Way OT - recent bug discussion

There was a thread recently that sort of degenerated into discussing
bugs (again!) and I'd mentioned that I'd lived in a place where there
were big roaches that smelled just awful. Thinking about these weird
and horrible little monsters made me finally get around to looking
them up: they are Florida Woods Cockroach or Eurydotis floridana,
a/k/a "the stinking cockroach". I encountered them in Georgia, and I
am asking you Florida people to take them back, please. ;-)

I found this information at

http://www.acesag.auburn.edu/department/ipm/roaches.htm

which is interesting in a creepy sort of way.

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Krista
Whose skin is crawling

I live in Miami, FL, and roaches are pretty numerous here. The house I
live in is pretty well sealed, so very few manage to get in, but the few
that do are dispatched by Lynxie with extreme prejudice. }

-Z

LOL wrote:

There was a thread recently that sort of degenerated into discussing
bugs (again!) and I'd mentioned that I'd lived in a place where there
were big roaches that smelled just awful. Thinking about these weird
and horrible little monsters made me finally get around to looking
them up: they are Florida Woods Cockroach or Eurydotis floridana,
a/k/a "the stinking cockroach". I encountered them in Georgia, and I
am asking you Florida people to take them back, please. ;-)

I found this information at

http://www.acesag.auburn.edu/department/ipm/roaches.htm

which is interesting in a creepy sort of way.

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Krista
Whose skin is crawling

Hey! "We Florida People" do freely admit we have more crawly critters - ok,
bugs - than any other state.....*but* I never saw no *stinkin'* roaches
here! Flying, crawling, swimming, yes....(aerobic?) but no smelly ones. The
only other state (never visited, but described to me as "Florida with
mountains and volcanos") that has as many bugs, so I hear, is where you
might have got this 411 on stinkin' roaches from......Hawaii. They sneakily
blamed us as the Motherstate for this miserable-sounding species - my
theory.


"Zorin the Lynx" wrote in message
...
:
: I live in Miami, FL, and roaches are pretty numerous here. The house I
: live in is pretty well sealed, so very few manage to get in, but the few
: that do are dispatched by Lynxie with extreme prejudice. }
:
: -Z
:
: LOL wrote:
:
: There was a thread recently that sort of degenerated into discussing
: bugs (again!) and I'd mentioned that I'd lived in a place where there
: were big roaches that smelled just awful. Thinking about these weird
: and horrible little monsters made me finally get around to looking
: them up: they are Florida Woods Cockroach or Eurydotis floridana,
: a/k/a "the stinking cockroach". I encountered them in Georgia, and I
: am asking you Florida people to take them back, please. ;-)
:
: I found this information at
:
: http://www.acesag.auburn.edu/department/ipm/roaches.htm
:
: which is interesting in a creepy sort of way.
:
: ------
: Krista
: Whose skin is crawling

"Hopitus2" wrote in message ...
Hey! "We Florida People" do freely admit we have more crawly critters - ok,
bugs - than any other state.....*but* I never saw no *stinkin'* roaches
here! Flying, crawling, swimming, yes....(aerobic?) but no smelly ones. The
only other state (never visited, but described to me as "Florida with
mountains and volcanos") that has as many bugs, so I hear, is where you
might have got this 411 on stinkin' roaches from......Hawaii. They sneakily
blamed us as the Motherstate for this miserable-sounding species - my
theory.



LOL! Well, note the url - Auburn University. It's just sneaky
Alabama people propagating disinformation, no doubt. :-P

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Krista

PS: Swimming?! Ewwwww!