A Lovecraftian Interlude

[naamah_darling]

Sargon and I were sitting peacefully downstairs, gaming, and suddenly, something the size of a mouse skitters across his keyboard. It was a giant fucking cockroach. This is Oklahoma, we have a house with a basement and crawlspace, we do get "palmetto bugs." They are not palmetto bugs, really. They're just a particularly enormous breed of

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[greyduck]

GAAAAAAAAAA--

*pant, pant*

--AAH!

Gods, I hate bugs. Especially bigger bugs. Creep-fuq'ing-tastic.

[naamah_darling]

Right there with you. I've tried very hard not to be so chickenshit about bugs that can't hurt me, but incidents like this don't make it easier. Christ. I would prefer the ginormous wolf spiders we had last year (as in, big enough that when you threw 'em out the door, you could HEAR THEM HIT THE GROUND). The spiders at least ate the fucking roaches, and were pretty cool to look at.

[liminalia]

And I'm right there with you too. I don't mind most insects and spiders, but palmetto bugs and cockroaches? *SHUDDER*

Boric acid powder is your friend.

[naamah_darling]

YES. That's what we've used to keep them in check all this time. And it WORKS. I guess I need to put some downstairs, which I haven't been because we DON'T SEE THEM THERE.

Except, apparently, for when a hellmouth opens up in our crawlspace.

[beyondcrazy4you]

And it's great that they say when you see one cockroach, there are a hundred more hiding in the walls.

*dead*

[beyondcrazy4you]

Also, yes, palmetto bugs are fucking SICK. They FLYYYYY. And they're so big they're not scared of people, so they'll just land on you and chill if they want to. Oh my god.

I used to live in Florida, and we were thinking about releasing house chameleons into our walls to keep the bug population in check, but then we moved.

[naamah_darling]

AAAAUGH. LANDING.

The horrible thing is the prickly legs that make them STICK TO YOUR CLOTHING.

*shrivels and dies*

[liminalia]

You should hear the story D tells about trying to carry a platter full of spaghetti marinara across a friend's white carpeting when a palmetto bug landed in his hair! O.O

[badrahessa]

I had a similar incident in my garage bedroom last year.

After recovering from the horror I asked around as to what would cause such an ungodly invasion all at once...

More experienced southerners told me that all of the flying/scrabbling/racing beasties were males following the phermone emitting female.

Breeding season an what not.

After killing over 13 of them in 2 hours I bedded down in the living room for the night ... away from the poorly sealed garage bedroom.

[naamah_darling]

*whimpers*

*WHIMPERS*

I hope we got the female. Maybe that was the first one.

[liminalia]

I wonder if scrubbing the floor and burning incense or spraying air freshener like mad would short out the pheromones?

[naamah_darling]

Washing probably would work quite well. *cringe* I really want to use a power hose or something.

[meccahi]

What's worse is when they fly at you... while you're sitting on the toilet. It's like they KNOW they have you at a disadvantage, and are making with the tactical strike.

Might I also recommend that you call an exterminator.. because if they're coming out into the open there is guaranteed to be more in hiding.
Waiting to strike.

[thepikey]

I was thinking more of a Shadow Over Innsmouth Tulsa scenario, where they'll interbreed with the local inhabitants and seek to rouse the Elder Roaches from their aeons-long slumber.

[naamah_darling]

Judging from the people in the legislature, I think the plan may be too far along to stop it now.

[liminalia]

So *that* explains Kern!

[naamah_darling]

It certainly explains her creepy, buglike stare.