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Reno, that is owl vomit.
They can't digest bones so they barf that part back up.

PE:
I am with you! I like the bigger 4-legged 'critters but I hate roaches, spiders, centipedes, millipedes, or anything that small that crawls and can race through a building faster than you can.
We do work for a property management company that proudly owns the " cockroach motel" as I have dubbed it, I swear there have to be billions in this place as they are seen EVERYWHERE.. And it usually figures I get the calls there that involve working in the garbage room, or some trashed unit thats just loaded with those disgusting buggers!

A.D

Like Indiana Jones, I hate snakes. Most other vermin don't bother me much.

I have run across some vermin in the guise of a General Contractor!!

I confess that a true chill went down my spine the day the new inspector said "I just got back from a really cool seminar, and did we learn some great stuff!"

Doesn't work on ground fleas. Too many and too small.

I also had an encounter with a shunk in Huntington Beach. I ran over it at 50mph.Now my 1968 Chevelle smells like a skunk (permanently). Hey Zapped I live in H.B. too (since 1970). And I know that word you are going use to describe Hunt. Bch.

Had a helper in a crawlspace of a old house. All the old wireing had been gutted, and we were rewireing. (Remember the old romex that was thick and black?) He looked up, thought "I thought we already gutted all the old stuff" He grabbed what he THOUGHT was an old wire.... It wrapped itself around his arm-black snake! Talk about a blood-curdleing scream!

This is somewhat related if bees, wasps and ants are a problem for you. Get a 35mm film can (or similar container) and put baking soda in it, toss it in your tools.
If you get bit by ants or bees, wet the sting and rub the baking soda in it. This will neutralize the formic acid in the venom and minimize the effects.
My wife got to use hers today, fireants got everybody bad. It really helped.

Roaches and flies because I just associate them with filth. I don't like spiders, but I'd much rather a horde of spiders to roaches.

The only one that used to really concern me was going into crawl spaces in central VA: We'd find black widows all the time. One guy had one fall into his hair and he only realised what it was after he swatted it out. I figured I'd never see the darn thing until it bit me. PEdoubleNIZZLE, it sounds like we used to work for the same comapny. Ugh!

-John

[This message has been edited by BigJohn (edited 10-22-2006).]

Centipedes. Like 8" long and very fast and also quite ready to bite and sting. The sting feels like 4 yellow jackets just hit you at the same time and place. Hate em.