Eeeeewwwww

[fluter]

When I was in South Carolina the standard joke was the "Palmetto Bug" - flying Cockroach-Eeeeew! was the "State Bird".

We still have them, too.

Hey Alan,
It could have been worse. It could have been a Madagascar hissing cockroach. Talk about huge!

Actually, we have those---but only in the Biology department's lab. Here is the roach-cam. The second link is a live Web-cam: you have been warned.

[CDNSushi]

The second link is a live Web-cam: you have been warned.

They're TEEMING!

[Bugbear]

Oh, I can't help it!! I belong in this thread.

Those Madagascar hissing cockroach beatles are unbelievable. I was reading something a while back where they subjected one to a near- space vacuum, it had something to do with those space hotels they're planning, and the roach revived! I don't remember how long it was in the vacuum chamber, but it's not like a vacuum takes long.

Sorry I don't have a source for that because I just don't remember where I read it. Ehh, don't let those get out...

[Detroitpete]

Alan,
Before I served 8 years in the military I would have thought your roach find was gross. After said 8 years...well, some of my mates would have just called it a scone and moved on ;-)

[McFarkus]

And non-Scots wonder how we sit down to steamin' plates o' haggis with great delight!

What are a few stinking cockroaches compared with steamin' plates o' haggis?

[Downix]

Our neighbors moved out a year or so ago. They had this pet lizard. Didn't think anything of it till we suddenly got these odd looking roaches about the place. All of an inch long, teeny roaches start showing up. Turns out, our neighbors were breeding them to sell them on the internet as lizard food. have yet to manage to figure out how to eradicate them. No idea what breed of roach they are either.

[Jerry]

Reminds me of the time, I got drafted over at the plant. I picked up my "overtime meal money" from the security guard and , went to the plant cafeteria. As I was standing there waiting for my two cheeseburgers to be cooked, A roach crawled across the counter. I made the coment, "the food must be getting better, the roaches are coming back." The old lady who was doing the cooking heard me and said, "my food does not attract roaches" I answered, I guess not, they usually look for something better." She burned my burgers.

[Bugbear]

Our neighbors moved out a year or so ago. They had this pet lizard. Didn't think anything of it till we suddenly got these odd looking roaches about the place. All of an inch long, teeny roaches start showing up. Turns out, our neighbors were breeding them to sell them on the internet as lizard food. have yet to manage to figure out how to eradicate them. No idea what breed of roach they are either.

Those might be meali bugs; I don't know if that is how you spell it. I used to have an iguana... and yes iguanas eat roaches too.
Yet another tail from the college days in a tiny studio apartment: Sin City, Arizona.

Get yourself several bottles of powdered boric acid, like "Hot Shot," and work it up under the baseboards and cracks and so on until they can't go anywhere without getting in it. Several hundred roach motels will work well too, or make up your own bate with sugar and the Hot Shot.
It might seem like you suddenly have more of the little guys than before because they kind of go crazy as the boric acid gets in their system. They're also looking for water, so you might find them belly up and twiching legs around the sinks and so on.

[runewolf]

The hissing roaches are cool and surprisingly very clean. I'm friends with one of our state's biologists who specializes in bugs and he has several that we play with. He says that unlike most other species the hissing ones cannot carry the diseases the others do. Kinda neat.

[CDNSushi]

Thought I'd take a closer look at the lobster connection... Turns out, they're not that similar at all. In fact, you probably have more in common (taxonomically speaking) with your pet cat... Sorry...

cockroach

Domain: Eukaryota () - Whittaker & Margulis,1978
Kingdom: Animalia () - Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
Subkingdom: Bilateria () - (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
Branch: Protostomia () - Grobben, 1908
Infrakingdom: Ecdysozoa () - Aguinaldo Et Al., 1997 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
Superphylum: Panarthropoda () - Cuvier
Phylum: Arthropoda () - Latreille, 1829 - arthropods
Subphylum: Hexapoda () - Snodgrass, 1938
Infraphylum: Atelocerata () - Heymons, 1901
Superclass: Panhexapoda ()
Epiclass: Hexapoda ()
Class: Insecta () - Linnaeus, 1758 - Insects
Subclass: Dicondylia ()
Infraclass: Pterygota ()
Order: Blattodea ()
Superfamily: Blattoidea ()
Family: Blattidae ()
Subfamily: Blattinae ()
Genus: Periplaneta () - Burmeister, 1838
Specific name: americana - (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Scientific name: - Periplaneta americana (Linnaeus, 1758)

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lobster

Domain: Eukaryota () - Whittaker & Margulis,1978
Kingdom: Animalia () - Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
Subkingdom: Bilateria () - (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
Branch: Protostomia () - Grobben, 1908
Infrakingdom: Ecdysozoa () - Aguinaldo Et Al., 1997 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
Superphylum: Panarthropoda () - Cuvier
Phylum: Arthropoda () - Latreille, 1829 - arthropods
Subphylum: Mandibulata () - Snodgrass, 1938
Infraphylum: Crustaceomorpha () - (Chernyshev, 1960)
Superclass: Crustacea () - Pennant, 1777 - Crustaceans
Epiclass: Eucrustacea ()
Class: Malacostraca () - Latreille, 1802
Subclass: Eumalacostraca () - Grobben, 1892
Superorder: Eucarida () - Calman, 1904
Order: Decapoda () - Latreille, 1802 - Decapods
Suborder: Pleocyemata () - Burkenroad, 1963
Infraorder: Astacidea () - Latreille, 1802
Superfamily: Nephropoidea ()
Family: Nephropidae () - �
Genus: Homarus () - (Linnaeus, 1758)
Specific name: americanus - H. Milne Edwards, 1837
Scientific name: - Homarus americanus H. Milne Edwards, 1837