Cockroaches?

[craigwatanabe]

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Sorry, I don't care how cute something is, when it drops on my head while I'm taking a shower, it dies. If only because I accidentally slammed it into the wall while screaming and flailing.

Hmmm I'm trying to visualize that image...screaming and flailing your arms buck naked in a shower stall. I wonder what the neighbors must have thought

[sophielynette]

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Why aren't PETA speaking out for cockroaches? They're kind of cute when not at close-up, and I have never heard or read of them killing people except for a National Enquire type of story.

Sorry, I don't care how cute something is, when it drops on my head while I'm taking a shower, it dies. If only because I accidentally slammed it into the wall while screaming and flailing.

[Walkoff Balk]

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Why aren't PETA speaking out for cockroaches? They're kind of cute when not at close-up, and I have never heard or read of them killing people except for a National Enquire type of story.

[craigwatanabe]

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I don't have any at my house!

I don't have any monkeys at mine but then again I haven't really looked behind the fridge to confirm that either

[MixedPlateBroker]

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I wish the best for the Hawaii Catch-a-Roach Project @ Kam IV Housing. It's bad enough getting a roach in your mouth or ear, but for a child to develop asthma from breathing in roach feces or parts is really deplorable.

Check out this cockroach faq site by a UMass professor for more info about the little buggers than you ever wanted to know. Interesting that he concluded boric acid might be ineffective in humid environments and that he recommended a homemade jar trap setup similar to mine (my grandma was ahead of her time!).

Hmmm. I bet I could sell Lingle on my "environmentally-friendly, reusable, non-toxic cockroach trap."

[infinitypro]

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I don't have any at my house!

[Ron Whitfield]

Just be glad it wasn't a centipede!

If you have a garage, you need to bug bomb (...with your car inside, doors & windows shut and whatever to block the space under the doors) heavily enuf to get them where they hide, and do it again in 3 weeks to get the (new word alert!) ukukeiki.

No garage? Tarp over with bricks holding it down.

Now, if just The Bus could figure this out...

[kani-lehua]

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maybe set up some roach motels?

[turtlegirl]

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They're in my car!!!! Ewwwwwww!!!
I was driving yesterday when something felt funny on my foot, and I look down and see a medium sized roach wandering up my leg!!! EEEk!! Freak out!!
So, when I got home last night I sprayed around all the doors with Raid Max, and took out every scrap of trash I could find.
This morning, while I'm vacuuming out the car, guess what is sitting on the backseat looking at me??
It ran off too fast for me to suck him up.

Any good ideas for de-roaching an old car?

[GeckoGeek]

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Has anyone found that these critters get into beds under the covers very often? I can handle killing the occasional roach, spider, etc..., but don't want to slip into bed to be greeted by one!

Nah. But a centipede is a different story.

I haven't had that problem, but one did share a bed with my friends on a camping trip.

[craigwatanabe]

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Has anyone found that these critters get into beds under the covers very often? I can handle killing the occasional roach, spider, etc..., but don't want to slip into bed to be greeted by one!

HEY HEY HEY!!! Keep the domestic issues off this thread okay?

[kool_kat]

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Has anyone found that these critters get into beds under the covers very often? I can handle killing the occasional roach, spider, etc..., but don't want to slip into bed to be greeted by one!

[mommyandkeiki]

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Hee! This thread is like a welcome mat for me. Twenty-eight years in pest control and I've accumulated quite a few creepy-critter stories. The best one ends with the joke on me, though. My first work day in Hawaii, I lifted a hatch to go into an attic and something fell down into my shirt and got in my bra. The local guy wo was showing me around thought it was really funny when I flew back down the ladder and was dancing around grabbing my boobs and practically stripping, trying to get the thing out of there. I finally got a hold on it and tossed it against the wall. My tour guide was almost peeing himself by then and yells out "Spock 'em!" It was a couple of weeks before I found out that spock 'em wasn't Hawaiian for "gecko."

Oh my gosh. Thanks for sharing that story! It was so funny. Fortunately, I didn't wake my sleeping girls lying next to me while laughing so hard. Thank yooooo!

[skeeterbess]

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Hee! This thread is like a welcome mat for me. Twenty-eight years in pest control and I've accumulated quite a few creepy-critter stories. The best one ends with the joke on me, though. My first work day in Hawaii, I lifted a hatch to go into an attic and something fell down into my shirt and got in my bra. The local guy wo was showing me around thought it was really funny when I flew back down the ladder and was dancing around grabbing my boobs and practically stripping, trying to get the thing out of there. I finally got a hold on it and tossed it against the wall. My tour guide was almost peeing himself by then and yells out "Spock 'em!" It was a couple of weeks before I found out that spock 'em wasn't Hawaiian for "gecko."

[Beachboy]

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growing up in Lahaina Maui I got a good dose of all the creepy crawlers in the Islands. It wasn't uncommon to catch and pull a flying cockroach out of your hair at dinner time! Working in our yard once in Lahaina our cat warned us that my girlfriend then had a scorpion crawling up her ass while weeding in the yard! The constant meowing that he did alerted her to the danger of a scorpion.

This past June I moved into a brand new home in Puna. Second night in our house, a centipede was crawling up the leg of my wife!!!! Oh well, whatcha gonna do? It's part of the cost of living in paradise..