I have a huge phobia for all the creepy crawlies, i. e. insects and arachnids. For me, the biggest horror would be a cockroach infestation and I think that nightmare could come true.
Inadvertently, I must have killed an insect that - to me - looks suspiciously like a cockroach and to be frank, I'm really freaking out. I live in a shared flat with two really messy girls and an even more messy dude and I wouldn't think it's unlikely there might be something brewing, roach-wise.
I have never seen one IRL and I can't really look at pictures of them that long without getting sick, could you guys check out the pictures I made an tell me what I'm dealing with?
Please be civil, I'm having a breakdown here.
Here is the disgusting monster. I added a coin so you can appreciate the size.
As someone who has at least 20 flies clustered around his computer monitor at any given point for no apparent reason, even after cleaning every corner of my room, I say you shouldn't be worried unless you see a lot of them or they start eating something important
You are just overreacting, it isn't even that big or scary compared to what it could be. I wouldn't worry about infestations unless you see these quite often.
I've lived in two different places with cockroach infestations before. If you see just one, don't worry about it since it probably just came in on someone's clothes. If you see many, then it's a problem. You may also notice deposits of cockroach poop or cockroach eggs or shells around. If you really want to prevent cockroaches, make sure everything is perfectly clean. Once you start getting cockroaches, it's hard to get rid of them since they can eat parts of furniture, clothing, and even human skin cells and hair.
Best way for you to see if you have cockroaches would be to check dark warm places that dont get cleaned as often, and provide a food source. One of the best places for this is underneath the fridge. The motor in the fridge keeps the area warm, its dark, there are places to crawl and hide, and usually small amounts of food end up falling on the kitchen floor and get kicked underneath, or swept underneath by accident.
If you dont regularly move your fridge and clean under it I would definitely use that as a checking point.
On April 29 2013 03:04 babylon wrote: if you start seeing baby cockroaches, you're fucked.
i don't know if that is a baby cockroach, but it seems pretty small and insecty ... i want to say not though.
Oh God I'm going to puke!
hahaha, i hate roaches too. i can deal with almost any insect, but roaches are a complete no-go for me. give me mice and rats any day of the week over roaches ... (oh but house centipedes are also nassssssssty.)
from the photo, i can't really tell. it looks like you snapped a shot of it belly-side up. if you can turn it over maybe ... did it look like it had bands (brown and light-brown) running horizontally across its back? teardrop-shaped body?
baby roaches mean that there are roaches breeding in your place. if you see a lot more of these fuckers, i would recommend calling an exterminator, esp. if you're jumpy around them.
Is Germany really so obscenely sterile that he's never once seen a roach in his entire freaking life? I'm from a well-off family in a well-off neighborhood, but I still see a wood roach or two every month and those motherfuckers are bigger than my big toe! Also, he couldn't immediately recognize a bumblebee. We have veritable swarms of those things every summer! Don't tell me Germany is running short on those, too!
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