They only come out at night

[not coaster MODERATOR]

I was shopping for a condo yesterday in Santa Monica. I found something I kind of liked and then went out for some other showings. Later last night I returned to see what the scene was like after dark. My broker and I opened the place, turned on the lights and guess what??? Dozens of little brown German cockroaches all over the place. I hate those things. We bailed right away. My broker called the selling agent and told him the problem. He naively said a bug probably flew through the window and had babies. They were only in that room he insisted. 1) Cockroaches don't fly. 2) There is most likely a huge nest of them behind the walls 3) The entire building will be infested within about a week. Let them find out the hard way. It's a 12 unit older place which got converted to condos.

[Bunny Knutson]

I've found a high percentage of property managers, agents, and landlords to be complete assholes. This is a good example. :mad:

[G. Ratte]

Some cockroaches do fly! Big ones in Texas do that. Here in NYC, I've only seen one (in my apt.) flying and it freaked me out. Like that Army expression, "empty the clip!"... I went nuts with the bug spray on that one.

[Dogfur]

Good job checking the scene at night, always time well spent...Hope you find a better place.

[Gtoledo3]

Some of the roaches in Tampa fly too- they're called "palmetto bugs." They can just hover in the air! Ugh. We're lucky next to the poor inhabitants of South America and the Carribean. I was in Costa Rica staying in a "cabin" in the jungle a few years back. I saw a cockroach as big as my hand ( no exagerration) crawling on the floor. So, I broke out my knife and just it stabbed in the middle of its' body. The knife was sticking through the roach and into the wood floor. It wriggled around ome, then it seemed to settle down. After a couple of drinks to calm my nerves, I hit the sack. The next morning when I woke up, I glanced over to the knife. The cockroach was gone! I got up from my bed and walked over to the "murder scene." There was a trail of cockroach juice leading to about a foot away from the door, where the cockroach lay dead. The cockroach actually cut the back part of his body in half to get free from the knife! That was one hell of a roach. I felt bad ; this guy was a mr. universe in the cockroach world.

[Skip_dup1]

whoa, hang on here-I`m not an entomologist but... German cockroaches, which have been kickin around North Am. for a long time, cannot fly. They are relatively small. Asian cockroaches, a more recent arrival, can fly. They are also attracted to light, unlike their German relatives. They are quite a bit larger too. Palmetto bugs are a related but native species. You`re highly unlikely to see them much outside of the sun belt.

[Duhduh]

They say for every cockroach that you can [i]see[/i], theres 100 more behind the walls.

[Salyphus]

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[Sylver]

So, this brings up a sensitive point around here. My wife (GypsyTiger) didn't feel that living out in the countryside like we do, that we didn't have [i]enough[/i] insects around. What does she do? She puchases on-line, a Madagascar hissing cockroach: [img]http://www.key-net.net/users/swb/pet_arthropod/hr5.jpg[/img] Ok, now this THING that looks like it may have been cast in a John Carpenter movie is living in my home. In a little plastic cage. On the mantle so the little ones can't get it. It skeeves me to no end. The original deal was that it was to live in the garage, but of course we couldn't leave it out there to freeze. Somebody shoot me.

[ikestr]

Sal, I was thinking the same thing. ikestr

[Tom Capasso]

I'm with you Cereal - don't want to see those things... My wife lived in an apt. in Boston while going to BC. The whole place was infested - once they turned the light out in the kitchen, nobody went back until the next day. Funny, she only had one in her bedroom for the two years she was there. It affected her, and we're very careful. We check any bags or boxes from food stores. When my daughter was about 2, my wife was unpacking from a shopping trip. Daughter asks "Mommy, are you going to do the bag dance now?". Wife is confused until daughter holds her hands up. Then wife realizes. Like I said - we're careful. Every bag gets held up to the light to make sure no stowaways are in the folds of the bag, and daughter thought the whole thing was a dance !! Tom

[Tedster]

What was that movie about a guy named Joe, a total slob, where he's gonna lose his apartment, but the cockroaches love him, so they try to save him? Kindofa funny flick. I remember moving into a rented house that was infested. We called Terminix. Seriously...no more problems. Wiped 'em out. Here in Missouri we have what they call "water bugs"...like big cockroaches...a lot like what they call "Palmetto bugs" in Florida. Echhh...

[Dylan]

Eew! Thankfully I don't have any roach problems here, but my apartments in Boston were a different story :eek: .

[randy clay]

Man, you should come to Hawaii. We have 'em so big you could throw a saddle on and ride it. :D We call the big flying ones B52's. They come right at you too. Make a big crunching sound when you step on them, leaving a biig mess on the floor. One of the many perks about living on a tropical island. ;) Count your blessings ( I won't even start talking about centipedes )