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Mon 9 Dec, 2013 03:30 pm
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/USA-Update/2013/1209/Periplaneta-japonica-New-cockroach-in-town-sneers-at-a-New-York-winter
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Periplaneta japonica: Biologists identify a species of cockroach in New York City that can reportedly survive a winter there, according to a report released Monday. The newcomer is from Asia. Might it evict its American cousin?
@Lustig Andrei,
Maybe they can be trained to eat bedbugs.
@roger,
Yeah. Oughta be good for somethin'.
Cockroaches, any and all of them... are among my foot stomping best targets.
I had them in my first apartment (something about the sink plumbing in the tack-on place behind a duplex), which is why I left. Didn't see them again for, oh, forty years. Have them here, but in control. Knock on wood.
What do peta people have to say about cockroaches, I wonder.
@ossobuco,
ossobuco wrote:What do peta people have to say about cockroaches, I wonder.
They probably have bigger fish to fry
@rosborne979,
In the last year, say, five this summer, my cockroaches have been blonder.
Does this mean dumber? I won't count on that.
@Lustig Andrei,
They don't look like real bugs in that photo. They look far too cubist to me. So not a good thing. At least New York cock roaches look like actual bugs.
@Ragman,
This Republican stomps them flat and mounts the bodies on poles as an example to the rest. The ones that escape the beloved and hungry spiders. The cats resent this. They enjoy gazing at them in rapture, and sometimes even give them a paw nudge to keep them moving.
Cats are weird.
@roger,
In one of the places I lived on this island, a gecko, uninvited, had taken up residence in my room. I'd see him scurrying across my ceiling or up the cinder-block wall. I kept my windows wide open but had no problem at all with cockroaches or any other kind of insect.
@Lustig Andrei,
That's the good kind of squatter you had there Andrew. Paid his/her
rent in exterminating services.
@Lustig Andrei,
My cats would chase your gecko off, and continue enjoying the company of all creatures with more than four feet.
Spawn of Satan indeed!
Back in Venice, I hated the screens on the windows. (Here in Abq I'd like those back, they were the real metal kind). We took them off, to try it out, windows on great days often wide open. We did get flies, but they left post haste, more items in the yard for their interests. We threw the screens out.
Competition, the stuff of life.
@tsarstepan,
tsarstepan wrote:
They don't look like real bugs in that photo. They look far too cubist to me. So not a good thing. At least New York cock roaches look like actual bugs.
OK. Here's a better photo:
And
here is
National Geographic's take on the beasties.
@tsarstepan,
tsarstepan wrote:
They don't look like real bugs in that photo. They look far too cubist to me. So not a good thing. At least New York cock roaches look like actual bugs.
OK. Here's a better photo:
And
here is
National Geographic's take on the beasties.
@Lustig Andrei,
I sure hope that's an enlargement. That thing might play with my cats instead of the other way around.
@roger,
That second photo looks extra scary on a cell phone screen.
@tsarstepan,
That second post was supposed to have been deleted. (Too late now, I think). It's merely a blowup of the same critter that you see on the left in the first post.Not sure how much that has been enlarged. Check the Nat'l Geographic site I linked to.
These were invading Florida a few years ago. Don't know if they have taken over yet though.
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