Bud Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 Marcelyn does not like bugs. Any kind of bugs. We had just gotten up this morning and she had gone to the kitchen. I heard a shriek. "Come get this thing outta here, now!" I had no idea what it was until I got to the area at the end of the bar between the kitchen and the great room. It was a cockroach. Soon to be a former cockroach. This was the first cockroach in a long time. For JudyS: can we borrow your blow torch? After completing that rescue, I turned around and saw another critter on the screen of one of our great room sliding glass doors.Quite a large grasshopper. I couldn't resist taking a couple of pictures and measuring the monster. It was slightly longer than five inches from head to end of tail, not including the extended legs or the antennae. Bugs grow quite large here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WryAwry Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 GMO's? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudyS Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 6 hours ago, Bud said: For JudyS: can we borrow your blow torch? My flame thrower? I'll let you know. I do have a tiny blow torch for carmelizing sugar on top of creme brulee. It should work to fry a small bug. But stomping on them is probably faster and less smelly (don't stomp on one of those big black stink bugs. You'll be sorry). Marcelyn, that's why you need to learn to love the gecko. They eat bugs! (I know, it's not easy). Perhaps you need a bigger lizard to eat roaches, like a house iguana. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brundageba Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 No Wry...it's the nuclear facility they hid inside the Baru crater. Ahhh..Panama, more leaks. We knew there were roaches here...but these are ROACHES ! Yehaaaaa !!!!! saddle and ride. (Cabalgata style) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonnie Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 I don't believe that's a cockroach, but I don't know exactly what it is. In any case, I've seen bigger cockroaches in Florida than I've seen here. Much bigger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WryAwry Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 To broach the roach is a tough approach. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David van Harn Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 30 minutes ago, WryAwry said: To broach the roach is a tough approach. But then there is the roach brooch... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David van Harn Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 1 hour ago, Bonnie said: I don't believe that's a cockroach, but I don't know exactly what it is. In any case, I've seen bigger cockroaches in Florida than I've seen here. Much bigger. Definitely not a cockroach. However, big or small, if not controlled, cockroaches can take over your kitchen... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brundageba Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 5 hours ago, Bonnie said: I don't believe that's a cockroach, but I don't know exactly what it is. In any case, I've seen bigger cockroaches in Florida than I've seen here. Much bigger. Yah....."roach-like". It's not a roach as we know roaches. BIG...yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Woolford Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 This Harlequin beetle was slouching on the wall at Mikes a few weeks ago and those are my size 12 fingers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwoSailors Posted April 16, 2016 Share Posted April 16, 2016 (edited) This really "bugs" me! Edited April 16, 2016 by TwoSailors Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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