What do you do about bugs/spiders/insects on your wood?

[iceman]

Oh
My
God.

Sitting here with my jaw about down to my knees looking at your pix. What is it getting into? Looks like it's about to come into your living room, but I assume it's going through the wall or something?

Snakes don't freak me out, and black snakes are both handsome and benign, but there's something distinctly unnerving about the idea of having something that big coming into one's house uninvited and hanging out in the basement.

holy sh!t!! that would make me move!!
time to button up that house.... how the heck did it even know where to go? you must have those things all over the place!!
i dunno if i am gonna sleep now....

 

[Ron Lloyd]

Come on now don’t lose any sleep over it. If it makes you feel any better I have never had one crawl in bed with me. If fact I have only twice had to remove and relocate them from the living quarters of the house and that’s been a couple of years ago. Hey, I don’t like snakes either but you do get used to them. This house is more than a hundred and sixty years old. Most likely black snakes have been coming and going here for more than three of my life times. I don’t know how I would make this house snake proof even if I tried. As you can see they can get through very, very small holes. Just think how small of a hole a little 3 footer could get through.

Sleep tight.

Ron

 

[iceman]

Come on now don’t lose any sleep over it. If it makes you feel any better I have never had one crawl in bed with me. If fact I have only twice had to remove and relocate them from the living quarters of the house and that’s been a couple of years ago. Hey, I don’t like snakes either but you do get used to them. This house is more than a hundred and sixty years old. Most likely black snakes have been coming and going here for more than three of my life times. I don’t know how I would make this house snake proof even if I tried. As you can see they can get through very, very small holes. Just think how small of a hole a little 3 footer could get through.

Sleep tight.

Ron

couldn't sleep kept thinking i was fighting anacondas in my house
wow 160 years old dunno what to tell ya.... i would come and help but if i saw one you woulda swore you saw flash!
just wait till winter when they are hanging out with the cat at the stove!! lol

 

[Rick]

Wow. Do you ever feel like standing in your living room and screaming, "Enough is enough! I have had it with these mother***ing snakes in this mother***ing house!" in your best Samuel Jackson voice? Just kidding with you, but I think I'd take the mice.

 

[firefighterjake]

I’m sorry I may have left some with the impression that the black snakes in my house have something to do with bringing firewood into the house. That couldn’t be further from the truth. They will come into your house whether you burn wood or not. If you think they can not get into your house you may want to look at some of these pictures. If you have ever had a mouse in your house then you have a hole somewhere big enough for a black snake to get in. You may have had them in your house and didn’t even know it. The snake in these photos is roughly 6 and a half feet long and went through a hole that is less than ½ inch thick. It’s really not as bad as you might think having them around. In the olden days people used to intentionally release them in their houses to get rid of rodents. Best mouse trap ever.

It may take more than one post to include all 6 photographs.

Ron

Yow-zers . . . pics like these remind me of why I'm glad I live in Maine. The only snakes I see are the harmless, little garter snakes for the most part . . . and absolutely no poisonous snakes.

As far as the mice . . . that's why I have cats.

 

[Ron Lloyd]

I used to have cats. I don’t know where they got to. They just turned up missing.

Ron

 

[firefighterjake]

I used to have cats. I don’t know where they got to. They just turned up missing.

Ron

I can't help myself . . . that was a pretty snappy comeback.

 

[Cearbhaill]

Who just stands there snapping photos of that thing instead of shooing it off???

 

[Cazimere]

Sack up, and find something worthwhile to worry bout : )

 

[Bigg_Redd]

When storing wood outside to "season" for months and months, there are all sorts of insects/spiders etc that call it "home". Last year I had spiders coming out of my small stack of wood inside the house. YUCK!

So what do you do to minimize these critters?

I bring in only a days' supply of wood at a time. I usually give each piece a knock or two on the splitting block before it comes inside. Unless it's wood that I know has termites. In that case it goes straight into the fire.