Preventing bugs from entering hose

grayghost4 wrote:Quote: The warm winter thus far has the Asian Ladybugs in the midwest of the USA pretty active

And If you ever get one in a drink and crunch it .... you will never forget the taste of it

Ugh! That is almost enough to put a person off cool beverages! I hate those little things so much! I wish it would snow or a least get cold.

I need to vacuum, be right back.

chunkyfrog wrote:A good argument for closed or transparent drink containers!
And to think; I have a Mason jar with a STRAW on my nightstand!
Never sucked anything unexpected through it--YET!

And if one gets into the White Lightning it will take that taste right out of that bug. Jim

We live in the country and bugs from miles away flock to our lights. We have a lot of spiders too but I have never got one in my mask. Just recently I started putting my mask under the covers on the bed to protect it from our puppy. He has never tried to touch it yet, but I am not ready to trust him yet.

chunkyfrog wrote:A good argument for closed or transparent drink containers!
And to think; I have a Mason jar with a STRAW on my nightstand!
Never sucked anything unexpected through it--YET!

Actually, this happened to me about a month ago. I always use a travel mug, complete with lid, for my morning coffee (an old habit from when I was working). On the morning in question, took a swig and noted a lump in the coffee. THAT SHOULDN'T BE THERE, I thought. Spit it out and found a ladybug. YUCK!

Fortunately, I didn't crunch it.

I suspect the lady bug had been hiding in the lid for the mug. Ever since, I always tap it a few times before installing on the mug.

Don't want to repeat that, ever!

Stormynights wrote:We live in the country and bugs from miles away flock to our lights. We have a lot of spiders too but I have never got one in my mask. Just recently I started putting my mask under the covers on the bed to protect it from our puppy. He has never tried to touch it yet, but I am not ready to trust him yet.

Simple solution. TURN OFF YOUR LIGHTS. They're probably not doing you any good anyway. If you need lights. Install motion sensors. Those won't be on long enough to attract any bugs.

Or send your address to my hungry cousins . . .

chunkyfrog wrote:Or send your address to my hungry cousins . . .

You really do think like your avatar .... or is that actually a photo?

maybe there already is a colony living in the cpap, swimming and drinking from the magical great lake that appears and vanishes and reappears, pushing back the filter to catch dust mites and other bugs for food, and banishing their social malcontents down the 'great wind tunnel of no return'.

yeah, i have this 2012 s9 vpap auto with about 6,400 hour on it. I used it a few times when testing for bipap usefulness, and cleaned it before I used it. it might have been in someone's garage for a bit because the bag had leaves on it. yours for the price of shipping, bugs and all -- the ones I didn't inhale that is. no hose, no mask, no bag (i was short a bag, so I need it), power cord, old style cleanable water tub, filter holder, sd card. has vauto, vpap s, and cpap modes. too many hours on it to try and sell, in my opinion, and I didn't use it much but I always felt full after I used it.

Sold to "Starvin' Marvin"!

Pet mouse takes care of the bugs. Snake in the hose takes care of the mouse. Survival of the fittest. Now I guess I need a skinny weasel to take care of the snake.

I don't know, I suppose anything is possible. When I was around 10 yo I sat up in bed, put on fresh socks. Some strange reason I decided to bang my engineer boots heel down, turned one over and a huge black widow spider came falling out. Have no idea what made me decide to do that. Men's intuition, I suppose.
Cheers,
otrpu

Maybe that was a bug, I thought it was weird that I had a piece of popcorn in my mask, I thought the moisture was from the humidity. Tasted OK, but not like popcorn.

Hose_Head wrote:

Actually, this happened to me about a month ago. I always use a travel mug, complete with lid, for my morning coffee (an old habit from when I was working). On the morning in question, took a swig and noted a lump in the coffee. THAT SHOULDN'T BE THERE, I thought. Spit it out and found a ladybug. YUCK!

Fortunately, I didn't crunch it.

I suspect the lady bug had been hiding in the lid for the mug. Ever since, I always tap it a few times before installing on the mug.

Don't want to repeat that, ever![/quote]


When I was 11 (you don't forget your age when something like this happens) I felt something crawling on my chest under my shirt. I DID crunch it and thought I'd die right there. Ran home crunching the 'thing', and screaming into the house. My mom got it off me and it was a pretty large critter from the look on my mom's face. She never would tell me what it was. Probably a very good thing.

I live in California and the rainy season is when the ants come out to play. Of course there's a filter on my machine's air intake port, so no problems there, however I put a piece of densely wadded up paper towel in the humidifier tank port when the tank is out of the machine. Just be sure to remove the wad of paper towel or you'll have problems. That's why I use a densely wadded up paper towel... then I can't get the tank latched in without removing it. My mask isn't an issue because I wash it daily and hang it up every day on a hat rack out of harm's way. I guess, like several others have mentioned, you could bag it and forget it but I like mine to dry out during the day.

Sir NoddinOff wrote:I live in California and the rainy season is when the ants come out to play. Of course there's a filter on my machine's air intake port, so no problems there, however I put a piece of densely wadded up paper towel in the humidifier output port when the tank is out of the machine. Just be sure to remove the wad of paper towel or you'll have problems. That's why I use a densely wadded up paper towel... then I can't get the tank latched in without removing it. My mask isn't an issue because I wash it daily and hang it up every day on a hat rack out of harm's way. I guess, like several others have mentioned, you could bag it and forget it but I like mine to dry out during the day.

Some years ago, I recycled some of the thick foam packing (the squeezable kind) that came with some of the old computer hard drives I had bought.......into plugs for my CPAP machine output ports. I just used a scissors and cut them into tapered plugs.......squeeze them a little to insert into the ports and they stay put till I get ready to use the machine. Good seal. Nothing can get in.


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