ausi dream

Has anyone had trouble with the creatures in Brisbane, meaning spiders,ants and cockroaches. Couldnt wait to get back to uk, but now want to go back and it worries me how to cope with them.

FluffyTheCampfireSlayer

They're not a problem at all!!

Depends where exactly you are as to how many you will see, but in general - they will leave you be if you leave them be!

Pollyana

Except the roaches, who are the spawn of the devil....they wait till you are relaxed and then fly at you when you least expect it

Ants hunt in packs and have even resistant to microwaving.

ausi dream

We found them a big problem,ants were coming through the ceiling rose and through the wardrobes. Woke up one morning to find that there was a motorway run of them going from the wardrobe acrooss floor, up and across our son which was in bed asleep. If we blocked one hole they would come through somewhere else. Even walking out to put washing on the line i had them run all over me. The cockroaches would hide in the runners of the doors and when i opened them (especially in the morning) they would drop on top of me,which i didnt take kindly too.Spiders were not too bad, allways had five or six redback spiders every morning to deal with.
And allso a huge spider(very much like a trapdoor) run for my feet very early in morning. We had a new house up north lakes area. Not sure if people take this as everyday thing in Brisbane and we were just not used to it, or just unlucky.

FluffyTheCampfireSlayer

We have been in Redcliffe for 6 months now (not far from NL's) - never experienced anything like this at all!!!!

We spray the garden with ant killer twice a month, the house was treated when we moved in - get nothing bar the very rare dead cockroach in the house!
Yes, there are motorways of ants in the garden, but they are manageable with some good poison and to be honest, they stay away from the house so not really a problem.

We live in a house very near to the waterfront - maybe this dictates how many nasties we get?? Who knows?

ausi dream

So do you have to spray everything outside the house continually to keep all the nasties away. If so, then surely that cant be good for you, thought it was better for pollution e,c,t.

Vim Fuego

Yup, got all of those in spades, we are learning to co-exist though ... it's the termites (white ants) that need real attention though.

Short of living in a hermetically-sealed bubble I think the relaxed approach is the go.

ausi dream

I think we were unlucky, the house was near lots of open space and fields and all the creatures must have come off from them.

themerlin

Watch out for the Koala bears, they look cute in pictures but they will have ya !

Vim Fuego

Sounds like a fair assumption, either that or they bussed in

ausi dream

Does everyone have to continually spray there houses and gardens to keep everything away or is it just a case of saying my house is there house. what if you have a health condition that you cant have the sprays, would your house just be over run with creatures.

ausi dream

Have allso read that most households in brisbane have a dog to let them know for snakes e,c,t coming near the house, is that true?

kenneally

moving to north lakes in july,cant say that i feel any better about moving after reading this thread but must be better than here

yvonnemidwife

ooohhh you are so putting me off moving .. stop it now!!!!!

ausi dream

So sorry, did not mean to put anyone off going to aus. Please its not quite as bad as it reads and believe me i have been before and trying to get back again, and if it was that bad then i wouldn't be going back. Was just trying to find out from people that had lived there a long time what the dun thing is to do. Have rented three houses before in aus and did not have any problems. But the last house before we came back hadn't had good upkeep before we went in it and i think that we had the outcome of that. I like the creatures and like to see them, but had been told you were supposed to have your house sprayed every three months, and just wanted to know if this was true?