has anyone ever heard of insects living and breeding in the wooden handles of steak knives etc.?
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Most steack knives now are made of insect resistant woods.  Usually a mix of plastics in there with wood.  But really old knives made from wood that has already been infected with termites would easily have some larva wriggling around in there.
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I keep a deep freezer in my garage.  It has chicken and lots of meats and stuff.  Every year we have a cow butchered to be made into steaks, ground beef, roast, etc.  Well, It was the middle of the summer and it was hot.  I had been to the grocery store and stopped by the garage to put some chicken in the freezer.   Somehow, the freezer had been unplugged.  So when i opened the freezer, the smell almost knocked me over. It was a bloody slushy raw meat soup.  Since it was airtight, there were no bugs or maggots yet, but I had to work fast.  My husband was away and he had the pickup truck.  I ran in the house and changed my clothes and got gloves and trash bags.  I couldnt put it in MY trash dumpster because they wouldnt pick it up for another 4 days, and by then the smell would kill everyone in the neighborhood.  My mom's (who lived 5 miles away) would be picking up later that day.  So i loaded up all  400 lbs of these HEAVY nasty bags of melted rotten meat into the trunk of my car and made 4 trips to remove all of it.  Luckily it was just smell and no maggots were yet involved.   I cleaned and bleached the freezer.  I still own it and it works great.  I burned the clothes i was wearing.   It was very gross.
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Not around here they aren't. I haven't heard any evidence to say they are, but it is possible. Not very likely however. I would say it is more likely that they are disapearing from a specific place, such as around you, because of changes in the climate, introducion of a new species that is competeing with or eating the bees, or something like that.
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Hi!\nI found an ads posted by Jerry from Washington , USA who said he offers all types of insects for sale both dried and live. Beetles, Millipeds & Centipedes, Roaches, Trantulas, Butterflies, Praying Mantis, Scorpions, Stick Insects.etc. This may give you some help. His e-mail address: jerryjanson2006@yahoo.com\n\nGood luck!♥
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I've picked them in Ontario Canada before.  They can be found under hemlock and conifer trees.  They have a pepper flavor.  Really good if sauteed and served on steak.
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Preying mantis, carnivorous crickets, spiders, lizards (especially geckos, as they come out at night like cockroaches), shrews, Antechinuses, Planigales (or any small carnivorous marsupial), birds (if they get the chance) and rolled  up newspapers. There are many different species of cockroach in the world, the ones that get into houses are usually Periplaneta americana and they live nearly everywhere and fill even the most hardened biologist (me) with revulsion. They have been sprayed by so many chemicals in their evolutionary history that they are immune to any chemicals that are sub-lethal to human beings. If you try to take out cockroaches with chemical weapons, you are probably goin to take out yourselves. In the bush cockroaches perform important functions in breaking down plant material. In the house they perform the function of strengthening stereotypical domestic roles- the woman screams and the guy comes out with a raised shoe and bashes the cockroach into a crunchy paste. \n\nLife on Earth is interesting, isn't it.
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Probably asian beatles, nasty little buggers bite too. They were imported because they eat aphids, but have gotten out of hand.
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My fiance is an avid hunter and he has them feast upon him often and they tend to get on me also when he comes home...What you described is exactly what it does and has done to me. Put alcohol on the bite and in a few days it will go away..if the bite seems to become infectious then seek medical attention but what you have described is very common..use the alcohol and maybe some insect bite medication and you'll be fine!
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Look under leaves, wood, bricks, etc. Many insects like to burrow in tight, protective places. Failing that, check bushes and trees.
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Probably a local word for termites or some other wood burrowing insect.  \nThe only other meaning was mentioned by the previous answer, and that is an Austailian term, Sawbees, Brand of hand-shears used for shearing sheep
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no. The mice I have are in the freezer for my snake.  However I have a strange obsession with dead animals.  I will run them over and one time while camping we fond a squirrel or something.  Anyway I kept throwing it against a tree and drop kicking it!!  Like I said a strange obsession!
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There have been a lot of new animals found in the forests of Indonesia.  Here's a story I found on it. Enjoy.\n\nhttp://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060207/ap_on_sc/indonesia_new_species
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It would bother me being there, but I wouldn't kill it. Depending on my mood, I might leave it there...or more likely I would grab a stepstool and scoop the spider up in a jar or something (so it wouldn't bite me) and then dump it outside. I don't like squishing bugs cause you get guts everywhere. gross.
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Yes\n\nhttp://www.greenvalleypc.com/HTML/spider/wolf.htm
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If they are actually beetles, then they are most likely Dermestid carpet beetles. These critters are commonly found in human homes, simply because their food source is plentiful "Children's Blood"  No, Im kidding!!!!! hahaha, I always wanted to do that... No they actually eat all sorts of human and animal wastes, like shed skin cells, hair, feathers, and bits and pieces of anything they can find in the carpet or on the floor. This is whay they got their appropriate name.\nThe best remedy is just cleaning a little more often. These guys love dust piles that end up collecting under dressers, beds, bookshelves ect. Vacuuming more often, and maybe soaping the carpet will be a good way to lower their numbers drastically. You can also buy what is called Diatomaceous earth, this is a totally safe product used to kill insects that walk through it, it is in the form of a powder, one brand is called INSECTIGONe and it works well, you can find it in any harware store. Lay it down under furniture, behind dressers, even under the carpet if you can lift it. Then any time one of these little "buggers" moves through it, thye die, simple as that.\nOther than that, you have absolutely nothing to worry about, these insects are not toxic or dangerous in any way, and every house i the world probably has one variety or another of these little critters, so, no there is nothing wrong with your house.\n\nhttp://bugguide.net/node/view/18002\n\nhope this helps!
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A venus fly trap or a pitcher plant are insectivorous.  The walnut tree is deciduous.  It sheds its leaves each year
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there is a catapillar that looks like a snake, \n\nthe monach butterfly has a yucky taste...PLUS there is another butterfly that looks almost identical, so birds avoid it, even though it tastes better\n\nthe stick bug\n\nthe leaf bug\n\nbettle with VERY hard shells