Those wonderful cockroaches
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I don't have German cockroaches.
But I've been battling Palmetto bugs for quite some time.
Everytime I use a new bait or poison, they soon avoid the area.
They really are the perfect animal to inhabit the earth.
But I've been battling Palmetto bugs for quite some time.
Everytime I use a new bait or poison, they soon avoid the area.
They really are the perfect animal to inhabit the earth.
All we need do is adapt our eating habits and tastes and we’ll inhabit earth consuming them all along.
idk chitin is a fairly common allergy, people just don't realize they are allergic because they don't eat bugs purposefully.
Adding the fact that 80 percent of the world's population eats insects as a regular part of their diet didn't seem to make an impression. And neither did the fact that they contain lots of protein and hardly any fat. Americans' antipathy to bugs as food is well-entrenched.May 7, 2012
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As an American that likes to eat HOT DOGS, I feel confident that I do my part in consuming insects....
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My attic looks like CHRISTMAS.
I hired an exterminator to blow it full of diatomaceous earth powder.
That did help for a short period of time.
I hired an exterminator to blow it full of diatomaceous earth powder.
That did help for a short period of time.
Natural selection...
There are about two dozen insect species that are referred to as "palmetto bugs". As a roach hobbyist, I would love to see some pics of yours to ID them. Can you bring yourself to catch one and take some close up pics?
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Unfortunately. I'm sure I'll have that opportunity in the next 24 hours or so.
Only the biggest ones have wings and can fly. I'll try to photograph one of them.
They seem to all be the same species, but they change in appearance (and in creepiness) when they get those wings.
They always get bad during the rainy season....And it's here.
In some roach species, only the adult males have wings. Females and juveniles do not.
So your palmetto bugs can actually fly? Not just break their fall if tossed?
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Yeah.
They "fly" like a Flying Squirrel does.
They can glide if they fall from a height.
Unfortunately when they do fly, they like nothing more than to fly towards, and often land on my wife.
So if one is scrambling across the ceiling and you spray it, be prepared to run.
They are about 1.5" long.
But seem bigger.
They also run at amazing speeds.
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That's what we have here in Jamaica too. That's an adult male. The adult females wings don't completely cover the abdomen. The immature ones have no wings yet and look like little tanks running around.
That is the American cockroach. Periplaneta americana. They are actually native to Africa or the Middle East... Apparently introduced over here a couple hundred years ago. Fun.
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They sure are doing just fine here!
I spend a lot of money killing them and keeping them out of the house and I'm still losing the battle
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Is it just me, or do only the winged ones seem extra creepy?
When they're small, the house geckos usually eat them.
It's not just you. The winged ones are certainly more creepy - and empowered by their ability to fly!
My Jamaican Giant Green anole eats the immature ones so I actually breed the cockroaches (in a roach prison with no possibility of parole). Now and then I kill a mature one and my redfoot tortoises enjoy it.
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