A story the counselors at Scout camp used to tell the first-timers: “Be careful down by the canoes. Yesterday a couple of mosquitoes grabbed another tenderfoot and were discussing whether to eat him there or haul him back into the woods, and the other one said ‘Better eat him here. If we drag him home, the big ones will take him away from us.’”
When I was a kid I had a pet gecko. I figured it would eat something only if the something moved. I learned to hit flies with the flyswatter just hard enough to stun them. Mr. Gecko would gobble them up. The problem is that to this day I can only hit flies to stun them.
Do not use anything indoors with ‘thrin’ in the ingredients. It is not safe. regardless of the scent put into it. Friend of mine was sick for weeks after using a lavender scented pyrethrin spray she purchased at Wal-effing-mart.
Pretty much anything concentrated can be toxic. I use a spray that is derived from citrus peels but still have to open windows and doors and use fans to clear the fumes.
Dirty Dragon 12 months ago
It can be SO inconvenient when the July Bug shows up in September.
Enter.Name.Here 12 months ago
Today’s mosquitoes are so tough that they just catch a buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz from the spray.
lavender headgear 12 months ago
Monty sleeps with his glasses on?
PoodleGroomer 12 months ago
Try the oil of peppermint bug spray.
Jayalexander 12 months ago
Time for the sticky tape.
Imagine 12 months ago
It looks like he has used that spray so often that it has turned him into a 3-headed mutant.
jel354 12 months ago
The fly is driving Monty cuckoo (reference to yesterday’s strip).
Out of the Past 12 months ago
This just happened to me about three hours ago. Except I used a squirt bottle of alcohol.
Sisyphos 12 months ago
A drugged sleep is unlikely to be very restful. Lucky for Monty that spray is only insect-potency, or he’d be dead fish dead by now….
Ichabod Ferguson 12 months ago
Turn up the AC. The cold temp will ground your bug friend.
monya_43 12 months ago
That could be the first bug’s buddy that is there for the funeral.
EdButrym 12 months ago
How else would you indicate that he’s in a dark room?
WCraft Premium Member 12 months ago
He sleeps with his glasses on?
Richard S Russell Premium Member 12 months ago
A story the counselors at Scout camp used to tell the first-timers: “Be careful down by the canoes. Yesterday a couple of mosquitoes grabbed another tenderfoot and were discussing whether to eat him there or haul him back into the woods, and the other one said ‘Better eat him here. If we drag him home, the big ones will take him away from us.’”
GKBOWOOD Premium Member 12 months ago
Get a swatter, use the swatter, kill the bzzzy thing and get some sleep.
Frank Burns Eats Worms 12 months ago
At least he remembered his sprayers before bed.
banjoAhhh! 12 months ago
When I was a kid I had a pet gecko. I figured it would eat something only if the something moved. I learned to hit flies with the flyswatter just hard enough to stun them. Mr. Gecko would gobble them up. The problem is that to this day I can only hit flies to stun them.
Zebrastripes 12 months ago
There’s always the couch……
eddi-TBH 12 months ago
A lethal dose for a human is one tenth the amount a fly can safely absorb.
FassEddie 12 months ago
Monty, the solution is so simple and it works every time.
1. turn on a light in an unused room.
2. Wait for the insect to fly toward the light.
3. Turn off the light in the room and quickly close the door.
Thehag 12 months ago
Do not use anything indoors with ‘thrin’ in the ingredients. It is not safe. regardless of the scent put into it. Friend of mine was sick for weeks after using a lavender scented pyrethrin spray she purchased at Wal-effing-mart.
Pretty much anything concentrated can be toxic. I use a spray that is derived from citrus peels but still have to open windows and doors and use fans to clear the fumes.
aussie399 Premium Member 10 months ago
Glasses on in bed???