Could it be just one..eeew..cockroach?

[miamiblue]

Originally Posted by mr.man

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I greatly prefer to see them like this:


FL (where I'm from) is palmetto bug/water bug/American cockroach heaven. They love the swampiness and the humidity there. They scurry across the sidewalk as you walk along at night. They mainly live outdoors, but find their way inside via any little place they can slide into. They don't really infest dwellings as they prefer to live outdoors and in sewers and other moist areas. They REALLY, REALLY like to live in the warm, moist coziness of pine straw and bark chips, which humans really like to (for some reason) surround their houses with!

You have not felt fear until you are cooking dinner in your friends' apartment and three or four 3" long of these bad boys start flying around in the kitchen, then realize that there are more of them trying to get in underneath the wood-framed windows!

After that experience, if I see one that is not flying, I do everything in my power to kill it before it does. A shoe works wonderfully if a powerful can of roach killer is not on-hand.

I have also seen wood roaches here, but mainly outdoors on my front porch.

[amcjap]

Once while in Miami, my sister asked me to move a huge dirty pot (about 18 inches tall, that was used for a big dinner) to another room while she washed the dishes. Not knowing any better, I put it on a small table just outside the back door. About two hours later she asked me to go get the pot so she could clean it. Well, thank God I turned on the light because every square inch of the pot was covered with HUGE water bugs and there was a trail of more coming. It was like something out of a horror movie. My poor brother in-law had the nasty task of throwing the pot out.

[AutumnOrange3]

There is a gigantic beast of a beetle called a Palo Verde Beetle in Arizona. I sure did not miss seeing them outside this Summer.

[mr.man]

Originally Posted by dreamsncharms

There is a gigantic beast of a beetle called a Palo Verde Beetle in Arizona. I sure did not miss seeing them outside this Summer.

Just Googled it, yuck what a beast!