You say Palmetto (bug) and I say cucaracha
Actually, I also say palmetto bug - not the standard roach but that mega roach that sometimes flies and is seasonal - anyone getting visited?
Im not afraid of bugs. Im not afraid of palmettos, chasing them with the raid can but they run ridiculously fast and when it darts this way, that way it can be unnerving. Aside from them, I otherwise try to prevent bugs from being killed but not this creepfest of a critter.
They like me. A month back I woke when one ran across my bare foot (I was sleeping sitting up). Last night, another across my hand reaching in the dark for paper towel. My house isnt rampant with them - theyre maybe 1 or 2 a week.
Anyone else getting them?
Anyone else creeped out?
it doesn't look anything like the beetles from the movie though. :/
yea it was a stupid movie anyway.
what can be expected from the rock, ya know?
Original Post by musicalfishmich:
yea it was a stupid movie anyway.
what can be expected from the rock, ya know?
You're thinking of the other movie. The mummy was brendan frasier. Rock was in.. the king.. the scorpion king!
Original Post by musicalfishmich:
yea it was a stupid movie anyway.
what can be expected from the rock, ya know?
The first Mummy movie was awesome, and did not have the Rock.
And if june bugs are .5-1inch long, I am afraid of them.
Original Post by crazydiamondchrysalis:
Original Post by musicalfishmich:
yea it was a stupid movie anyway.
what can be expected from the rock, ya know?
You're thinking of the other movie. The mummy was brendan frasier. Rock was in.. the king.. the scorpion king!
oh. woops. too many movies with egyptian-mummys coming to life-crazy attacking life threatening battles with zombies and scarabs
in ga the biggest has been maybe 3/4.
the big uns are in florida.
I have to get my house sprayed every 3 months because of them. I live in a pine tree forest apparently. They are not scared of you and they come charging towards you. All hell breaks loose when they start to fly. I didn't sleep in my bedroom for days when I encountered the first one. Crawling on the bed.
Another reason I hate Georgia and wish it would implode (with me not in it).
June bugs get pretty big in the mid-west. I remember as a kid on my relatives farms in central Illinois. They'd be every where. They fly real slow and just keep coming at you. They love to come at the screens at night. I can still hear them going smack, smack, smack and buzzing really loud.
At home I lived on a corner lot so there was a street light next to our house. It was never pitch dark. Out in the middle of Nowhereville Illinois it was pitch dark and you could hear smack, smack, smack, Buzzzzzzzzzz, Buzzzzzzzzz, Buzzzzzz, on the screens while you were trying to fall asleep in 90 degree weather with 90% humidity, no AC and no breeze.
*twitches away in disgust*
Original Post by moonikins:
June bugs get pretty big in the mid-west. I remember as a kid on my relatives farms in central Illinois. They'd be every where. They fly real slow and just keep coming at you. They love to come at the screens at night. I can still hear them going smack, smack, smack and buzzing really loud.
At home I lived on a corner lot so there was a street light next to our house. It was never pitch dark. Out in the middle of Nowhereville Illinois it was pitch dark and you could hear smack, smack, smack, Buzzzzzzzzzz, Buzzzzzzzzz, Buzzzzzz, on the screens while you were trying to fall asleep in 90 degree weather with 90% humidity, no AC and no breeze.
*twitches away in disgust*
Exactly! It's like they are all blind or something. You turn on a light outside during the summer, and within minutes you've got a whole herd of them flying around and smacking up against the house and knocking themselves silly. And they always want to land in my hair!
And when they land in your hair they buzzzzzz buzzzzz buzzzzz so loud. And their legs get stuck in your hair and as you try to pull it out they buzzzz buzzzzz buzzzzz and flap their wings and get further stuck in your hair.
I have horrible memories of me hopping around frantically while screaming "get it out" "get it out" "get it out" while my mother was screaming "hold still" "hold still" "hold still so I can get it out".
*shudders*
I go outside sometimes to read. I usually end up trying to smack at them with whatever book I have in my hand.
I hate them. Ugh!
At a house I lived at when I was younger, we had a pool, and at night they used to love collecting around the outside of the pool walls. And by morning you'd find tons dead in the water. June bugs that is. :s
I used to flick them off the screen door from the other side. And you'd hear them hit the porch floor.
And when you step on them they make a very distinct -CRUNCH-... *cringes*
*cringe, shudder shudder, cringe*
I have a mortal fear of the damned things! I grew up in Houston and we had them ALL OVER. I never heard them called Palmetto Bugs until I lived in New York...and I INSISTED that they were not Palmetto Bugs, but cockroaches!
I can remember, when I was a child, going to the kitchen to get a drink of water and flicking on the light and HUNDREDS of them would fly about the kitchen and into my face and hair! AAAAAAAACCCKKKK!!! They were easily 3-4 inches long! I hope I never see one again. (I've lived in Northern CA for the past 37 years, where we don't have them. WHEW!)
Tomato/tomata? NOPE! They're dirty, nasty, disgusting ROACHES!!!
Original Post by moonikins:
*cringe, shudder shudder, cringe*
ew. that's gross.
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