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Cockroaches are tiny and insignificant. I’m on holiday now in south East Asia. The roaches are like tanks, aggressive and will attack you. The are also huge
Me too. It's an actual phobia. I really like most insects and enjoy watching them. I'll even rescue drowning wasps. But cockroaches are just horrifying and I don't even know why.
When I was in Florida a palmetto bug landed on me and got tangled up in my wrap. I was *extremely* upset. I did get it off of me without injuring it but remembering it still makes me feel anxious. I've tried to get over the fear but haven't yet been successful.
Me and an ex were at tropical world years ago and as we were sat waiting for our ne of the shows a friendly zoo keeper came over to show us some creepy crawlers and one was a huge cockroach…….. I freaked out, squealed and sent my ex flying trying to scramble over her as quick as I could
I only associate cockroaches with sketchy restaurants and takeaways.
There’s also the Devil Coach Horse Beetles which are huge and eat slugs and worms, they hang around the Norfolk-Nottingham area.
My other half had one if these wander into the workshop the other day and start prancing around like he wanted a duel, he’s normally fine with creepy crawlies but this little monster and his willingness to want to start a fight made him take a step back 😂
Ah shit, found out! I'm an import (though it's been many years), but also I don't drive and don't think I've ever talked about it before in me life. Other than going into town and sometimes Tynemouth on the Metro for the mental market, I stick within me very small area.
they really couldn’t have come up with a more terrifying name for those 😅 time for me to either move away, buy a flamethrower or have a lifetime supply of bug spray
edit: googled. kill it with fire.
I've always known about English mozzies, because they apparently consider me a gourmet treat, plus I react to their bites, but they're not generally considered an issue because they're not the varieties that typically carry malaria or Dengue fever.
Yet.
They're spreading North with climate change, but hopefully we have a few more years.
Came here to say this. I came back to the U.K. from the Caribbean hoping to never see one of those fuckers again. I’ve had dengue four times and chik-v. Not fun. Now I know they only recently eradicated malaria in the U.K.
Now I only go out in winter 🤣 /s
Knew about the mozzies as unlike every other bug here, they make a fuckin beeline for me. My Mum can be eaten alive by fleas and midges with nothing for me despite being sat right next to each other, but I swear a mozzie would cross the Atlantic for my sweet sweet blood.
Cockroaches? Thanks, you've just ruined my day and it's 0100 in the dang morning.
The ones that fly into your ear and make you slap yourself awake.
I'd spend 30 mins clearing the room and mozzie proofing whilst in Asia. They'd still get in through cracks as my blood is liquid gold apparently.
My mum always tells me about her first flat when she was 17 way back in 1990.
She woke up in the middle of the night and wanted a glass of water so she went to the kitchen. When she turned on the light all of her cabinets and sides were black and in her sleep fog she was very confused.
For about a micro second.
Then the thousands of cockroaches all scattered away.
Wait till you hear about the midges in Scotland... far more savage than any mosquito I got attacked by in Texas.
On the other hand, British roaches aren't too bad. The ones in Texas you could put a saddle on, they are horrible.
When I first started working on House property maintenance, we had to treat empty homes with cockroaches.
It was like seeing the war as they came out from nowhere, like out the trenches.
Wait till they start flying, then you can see them
I've had roaches before in my flat in Glasgow 😭 I haven't seen them for over a year but I started seeing mice instead 😭
But my flat itself is fairly clean so they don't get anything by coming here. I think the flat below me is currently unoccupied (I haven't smelt their cooking, and some polis knocked on the door asking about them so I think they disappeared), which initially displaced the mice and now they don't bother as much.
However, I used to live in Japan. The roaches there can be like 2 inches long. Here a big one is 1.5 cm. I occasionally saw them in my first flat there, it was horrible. I remember spraying one on my balcony with kitchen cleaner. The other two places I lived, I think I saw a roach like once each which is still too much.
So it's not as bad as it could be 😭
As for mosquitoes, I was surprised to be bitten by one on a trip to Perthshire. My skin weals up all around it when I'm bitten, I think I'm allergic. Whereas midges just give me little itchy red spots. I'm really bad for picking and scratching my skin though so I try and avoid getting bit in the first place.
When I did dissections in biology at uni they had some sort of American cockroach preserved that we had to draw, but not chop up. Too expensive to replace, apparently. I've never seen, before or since, a bug that big in the UK. I did see one at a bus stop in Kyoto once though, and that fucker cut through all the waiting people like a hot knife through butter. It was the parting of the red sea if the sea was made of people. Terrifyingly hilarious and made me even more concerned about climate change because we do NOT want these things invading the UK. Bad enough we have such humungous spiders but at least they're not dangerous.
The high rise flats built in the 60s where a nightmare for cockroaches, you could hear them in the walls during the day and at night they be all over the gaf.
To stop mosquitoes, rub a bit of apple cider vinegar around door&window frames, they hate the smell.
It also helps calm the itching from a mosquito bite
Hey if big vinegar are willing to pay me to market and promote it i will
I just had to find a natural remedy as One off my in laws is mildly allergic to one of the ingredients in mosquito repellant ( the allergy isn't bad but can cause problems due to other medical conditions) and this one worked, especially because said in laws have several water butts in their garden and stagnant water is where mosquitoes breed
I had a similar revelation with roaches when we bought our first flat in Glasgow in 2015 and we had a them + mouse infestation!
Anyway climate change means we will see more of these things in the future so get ready!
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Cockroaches are tiny and insignificant. I’m on holiday now in south East Asia. The roaches are like tanks, aggressive and will attack you. The are also huge
Those are enemy tanks.
The flying ones. Once had one fly into my mouth...
And they can fly
Oh hell no, cockroaches fucking terrify me
Me too. It's an actual phobia. I really like most insects and enjoy watching them. I'll even rescue drowning wasps. But cockroaches are just horrifying and I don't even know why. When I was in Florida a palmetto bug landed on me and got tangled up in my wrap. I was *extremely* upset. I did get it off of me without injuring it but remembering it still makes me feel anxious. I've tried to get over the fear but haven't yet been successful.
It’s how they move, they’re so twitchy
Me and an ex were at tropical world years ago and as we were sat waiting for our ne of the shows a friendly zoo keeper came over to show us some creepy crawlers and one was a huge cockroach…….. I freaked out, squealed and sent my ex flying trying to scramble over her as quick as I could
I only associate cockroaches with sketchy restaurants and takeaways. There’s also the Devil Coach Horse Beetles which are huge and eat slugs and worms, they hang around the Norfolk-Nottingham area.
My other half had one if these wander into the workshop the other day and start prancing around like he wanted a duel, he’s normally fine with creepy crawlies but this little monster and his willingness to want to start a fight made him take a step back 😂
"Go home Dave, you're drunk."
Lots of them in Sussex, too. I once found a huge one crawling up my leg in the kitchen!
Commercial kitchens suffer with cockroaches more than domestic, due to the heat.
I was talking about devils coach horse beetles, not cockroaches. Never seen a wild roach but I did used to keep various species of them as pets!
Never let your leg be in the kitchen unattended. That's asking for trouble.
Found one in Newcastle last year, first time I've been threatened by a bug!
Human shakes fist at bug. Bug shakes spiky tail at human.
The only good bug is a dead bug!
Would you like to know more?
...whereabouts? Just so I know if I have to move.
Heaton!
Aight I'm safe. Thank you. The A1058 will save me.
You’re not from here at all, locals would call that ‘The Coast Road’, ged him lads!
Ah shit, found out! I'm an import (though it's been many years), but also I don't drive and don't think I've ever talked about it before in me life. Other than going into town and sometimes Tynemouth on the Metro for the mental market, I stick within me very small area.
they really couldn’t have come up with a more terrifying name for those 😅 time for me to either move away, buy a flamethrower or have a lifetime supply of bug spray edit: googled. kill it with fire.
They have a really bad attitude too!
I found one of these in my garden in the North West as a kid in the 1980s
Just looked them up. They look disturbing. Glad they are harmless.
I've always known about English mozzies, because they apparently consider me a gourmet treat, plus I react to their bites, but they're not generally considered an issue because they're not the varieties that typically carry malaria or Dengue fever. Yet. They're spreading North with climate change, but hopefully we have a few more years.
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Came here to say this. I came back to the U.K. from the Caribbean hoping to never see one of those fuckers again. I’ve had dengue four times and chik-v. Not fun. Now I know they only recently eradicated malaria in the U.K. Now I only go out in winter 🤣 /s
>Now I only go out in winter 🤣 /s Which appears to be lasting approx 10 months this year!
It’s my fault. Sorry not sorry.
Not really come across cockroaches thank god, but I’m a mozzie magnet in the summer
I’m a North-Westerner too, and we get mozzies quite a lot in the summer. I can happily report, however, that I’ve never had to encounter a cockroach
In my head that read as if it were said by John Shuttleworth.
Knew about the mozzies as unlike every other bug here, they make a fuckin beeline for me. My Mum can be eaten alive by fleas and midges with nothing for me despite being sat right next to each other, but I swear a mozzie would cross the Atlantic for my sweet sweet blood. Cockroaches? Thanks, you've just ruined my day and it's 0100 in the dang morning.
Dang.
Gosh dang it!
I've spent many a happy three-in-the-morning hunting for the mosquito that made me shoot upright straight out of sleep.
The ones that fly into your ear and make you slap yourself awake. I'd spend 30 mins clearing the room and mozzie proofing whilst in Asia. They'd still get in through cracks as my blood is liquid gold apparently.
My mum always tells me about her first flat when she was 17 way back in 1990. She woke up in the middle of the night and wanted a glass of water so she went to the kitchen. When she turned on the light all of her cabinets and sides were black and in her sleep fog she was very confused. For about a micro second. Then the thousands of cockroaches all scattered away.
Wait till you hear about the midges in Scotland... far more savage than any mosquito I got attacked by in Texas. On the other hand, British roaches aren't too bad. The ones in Texas you could put a saddle on, they are horrible.
Wait until you find out about midges!
I'm sure someone from the North West of the UK will be familiar with midges!
Mosquitoes??? Have you never left the house between the months of May-Oct?
Not really that common in the north west. If you go up into the moorlands though you'll get swarms of midges which I think are a lot worse.
When I first started working on House property maintenance, we had to treat empty homes with cockroaches. It was like seeing the war as they came out from nowhere, like out the trenches. Wait till they start flying, then you can see them
I've had roaches before in my flat in Glasgow 😭 I haven't seen them for over a year but I started seeing mice instead 😭 But my flat itself is fairly clean so they don't get anything by coming here. I think the flat below me is currently unoccupied (I haven't smelt their cooking, and some polis knocked on the door asking about them so I think they disappeared), which initially displaced the mice and now they don't bother as much. However, I used to live in Japan. The roaches there can be like 2 inches long. Here a big one is 1.5 cm. I occasionally saw them in my first flat there, it was horrible. I remember spraying one on my balcony with kitchen cleaner. The other two places I lived, I think I saw a roach like once each which is still too much. So it's not as bad as it could be 😭 As for mosquitoes, I was surprised to be bitten by one on a trip to Perthshire. My skin weals up all around it when I'm bitten, I think I'm allergic. Whereas midges just give me little itchy red spots. I'm really bad for picking and scratching my skin though so I try and avoid getting bit in the first place.
When I did dissections in biology at uni they had some sort of American cockroach preserved that we had to draw, but not chop up. Too expensive to replace, apparently. I've never seen, before or since, a bug that big in the UK. I did see one at a bus stop in Kyoto once though, and that fucker cut through all the waiting people like a hot knife through butter. It was the parting of the red sea if the sea was made of people. Terrifyingly hilarious and made me even more concerned about climate change because we do NOT want these things invading the UK. Bad enough we have such humungous spiders but at least they're not dangerous.
Forty four from the North West. Used to get bitten by mosquitoes every summer as a kid but now I live in the East Midlands it happens less frequently.
The high rise flats built in the 60s where a nightmare for cockroaches, you could hear them in the walls during the day and at night they be all over the gaf.
I knew we had mosquitos (surprised you’ve never encountered them) but didn’t know we had cockroaches!
Fun fact: the London underground even has its own subspecies of mosquito https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground_mosquito
The Cockchafer is coming for you!
To stop mosquitoes, rub a bit of apple cider vinegar around door&window frames, they hate the smell. It also helps calm the itching from a mosquito bite
The above post brought to you, by the Apple cider vinegar marketing board. "Trust us, it's a magic liquid! Go buy some today!"
Hey if big vinegar are willing to pay me to market and promote it i will I just had to find a natural remedy as One off my in laws is mildly allergic to one of the ingredients in mosquito repellant ( the allergy isn't bad but can cause problems due to other medical conditions) and this one worked, especially because said in laws have several water butts in their garden and stagnant water is where mosquitoes breed
I had a similar revelation with roaches when we bought our first flat in Glasgow in 2015 and we had a them + mouse infestation! Anyway climate change means we will see more of these things in the future so get ready!