Cockroaches - is this true?

edwardseco

Every day can be cockroach season in India and the southern US. If you plan to live there some time plastic wrap your books. They will leave detritis. I used tons of neat insecticide that is illegal in my home country. Between that and the asbestos sheet walls I had it covered..

crvlvr

What about those flying cockraoches? http://www.pestproducts.com/asian_cockroach.htm
ever had a roach just land on you from nowhere? that's what an indian flying cockraoch can do.

ruins_explorer

I can almost one-up this.

I was in Costa Rica staying in a "bungalow" on the beach - basically, it was a hut. Anyway, I expected some critters would get in, but what I did not expect that I'd be lying back reading and realize that something was crawling on my neck. I jumped up and my entire back was covered with ants. In fact, the entire bed was covered in ants (swarming, like you could hardly see the bed itself) as it had become part of the ants' trail for the day. I reported it to the front desk and they let us change rooms, but I felt like they didn't take me very seriously. Later, they went to spray the room and told me "you were right - I've never seen that many ants in one place before."

Bugs in the room, not great, but I can deal.
Bugs in the bed and I cannot deal with that.

crvlvr

I am sorry, but IMHO ants dont even come close to cockroaches in the gross out scale.

Nick-H

Cockroaches don't bite.

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GoanCanuck

Flying cockroaches are my worst nightmare! . I woke up one night in Goa having a strange feeling as if something unnatural was on my feet. Put the lights on and found the fattest cockroach I have ever seen on my bed.

ruins_explorer

also, cockroaches don't tend to swarm and crawl all over you. Usually they skitter away and hide from humans.

Except for that one flying cockroach in New Orleans . . .

Banarasi at heart

I think they do sometimes. In the brief time I was in Bangalore, I am sure they bit me. In some nights I could find 3-4 over me. The best way to prevent is to do the dishes every night and not leave any exposed/half consumed food in the open.

Interestingly, I think only the male cockroaches fly. Is this true?

rangss

I had a cockroach or two in my house...never bothered me or my foodstuff or my refrigerator (long ago, i found a roach in my deep freezer...all darkened and frozen like a piece of wood...but still alive!!!!).

What bug me are ants...too many of them...both black and red....live on my sugar!

Mozzies...this one is done to death so I won't start it again.

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Wanderer22

The Goa roaches are the biggest ones I've ever seen. This one in Arambol seemed to like the area behind the toilet tank. Too bad the lizard was drunk or it could have found a meal.... Perhaps they were buddies.

Worst I ever saw was a place in Calcutta. It was like a scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark..... Why is the floor moving?

W22

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kohinoor

A doctor told to use the mosquitonet at night also to prevent cockroaches, as they can sometimes carry diseases too. I'm sorry to pass this stressing information.

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Nick-H

That's a great lizard ---but I hope it managed to give up the wine!

rab

That about cockroaches swelling up is not strictly correct.

Cockroaches usually breed all year round and they deposit their eggs in an egg case called an ootheca.

The common cockroach (Blatta orientalis) deposits its egg case when ready, whereas the German cockroach (Blatella germanica) will carry its egg case with it and deposit it in a favourable location.

I used to work in the pest control industry for 11 years and there is more bullshit and more urban myths spoken about pest animals than any other subject I know.

rab

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dan_uk

When I was in Kochi in March, myself and my 2 danish friends murdered no less than 4 flying cockroaches by smacking sandals into them whilst they were resting on the walls. When we were checking out of the tiny guesthouse the next morning, the owner tried charging us 200 rupees for supposed damage to the walls!

edwardseco

In Austin they fly big fat and all. Some of you must have missed the movie Joes's Apartment..