Palmetto bugs

[ladder13]

Pardon my obsession, as previously documented here, with these GIANT cockroaches. Can anyone tell me where the Mason-dixon line is for these creatures? Are they in NC or Virginia? How about the northern parts of SC?
I'm in the early stages of looking for a retirement community, prefer the east coast, but don't want anything to do with these monsters. I skeeve them.

 

[woodsltc]

ladder, you need to be practical about these things.........those big bugs are a good source of protein. You can never tell when times will really get rough. I've heard they can be tasty when roasted.

Don

 

[Belwolf]

Palmetto Bugs, AKA American Cockroach, have been found as far North as New York.

They rarely infest houses as they develop slowly and prefer to live outdoors, especially in warmer climates (the colder an area, the more likely they will come inside).

I find maybe two a year in my house (FLA) and 99% of the time they are dead or dying.

German Cockroaches are the worst in that they infest dwellings.

 

[ladder13]

ladder, you need to be practical about these things.........those big bugs are a good source of protein. You can never tell when times will really get rough. I've heard they can be tasty when roasted.

Don

Yeah, taste just like chicken.

 

[oldRoger]

I do not like them, but they are not a big problem, when I find one inside, not often, I put it out where I expect it will be eaten.

 

[ingmansinc]

I got one chained to a tree in the back yard. He doesn't require a license or heartworm treatments and if an intruder comes around he just flies up in their face and they scream and run like hell.

 

[S&W-Keeper]

Well, it looks like we will not be seeing you here.We raise them and send them to other parts of the country.When you catch one of them and tape him to a target, they make a nice splash when hit with a .357 mag.

 

[bk43]

Yeah, taste just like chicken.

They do taste like chicken. And iffun you fry 'em up just right they still crunch real nice when you bite into the shell(Prefer cornmeal batter myself). Problem we're having nowadays is the Yankees movin' down here and killing all of 'em they see. Getting right tough to gather up enough to put on a decent feed.

Bob

 

[Steelwimp]

Bengal roach spray

This stuff works! I live in Florida. I heard some lady on the radio many years ago say this stuff is great. I have used it. It does not smell,and it takes care of business with those Palmetto Bugs. I have not really had many German roaches, but I think it is supposed to be good on those also.

 

[Richard2003]

I didn't know about these monsters till I moved to South FL in the mid 70's.
I saw one on my floor and hit him with a shoe and i swear the shoe moved with him under it.
I found some in my bread loaf. After that I learned to refrigerate bread.
Here in Central florida they are rare.

Rick

 

[badam0112]

Find maybe one or two a year in the house. Always dead. No big deal.

 

[FrankD45]

We don't see anything like them here in the Piedmont area. Now we have seen some yotes in the neighborhood, but I guess you know how to deal with them.

Frank

 

[medxam]

Being from SC and having spent a long period of my life in the Holy City of Charleston, during medical school and residency, I have learned to live in a somewhat symbiotic relationship with these critters. I still hate them. They love cardboard boxes and eat the glue. Keep your garage and out buildings as free of these hiding/feeding places as possible.

There is an aerosol spray product called Bengal Roach Spray that gets them every time. It is not cheap, about $15.00 a can, but it is worth it.

Just clean up all of the hiding places and spray around the base boards. In a day or two, you will not believe how many of these pests were in your house, until you start to count the corpses. The good part is that it lasts for 2 or 3 months.

Good Luck,

medxam

 

[TXSWFAN]

Palmetto Bugs, AKA American Cockroach, have been found as far North as New York.

Actually, the Palmetto bug and the American Cockroach are two different critters. The American Cockroach can fly, the Palmetto Bug doesn't.

Palmetto Bug

American

 

[oldRoger]

If you were to look down the Eastern Seaboard, At about the point that The Liberal blue states end, and people start appreciating the right to carry arms, coincidently, that is where the German Cockroach start giving away to the American Roach.
Personally I draw no conclusion from that.

 

[ladder13]

Any monsters in coastal N. Carolina?

 

[ladder13]

If you were to look down the Eastern Seaboard, At about the point that The Liberal blue states end, and people start appreciating the right to carry arms, coincidently, that is where the German Cockroach start giving away to the American Roach.
Personally I draw no conclusion from that.

How would you explain Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine?

 

[dmar]

I have not seen any of those nasty Palmetto bugs here in NC. I understand they are all over the place in SC, so I stay away from there! Bugs should not be that big.

BTW, I love Vermont and NH (grew up there), but their political climate is turning into Massachusetts (grew up there, too)/NY -- north; what a shame...

 

[Sebago Son]

Bugs Up Here....

How would you explain Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine?

We call ours "Waterbugs".... or alternatively, RINOs.

 

[Belwolf]

Actually, the Palmetto bug and the American Cockroach are two different critters. The American Cockroach can fly, the Palmetto Bug doesn't.

Palmetto Bug

American

Hmm, don't know where you got that, but the first pic is an Oriental Cockroach, they will infest houses similar to German Cockroaches. The two types are similar and often confused. BTW, the Smokey Brown Cockroach is another called "Palmetto Bug" as it is very similar to the American Cockroach.

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