I hate hate hate palmetto bugs

[KitchenWitch]

Creep me out every time.

:puke:

[bertha katzenengel]

1. Then don't look at this:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5878747

:hi:

Oh, and look out Friday night: I understand that geckos -- with stickers on their feet! -- are everywhere in Hawaii... ;)

[KitchenWitch]

2. I love geckoes!

I see geckoes every day...they don't seem to make it into the house...

[driver8]

26. I lived on Guam as a kid and we had a Gecko that lived in our living room.

Sometimes we would be sitting there watching tv, and the gecko would sneak out from behind a picture frame to try and catch a bug or mosquito.

One time my Mom went into the bathroom and about a minute later we heard a blood curdling scream.

It seems that a gecko was hanging out on the bathroom light and when it got to hot, he let go and fell right onto the top of my Mom's head!!

Geckos rock!

[KitchenWitch]

41. Were you a military brat?

Funny story!

:hi:

[driver8]

43. Yep -- Navy brat.

How did you know?

[KitchenWitch]

45. Guam - and I am married to an Air Force brat

who was stationed on Guam.

[driver8]

53. When was your husband on Guam?? n/t

[KitchenWitch]

54. I believe it was the mid 1970s

For about a year. I will ask him for sure tonight.

[driver8]

56. I was there from 1970 to 1973.

Ask your husband what school he went to, please.

[KitchenWitch]

57. Sure will

He has told stories about the Hawaiian Luaus at the Naval Officer's Club (I guess the Air Force did not do the Luaus!)

[MrSlayer]

3. I concur.

I have some sort of mental thing when it comes to roaches. If I see one I have to leave the area immediately, sometimes screaming in a most undignified manner. Other bugs and rodents I have no problem with but roaches freak me out bad.

[KitchenWitch]

5. I can handle spiders, snakes and other creatures

But become totally undone by roaches...

[Hibernias Daughter]

25. Is that what they are?

Some kind of roach? OK I'll put myself out there, at the risk of looking foolish. But what are Palmetto Bugs? :shrug:

[mike_c]

31. yep, they're roaches....

[electricmonk]

24. Me too

Can't remember if I posted here at DU about it but in 2005 I had some neighbors move in downstairs and they brought roaches with them. I killed the first one a few days after they moved in and after that it just kept getting worse. The worst was the night that I went into my bedroom and there on my bed an egg case hatched and I had hundreds of mini roaches all over it. My landlord finally kicked them out and after I broke in downstairs and took photos of the infestation he got around to sending an exterminator over. While I was down there I set off some bombs and sprayed every single thing that moved. I knew it wouldn't totally take care of the problem but it at least reduced it for a few days. Those people were so nasty it's mind boggling. What's even worse was the fact that they had kids. One baby and another toddler.

I still get the creepy-crawlies thinking about that.

[liberaltrucker]

4. Now, now, KW

Bugs are residents of this planet just as we are.

Having said that..............................
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YUCKYPOO!!!!!!

:hi:

[KitchenWitch]

6. *snerk*

:rofl:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. My dear KitchenWitch!

Omigod, you have palmetto bugs? I'm sorry!

You know, I don't think I've ever seen one.......:shrug:

Good luck with combatting them! :hug:

[KitchenWitch]

8. I see about one a month...but they do find a way into the house

:grr:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

9. awwww. they're cute

no.. wait. I'm thinking of those cute red and black ones.

Palmettos are gross! they look like roaches. :scared:

[KitchenWitch]

10. Gigantic human baby sized roaches

:puke:

[VespertineIconoclast]

11. I had no idea palmetto bugs were roaches....

but my response is exactly the same as yours. :puke: Those buggers are too f**king fast and they're stupid to boot! What creature with an ounce of instinct runs toward a human?! What's the point in being still -- I can still see you -- you aren't hidden. :eyes: So, yes I agree with you.

[KitchenWitch]

19. Large roaches must be exterminated.

:puke:

[HeeBGBz]

51. Big F-ing flying roaches

I hate them toooooo.

[Archae]

12. Like this one?

:P

[KitchenWitch]

15. You, my friend, are EVIL INCARNATE

:rofl:

[Archae]

18. Happens to my Mom every year, in Florida.

She really hates those king-sized roaches too. :-)

[KitchenWitch]

20. I don't blame her.

:shudder:

[LSK]

13. would you rather have snow?

:shrug:

[KitchenWitch]

16. Yes

Snow does not send my heart into strange rhythms...

[LSK]

21. it just freezes other parts of the body

:P

[KitchenWitch]

22. Well since I have a heart condition

I would rather be frozen than dysrhythmic!

;)

[ironflange]

23. I prefer the snow

The few roaches I have come in contact with have really turned my stomach, eg. the one at the West Edmonton Mall waterpark. Not going back there any time soon.

[Left Is Write]

14. I don't know anyone who LIKES them, actually.

;)

I agree that they are creepy.

[KitchenWitch]

17. I think there may be an entomologist somewhere that likes them

:)

[LostinVA]

27. Me too --= when I lived in Wilmington, NC, they terrorized me

I can still remember the sound and FEEL of them popping under the sole of my shoe... *shudder*

[NC_Nurse]

28. Me too!

Florida has the maneaters! :scared:
My granny used to stomp 'em with glee. Me - I'd be up on the picnic table screaming! :D

[BreweryYardRat]

29. Same here.

Helpful trick: Get a floor vacuum, the long-tube kind. Use it to suck up the vermin, then pour some boric acid down there with them. Seal the vacuum tube with a plastic bag.

That or get a spear.

I HATE roaches/palmetto bugs to the point of phobia. I'm a 6'2" 250 lb guy, and they provoke frantic screaming, swearing, and fleeing whenever I see an adult one.

[Blue Diadem]

30. My now dearly departed MIL sent my kids one once..through the mail

in an envelope. I can still hear my daughter screeching MAAAAAAA..why did Grandma send us a squished bug? Ewwww..I couldn't believe how big it was.

When we were in Florida for a couple weeks way back then, I don't remember seeing any flying cockroaches which is probably why Grandma sent the kids one. We did however see those little lizzard things that seemed to be everywhere.

[LaurenG]

32. Extremely GROSS story. Warning!

When my son was an infant he woke up around 2 am. I picked him up out of his crib and started heating up a bottle. As I was waiting I noticed movement under the kitchen door, I grabbed the fly swatter (while still holding the baby) because I wasn't sure what it was. Well it was a huge roach so I smacked that sucker as hard as I could (while still holding the baby). And the bug popped all over my... *yeaaaaahhhhhhuuucckk* FACE!!!

It was the most disgusting thing I can ever remember happening to me. :cry: I laid my son down on the living room carpet and scrubbed my face until the water heating the bottle (this was pre microwave) had totally boiled away. Oh, just thinking of it gives me the shivers. *it was just so disgusting*

[SlavesandBulldozers]

33. lol

yeah i live in florida. i guess i rolled over onto one in the night. i had palmetto bug guts all over my back. long boiling hot shower full of crying and shame.

the nightmare scenario is really having one get on you at night in the dark while you sleep

[cwydro]

34. A friend of mine

CANNOT handle them at all. It's bad enough that they're roaches, she says, but the fact that they can FLY is what sends her over the top.

[Xipe Totec]

36. You might want to share this story with her:

Did you know they can fly?

I found that out, as a boy, when I heard some rustling coming from under the dead fronds of a palmetto tree. I thought it might be a bird's nest so I went and lifted the frond to see.

The trunk of the palmetto tree was crawling with hundreds of palmetto bugs and as soon as the light hit them they took flight in a swarm...

... I was surrounded by a buzzing cloud of palmetto bugs as I ran down the street in a blind panic.

Long after I left the cloud behind, I was still running, and ran until my liver felt as if it was about to explode.

I collapsed on a neighbor's front yard.

Do I fear palmetto bugs?

You bet!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=4850918&mesg_id=4851053

[cwydro]

37. Oh god, she will die

if I tell her that story.:rofl:

[MiniMandaRuth]

35. One night when I was a wee girl of thirteen,

my mom and I were camping out, waiting for my dad to come to our little camping spot. We were both playing scrabble.

I heard a thunk on the window screen. It was so loud I thought that someone had thrown a rock at us. I looked over and there's this HUGE BUG. I mean, this guy was the size of my hand, if not more. I screamed, which is weird for me around bugs (I think that they're cool), and my mom grabbed my fan that I had been using and started beating it against the screen. It flew off and then came back after a few seconds. We beat it off again and won.

It. Was. GROSS. And to make it worse, all that night my mom threatened to send me out there with that nuclear bug.

[Control-Z]

38. Are you talking about the giant ones

that swarm outside at night? One will make into the house on occasion but otherwise they aren't the kind of cockroach you find in dirty houses. They live outside and are usually only around in warm weather. They are a California mega-desert-dino variety you don't normally see in the winter months. Of course, with global warming you never know.

[KitchenWitch]

39. Those are the ones!

BLECH!

[Control-Z]

40. If it makes you feel any better -

after living in south county for 13 years I have never had more than a stray or two wander into my house. They really do live outside and are only around in the summer and fall months. (They are disgustingly blech, though, I agree.)

[KitchenWitch]

42. Good!

I would hate to have an indoor infestations of those nasty fuckers.

[MissHoneychurch]

44. I stayed in an infested house once

everything was dirty and covered in roaches. They were everywhere, even in the fridge. And those damn beasts bit my legs. My legs were covered with those bites. It was horrible. We (ex-bf and I) moved to a hotel after two nights. It was his sisters house in Louisiana. Still gives me creeps :scared:

[KitchenWitch]

46. ewww

Sorry to hear about that.

I bet you could not get out of there fast enough.

[MissHoneychurch]

48. The whole trip was a horror

but that took the icing of the cake. Yes, I was glad I was out of there. And I was even more glad when I broke up with that bf some months later.

[sui generis]

47. they have a wonderful nutty crunchy taste in dim sum

but the wings can get stuck in your teeth. Maybe it's just the seasoning that gives them that flavor. I don't know. It's kind of hard to ask if it's the fried bug guts or the chef's secret sauce.

mmmm... tastes like asparagus.

http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2005/05/04/opinion/12848.shtml

[HeeBGBz]

52. I watched a guy eat one at a rugby party once

He won the most outrageous, but that pretty much ended the party right there.

[KitchenWitch]

55. EWWW - I just threw up in my mouth a little

blech!

[reyd reid reed]

49. The way I see it...

if it's got more than four legs or less than two, I can do without it, thankyouverymuch.

[KitchenWitch]

50. Then don't get me started on the cave crickets!

:rofl:

[Evoman]

58. Don't spew your anti-physical handicap bigotry here, Freeper.

Go back to the Freeperville.
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Just kidding ;)

[KitchenWitch]

59. LOL - you scared me for a moment

I thought my hatred of all things palmetto bug related was devolving into a flamewar!

:rofl:

[Evoman]

60. Flamewars have started over less...hehe. nt

[KitchenWitch]

61. ain't it the truth!

:hi:

[reyd reid reed]

62. True...

allow me to amend. Anything genetically designed to have more than four legs or less than two, ie palmetto bugs, snakes (and I even have issues with a few two-legged snakes), cockroaches, centipedes, etc., I can do without.

Thankyouverymuch.