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They can be bad in most parts of Victoria at times. Even Melbourne.

Forced us back in the car up at Bright a few years back, even when we got back in the car there were dozens in there with us. We drove back about 20 mins with a veritable swarm in the car then let them clear out in a less prone spot.

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Lucky to have the choice, most real estate agents in Queensland insist on it when renting. And to be fair, its a good idea here, roaches and ants abound.

At least my new rental has a whole squadron of geckoes in residence so they keep everything else away.

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I think the last one from memory was about $120. You would do it anyway for cockroaches. Spiders cop it as a by product.

Not a big fan of spiders myself. Huntsmen are the scary one's but harmless (the venom backs a punch but their teeth are useless). Never seen a funnel web, seen a couple of redbacks, and the odd white tip.

Non issue really where I live.

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Do you mind me asking where you live??

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We had problems in Bright too, many years ago and on the Great Ocean Rd in summer - they forced us back in the car then too, ghastly. The DH had said he’d always wanted to live in Bright but I told him that it would be over my dead body after the flying things in every orifice!

We got loads in Canberra during the last drought. The dung beetles had been doing a good job with them but then the drought knocked off the beetles and the flies came back with a vengeance. Hopefully the beetles have had a chance to regenerate and knocked the fly population again while we’ve been away.

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Sydney.

Don't get me wrong though. There's enough creepers around, but you have to go looking for them.

Fruit bats are more annoying. Noisy and the poo on the car is not nice.

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I'm terrified of spiders and always have been and one daughter is the same. We live on acreage where half the land is bush but we have the house sprayed once a year both inside and out and touch wood have had maybe a dozen in the house in the 12+ years we've lived here. I've never seen a red or white back in person and any Huntsmen that do get in or that are seen anywhere close to where I walk get sprayed with half a ton of Mortein.

If I can live a relatively normal life anyone can.:lol:

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Yeah but do you have drop bears? They are the scariest thing in Aussie :nod:

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We do. We just don't stand underneath them so it's all good.

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Bloody hell, im always hearing that in australia the wildlife just wants to kill you, and there does appear to be a little truth in it. I like living where we have big lovely snakes and really scary looking insects, but actually on land, nothing can harm you [the snakes are really colourful boas, we have few flies/cockroaches, but we do have the tailless whip scorpion [as seen in indiana jones films] which if annoyed will spray vinegar on your chips and try to nip your finger softly.

My boas [as i call them] live in my mango trees and like rodents. However they also eat my corned beef if called.

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Lol drop bears, we have ligaroo - vampires... `There are drop ants! They fall onto your shirt when you are under a tree, wander round for a while then maybe an hour later find some skin and bite you....

Do you have anything like the amazonian centipede? 9 inches of orange fury, they bite hard, it hurts bad for about a month, to the extent that people are advised to go to hospital to get wounds dressed and cleaned, it wont kill you [australian jellyfish eek] but it will hurt a lot.

The australian irukandji jellyfish has to be the nastiest beast - so stealthy it wasnt even known till relatively recently and lethal...

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NB you can buy a spray called demand cs, you water it into the ground round t=your yard/house every 3 months, it is millions of tiny spheres of synthetic pyrethrum that will stay in / on the ground. It kills most insects, definitely ants termites cockroaches, centipedes and spiders. But it leaves my lizards alone, they still thrive, doest hurt my poison arrow frogs and doesnt get into the water course [well a bit i suspect.]

A texan friend told me about it, he had loads of poisonous spuders where his kids play in his yard.

Not cheap, but excellent stuff. Weird thing - it doesnt hurt the tiny frogs, but seems to kill cane toads, or maybe the cane toads eat insects poisoned and die - anyway - they are history. Im actually sitting on my deck watching a golden tree frog - it has no desire to hurt anyone, but touch it and you might get very hurt, which is i guess why its the amphibian worlds best paint job.

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Ok. Dead rat on the footpath out the front of house over weekend. Stone dead in the middle of footpath. No wounds, no nothing. Must have had a bad curry or something.

Not even a native animal.

Joys of city living.

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Soneone left one on top of a roundabout here, 3 months later it was still there - mummified - but in typical local fashion - the lance aux epines roundabout became dead rat roundabout :-)

Unidentified dead rats = rat poison?

Its quite sad really, we had 2 rats wander into our kitchen when a back diir was left open. Fir a week they hid under a freezer - nipping out fir food overnight i suspect. We cleaned up the exposed food, and the first fell onto a peanut butter baited sticky pad and died quietly. Next day we saw the corpse, but the other one was lying dead next to thevpad, we assume it had taken poison earlier somewhere else

A glooming peace this morning with it brings;
The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head:
Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things;
Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished:
For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

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What flies do you get?? Where do you live?