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Posted by dj chex on Aug-17-2005 04:05:

Earwigs attack again!!!

Gawd!!!! theyre everywhere. I reciently removed the faders of my empath and there was a dead one there, next, i decided to use my hd-280s and there was one crawing in the cushion and it crawed on my ear during recording, then latter there was one crawing on my monitor right when i was in the middle of a movie. This is driving me mad... I just moved my equipment to a different room and right now i see at least four crawing around. I know I'm not the only one here, I;ve read a few other posts about this problem. I just wanta know what you guys did... BTW, i live in a very clean house, Except my equipment is setup in the basement where it can disturb as few people as possiable.

Posted by Tranc3 on Aug-17-2005 05:18:

Curious for a solution as well, only in my instance it's ants. My room is clean, as in no food or drink, and I know the ants are going for the electrical equipment because it's all on one half of the room, and they stay on that half.

Posted by r5a on Aug-17-2005 06:15:

Talk to amb_ he is an extermantior. I saw one of his posts on how to kill them, jesus christ.

Maybe this will help?
http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2068.html

Posted by dj chex on Aug-17-2005 06:30:

Thanks!

Anyways, The one that was in my headphones freaked the crap out of me when it started crawing on my ear. Now i have to check almost everytime i put on a pair of headphones. But it doesn't really piss me off when they sneak into my basement, however, when it comes to getting inside of my pc and dj stuff, that really pisses me off.

The article also says earwigs are attracted to lights and moisture. Well in my basement i have a bright blacklight that can be seen from the outside rather brightly, also by my window there's an AC unit that puts out moisture around the window.

Posted by mndeg on Aug-17-2005 06:33:

an earwig was in your ear?
lol

quote:
The name earwig is derived from a European superstition that these insects enter the ears of a sleeping person and bore into the brain. This belief is totally unfounded.

Posted by dj chex on Aug-17-2005 06:37:

Yeah it's funny in a sad, ironic way.

Posted by T-Soma on Aug-17-2005 08:32:

Yea, you better get it looked after they can realy mess stuff up.
Had a problem with a computer for hours once and i just couldn't figure out why it wasn't workin and in the end it was a bug in the system... literally!

Posted by Zild on Aug-17-2005 12:52:

That sucks. I have a bunch of spiders in my room, but I like them because they eat all of the other bugs. Try spreading some boric acid around the perimeter of the room.

Posted by r5a on Aug-17-2005 16:14:

Heh, I just reliased one these

Was crawing on your ear!! AHHHH. I hate bugs. That sucks ass man, I was having a silverfish problem, googled about them and did some learning, found out they like stuff and I got rid of that stuff, and bought me some silverfish traps, no idea if there is "earwig traps" though.

Posted by Luke Cartwright on Aug-17-2005 22:54:

This is crazy, I have never heard of anything like this before. The worst thing I have ever had in my room is a spider.

Dunno what you could do but I would recomend a DNX-1500 mixer, watch the ******s try and crawl around in that when it gets hot.

Posted by jdat on Aug-17-2005 23:13:

This is most certainly not the typical bedroom dj problem

Posted by jamiepollock643 on Aug-18-2005 00:22:

I used to have a problem with tiny tiny TINY red spiders....i wud just smush them if i seen one on my old mixer or the desk etc. But since i got my new mixer and few other bits i havent seen one in a long time...strange

Posted by dj chex on Aug-18-2005 03:03:

Well last night i got rid of the blacklight and put some fresh duct-tape around the old rotting window seals and so far so good. They probably love the blacklight. So let's see what happens next.

Posted by FuzzyChicken on Aug-18-2005 08:09:

maybe get a dehumidifier for your bassement... I dunno.

Posted by tvmann on Aug-18-2005 08:14:

Try spraying Raid in the room where they are, and then go away for a few hours. Or use one of those "ant coil" things that you light up with a match and it very slowly burns and releases poison gas. That will kill any stragglers that are hanging around.

I'd hate to have bugs in my equipment!