the damn thing won't go away

[sugarbunnny]

living in good old austin, texas, i've crossed paths with far too many cock-a-roaches for my taste. not only are they unpleasant by their own merits, but those fuckers bite, too, in case y'all didn't know

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[herloved_beauty]

Wait.

What the fuck do you mean cockroaches bite?

Oh holy god. Now I'm incredibly terrified of them :[

[sugarbunnny]

yep, it's rare that they bite but they do. maybe it's because i had a lot of dried sweat on me, and was therefore salty?

[mixtape__murder]

WTF? I'm from San Antonio and have never in my life been bitten by a cockroach!! D: D: D:

[sugarbunnny]

i've only lived in austin for a month and have already been bitten three times D: you're lucky.

[darkmanifest]

Oh hell no. What kind of demon cockroaches do you have down there?

[senator_dongle]

Water roaches. They can get like 3" long and pudgy. They're dark with a little yellow edge on their middle section.

I'd post a pic but I AM TERRIFIED.

[plus20]

We get some sometimes, although I've never been bitten. I recently have discovered that they make those poison bait things for large cockroaches.

My main issue with them is that I can't catch them.

[sugarbunnny]

those poison bait traps seem to keep their numbers down, but don't get rid of them completely, unfortunately :C. my boyfriend has a bunch of those set up around his house, but i still see those crawly fuckers. i don't mind them too much as long as they don't freaking crawl on me! D:

[_____mx]

Yay for no roaches in my Austin apartment. :D

We have A TON of them at work, though. Siiiiiick.

[sugarbunnny]

lucky you! my boy's old apt. & his new house (where i got this bite!) both have 'em. the new house has far less, thank god. they are larger there, however :X

[mrsjenlambert]

I am terrified of roaches. But I just moved from Dallas, Texas to Tucson, Arizona.....and I will just say, my fear of roaches are on the back burner of creepy crawly things. Like 4 inch long beetles with huge pincers and scorpions.

First two weeks in Tucson, one of my dachshunds found and was playing cheerfully with a scorpion in my front entry. This was in the temporary apartment we stayed in for month when we moved here. Well, we found a little apartment house (free standing units, with backyards) and I just had the exterminator out here today JUST IN CASE. And I signed up for service every two months. I just got a chill thinking about all of this.

[wings_unfurling]

ACK. NO. SCORPIONS SHOULD STAY AWAY FROM ALL PETS AND PEOPLE. AS SHOULD ALL CREEPY CRAWLY THINGS. ICK ICK ICK.

[sugarbunnny]

scorpions are love! ♥ i've yet to see one here in austin but i've always got my eye out. i think they're cute!