Help Me Kill A Bug!!! Gross, Funny, Serious!

[Macawnutz]

I hope it's a bug... or maybe I dont.

Four years ago I bought two grapevine T stands, one I loved and mounted to the top of my living room table and the other was not the best piece and it went into the garage.

About maybe a year ago I was having a cup of coffee and heard a strange sound coming from the tree. Yes, at first I thought I was crazy but after some questionable moments I did in fact assure myself it was coming from my T stand. Thinking some nasty bug was going to pop out I quickly threw it into the garage to deal with at a later time.

I disassembled the stand and soaked the log in F10, about a month later I brought it back into the house. Noise free.

A few months later my husband heard a strange clicking noise in the garage. Lo and behold the other T stand was making the very same sound. As this one was in the garage and not to our liking we left it be and never heard it after that day.

This morning, again having my coffee, my mounted T stand started up again. This time it almost sounded as if something inside was crawling/scratching or something. I did not wait to hear more and again... it's in my garage.

I love this stand. I won't share with a bug!
What bug is living in it? Does it stay in there or come out when I'm not looking? What is it eating? How did it live in there for four years through WI winters and steam cleanings?

How do I kill it?

I'm thinking of some giant prehistoric cockroach or something! It's not coming back in the house until it's DEAD!!!!

 

[rocky'smom]

could it be cicada, they are pretty good size and live underground and in wood piles for like 7 years?

 

[Macawnutz]

could it be cicada, they are pretty good size and live underground and in wood piles for like 7 years?

Ummm, I'm not sure. Want to come over and check it out?

What would kill one?

 

[Aubrey]

Not funny. Just

I also considered you might have some kind of hallucinogenic drug in your coffee

 

[MommyBird]

most cicadas spend the early stages of their life underground and need living roots to feed from, so I don't think it's one of them

 

[SandraK]

Not funny. Just

I also considered you might have some kind of hallucinogenic drug in your coffee

Bird poop?

 

[SandraK]

Ummm, I'm not sure. Want to come over and check it out?

What would kill one?

Cicadas are large and ugly but totally harmless - are any parts of the stand big enough for a mouse to burrow into?

I've taken photos of newly hatched cicadas but I have the feeling you won't want to see them. They are actually quite beautiful with iridescent green wings ...

 

[kathyth]

OMG! I would throw the whole thing in the fireplace. Seriously!
I hope you can resolve the problem.

 

[Macaw Lover]

Wondering if keeping it out in the garage over the winter and you get a good freezing spell, if that would kill it off.

 

[Bartleby]

I'm having visions of those broomsticks from Disney's Fantasia except this time it's a grapevine perch coming along after you!

 

[SandraK]

Come on Sarah, you live out in the countryside. With horses around you. And birds. And a petting zoo.

And bugs faze you? Girl, you've got to put your on, put on your riding boots and (cover your ears insect lovers on AA) stomp the hmmm life out of the suckers ... Just leave the cicadas alone, I'll come and get them ...

 

[gibsongrrrl]

That is absolutely horrific. I'd try recording the noise and emailing a bug person. Or just leave it all behind and move, lol

 

[SandraK]

 

[Macawnutz]

Wondering if keeping it out in the garage over the winter and you get a good freezing spell, if that would kill it off.

The other one was in the garage for two years before we heard it.

What if I submerge it in the bathtub for a day?

 

[gibsongrrrl]

What about a death watch beetle?

 

[gibsongrrrl]

They are wood boring and make clicking sounds. There are some videos on YouTube if the sounds

 

[rocky'smom]

I use to find them in wood pile at the farm. they are ugly as sin and noisy as H#)(. the first time had one on me you could have heard to Sandra's house screaming. uncle thought it was funny until I put one down the back his britches. then it was not so funny.

 

[SandraK]

@gibsongirl OR you can watch the movie Practical Magic and learn all about the death watch beetle.

 

[Crazy4parrots]

Cicadas are not funny i hate them we have them here YEAR AROUND from March- July and May- September!

 

[SandraK]

My grandmother always said that when the cicadas started singing early it meant that it was going to be a hot day (in Brazil). this theory seems to work in my area in summer too.

@Crazy4parrots Give me a cicada any day over a cucaracha (cockroach).