Critters in the garden

[Gary 4,119]

My wife is a farm girl. Most Thais are afraid of the took kaes. She complains that they shit big turds and she doesn't want them in the house. One day she was yelling at me to come and help her. She was standing in front of the microwave. She said a took kae was under it. I quickly went out in the garage and got a welding glove. She told me she didn't need that and told me to just pick up the microwave. I did so and she grabbed him bare handed. Outside he went.

 

One day she wanted me to look at something. I went into the living room and she had a big black scorpion sitting on a bamboo fly swatter. I told her to just take it back outside. She IS afraid of centipedes.

[jacko 8,822]

Getting sick of gecko poop... seem to be finding it everywhere!!! It appears as those quite a few geckos have seen our house as being a desirable location to live!!!

Yeah, I keep a pop up toaster covered when not in use!

I guess you have night-lights, they attract insects and geckos, at 6pm they pop out from their hiding places to set up for their night shift by the light.

[jacko 8,822]

My wife is a farm girl. Most Thais are afraid of the took kaes. She complains that they shit big turds and she doesn't want them in the house. One day she was yelling at me to come and help her. She was standing in front of the microwave. She said a took kae was under it. I quickly went out in the garage and got a welding glove. She told me she didn't need that and told me to just pick up the microwave. I did so and she grabbed him bare handed. Outside he went.

 

One day she wanted me to look at something. I went into the living room and she had a big black scorpion sitting on a bamboo fly swatter. I told her to just take it back outside. She IS afraid of centipedes.

I put a protective glove on too, or use a small towel when I grab a tookay, I once spent a painful 10 minutes trying to get one of the bastards off me as it took a good biting grip on the web between my thumb and forefinger.

[Butch 3,456]

I managed to get some work done on my classic car yesterday, while rooting through the storage unit I've got hired for various bits of guff which shouldn't be there but just in case, along with a full set of spares for the ar I must have been bitten, because about 10 minutes later my hand looked like this:

 

 

 

It wasn't too painful unless I closed my fist and went completely after 12 hours. No idea what it might have been, we do have the "false widow" spider in our area of the UK, but as to what it was is anyone's guess. I never felt anything at all, not even a prick...

[Gawd Elpus 798]

I heard the Geckos, small lizards have there uses for easting mosqitos I have a few of them as residents when I lived in Phuket, and they never caused any problems. I dont know where they were defacating though. More than a few times, my companions for the night, would leave their shoes outside, which became overnight accomodation for frogs

[jacko 8,822]

A bit of a coincidence as the Mrs screamed this morning and a snake was being relocated a few minutes later, very sluggish due to the cool morning. Just another keelback. Got a tookay waiting to be relocated too. They need to be moved further away.

[TheFiend 1,181]

Yeah, I keep a pop up toaster covered when not in use!

I guess you have night-lights, they attract insects and geckos, at 6pm they pop out from their hiding places to set up for their night shift by the light.

 

The front porch has a light as does the carport and every night could spot at 2 or 3 ready to feast.... a walk around the house I could see at least 10 geckos at various locations on the walls.

[Butch 3,456]

I spoke too soon.

 

It has bruised up, swollen ,and hurts like a cunt. Probably why i'm particularly cranky this evening.

 

[jacko 8,822]

Looks painful, some of these insect and snake bites actually dissolve tissue.

You might need a shot, be it anti-biotic, tetanus or something!

[jacko 8,822]

Had a bit of fun getting rid of the tookay yesterday, normally release them in a casava field 2 km away (they come back if released nearby).

I released it from the plastic basket and it about turned and jumped on my foot, then ran up my leg, horrified I knocked it off and it scampered under my bike and I couldn't see it. So I set off thinking it was gone, and luckily decided to get rid of the plastic basket rather than go straight into town. Just as I turned into my street the damned thing climbed up onto my instruments and looked around and at me. I turned around and drove slowly back all the time worried the damned thing would decide to start climbing up my arm while I could do little about it. Got to the casava field again, knocked it off and it climbed straight back on my bike and into the plastic pocket by the knee. A Thai man came over and jabbed a stick at it until it it dropped down and ran off, he must have been as disinclined to touch it as me. (They bite and refuse to let go).

 

Earlier, disposing of the snake, I scared the hell out of a few monks passing by sitting in a motorcycle side car.

Edited November 12, 2015 by jacko

[jacko 8,822]

Well this critter wanted to see more than my garden and wandered into the house and across my lounge as I was having my breakfast and a cup of tea.

 

A young water monitor with a forked tongue. (God help me to remember who that reminds me of)

 

Apparently very bad luck to have a 'hia' in the house and now the Mrs has to go to the temple and make merit!

Edited March 11, 2017 by jacko

[Bullfrog 2,224]

Apparently very bad luck to have a 'hia' in the house and now the Mrs has to go to the temple and make merit!

Isn't it also a very bad swear word...???

[Butch 3,456]

I watched a doco with Nigel Marven the other day about venomous snakes in the Philippines (and wished I hadn't) He picked up a Tokay and it took a big lump of flesh out of his hand. Apparently they can bite really hard and latch on.

 

My biggest fear are rats, I hate them with a passion. I see enough of them inside the cargo holds of ships, running about in the Philippines and I never knew the scale of the epidemic of Beach road until my last trip. I was chatting to an expat during a break in my morning jog, now I'm not sure if this is true maybe someone can confirm / deny, but they apparently fumigated the rats on Beach road, the rats then ran back into the drains, died and then provided a nice meal for the rest of the population which...increased as a result.

 

If they offered 10 baht a rat bounty then there might be some kind of improvement, until then, it's bloody shocking to see how many there are!.

[midlifecrisis 4,048]

I watched a doco with Nigel Marven the other day about venomous snakes in the Philippines (and wished I hadn't) He picked up a Tokay and it took a big lump of flesh out of his hand. Apparently they can bite really hard and latch on.

 

My biggest fear are rats, I hate them with a passion. I see enough of them inside the cargo holds of ships, running about in the Philippines and I never knew the scale of the epidemic of Beach road until my last trip. I was chatting to an expat during a break in my morning jog, now I'm not sure if this is true maybe someone can confirm / deny, but they apparently fumigated the rats on Beach road, the rats then ran back into the drains, died and then provided a nice meal for the rest of the population which...increased as a result.

 

If they offered 10 baht a rat bounty then there might be some kind of improvement, until then, it's bloody shocking to see how many there are!.

A lot of rats in AC too.

 

Hate the things.

[jacko 8,822]

Isn't it also a very bad swear word...???

Very much so in the Thai name calling category.

 

He picked up a Tokay and it took a big lump of flesh out of his hand. Apparently they can bite really hard and latch on.

 

I use a small towel or gardening gloves when getting rid of a tookay. They sure latch on and refuse to let go but I am surprised they have the strength to take a lump out. I had a biggish one latch on to the webbing between thumb and forefinger and it hardly broke skin. Couldn't get it off, submerging in the pool didn't do it and I had to get a blade to lever it's blood-red mouth open.

Edited March 11, 2017 by jacko