Bugs! Ugh!!!! Warning-ugly pics!

[johnmiic]

Can anyone tell me what this monstrosity is? This is not a roach. When I killed it it was docile. A NYC roach runs away fast. This damn thing plays dead. I found 3 in my apartment since July. Don't know how they got in except that we had some movers take away some furniture in July. Maybe these guys smuggled in with the moving blankets?

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[emeraldknight47]

LOOKS like a classic red German cockroach to me, but I'm no entomologist. I would be surprised if it weren't in the roach family somewhere---too many similar characteristics. Oh, and BTW----it is "one ugly m****r f****r!!!

[Mikey]

That looks like a roach to me, John

Do a google image search for cockroach

[LonnieFisher]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viTUhOT4d3I

[johnmiic]

I mean, yeah it looks like a roach, maybe related to one but it aint no regular roach. The ones in the 'burbs here are not as big and ugly as this. Also I've seen Manhattan roaches, killed a few in my time and they don't have such obvious spikes on the legs and those azz antennae. Plus these moved slow. Very easy to kill except for 1 that flew around the room and tried to get me.

[rche]

looks like a roach to me. We gots 'em by the thousands by our woodpiles.

Wikimedia Error (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_cockroach)

[toys2cool]

that's the most common roach you'll find in Miami :grin: I kill about 3 a week outside my house

[TEXASFETT]

Looks like that bad boy came from Joes Apartment.

[hobub]

Cockroach. Get an exterminator to spray your apt asap! And keep a keen eyeout. Put your food in tupperware. I believe those suckers multiply pretty fast but if you've only seen 3 you may be lucky.

[jessica]

Yup. Looks like a roach. They're usually fast, so perhaps you had a drunk one. The moving blankets would have been a good trojan horse for these...

[johnmiic]

I have some comic boxes in the apt. and file boxes with toys & stuff. I found the most recent one under/behind,(?), a box I moved. I was bagging up some open collectible stuff, (not comics), and looking for any more bugs I could find. It was incapacitated or something. Just laid on it's back with it's legs moving in the air. Was it hibernating? Or dying for lack of food?

The first I killed also just sat still as I killed it. It sounded like a nut cracking when I stepped on it. Usually roaches move fast. Except for the flying one these guys just sleepwalk. Also not sure why some of them came out in the open for no reason-obviously vunerable and easy to kill.

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

That's definitely a roach: it's got the thorax plate that sweeps over the head and the bent back antenna. If they're staggering around they may have been exposed to something that's killing them. Could be a cleaning solution, something in the walls.... they could have just been old ones dying of natural causes. But yeah; get the place sprayed ASAP. If you can, move things away from the walls. Roaches don't like open areas and it'll reduce the chances of them getting into boxes and the like.

Don C.

[Johnny]

That's a "skitter". Watch out the "mechs" can't be far behind.

[johnmiic]

That's a "skitter". Watch out the "mechs" can't be far behind.

What are "mechs"? I searched google but all I get are Robotech & Falling Skies results.

[emeraldknight47]

That's a "skitter". Watch out the "mechs" can't be far behind.

::laffs::

Love the reference, dude!!!

[EMCE Hammer]

They weren't always skitters...........

[emeraldknight47]

They weren't always skitters...........

True dat. Perhaps next season, we'll find out what they were. And who the tall, skinny folks are....!