Post by bluemingidiot on Aug 31, 2021 19:59:42 GMT
I hate them.
The house we are renting while our new home is being built has too many roaches.
The roaches are tree roaches. The house is pier and beam and I assume they are coming in underneath.
They remind me of Beaumont. Every house we lived in there was pier and beam. Roaches were everywhere. But because they most only came out after dark, you could pretend they weren't there. Beaumont had tree roaches.
Houston had German roaches. A single female German roach produces between 120 to 384 offspring. They are in the drawer with the silverware and in the drawer with your toothbrush. They crawled in every glass and every cup. You just put the top plate in the dishwasher and used the rest. You put on your pants and there were roaches in them. Underwear you checked inside and out. More people means more roaches. Apartment renters move out, they take roaches with them. Apartment renters move in, they bring roaches with them. One apartment has roaches, all apartments have roaches.
According to Orkin, "Cockroaches are omnivores that eat plants and meat. They have been recorded to eat human flesh of both the living and the dead, although they are more likely to take a bite of fingernails, eyelashes, feet and hands. The bites may cause irritation, lesions and swelling."
The city with the worst infestation is New Orleans, Louisiana. More than 40 percent of New Orleans households reported roaches in 2015. Houston, Texas; Miami, Florida; Atlanta, Georgia; Phoenix, Arizona; Raleigh, North Carolina; Los Angeles, California; Dallas, Texas; New York, New York; and Memphis, Tennessee rounded out the top ten.
I think a lot of people died from cancer caused by the products used to fight roaches. Products I remember are no longer available. I do wonder what people used to kill roaches before the petroleum based products arrived?
Fire ants started making a significant showing in some wetter yards in the 1970s and 1980s . They eat roaches. That is one of the four things I like about fire ants. The other three things are: they eat chiggers, they eat scorpions, and they are non-carcinogenic.
Mason must be on the fire ant frontier. My dilemma is do we stop watering or do we import fire ants? Our yard isn't fenced or I would rent a couple dozen chickens.
The house we are renting while our new home is being built has too many roaches.
The roaches are tree roaches. The house is pier and beam and I assume they are coming in underneath.
They remind me of Beaumont. Every house we lived in there was pier and beam. Roaches were everywhere. But because they most only came out after dark, you could pretend they weren't there. Beaumont had tree roaches.
Houston had German roaches. A single female German roach produces between 120 to 384 offspring. They are in the drawer with the silverware and in the drawer with your toothbrush. They crawled in every glass and every cup. You just put the top plate in the dishwasher and used the rest. You put on your pants and there were roaches in them. Underwear you checked inside and out. More people means more roaches. Apartment renters move out, they take roaches with them. Apartment renters move in, they bring roaches with them. One apartment has roaches, all apartments have roaches.
According to Orkin, "Cockroaches are omnivores that eat plants and meat. They have been recorded to eat human flesh of both the living and the dead, although they are more likely to take a bite of fingernails, eyelashes, feet and hands. The bites may cause irritation, lesions and swelling."
The city with the worst infestation is New Orleans, Louisiana. More than 40 percent of New Orleans households reported roaches in 2015. Houston, Texas; Miami, Florida; Atlanta, Georgia; Phoenix, Arizona; Raleigh, North Carolina; Los Angeles, California; Dallas, Texas; New York, New York; and Memphis, Tennessee rounded out the top ten.
I think a lot of people died from cancer caused by the products used to fight roaches. Products I remember are no longer available. I do wonder what people used to kill roaches before the petroleum based products arrived?
Fire ants started making a significant showing in some wetter yards in the 1970s and 1980s . They eat roaches. That is one of the four things I like about fire ants. The other three things are: they eat chiggers, they eat scorpions, and they are non-carcinogenic.
Mason must be on the fire ant frontier. My dilemma is do we stop watering or do we import fire ants? Our yard isn't fenced or I would rent a couple dozen chickens.