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Post by X factor on Mar 20, 2022 10:28:15 GMT -5
Living in the South as an outsider or newcomer  Living in the South as a outsider or newcomer.
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Post by X factor on Mar 20, 2022 10:29:33 GMT -5
The main thing that sucks in when the weather starts getting a bit warmer again, here come all the bugs that you thought the colder weather would have killed.
But the bugs in the south never seem to die, could be a frost, and if warm the next day, seems as if the bugs that did die resurect themselves from the dead.
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Post by X factor on Apr 23, 2022 13:36:55 GMT -5
The above post is true, everything in the south is a home to something.
Up north in the cold, you may be able to get away with storing stuff outside on your porch, but in the south, when weather heats up, which it is most of the year, expect critters, mammals and insects to make homes out of your stuff, every nook and cranny.
Although I do know that up north people do have rodent problems, but mainly inside, since rodents seek heat.
But in the south, everything on your porch becomes a potential home or nesting area for mainly either spiders or mud wasps or hornets and other stuff.
To the point you won't even be able to enjoy just sitting on your porch unless porch is cleared of everything or netted.
The good thing about spider killing wasps though, for one they're solitary, and for two, they kill spiders.
So you'll never have spider problems if you have spider killing wasps in your area, a very odd trade off.
warning, pretty gross video of spider and wasp hunter battling it out.
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Post by X factor on May 18, 2022 13:00:05 GMT -5
There's just to many gosh dern bees, and wasps and hornets in the SE, you can't even sit on your deck without hornets and Wasps (not so much bees) always buzzing by.
And many of these solitary Wasps are constantly hunting spiders and insects and flying them back to 'mud nest' and packing them in so that larva can have food, all day long this goes one.
One good thing is that where there are a lot of Wasps, you don't have many spiders or insects, cause the Wasps neutralize them all.
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Post by X factor on Jul 26, 2022 0:41:14 GMT -5
The gross thing about living in the south is getting up after dark, going to the kitchen, turning on the light, and seeing a big fat roach on the floor, it's the grosses thing knowing that creature was walking around in your place with the lights out, it's gross and annoying.
Roaches are one of the few creatures I show no mercy to.
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Post by X factor on Jan 27, 2023 6:18:36 GMT -5
In the South, you're always hesitant to get up at night and turn on the lights, cause you never know what might be scurrying around in the dark.
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Post by X factor on Feb 1, 2023 1:58:44 GMT -5
In the South, if or when you think you hear an intruder in your home, you walk out to invetigate with both a gun and a can of raid in your hands, incase it's just a gigantic cock roach
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Post by X factor on Apr 16, 2023 23:22:05 GMT -5
Scary thing about the south, is that roaches so large, that traps intended for mice, snare large roaches as well...ugg!
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Post by X factor on Jun 23, 2023 21:32:49 GMT -5
In the south, you get to the point where you feel one night you're going to walk out into the hall, turn on the lights, and see a roach near the size of your cat or dog.
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Post by X factor on Jun 29, 2023 6:54:08 GMT -5
Heat advisory my behind.
These newer, younger, weather people panic of normal summer weather.
I was in the Tampa Bay area yesterday and it just felt like a normal breeze summer day, with some clouds out.
People who work outside scoff at heat advisories, I guess heat advisories are for those who work inside offices all day with A/C.
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Post by X factor on Jun 29, 2023 22:16:33 GMT -5
In the south, on muggy nights, you always feel like you have a oily film on your skin.
Makes you always want to wash your arms before bed.
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Post by X factor on Jul 3, 2023 20:45:06 GMT -5
In Florida, you can now walk around with a loaded gun on you, covered up of course, and it's legal.
Not sure how I feel about that.
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Post by X factor on Jul 4, 2023 18:01:50 GMT -5
In the SE, your skin always feels as if it has a layer of sticky icky oil on it, from the humidity.
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Post by X factor on Sept 20, 2023 4:46:06 GMT -5
I can tell it's getting cooler now, cause I don't need as many fans blowing on me at night.
I have 3 aimed at me now.
I rarely used the a/c this whole past summer, probably less than 10 times, and for very short spurts.
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Post by X factor on Oct 25, 2023 14:09:53 GMT -5
In the south, these little annoying as hell nat like bugs can even get into your refrigerator, how freagin annoying.
For a while my sonic plug in electric bug devices rid place of such insects, but lately they've come back.
I suspect it's do to my neighbors, who probably don't through their discarded food outside, as I do.
In the south, never let food, discarded food, stay indoors, put it outside quickly, or even flush it down the toilet...otherwise flying nats will invade your place.
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