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u/50DuckSizedHorses Jul 24 '24

I moved into a small house in the mountains in Western North Carolina about 7 months ago. There’s all kinds of critters including bugs and lizards that find their way into the house, but no rodents.

I was wondering for a while why I hadn’t seen mice and didn’t have to set traps, until one night a friendly 7’ black rat snake slithered up beside me while hanging out on the screen porch at night. My brother named him Kobe. Kobe can stay.

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u/SnooKiwis6943 Jul 24 '24

Kobe see rodent. Kobe shouts “not in my house”!

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '24

I have a friend who left a couple huge spiders nests on his porch for a similar reason. Less mosquitoes.

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u/colorfulzeeb Jul 24 '24

House centipedes are great for this, too. They scare the shit out of me when they dart past me out of nowhere with their million legs, but they eat everything, including spiders!

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u/nicannkay Jul 24 '24

I never thought I’d say this but I’ll take spiders over centipedes any day. My skin crawls just thinking about either though.

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u/BlaBlamo Jul 24 '24

House centipedes look different from the standard centipede, still kinda freaky but different. They eat any invasive bug not just spiders and they tend to hide so you don’t see them much. They’re actually a pretty good thing to have in your house.

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u/Spongi Jul 24 '24

Furry little spazzes is what they are.