Bugs?

[QbaLibre]

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The roaches here in Florida are MASSIVE. plus, some of them make a hissing/rattling noise when you bother them... it's really disturbing. I actually miss the rats we had in NYC after living around these roaches.

 

[Green Grass]

rats? roaches? is this in the slum areas or everywhere?

 

[wolvbb]

Palmetto bugs are roaches that went BALCO

You don't know the joy one feels when they get their first tick.... and this year they've been more common than usual


not to mention the scorpions, ants (of all shapes and colors), the occasional centipede, and wasps/hornets/yellow jackets/bees

I love GA

 

[Doctor D]

I was sitting on the couch the other day when a roach parachuted from the ceiling into my lap. Looked kind of like this.

 

[Green Grass]

I was sitting on the couch the other day when a roach parachuted from the ceiling into my lap. Looked kind of like this.

Is this just in regular apartments? I can't imagine having that in my apartment.

 

[bawer234]

Be greatful you aren't moving to the desert. In AZ we have 2" long roaches, tarantulas, scorpions, gila monsters, rattle snakes, coral snakes, and mountain lions.

 

[GoldShadow]

Snakes, lizards, mammals, and the like I can stand. But insects, arachnids, and all other "creepy-crawlies" I cannot. I hate them.

 

[Doublecortin]

I was sitting on the couch the other day when a roach parachuted from the ceiling into my lap. Looked kind of like this.

😱

 

[EpiPEN]

Anyone try building a roach trap before? You just get a glass jar and put left over coffee ground in it. Then tape up the sides of the jar with masking tape all thet way up to the lip of the jar. Then you set the jar in the corner of the room/house/kitchen (and use some masking tape to tape some walk ways from the wall to the lip of the jar). then give it a night or two and watch all the roaches that get trapped in the jar cuz they can't climb up straight glass

When we had a roach in my apartment during college, we gave it a shot but there were too many tiny baby roaches and the trap doesn't work well for them.

*EDIT*

One more thing, if you are scared of a roach or a spider, imagine what it's like from their point of view. You are a massive giant tens and possibly hundreds times their size. I mean, yeah I don't like having them around either, but I just find it funny when people tell me they are scared of them (rulling out the poisoned ones, which is few and far between).

 

[deleted74029]

Speaking of spiders check out this bite:

 

[EpiPEN]

Speaking of spiders check out this bite:

tasty

 

[EpiPEN]

really??? ooo i'm going to try that if i ever gather the courage to return to my apt...

why coffee grounds? i don't have a coffee machine...

coffee grounds are very fragrant, thus it attracts these little bugger. Plus used coffee grounds are moist, and roaches need moisture in order to live.

 

[Begaster]

really??? ooo i'm going to try that if i ever gather the courage to return to my apt...

why coffee grounds? i don't have a coffee machine...

Dale, I don't think it'll work for bugs that can fly.

 

[EpiPEN]

lol i know they'll fly out of a jar but what about like...a glass drink bottle with a skinny top. something they'd have to crawl into but would have to fly out of??

i'm not quite sure about how these things fly, because i've been too frantic and screamy to pay close attention. but i think they fly with their bodies horizontally, not vertically. so a skinny-necked bottle they might not be able to fly out of?

if anyone knows more about cockroach flying mechanics please help me out lol

I want to say most of the cockroaches don't fly since I haven't seen a flying one before. And I don't know if cockroaches can fly straight up or they need to go forward constantly, which means it might be okay if you get a jar tall (and not too fat) enough because there is not enough horizontal expansion to let them gain the elevation they need to escape.

Any other bio or bioengineering major want to offer some insight?

Ohh, maybe you can raise an army of spiders to counter the cockroach investation, then raise an army of spider eating wasps, then raise some wasp eating birds, then finally just open the windows and scare the birds out! 😀

 

[requeim]

bugs are a fact of life wherever you go to live.

 

[wolvbb]

Speaking of spiders check out this bite:

thats why we stay away from the small brown spiders down here, or just mush
them with extra pre-caution