melting pot

Is there a pandemic of Cockroaches over here....or did they hear a pomms moved in the street and thought there might be some food in the house ( I can tell you...they will starve here)

I have selotaped up keyholes in doors,to stop them trying to get in after catching one crawling though ,opened car door and there was one, hiding in the door seal...Out to the bin....all on the door step...does anyone else seem to keep finding them...or is it just me being pestered by them.

sky

We never got them in our new house but had a few in this house but we seem to have got rid of all trace now. The cats still bring in the odd one from outside to play with :scared: . I'm not sure if there is a time of year when they are worse, maybe you suffer from them more because you are in a warmer part of NZ than me.

JaneAS

Hiya. My brother lived for a few years in Cyprus, where it was hot most of the time, and they had a problem with cockroaches. Their solution, strange as it sounds, was to put slices of cucumber where they were getting in. He told me that something in the smell of cucumber is totally hated by cockroaches, and they won't go near it. May be worth a try?

JaneAS

Boopy

Are cockroaches all over NZ, or just certain areas? Yuk!

Boopy

Gill and Rob

Everywhere !!!! They have native coackroaches which are HUGE. We have had several big ones about 2 inches long, but we back on to a nature reserve.

If you think cockroaches are yuk, Do a search on wetas !!! Now THEY are yuk.

Gill

sky

Yes it's the huge ones that the cats keep bringing in :scared:

Wetas are lovely huge insects (at least they don't fly into your face and lose legs and stuff in your hair ) I don't think they live on the south island cos Ive never seen one

Servant24kids

Sky, I've seen one in the South Island - at Akaroa, not too far away from you.

planty

Here's a piccy and details

http://weta.boarsnest.net/

sky

I'd love to come across one I think they're fab. they go as far back as prehistoric times don't they?
Will keep looking out for one then

Boopy

Are the cockroaches kind enough to stay outside, or do they get indoors.
Boopy

Pompey_Paul

Guess i must be part cockroach then!

CWEMM02

I would like to know too and wonder if these are the same kind that you might see up here in an apartment. When I was in university I rented an apartment with a friend. We eventually had to move as they were even in our beds, never mind the rest of the place. I would hate to think that I am not just leaving my centrally heated home for something somewhat different, but to move from a bug free home to something that might be alive.

Michael

Boopy

I'll second that Michael.

Boopy

sky

They're not that bad where I am, my house is not alive with disease ridden roaches lol .. can't speak for other folk here in NZ though.
The only time I have ever seen any in the UK was at the hospital I worked at and they were a lot smaller than the ones we have here.

Gill and Rob

They get indoors too !!! Where in the UK we associate cockroaches with dirty houses, they don't seem to discriminate where they live in NZ, clean houses or dirty houses. The biggest 2 I have ever seen were in the house and crawled over the arm of the sofa !!!!!


Cheers
Gill