Cockroach, how big is yours??
Nov 15th 2007, 7:24 am
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Cockroach, how big is yours??
Just thought I would post a few pics for those maybe still in the UK so you can judge for yourselves.
I have placed a rule next to it to dimension off, cos I have been known to exaggerate certain sizes in the past
I have placed a rule next to it to dimension off, cos I have been known to exaggerate certain sizes in the past
Nov 15th 2007, 7:32 am
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and for the ladies thats nearly 6 inches long
Nov 15th 2007, 7:34 am
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That IS big!!! Had two in here last night, not that big thank goodness, but have been sprayed and everything - don't they know they;re not supposed to come in now? 
Nov 15th 2007, 8:10 am
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Nov 15th 2007, 8:28 am
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Nov 15th 2007, 9:03 am
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It still bewilders even me.. and quite scary that i cannot still get my head round it..
example:
if its 8am and clocks go fwd.. then 8am becomes 9am ( or the normal time that 9 am usually is )
which means its hotter in the mornings?
or is it other way round
example:
if its 8am and clocks go fwd.. then 8am becomes 9am ( or the normal time that 9 am usually is )
which means its hotter in the mornings?
or is it other way round
Nov 15th 2007, 9:13 am
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My daughter breeds insects for a living! Why? I don't know? Anyhow, she does. She sends them from the lab where she works to people all around the world. A lot of the work she does is to see how humanely parasitic insects can be killed, and with no danger to farmers crops.
She has so many different types of cockroaches in her labs you'd be amazed! She has Madascan Hissing Cockroaches, one of which she's trained, by bribing it with slivers of apple, to allow her to pick it up. Urgh! When she interviews people she asks them to put their hand in the tank of cockroaches and pick one up. If they can't she doesn't see the point in employing them. Thing is, she picks up the one she's trained, she recognises it because it has one antennae longer than the other!
I diverse, cockroaches and ants fly when the nests they live in become overcrowded. Some of the eggs hatch with winged insects and they fly off the find another site to build a new colony.
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Nov 15th 2007, 9:48 am
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Nov 15th 2007, 10:57 am
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3 years ago when I was in the wet mess on a minesite in the northern territory I saw an insect, like a cockroach (but apparently unrelated) 3 inches long.
At first I thought it was a mouse.
We normally get a lot of cockroaches in the house even though we spray with the barrier spray. Last year we used an insect bomb. Its just an arosol that you release with all the doors and windows closed (you have to leave the house as well for a couple of hours). We hardly saw any critters alive after that. For about 2 days afterwards the floors we covered with dead insects that came crawling out of cracks and cupboards.
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At first I thought it was a mouse.
We normally get a lot of cockroaches in the house even though we spray with the barrier spray. Last year we used an insect bomb. Its just an arosol that you release with all the doors and windows closed (you have to leave the house as well for a couple of hours). We hardly saw any critters alive after that. For about 2 days afterwards the floors we covered with dead insects that came crawling out of cracks and cupboards.
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Nov 15th 2007, 11:21 am
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So far....(7 days....) I havent found anything so big that "Baygon" didn't kill it instantly......anything bigger than it has managed so far I think I would hunt with a shotgun!
Nov 15th 2007, 11:24 am
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We have our house sprayed every year (under the floor etc) and Alan sprays the outside of the house with Copex every 4-5 months
SO far we haven't had a cockroach or Spider in the house in the year we've been here!
Had them outside, dead! but not it!!!
SO far we haven't had a cockroach or Spider in the house in the year we've been here!
Had them outside, dead! but not it!!!
Nov 15th 2007, 11:33 am
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NOTHING LIKE THAT HERE IN PERTH!!!!
Nov 15th 2007, 11:37 am
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Spent the day spraying our house, the buggers scare me to death
Meet my first huntsman at the weekend, just about died on the spot, went and put on overalls,wellies, long latex gloves and the spare bbq tongs and killer spray in hand tackled it
I swear to god it was ready for the fight, but I won ha ha do you ever get used to them
Meet my first huntsman at the weekend, just about died on the spot, went and put on overalls,wellies, long latex gloves and the spare bbq tongs and killer spray in hand tackled it I swear to god it was ready for the fight, but I won ha ha do you ever get used to them
Nov 15th 2007, 12:13 pm
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