Squashed Like a Bug

I am lucky that the apartment building i live in is still quite new... so cockroaches are not that common... but i do see one from time to time... and when that happens... i always arm myself with a something to swat it... and insecticide just in case i goes under the fridge... that way i can just spray it out... and it will eventually die after a few minutes... Of all the bugs there is... i don't like cockroaches the most...

Every summer we get hit with ants. A friend who likes to keep her place really clean has ant problems too. Other people we know have them around this time. So it's not because we're slobs that we have ants. Ha! We actually try to keep the kitchen area devoid of crumbs. But speaking of cockroaches, I was at someone's house, standing on a chair, trying to get something from the top cabinet and when I opened it, something flew out and I saw at least three of them. I shut the cabinet door and told my friend. She wanted to see for herself and I begged her not to do so. She didn't believe me because she thinks there are no cockroaches in California. I became hysterical and started crying. I didn't even know I was scared of cockroaches. I haven't even asked my friend if she ever got them taken care of.

Reminds me of palmetta bugs here in FL. I hate those critters. i am terrified of them. the suckers get to be like 2 inches long and are aggressive! I have been chased by one and now the terrify me. They are fast and disgusting. They are black and are related to cochroaches too and look a lot like them only bigger and have a real hard armour too. It takes a lot to kill these creeps.

I also live in Florida with the cockroaches on steroids lol...One thing not mentioned is that they also fly....They love to dive bomb you...They are in fact very aggressive I can't stand them...Another annoying bug we have here but luckily only seasonal are love bugs...You want to talk about an annoying bug...Man when they are here they a think and stick to everything including you!!!!

I love the description lol I could almost picture it. I noticed a weird one here the other day. I tried to get a picture of it but with a camera phone it was not coming out very good so I gave up. It looked like a bee sort of. It was longer bodied than a bee It was red with black stripes and fuzzy like a bee. It had a be hinny but no stinger that I could see. The head looked more like an ant though without the antenna. I had never seen one before. It was not aggressive for I chased it all through the grass trying to get a picture. It was for sure weird looking to me. We also have those great big roach looking things. I hate those because I think they are roaches and I hate roaches. Plus they are like horror movie roaches great big eat your brains kind of roaches. Yuck!!

Cockroaches don't really like cold weather, thankfully. I was 26 when I moved to Texas and as I was moving into my apartment, I let out a HUGE scream. My friends came a-running, thinking I was being killed, I guess. But they laughed when they realized I was screaming about the stupid tree roach that was crawling on the wall. Texas grows big bugs and this thing looked like about 3 inches long to me. (It probably wasn't.) Tree roaches are known as such because they do hang out in trees, but then they dive bomb your head as you go by. Yuck. A few days after that, I heard a sound that seemed to be coming from the bathroom. I couldn't figure out how a burglar would have gotten in my front door and past me in the bedroom and why he would be in my bathroom. I turned on the light and the noise stopped. Turned it off and it started. I figured out that it was coming from the medicine cabinet, so it couldn't be human. There he was - a huge cockroach - eating a throat lozenge. I thnk I threw everything in the medicine cabinet out because I was so grossed out. Then a few weeks later, I had a brown grocery bag in my kitchen for the trash and something woke me up again in the middle of the night. Whatever it was, it was in that paper bag and making it jump all over the kitchen. I was sure it was a mouse. Nope. Another cockroach. I couldn't believe the noise that one stupid bug made. (It's not easy to wake me.) I never got used to the things. And I liked living in Florida much better. If you keep plenty of lizards in your yard in FL, you don't seem to have a bug problem. Now that I'm back in cold country, THOSE bugs aren't much of a problem. But we sure are having lots of cicada noises lately. My doggie was playing with one the other night - and was surprised when he put one in his mouth.

Yuck - it looks disgusting; it looks just like a cockroach. We have them here in Australia, but I think ours are bigger. We also have flying cockroaches which are even worse! I have posted a picture of a mighty big cockroach for you (it's about 2 inches long), that I came across when I was looking after a friend's house in the bush (everything is oversized there!) It looks like a cockroach, but it had a hard shell on it, as you can see, so I'm not sure what it is. Someone told me it looks like a sugar cane beetle. See what you think.

The bug that I encounter most in my apartment is the common cockroach, the type you see shown in the attached picture. These roaches mostly come in from the sewers and the rubbish chute. Sometimes, during rainy season, they can also fly in from the outside. When they appear in my home unannounced, they are almost certain to bring out some screams from the people living here. Unfortunately for these roaches, they will have to deal with me, and my wife can tell you that I am a ruthless executioner of roaches. My secret weapon? A simple pair of rubber bands, which in my hands are deadlier than any insecticide available in the market. I am quite a sharpshooter and if they have a rubberband shooting competition in the Olympics, I will be a frontrunner for a medal surely!! For the record, for every 10 cockroaches that come visiting, only one will get to leave alive. The rest will get a royal send-off when they are flushed down the toilet bowl after they first get a taste of my deadly rubberbands.

Okay, I'll have night mares to night!!! But that reminds me of when I lived in western texas - out in the middle of nowhere. I was planting green beans and just minding my ownbusiness and digging up the ground and all when I looked down and there... crawling OVER MY FOOT was a trantula! I take that back... A HUGE TRANTULA SPIDER!!! I thought if that ever happened to me I'd scream bloody murder, but for some odd, odd reason, I looked at the spooky thing and just took my shovel and beat the living daylights out of it!!! I hear bug parts make great fertilizer!! Afterwards, I thought later..why didn't that scare me? I'd a thought it would, but guess we all react better than we might think in weird times! That last earthquake we had - 5.9 and I was only 8 miles from the epicenter and I stood there while my apt building swayed and rolled nad thought - "oh, this is really oddly cool! I can feel this sucker just a swayin' as tho it were in a wind storm..wow, nothing is falling and aboslutely no noise..." Okay, I'm weird!!

EWWWWYUCK!!! That is gross, it is things like this that make me glad I live in the UK. I know that we get some yucky bugs here but NOTHING compared to that, well not that I have come across anyway. It is horrible. I think the worst thing I get is spiders, this year we have had hundreds of really ugly big spiders compared to previous years, I think it is because it is so damp just lately. But they are bad enough for me!

Ewwwwwww! I hate those things. We have them here in Texas, too. We have some pretty big ones around where we live. I turned on the kitchen light one morning, and saw something moving. At first, I thought it was a baby mouse,(we have a creek behind the house. Lots of mice out there, trying to get in the houses)I think it scared me more when I realized it was a water bug and not a mouse. I kid you not, this thing was the size of a baby mouse! I grabbed some Simple Green, or air freshner or something, from under the sink and chased the sucker down. He was big enough you could hear him running across the floor! My husband heard the commotion and came into the kitchen. I was standing there trying to make myself pick him up with a paper towel and throw him out the door. He grabbed the paper towel, (hubby, not the bug*L*) and threw him in the garbage can. We got something to spray around the baseboard, under the sinks and around the doors and windows. I am not sure what it is, but it is oderless, and is supposed to be safe around house hold pets and children. I haven't seen one since, but if I do, I will try to stay calm enough to grab the camera and take a picture of it. Yuck, yuck, yuck!

Ew hahaha yup i know cause i use to live in arizona those bugs are really huge there, especially those water bugs i use to see those and get really kreeped out haha.

I don't usually kill the bugs and other creatures that may happen to be in my house. Because before I was here, or before my house was built on this land, it could have been their home. My home could have destroyed theirs and they're just in need of a new habitat. So all I usually do when I find: spiders, lizards, ladybugs, dragonfly's, bees, frogs(we have a Koi fish pond)[frogs are attracted to ponds] and other creatures I just catch them in a reusable jar ( I use this jar to catch everything in my compound) and release them outside of my housing area. AS I feel their life span is shorter than mine and they have a right to live too.

hi drannhh quite interesting to go through this post hehe, i don't like roaches as well, they are fast and creepy, i could pick them up by the antenna but i don't want it touch my hands eh yuch! and the roaches which can fly! they are disgusting, i especially hate the ones which can fly, lucky me i don't have many cockroaches in my home, i don't like to quash them coz it makes it messy lol, i would rather try to smack it gently or umm try to catch it with something and just get rid of it, it is not going to die falling from the first floor is it? wish it did! haha! i would not scream if i saw one but if it happens to crawl anywhere on my skin i am going to jump spontaneously lol! i can't think of any kind of bug crawling over me, i just don't want to even think about it ish! earlier we used to have rats too, but then, somehow they seemed to disappear somewhere, i guess our cat helped us a lot! anyways that leaves us with spiders and lizards lol, i hate spiders more that lizards, especially the big ones, i mean the ones with a thick stomach yuck! and yeah i hate them so much i would squash, squish, smash, smack, crush,.. whatever' hehehe... i hate spiders! and i would leave the lizards at peace, they don't do much harm, rather eat some of the annoying little bugs, well nothing can be done about that either hehe. well i have got no pictures of the crime scene hehe... anyways, glad to respond to your discussion :)