i just killed a cockroach carrying an eggcase

ugh ugh ugh

http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/Selhome/gbu/blattella_w_eggcase.gif

flushed them both down the toilet

Not dead. Just in your u-bend, mad as hell.

should have eaten the eggs

good riddance
― Shakey Mo Collier

i have no use for her but RIP

btw i thought this would be about a cockroach carrying a carton of eggs back to its lair

were you wearing a wifebeater and briefs? Were it me, I'd totally feel accomplished, like Ripley flushing mama alien out of the airlock.

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better if this happened after you played at an awesome metal show and you have a hot chick waiting for you in your bed while you do this

ˆˆˆHow so??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHqJPoPMP2A&feature=related

http://www.showcase.ca/BLOG/photos/films/images/40454/original.aspx

:)

Giant flying cockroaches who come into your kitchen when the weather starts getting hot and stay out of the way so you can't squish them, not that you'd really want to considering the mess it'd make

Eggcases suck, but flying REALLY sucks.

btw i thought this would be about a cockroach carrying a carton of eggs back to its lair

lol me too

cockroach's making an omelette brb

Dude, where's the bacon?

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did not need to see that first pic. gaaaaah gaaaah arrrrgh.

was looking for the mitch hedburg "infestation" bit, but it's not on youtube anymore because of copyright stuff. :(

I found an egg case lying by itself in my kitchen window sill, in a past apartment. Took me a few minutes to figure out WHAT, exactly, it was. Realized it from the little rows of long eggs with a dark spot on one end. To be fair, the mathematical organization and regularity of the eggs and their eggcelent organic protective package are pretty cool. But I still flushed the fucker.

woke up at like 3am to get some water and my cat's in the kitchen with 3 dead giant cockroaches in some sort of circle around it

wicca cat

Used to have a roommate w cat who would play with them and kill them overnight. She also scratched up a rug of mine, but all in all, I was happy to have her on the job.

Eggcases suck, but flying REALLY sucks.

The one good thing about flying roaches (aka palmetto bugs aka the American cockroach) is that they generally stay like to stay outside when it's warm.

So proud you killed so many roaches at once.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgLWl1bjH84

nighmare

nightmare, even

jesus

safe and warm

no way i am ever clicking on that

good news: I just killed a cockroach carrying an egg case
bad news: I found it by dumping old water from my electric kettle

~now searching amazon for a new electric kettle~

D:

http://www.3news.co.nz/News/HealthNews/Call-for-nationwide-espresso-standards-as-cockroaches-infest-machines/tabid/420/articleID/104683/cat/58/Default.aspx

I killed a grasshopper by accident today :-(

dayo :(

OP makes my stomach turn. Wow!

ahhhhh! ahhhhhh! AAHHHHHHHH!

I grabbed it in a paper towel and smooshed it all up and put the paper towel in a box and threw it out back in the recycling can. Then I went back out there, grabbed the box out of the can, took it out to a pile of cinderblocks out back. When I unfolded the towel, it was still in there twitching then it got out and tried to crawl around, so i took a stick and destroyed it until it was just a smear and there was still an antennae twitching. Ugh. Augh. Alternating waves of nausea and panic. This is not good.

Bleach.

was that a reaction or a suggestion

Both

I just killed
a cockroach carrying
an egg case

Forgive me
It was delicious
so sweet
and so cold

man either some of you guys would not last in the south or are some squeamish southerners

Ootheca. THE EGGCASE HAS A NAME, ffs. Can't believe the nerve of some people.

nothing was worse than the time when I put my shoes on only to feel something squishy inside, and then after I walked outside, pulled out a dead roach that was crushed underneath my foot

I would not last in the south for a lot of reasons, but otoh I would have house lizards which I've wanted for years.

comes out at 6pm for an hour in a tux to welcome guests, spends the rest of his time in the kitchen bothering the waitresses

5 years, and finally I have a reply to the opening post: "why were you carrying one?"

there was a cockroach in my sink this morning!! a big one!

I've never seen a roach in my apartment, anywhere in my building, and the kitchen window was cracked so I think it must have just walked in last night and got trapped in the sink. I threw it out the window... guess I should have killed it but I just wanted it gone

In Guangzhou we often had cockroach problems and used to buy these glue house traps, these little pop up cardboard houses with glue inside, and often when you went to check them there would be a mother cockroach in the middle, then all the baby cockroaches would have hatched and made desperate attempts to crawl out through the glue in different directions. Looked pretty bad.

There was a duplex across the street from us a few years ago, and they had to fumigate the place for something. What happened is the gas crept into the sewer system somehow, which caused all the cockroaches down below to crawl out of the small hole the manhole cover in the middle of the street in a doomed attempt to escape the poison. So all along the road and on the adjoining sidewalks were dead or dying cockroaches of a rather large size. It was also the usual path for kids to go to school, so all morning long I was hearing the screams of children.

i didn't know what an eggcase was so i googled it and became even more confused. must not be very big if a cockroach can carry it

lol omar gnarly tale

Oakland is not very humid and I don't ever recall having one in my actual home, but I've seen them on the sidewalks downtown... so they're around, but to find one in my sink freaked me out!

We get 'em. Not like hordes, we'll just see solo roaches skittering across the floor or kitchen counter. I smush them with no compunction. Ditto the tiny sugar ants that invade every spring. East Tennessee is humid and lush and we just have a whole lot of bugs. (The actual worst things we get in the house are brown recluses.)

Oh we also have cave crickets, aka camel crickets, but they mostly stay in the basement. When I first moved to Tennessee and encountered them I thought they were jumping spiders and I was like, what hell have I gotten myself into? But they're harmless, they just bounce around a lot like popcorn.

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i don't like bugs, but i like some better than others. spiders i've mostly come to terms with, as long as they're not too big. the ones i simply cannot stand are the house centipedes. i found one on my wall next to my bed the other day and it became an emergency

there was a cockroach in my sink this morning

When i lived in texas i learned that water should never be left in kitchen sinks because cockroaches -- especially big ones -- want water as much as they want food.

there was no water in there, AND there was a mesh strainer thing so he didn't come up from the pipes

want water as much as they want food

a.k.a waterbugs — a term I was introduced to by a building superintendent when I mentioned all the cockroaches in the basement laundry room. "Oh, those are just waterbugs."

I've found plenty of big bugs/spiders in my sink... yeah they fall in and can't climb out. It always bothers me to think about the beasties walking around that didn't end up in that trap.

We dealt with “oriental cockroaches” in our bathroom, they’re the ones which are almost black in color and tend to stick with damp areas. They’re also a bit smaller. In our kitchen, we dealt with a few American cockroaches, more brown in color and which true to their name are much more annoying and big and hateful.

There are these gadgets you can plug into your electrical outlets that are supposed to emit frequencies that keep bugs away. We have them here in Montana and have never seen any bugs in our house (though we do have a surprising amount of spiders - all the same species, nothing poisonous, but large enough to be seen on the wall from across the room). Anyway, one time in NJ we had a roach the size of my thumb crawling along the top of a bookshelf and I think the anti-bug noisemaker thing was driving it insane because when I tried to approach to smack it kill it with a shoe it flew at me and I nearly shit myself/had a heart attack. I leaped backward and almost fell over the back of the couch. I shudder even now thinking about it.

I once woke up in the middle of the night and felt a cockroach on my hand. It had emerged from the bathroom. When I shook it off to the floor, I looked down, and there was another cockroach on the floor, as if it was keeping watch. They went under the bed, but I managed to flush them out and get them into a Tupperware and flush them away.

Just a real dick move on their part imo

xxp yeah i've had a few situations with roaches that FLY @ U FACE.

Four summers ago I heard a rustling in the Venetian blinds around 2 a.m. In my grogginess I assumed it was a roach and didn't move for 10 minutes. Then I found the courage to grab my sandal from the floor and flick on the lamp. I was right -- the thing had flown to a white shirt I had hung on the closet doorknob to wear in a few hours. After screaming for about 45 minutes, I lunged for it, whereupon it flew to the wall. It was doomed then -- I smashed it.

I don't often get them but I was traumatized for a couple nights. I slept on the living room couch.

i can't stop thinking about an egg salesman cockroach with a briefcase full of eggs

Alternate cut of Pink Flamingos but the cockroach couldn't hit their lines.

When i lived in texas i learned that water should never be left in kitchen sinks because cockroaches -- especially big ones -- want water as much as they want food.

― Kim Kimberly, Thursday, May 14, 2026

One of my Cuban great-grandmother's bits o' wisdom: dry dishes thoroughly b/c roaches love dampness.

I've seen silverfish down in the laundry room but fortunately not in my place

knew someone who lived in some part of Arizona where scorpions would just occasionally fall from the ceiling

I have seen silverfish twice in SF, but I never close any windows and they came in through the shower. Both were in the shower when I found them, in the drain. I grew up in the Bay Area and they freaked me out more than a cockroach would ever. I bought all these paper traps for them, spread them around, never saw them again.

I just killed
a cockroach carrying
an egg case

Forgive me
It was delicious
so sweet
and so cold

― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), (twelve years ago)

Belated LOL

i don't like bugs, but i like some better than others. spiders i've mostly come to terms with, as long as they're not too big. the ones i simply cannot stand are the house centipedes. i found one on my wall next to my bed the other day and it became an emergency

― Cattedrale metropolitana di Santa Maria de Episcopio, Thursday, May 14, 2026 5:52 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

One thing about house centipedes is that they are predators. If you have them in your house, it is very likely that there is something else in your house that they are eating. Could be anything from silverfish to termites to bedbugs to cockroaches. My worldview has changed from being scared of centipedes to thinking that they're actually pretty cute.

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Cockroaches on the other hand. Well, if they're outdoor cockroaches, like wood roaches, I don't mind finding them outdoors. But we have these huge American* cockroaches at my office, and they typically make their appearance in the restrooms, which is bad enough, but one fell from the ceiling onto my colleague as she sat at her desk a few months ago.

*(not actually native to America!)

"I Just Killed a Cockroach Carrying an Eggcase"

Best song on Approximately Infinite Universe.

American cockroaches aka water bugs aka palmetto bugs, are the devil. I've detailed my years of battle here. I met them first around 2003 in a particular apartment, which now that I know more probably was riddled with holes to the outside and the basement was likely a damp nightmare space (I never saw it). They're relatively controllable here in NY with an annual exterminator visit. They horrify me and make me want to vomit, but they don't INFEST your home.

The little "kitchen" cockroaches iirc are "German" cockroaches? They're really the bigger problem. I found an egg case once in the little grooves of my kitchen window frame--thank god I flushed that thing before it hatched. We got 'em when the tenant downstairs became a hoarder and let garbage build up. That was upsetting. In another building they were so bad they were INSIDE THE DISPLAY OF THE MICROWAVE. I still own a bunch of big plastic storage bins because I put literally every scrap of my food inside containers in that kitchen and then moved out quickly.

Shudder. I'd rather have mice on the whole even given the current ahh outbreak concerns.

being in nyc have dealt with heavy german roach infestations several times now, i'd like to think i'm a pro

was able to get my current place roach-free, but as i've been doing some light duty renovating keep on finding piles/clusters of dessicated dried out roaches hiding out in, oh i dunno, the ceiling lights, under the window ledge, everywhere!

io, the last apartment i lived in had a zojirushi rice cooker left there by the owner, a nice one - but it had a dead roach right in the display!

side effect of the above is i've gotten really good at identifying a roach infestation by smell

Important to note that water bugs (left) are NOT cockroaches (right)!

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Water bugs are true bugs belonging to the order hemiptera, whereas cockroaches are in the order blattodea (which they share with termites).

I would appreciate limiting the number of photos we post before lunch.

lol you did click on the "cockroach carrying an eggcase" thread.

more eggcases, less roaches!

your wish is my command

https://premierpest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/German-cockroach-with-ootheca-web-600x600.jpg

I've long wanted to see a cockroach swallowing a penis.

side effect of the above is i've gotten really good at identifying a roach infestation by smell

I do NOT even want to think about this. Why am I in this thread jfc

my current place has almost zero cockroaches, the tradeoff being it DOES have scorpions (who I assume eat all the cockroaches)

roaches trigger visceral disgust, scorpions only fear and a weird xeno-existential horror which honestly is growing on me

My Florida childhood in retrospect was disgustingly full of roaches everywhere, roaches' eggs, roaches flying at me, and their gross smell which reminds me of caramel somehow.

But I've come to appreciate the creatures as the little miracles of engineering they are.

^yes, a roach infestation will smell sickly sweet

search engine had a good episode on roaches: https://pjvogt.substack.com/p/where-did-all-the-roaches-go

tl;dr is that roaches used to be ubiquitous prior to the 80s, but then somebody invented combat. of course, some roaches have now evolved to have an aversion to sugar as a result

Fingers crossed, our current house hasn’t had anything but ants and we’ve been living here a year. The house we lived in before, the first year after renovations there were roaches spotted with some regularity, probably coming in from the outside, but combat traps seemed to clear them out.

I think they might’ve been living in the mulch outside actually, that was something I learned tends to attract them.

The apartment we lived in before that was the real problem, under the sink it was pretty bad, we would get these guys skittering around in there, attracted by rotting wood and coming in through gaps.

haha, vivid childhood memory of walking into the kitchen late at night and hearing the deeply unheimlich sound of roaches skittering around in the paper grocery bag under the sink we put trash in

scorpions only fear and a weird xeno-existential horror which honestly is growing on me

Thanks to TV, scorpions were a big childhood fear, along with falling into quicksand.

what's that old adage about rats? For every one you see, there's a hundred you don't see

I hope that's not true with my cockroach visitor from yesterday!

(You guys got me freaked out, I was looking under the kitchen sink with a flashlight)

luckily I have cave scorpions and not bark scorpions, the ones in my house don't climb walls or drop from ceilings... they're (so far) always on the floor

my advice on under the sink is to seal up any gaps, even if they're really narrow cracks, at the bottom of boards or around the pipes. it should be impenetrable.

I did that for mice... cut up a beer can to wall off holes, and stuffed steel wool into crevices... but never had to contend with roaches. I still think this guy was just a visitor.. I've never seen any sign of roaches before, but will keep my eyes open

is this thread slow to load for anybody else?

+1 on sealing gaps under the sink. use caulk. for larger, more awkward holes, my recommendation is foil tape that's commonly used for HVAC. it's not duct tape, it's basically like aluminum foil in the form of tape.

https://mobileimages.lowes.com/productimages/6ec9122f-68a8-41f2-8b8a-830b74b94569/00700035.jpg

easier to apply and cut than duct tape imo.

you may be tempted to use great stuff spray foam, i'd recommend against it as spray foam is pretty hard to work with and really hard to clean up if you get it in the wrong place. ask me how i know

the previous owners of my place stuffed steel wool everywhere, i don't think it was effective against roaches xp

I only had the one mouse.. he was jet black and really fast. He met his end with an old wooden Victor trap and I haven't seen anymore since I sealed it up

our landlord at the roach apartment sprayed that foam under the sink, it seemed pretty effective but it was really ugly and didn't seem to help with the dampness issue.

what we eventually discovered with our bathroom roaches was a previous contractor did an ineffective job on the tub and shower, basically behind the wall tile it was just thin drywall and rotting wood, and the li'l guys loved it in there. a new team came in and did a better job and they went away.

(also re: the roach, there were workmen tearing up the vacant lot next door, to reduce fuel for fires.... he might have been over there and came in my window to hide out)

Ooooooh yeah a poorly water-proofed and rotting shower wall or bathroom subfloor is kind of the perfect roach environment. I've been through that here. Eventually the rottenness proved fatal to my bathroom, the ceiling collapsed, repairs proved that the subfloor was also MISSING, and the whole place was torn apart and rebuilt including tiling the shower to the ceiling (it was literally UNPRIMED, UNSEALED SPACKLED DRYWALL the fuck I cannot). No bugs since!

yes exactly!

i think in the case with that apartment, it was probably exactly the "for every roach you see there are a few hundred you don't."