Is this a cockroach?

There’s a difference in a German cockroach that infests indoor abodes, and outdoor critters like this, i.e.“waterbugs” in my neck of the woods, and Palmetto bugs, which are both larger than German cockroaches
 
Yep, cockroach. Looks like a female that has just given birth to thousands of babies, too. :rolleyes:

That's why it was moving so fast. Dumped that load of babies around the bedroom.

OP,
check the bed real good tonight.
Don't want one of them crawling in your ear while you're sleeping.
 
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Just get some shotshell rounds for your Glock. I hear they work great, especially when they're airborne. :D
 
Buy some of the granulated pest killer from Lowe's etc. Go all the way around the house and spread it right at the foundation. It will help with everything from that to ants and basically anything that crawls, wiggles, squirms or slithers, etc. I make especially sure I do around our HVAC unit at least twice a year....ants in the switch when it's 100 degrees outside stinks.
 
Just get some shotshell rounds for your Glock. I hear they work great, especially when they're airborne. :D
Glock? I like Glocks but I think he needs to contact @Michael458 for an appropriate rifle.
 
Glock? I like Glocks but I think he needs to contact @Michael458 for an appropriate rifle.
Well, if he's going to go long gun, he might as well go 12ga. I just thought the handgun shotshells would go easier on his floors. Plus he's inside and he'll have more mobility around furniture. :D


BTW, I'd much rather have the Palmetto bugs than the little German roaches. They're particularly invasive and nasty. Boric acid works wonders.
 
Years ago a group of us went to the Alligator Farm in St. Augustine, Florida. One area had an elevated wooden walkway over the water, with what looked like the old-fashioned bubble gum machines that sold food pellets you could feed to the fish. I watched a woman put in a quarter, turn the knob, and vend a huge cockroach into her waiting hand. If the roach toss was an Olympic event she would have won the gold medal. And I imagine she would have placed well in the hollerin' contest they used to hold in Spivey's Corner.
 
BTW, I'd much rather have the Palmetto bugs than the little German roaches. They're particularly invasive and nasty. Boric acid works wonders.

I lived in an apartment on 4th Ave. in downtown Huntington WV back in 1983 -04 when I was a junior at Marshall University. Our apartment was so infested with German cockroaches that during anytime, day or night, you could stand in one place anywhere in the apartment and look around and spot a live cockroach. It was terrible.

One morning my roommate and I were starting to fix breakfast. He reached up in the cabinet and pulled out a box of Grape Nuts. He pulled the flap open and just like out of some horror movie, out came scurrying about a million cockroaches. It was so bad that my girlfriend at the time (now my wife) came over to visit one day and carried one of them in her purse back to her dorm room.

Countless times I put a pair of pants or a shirt on when at least one, more often more than one, of those little cockroaches were in my clothes. They were notorious for coming out at night while we were sleeping and running all over the beds as well.

Disgusting. The apartment had a very distinct odor that originated from the roaches. We tried putting down this stuff Paul Harvey used to pitch on his radio show back at that time called Roach Proof. I think it was basically Boric Acid. It was a blue powder. We liberally poured that stuff all over the carpet around the baseboards and other locations around the apartment. The roach population got worse and it appeared that they were eating that stuff and multiplying as a result.

Absolutely awful is the only way I can describe that situation. We had mice everywhere, including inside our oven and inside the HVAC duct work on top of all of what I just described with the roaches. But the roaches were the worst.
 
Yes, I can smell that acrid smell.
 
Years ago a group of us went to the Alligator Farm in St. Augustine, Florida. One area had an elevated wooden walkway over the water, with what looked like the old-fashioned bubble gum machines that sold food pellets you could feed to the fish. I watched a woman put in a quarter, turn the knob, and vend a huge cockroach into her waiting hand. If the roach toss was an Olympic event she would have won the gold medal. And I imagine she would have placed well in the hollerin' contest they used to hold in Spivey's Corner.

Maybe it's deja vu but I think I remember you telling that hilarious story before, either on here, or another site.:D:eek:
 
Maybe it's deja vu but I think I remember you telling that hilarious story before, either on here, or another site.:D:eek:
You're right, I did. In my own defense, you won't find that other post by hitting the "back" button twice (unlike some who post on here... you know who you are :D)
 
I lived in an apartment on 4th Ave. in downtown Huntington WV back in 1983 -04 when I was a junior at Marshall University. Our apartment was so infested with German cockroaches that during anytime, day or night, you could stand in one place anywhere in the apartment and look around and spot a live cockroach. It was terrible.

One morning my roommate and I were starting to fix breakfast. He reached up in the cabinet and pulled out a box of Grape Nuts. He pulled the flap open and just like out of some horror movie, out came scurrying about a million cockroaches. It was so bad that my girlfriend at the time (now my wife) came over to visit one day and carried one of them in her purse back to her dorm room.

Countless times I put a pair of pants or a shirt on when at least one, more often more than one, of those little cockroaches were in my clothes. They were notorious for coming out at night while we were sleeping and running all over the beds as well.

Disgusting. The apartment had a very distinct odor that originated from the roaches. We tried putting down this stuff Paul Harvey used to pitch on his radio show back at that time called Roach Proof. I think it was basically Boric Acid. It was a blue powder. We liberally poured that stuff all over the carpet around the baseboards and other locations around the apartment. The roach population got worse and it appeared that they were eating that stuff and multiplying as a result.

Absolutely awful is the only way I can describe that situation. We had mice everywhere, including inside our oven and inside the HVAC duct work on top of all of what I just described with the roaches. But the roaches were the worst.
When I was in college my girlfriend and I bought a used refrigerator from a local furniture store and put it in her dorm room. Then we started to see the occasional cockroach in the room. When I found one inside the refrigerator I decided to take the door apart to investigate. In those days the insulation was fiberglass, not plastic foam, and when I took the door panel off the roaches went everywhere. We managed to kill them all. We later gave the fridge to her father, and it gave him many (roach free) years of service cooling beer in his basement.
 
Wayne State University in detroit has some dorms. When people tell you which dorm they live in, you ask "roaches or bedbugs?" before deciding to stop by.
That is not even a joke, sadly.

Also, wifey wanted to buy some used appliances when we moved own here to NC. I "nope"d it pretty quick because of the roach scene. Bad enough with the occasional little bugger that makes it past my bug sprays around the foundation, vents, cracks, etc... i dont' want more.
 
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Bait Gels or 12 gauge shotgun work best. Your choice!!!
 
Screenshot_20200501-081230.jpg This is some of the best stuff I've found, and it's priced right. I mix it as directed and spray inside about twice a yr. I double the mixture and spray outside 3-4 times a year. Bugs don't like it.
 
If you find that you have a small infestation of roaches, you want to get your hands on some Advion. We use it commercially and it's amazing. I'm talking "roaches scattering out from everywhere" one day to no roaches the next day. Absolutely amazing stuff.
 
I have used this stuff from Tractor Supply and it works really well. It is also apparently very safe around people and pets:

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