Insect Cornucopia
Never get a first floor, slab-foundation apartment. This is my second experience with living or owning a first floor unit, and I must tell you that I have never seen such an abundance of rolly-polly bugs in my life. To counter that, I came out of my room about 10 minutes ago and saw the strangest bug crawling through the living room. Needless to say, I threw the thing outside.
Of course, with the abundance of insects comes an abundance of spiders. They work well to balance out the rolly-polly problem. I saw something moving really fast, and, thinking it might be the worst kind of bug (a roach), I got up to see what it was… it scurried behind some boxes and was trapped. I decided to try to kill it, then examine the remains to see if I was right. Well, when I thought I squished it into the wall, using the box, I moved the box and a large, black, scary-looking spider came scurrying out very, very quickly. Fastest spider I’ve ever seen in my life. The thing moved as fast as the blink of an eye. I went to grab my shoe to kill it (it was about the size of a quarter or so), when I returned to the spot it was at, it was nowhere in sight. Now I know who’s been feeding on the other spiders and the rolly-pollies. Hope its not poisonous ;o)