My grandmother, when we went to her place. used to catch them in her hands and rip their heads off. No way will I get that close.

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	5.00 (Excellent) \| April 2008 \| robalman

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We used to live on a farm and there was never a short supply of all sorts of creepy crawlies.

My daughter was/is scared of all of them...bugs, spiders, lizards...you name it.

This one day I heard this gut curdling scream so naturally I thought she was getting murdered or close to it.

I get back to the house to find that my lovable son had caught a frog and so thoughtfully given it a new home....in my daughters gum boot.

To this day she is more frightened of frogs than anything else.

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	5.00 (Excellent) \| April 2008 \| Ngairi

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I love frogs, snakes, spiders you name it. Just don't get me near a grasshopper. Your son sounds just like mine. He would do that.

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	April 2008 \| robalman

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LOL

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	5.00 (Excellent) \| April 2008 \| electrifying02

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hello dear leisa

eww i dont blame you for running anything that has ugly look bout them i run m worest enemy is spidiers and my three yr old hunts them down to annoey me

love ya

belxxx

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	April 2008 \| Ngairi

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Don't you just love kids and what they do? I will find something to get back at my son with. Don't know what don't know when, but it will happen.

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	4.67 (Excellent) \| April 2008 \| dannii17

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Crickets dont bother me, i have to feed them to my turtle lol...but spiders i dont like..they are evil and the worse thing was when i had one crawl over my face just a few weeks ago..we have been getting white tails bad and have gotten biten by them on my legs a few weeks ago..I cant wait to move from this area, its built on spider farms i think..

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	4.55 (Excellent) \| April 2008 \| Ngairi

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Yuck but I can handle spiders. It would be scary having it walk on your face tho.

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	5.00 (Excellent) \| April 2008 \| Libby24

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PMSL

heres a funny one for u....... i used to live near swap/bush in armadale here in perth and i lived with my grandparents. my pop ( as he is known to my kids now) my aunty T and I used to walk over to this place and get grasshoppers and frogs and pythons and bring them home. one day we put the frogs in the bathroom while nanna was in there and boy did she scream. LOL i still laugh at this as i was only 3 and i remember it. :)

Oh BTW i love bugs and all those things too. i catch them for my kids. we had 2 green tree frogs ( bubba and guandi) for awhile but we took them back as hubby couldnt handle the cricket noises inside. :)

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	5.00 (Excellent) \| April 2008 \| Ngairi

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Growing up, I loved bearded dragons, and we had them in the yard all the time. I used to catch them. My brother on the other hand couldn't. BUT he would catch the grasshoppers, pull their back legs off (I could hold them then after these were gone) and I would feed them to the lizards. It worked really well. Until he put a grasshopper on my back and I went screaming doing laps round the backyard as he is lying on the ground laughing his head off. So I threw a lizard back on him,

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	5.00 (Excellent) \| April 2008 \| ph419always

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Sounds like me and cockroaches or spiders when they're foot level lol!

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	5.00 (Excellent) \| April 2008 \| Ngairi

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Those really big flying cockroaches are a problem. Can't stand when they fly in. But I can handle them and kill em.

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	April 2008 \| robalman

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Cockroaches are disgusing little creatures.

It;s not that I can't handle them but the thought of them crawling over my food and stuff makes my skin crawl and I just have to go for the whole extermination thing.

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	5.00 (Excellent) \| April 2008 \| alishas-mummy

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haha sounds like me with crickets...
i just killed one earlier. LOL

my arm hurts because i sprayed it with loads of insect spray....
the cricket's dead now though...
yippee down the toilet it went. haha

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	5.00 (Excellent) \| April 2008 \| Ngairi

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nah I can handle crickets. but if it was a grasshopper I wouldn't be in the house.

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	5.00 (Excellent) \| April 2008 \| Ametrine

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I have this problem with ANTS, there always 'SIX Foot' tall. I'm refusing to go and help dig the garden untill I have some wellies.

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	5.00 (Excellent) \| April 2008 \| Ngairi

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Hee hee I like the thought of 6 ft ants. Kids would be in hysterics.

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	5.00 (Excellent) \| April 2008 \| cathbusymum

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LOL sounds like me with spiders. We have loads of crickets at the moment. Cant get them out of the house.Every time i see one, i think its a spider first.

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	5.00 (Excellent) \| April 2008 \| Ngairi

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It's funny but crickets I don't have a problem with. Or grasshoppers that are under about 8 -10 cm long. Anything bigger I will go another way.

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	April 2008 \| robalman

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Who are you trying to frighten by talking about hoppers 10cm long and more.

I am sure most people would be happy to think they get no bigger than about 5cm

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	5.00 (Excellent) \| April 2008 \| cazza

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rofl , sorry you sound like me when i see mice,, and your boys would so get on well with caitlyn as she takes the mickey out of me...

Nice way to get out of cooking dinner.. but not a nice feeling.

xx cazza

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	5.00 (Excellent) \| April 2008 \| Ngairi

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No not a good feeling at all. I remember once, Dave put a grasshopper next my head on the bed while I was asleep and then woke me up! He couldn't run fast enough cause he was laughing so hard. And he was only 9 at the time.

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	5.00 (Excellent) \| April 2008 \| cazza

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Little bugger,... Caitlyn has just brought a book home from the school library with spiders in it, and mick is petrified of them..

xx cazza

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