Are there Flying Roaches in Maine

[Submariner]

Originally Posted by LilyMae521

You can mash potatoes but you can't pea soup.


:-)

Just visualize swirled peas.



According to the CDC:
https://www.tickcheck.com/stats/state/maine/lyme

It looks like Maine is getting between 1200 and 1400 cases of Lyme each year.

[Gerania]

Originally Posted by Hollytree

Plenty of Lyme in Maine. It's also now documented in the Carolinas and other more southern points. https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/stats/maps.html

Ticks also carry powassan and babieosis.

I'd say this is as bad as it gets. Common bugs such as cockroaches not common in New England since our winters can freeze.

That's why roaches move into nice warm buildings.

[Kiwiluver]

Originally Posted by OutDoorNut

In Maine and all of the Northeast, I'd be more concerned about getting lyme disease from deer ticks.

I contracted Lyme disease this summer clearing brush. I still am feeling the effects of it. I followed all the rules still caught it.

[ABQConvict]

Originally Posted by Gerania

That's why roaches move into nice warm buildings.

As someone who lives in a climate that has large roaches (American, Oriental) but also freezes (Albuquerque, New Mexico), I have this to say:

Between late October and late April, the freeze period, you don't see any roaches indoors or out. The freeze kills them and since their life cycle is mainly centered outdoors, they die off, except their eggs which lay dormant outside until it warms up.

The one exception is the German cockroach (little, non-flying roaches that characteristically infest restaurants and homes) which do indeed live their lives indoors and infest all 50 states, Canada, all of Europe including northern Europe. These types, however are easy to control by keeping a clean house with no water leaks and the judicious application of pesticides.

[JGKUNKEL]

• ST. ROACH
  by Muriel Rukeyser
  from The Gates, McGraw-Hill, 1976

• For that I never knew you, I only learned to dread you,
  for that I never touched you, they told me you are filth,
  they showed me by every action to despise your kind;
  for that I saw my people making war on you,
  I could not tell you apart, one from another,
  for that in childhood I lived in places clear of you,
  for that all the people I knew met you by
  crushing you, stamping you to death, they poured boiling
  water on you, they flushed you down,
  for that I could not tell one from another
  only that you were dark, fast on your feet, and slender.
  Not like me.
  For that I did not know your poems
  And that I do not know any of your sayings
  And that I cannot speak or read your language
  And that I do not sing your songs
  And that I do not teach our children
  to eat your food
  or know your poems
  or sing your songs
  But that we say you are filthing our food
  But that we know you not at all.
  Yesterday I looked at one of you for the first time.
  You were lighter than the others in color, that was
  neither good nor bad.
  I was really looking for the first time.
  You seemed troubled and witty.
  Today I touched one of you for the first time.
  You were startled, you ran, you fled away
  Fast as a dancer, light, strange and lovely to the touch.
  I reach, I touch, I begin to know you.

[GregW]

FWIW - The guy they found frozen in a cave in Switzerland a decade or so ago was ill when he died. In addition to being the oldest (5,000 or so) cold case murder on record he had Lyme disease. Apparently both murder and Lyme have been with humanity for quite a while.

[Gerania]

Interesting.

[Jellybean50]

La cucaracha, la cucaracha
Ya no puede caminar
Porque no tiene, porque le falta
Marijuana que fumar.