ewww! gross (just had to share)

[Shann]

I'm trying to grow some herbs in some containers that came with other plants we bought from our local nursery. It was getting windy and I didn't want them blowing around the yard or into the pool so I brought the three of them inside and set them on our table and left them there overnight. This morning I went to move them, picked one up and OMG... there were two pretty big cockroaches on their backs squished underneath. One was dead, one was missing some limbs and still wiggling. GROSS GROSS GROSS! I made Luke come take care of them. I had no idea there were cockroaches underneath the pots or I would have NEVER EVER touched them. I'm glad they stayed underneath the containers b/c had one crawled on me all three containers would have went flying into the air and I would have woken up the whole neighborhood w/ my screams. Ick Ick Ick

[SLance68]

I would have done the same thing. There would have been stuff everywhere. I just hate roaches.

[nanajoanie]

When I lived in Tampa it was like roach city everywhere. Had the whole house sprayed by professionals every week but it was a loosing battle. And dang, when they get big they even fly. That's when the nightmares really begin.............................

[suprtruckr]

this it?

http://www.wesleyfleming.com/gallery/hissing_cockroach3.jpg

;) :rolling

[OmaLisa]

Ewwww Shann. Those dang things are so disgusting. I rented a mobile home a long, long time ago that was infested with those horrible things. I couldn't get rid of them no matter what I did. I had to move. Yuch

[G'maDebbie]

Now I realize in some parts of the United States cockroaches are not something you can control, but here in Michigan, if you have cockroaches it means you are just plain old NASTY! ewwwww

[SLance68]

Now I realize in some parts of the United States cockroaches are not something you can control, but here in Michigan, if you have cockroaches it means you are just plain old NASTY! ewwwww

Well in Florida it means you live here. We even have our office treated every month and there is no food left out that they can get to. The only thing I have found that works perfectly to keep them gone is the once a year treatment. It does work. Other than that - accurately throwing a shoe also works well to get rid of them.

[galeane29]

I HATE ROACHES

in the words of my daughter when she was 5

THEY MAKE MY CRAWL SKIN

[ahippiechic]

Now I realize in some parts of the United States cockroaches are not something you can control, but here in Michigan, if you have cockroaches it means you are just plain old NASTY! ewwwww

We don't have any inside, but here in AZ there are F'n HUGE ones outside and they can fly! I think that's the ind Shann was talking about. They were outside, and she brought them in stuck to the pots.

And no matter how clean you are, if you move into an apt that has roaches, it is hard as hell to get rid of them. I used to be a an apt manager and our apts were very clean, but all it takes is one person with them to move in, then other apts gets them. We had to have exterminators come in every 90 days and do the apt and grounds.

I use the Combat gel in my apt now, we didn't really have any but if I keep that out, hopefully we won't get any.

[galeane29]

My 1st DH and I use to manage an apartment complex in Texas. The building was totaly infested. We would have it sprayed and the buggers would end up in another part of the building. I am not kidding when I say, at night, you could HEAR them in the walls. I had to get the hell out of there.

[Willow]

Oh yuk! I hate those things. We were watching Dirty Jobs a week ago Sunday and one of the jobs that Mike went on was to a mobile home that had to be exterminated because the place was infested with them but the people that lived there were dirty. The house was filthy.

[ahippiechic]

Before i moved out here, i'd only seen the tiny 'inside' roaches. When I saw one of the HUGE ones out here and I asked my friend what it was and she looked at me like I was stupid and said it was a roach. I bout freaked out! A 3 inch long roach, OMFG! It was on a wall outside, so I took off my shoe and was going to squish it and that MF'er flew right by my face! You shoulda heard me, LMAO! I didn't know they could fly. My friend still teases me about that. She said that for someone who catches tarantulas in the desert, I was a baby when it came to roaches. Guess so, tarantulas are cute and furry, not all creepy and nasty like a roach!

[suprtruckr]

My 1st DH and I use to manage an apartment complex in Texas. The building was totaly infested. We would have it sprayed and the buggers would end up in another part of the building. I am not kidding when I say, at night, you could HEAR them in the walls. I had to get the hell out of there.

that sounds like here

[LuvBigRip]

Vegas and Phoenix have some of the worst cockroaches. Blech

[Shann]

UGH! yes our roaches are outside although an occasional one will slip in through the doggy door and then usually the dogs take care of it. It's always nice waking up to a nice dead cockroach body on the floor (hey.. at least the dogs don't eat them! just play w/ them til they don't move anymore) :lol we spray the house too, but when you've got tons of them outside a few are bound to get in. :( I believe last year was my first experience w/ a flying roach and OMFG. It was in our laundry room and the little ******* knocked over a tub of oxyclean that was 1/4 full.. I went to get him and he started flying and I started screaming and the dogs were trying to see what was going on and I was then able to cover him up but then made Luke take care of it when he got home. *shiver* just effin nasty!

[LuvBigRip]

Before i moved out here, i'd only seen the tiny 'inside' roaches. When I saw one of the HUGE ones out here and I asked my friend what it was and she looked at me like I was stupid and said it was a roach. I bout freaked out! A 3 inch long roach, OMFG! It was on a wall outside, so I took off my shoe and was going to squish it and that MF'er flew right by my face! You shoulda heard me, LMAO! I didn't know they could fly. My friend still teases me about that. She said that for someone who catches tarantulas in the desert, I was a baby when it came to roaches. Guess so, tarantulas are cute and furry, not all creepy and nasty like a roach!

Between the flying roaches that are 3" long and the giant Mothra's I am so glad I am not in Phx anymore...I do miss you though.

[ahippiechic]

Between the flying roaches that are 3" long and the giant Mothra's I am so glad I am not in Phx anymore...I do miss you though.

Yeah, your Mothra was on my freaking door this morning! I should have sent it to you! :dancing:

[LuvBigRip]

Yeah, your Mothra was on my freaking door this morning! I should have sent it to you! :dancing:

Thanks, but I will pass. :slap :twitch :duck :faint :backaway

[chib44]

heck spray is just a tonic for them I swear they get to liking it . and thanks poster for the pic we had them when we were first married but not now I almost forgot what they looked like thank you for refreshing my memory lol J/K

[ahippiechic]

Thanks, but I will pass. :slap :twitch :duck :faint :backaway

It was pink and green, so cute!

[LuvBigRip]

It was pink and green, so cute!

There is nothing cute about Mothra. Mothra is evil. Bad Mothra.