I'm missing the toads and frogs in SE TX, but am now inundated

[babylonsister]

with flying cockroaches. :wtf: I just had to wrassle a few. Am I alone?

[J R]

1. My mom has a cockroach phobia...

She's completely freaked by cockroaches, but when they fly she will run screaming out of the house...hehe She's also afraid of the movie "The Exorcist"...... :scared:

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Lisa0825]

2. The benefit of having multiple cats is

that I only get to see the carnage left from the night time roach hunt. I never see a live one in the house!

Meanwhile, outdoors, the June Bug assault has begun! :hide:

[tbyg52]

3. Haven't seen frogs in a while,

but haven't seen many bugs of any sort either. Just hear the cicadas. We had a massive amount of little green frogs a few months back. Very cute, but you had to make sure and check your windshield before you turned your wipers on.

[Lithos]

4. What I miss from my childhood

Horned (Horny) Toads.

Haven't seen one in many a year. I believe the firea nts took care of most of them.

Great loss IMHO.

L-

[tbyg52]

5. Stop it - you're gonna make me cry. I loved those critters. nt

[Gman]

6. I hear they are doing well in West Texas

because of the arid climate which fire ants can't survive in.

[texastoast]

7. Not like they used to

Back during the 70s, I recall a bounty of 50 cents being put on them so they could be shipped to New York to work on an ant problem that was up there. Kids and adults were catching them and selling them.

And of course, they didn't survive one winter in NY. They have recovered somewhat, but nothing like when I was a kid.

I used to catch them after a rain, sometimes as many as 50 before I got bored with it. Some of the babies were smaller than my fingernail and SO CUTE.

Alas, I have a resin replica of one of them by my fountain here in the office.

[AnneD]

8. I have a toad in my garden...

I am trying to keep moist places for him and trying to get rid of the fire ants with out killing him. He was in the dogs water bucket this am-had to scoop him out. We are close to road so he has lots of perils. I try to give him shelter and he cleans my plants of bugs. The dogs leave him alone.

I miss horny toads. Had them as pets in my childhood. I kept them in a shoe box until time to go to bed-I released them at night.