Palmetto Bugs

[deesonic]

Originally Posted by boilrmkr

Oh the stories I could tell about the gigantor roaches I have encountered in the past 2 years in Savannah.....

As a former Savannah resident, I'll tell you rest assured we do not have near the "palmetto bug" problem in Huntsville. I see them from time to time, but not the giant flying variety you have there.

[Chrishaune]

This is a funny post. You people crack me up. Well, I have not seen one roach that flies here in Huntsville since I've been here. I've been here over 3 years now. The craziest thing I have seen where these bugs that looked like a mix between a grasshopper and a spider. I do happen to get a lot of spiders in my apartment, in Madison, but no "palmetto bugs".

I'm from Demopolis, AL in the middle of the Blackbelt. Every year from spring to fall we would get these things. They were rampant. I got used to them. You would just spray them with some roach spray and move on. They die very easily under a shoe also. I also stayed in Orlando and happened to see a odd type which was black with yellow stripes. Same thing though, they die easily.

[cobolt]

Originally Posted by boilrmkr

Oh the stories I could tell about the gigantor roaches I have encountered in the past 2 years in Savannah.....

I opened the cabinet above the stove to get a cookbook and one jumped out at me. I almost had a heart attack. It went behind the oven and I told my husband , who was about to go to bed, that if it took all night he was going to find and kill that monster. It was one of my worst nightmares.

I told this story to the "bug guy" who sprayed my house and he said he once had a female roommate who had a giant roach fly out at her, go down her shirt and get stuck in her bra. He said-that's your worst nightmare!

Giant roach was on the ceiling in the 2 story foyer recently-house is for sale and we can't have a roach on the ceiling. The kids had a great time throwing things at it. A balled up pair of socks works best. Of course once you get it down you have to kill it. Got roach spray for that-used half the can on it!

Oh I know all about those kitchen stories. A few years ago I was helping some friends move to Houston. As we were moving stuff into their new digs, (and this was a nice, high-dollar house) she opened up the kitchen cabinets and these huge Madagascar type hissing roaches were making this horrid, hissing noise and scampering about. They lunge at you, like they're not afraid. You could hear their little scamper and hissing sounds everywhere. It was maddening. I was glad I wasn't living there.

Now I'm having flashbacks of my own kitchen encounters in Hawaii. Man those things are yucky. And those terdy things they leave as they walk. I mean...gross!