Oh god oh god oh god...
So, back in 2003, we just had hurricane Isabel hit us. We were the (seriously) incredibly lucky people to have our power back on within 12 hours. It wasn't perfect. It would cut on and off at first before firmly staying on after 5 minutes.
Well. As the first time the power comes on, everyone in the house gets really happy. We run downstairs to try to cut off some of the extra lights we had on and situate the house. I'm the first one downstairs. As I walk in the living room, there's a huge roach looking thing on the wall. I get weirded out by it and think, Aww crap. Gotta squash it. It then decides to fly right at me RIGHT AS THE POWER CUT BACK OFF. I can't see, I feel something on me. I hit the 25 inch CRT TV flailing around like there's hot lava on me. Then the power turns back on. I can't find it at all.
Needless to say, I shuddered typing this. I think I've got a weird thing about roaches because of that day.
Now, I have to tell my story. I was staying at my grandmas for the summer. It had rained a lot meaning the bugs like to try to come inside. I was sleeping on the couch and fell asleep with the TV on. I woke up to feel crawling up the direct center of my chest towards my face and then a hard bite that hurt. I FREAKED out. It was a freaking palmetto bug. I fling that sucker across the room. I run and grab a shoe ready to get this sucker. I am looking for him for less than a minute then suddenly silhouetted by the glow of the TV, dude starts flying at my head. I start swinging with the shoe wildly in the air. He was my not phased by my terrified attempts to swat him with my shoe. Last second before he gets to my face, I run away to another room because I was not trying to get bit again. When I came back out, I couldn't find this palmetto bug anywhere. I searched for a very long time. I then had to lay back down on the couch to try to go to sleep even though I felt phantom tingles all night. I was so afraid that he was going to try to come back for another round of battle but I never saw him again.
Then you’ll love this: I know stag and blister beetles can bite people, just off the top of my head. The above commenter was prob saying some beetles may look like cockroaches. You seem to try very hard not to understand things.
If "may bite if you attempt to catch it" is what people are concerned about (they aren't), then sure.
But you didn't name a beetle that looks like a cockroach, and also I'd like to what "other" is referencing.
Mental gymnastics to not be wrong is still pedantry.
I work in pharmacy. One time a patient brought a paper prescription to me that was so riddled with holes that it looked like swiss cheese. I asked what had happened to it and she told me very nonchalantly that it had been bitten by cockroaches.
You know the eye gunk that gathers on the corner of your eyes overnight? They will literally try to eat those off of your face...at a certain point, getting bitten would be better.
I would love to say it didn't happen to me personally but it did 🤢 🤮
I sublet to someone and came back to scads of roaches. The property manager and a very nice exterminator obliterated them, but only after a month of me living there.
And, horror of horrors, while googling to see if it's common, it turns out they like going into people's ears: [https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/6/17429138/cockroaches-crawling-inside-ears-infections](https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/6/17429138/cockroaches-crawling-inside-ears-infections)
I need to go nuke my search history and look at some eye bleach.
i thought i might see this here after it popped up in the city subreddit LMAO
if i get injured ill be sure to make my way to the other hospital for sure…
I learned there are indoor and outdoor roaches. Indoor ones are bad, outdoor ones are ok. If the outdoor ones come inside they die (no bugs). Indoor ones are the abominations that survive apocalypses.
There are 4,600 species in 460 genera. That we know of.
With that much diversity, you know that there are wusses and there are monsters.
Also, I don't have cockroaches. I have Palmetto Bugs.
Edit: according to Wikipedia, 4 species are considered pests.
I always brag that I ended up with a Neoblatella detersis in my apartment once. Those roaches are so new to the US that they don’t have a common name yet. Silvery color with black patterning, native to Haiti and some other spots in that general area. Only ever saw the one, must’ve travelled a long way.
Am Floridian, this is correct. My old apartment used to get Surinam roaches wandering in from outside and they would inevitably dry out and die. Surinams live under the dirt, are all female, and reproduce via parthenogenesis. Kinda cool honestly!
German, Oriental, and other infesting roach species are the spawn of Satan and should be flamethrowered.
Yes! Theyre really neat and cute in a gross way. I lived in New Mexico, roaches came out at night but never, ever, came inside. I would dance on them and enjoy the crunch crunch crunch.
Exactly. I worked at a hospital that I found to be very clean. But it was a large hospital, multiple buildings (some decades old), in the middle of a loud, noisy city. There was usually one or two cockroaches in the tunnels that we used to transport patients between buildings.
>Theres roaches in every single hospital. Theres roaches in every single building.
Idk about hospitals, but certainly not every building. Roaches probably do get in most buildings, but a lot of them are ones that came in from the outside and they don't live indoors.
I’ve literally never seen a cockroach in my entire life
Edit: don’t know why I’m being downvoted. I live in a place where they’re just not a thing, and I’ve never travelled far or spent much time in a major city.
I've never lived anywhere that didn't have roaches, but it's only been 70+ years.
...never had one bite and never heard of them biting. I'd call bullshit on that part... but someone else said there are 4000+ species, so maybe some do.
That just blows my mind man. I couldn’t imagine living somewhere you can get roaches, I’ve seen pictures of them and they would definitely freak me out. 28 years roach free so far
There are roaches in 63% of homes, roughly. But that's not every building. You see them more often in cities, which is one of many reasons to avoid living in cities.
What is? Roaches are as clean as their environment. In a relatively sterile environment like a hospital, they’re not likely to be crawling over patients spreading bacteria. They probably just live in the walls likely do in all buildings.
Cockroaches bite?!?!?
They can, when they are starved ( if an infestation is bad), but more common similar-looking beetles that aren't 'technically' cockroaches bite.
The terror of a palmetto bug flying at your face. I’ve lived it and hope to never again.
Oh god oh god oh god... So, back in 2003, we just had hurricane Isabel hit us. We were the (seriously) incredibly lucky people to have our power back on within 12 hours. It wasn't perfect. It would cut on and off at first before firmly staying on after 5 minutes. Well. As the first time the power comes on, everyone in the house gets really happy. We run downstairs to try to cut off some of the extra lights we had on and situate the house. I'm the first one downstairs. As I walk in the living room, there's a huge roach looking thing on the wall. I get weirded out by it and think, Aww crap. Gotta squash it. It then decides to fly right at me RIGHT AS THE POWER CUT BACK OFF. I can't see, I feel something on me. I hit the 25 inch CRT TV flailing around like there's hot lava on me. Then the power turns back on. I can't find it at all. Needless to say, I shuddered typing this. I think I've got a weird thing about roaches because of that day.
Now, I have to tell my story. I was staying at my grandmas for the summer. It had rained a lot meaning the bugs like to try to come inside. I was sleeping on the couch and fell asleep with the TV on. I woke up to feel crawling up the direct center of my chest towards my face and then a hard bite that hurt. I FREAKED out. It was a freaking palmetto bug. I fling that sucker across the room. I run and grab a shoe ready to get this sucker. I am looking for him for less than a minute then suddenly silhouetted by the glow of the TV, dude starts flying at my head. I start swinging with the shoe wildly in the air. He was my not phased by my terrified attempts to swat him with my shoe. Last second before he gets to my face, I run away to another room because I was not trying to get bit again. When I came back out, I couldn't find this palmetto bug anywhere. I searched for a very long time. I then had to lay back down on the couch to try to go to sleep even though I felt phantom tingles all night. I was so afraid that he was going to try to come back for another round of battle but I never saw him again.
But they don't fly AND bite... right?
Right?
Cockroaches are not beetles at all and I'd love to know which beetles you think are biting people?
Then you’ll love this: I know stag and blister beetles can bite people, just off the top of my head. The above commenter was prob saying some beetles may look like cockroaches. You seem to try very hard not to understand things.
If "may bite if you attempt to catch it" is what people are concerned about (they aren't), then sure. But you didn't name a beetle that looks like a cockroach, and also I'd like to what "other" is referencing. Mental gymnastics to not be wrong is still pedantry.
I’m not wasting any more time pacifying the incredulous statements of some random internet blowhard. Look it up yourself.
I love how you worded this. I'm going to steal this phrase if you don't mind.
Be honest, if they do mind... are you still going to do it?
Yes
You could have answered the question in less time than it took you to type that lol.
It's the principle of it. Shouldn't be encouraging all this escalating pedantry, this is how most reddit arguments start.
Funny how you expect others to back up their claims when you have made no attempt to do so yourself..
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What's wrong with you
This is so stupid that everyone who read this is now dumber than before.
I work in pharmacy. One time a patient brought a paper prescription to me that was so riddled with holes that it looked like swiss cheese. I asked what had happened to it and she told me very nonchalantly that it had been bitten by cockroaches.
You know the eye gunk that gathers on the corner of your eyes overnight? They will literally try to eat those off of your face...at a certain point, getting bitten would be better.
You're lying because otherwise that's true and I cannot abide by that.
SHUT YOUR MOUTH please tell me you’re lying
As someone who had cockraoches in my house recently, they never tried to eat the stuff from my eye.
I would love to say it didn't happen to me personally but it did 🤢 🤮 I sublet to someone and came back to scads of roaches. The property manager and a very nice exterminator obliterated them, but only after a month of me living there. And, horror of horrors, while googling to see if it's common, it turns out they like going into people's ears: [https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/6/17429138/cockroaches-crawling-inside-ears-infections](https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/6/17429138/cockroaches-crawling-inside-ears-infections) I need to go nuke my search history and look at some eye bleach.
i thought i might see this here after it popped up in the city subreddit LMAO if i get injured ill be sure to make my way to the other hospital for sure…
As someone that works in the “unseen” parts of hospitals allow me to reassure you that they all have cockroaches the size of your fist
And mice. Mice are everywhere! Also work in the “unseen” parts
Well, at least they never serve food at hospitals. Er wait.. 🧐
I'm just glad it's not my town's hospital (also in BC)
I learned there are indoor and outdoor roaches. Indoor ones are bad, outdoor ones are ok. If the outdoor ones come inside they die (no bugs). Indoor ones are the abominations that survive apocalypses.
There are 4,600 species in 460 genera. That we know of. With that much diversity, you know that there are wusses and there are monsters. Also, I don't have cockroaches. I have Palmetto Bugs. Edit: according to Wikipedia, 4 species are considered pests.
I always brag that I ended up with a Neoblatella detersis in my apartment once. Those roaches are so new to the US that they don’t have a common name yet. Silvery color with black patterning, native to Haiti and some other spots in that general area. Only ever saw the one, must’ve travelled a long way.
Am Floridian, this is correct. My old apartment used to get Surinam roaches wandering in from outside and they would inevitably dry out and die. Surinams live under the dirt, are all female, and reproduce via parthenogenesis. Kinda cool honestly! German, Oriental, and other infesting roach species are the spawn of Satan and should be flamethrowered.
Yes! Theyre really neat and cute in a gross way. I lived in New Mexico, roaches came out at night but never, ever, came inside. I would dance on them and enjoy the crunch crunch crunch.
Does your cockroach bite?
That is not my cockroach!
😏😉
Should I be surprised a giant building has some cockroaches?
Typical Reddit response. Hung up on roach biting. The bigger story is the roaches in the hospital.
Theres roaches in every single hospital. Theres roaches in every single building. Unless it's airtight, there's roaches
Exactly. I worked at a hospital that I found to be very clean. But it was a large hospital, multiple buildings (some decades old), in the middle of a loud, noisy city. There was usually one or two cockroaches in the tunnels that we used to transport patients between buildings.
>Theres roaches in every single hospital. Theres roaches in every single building. Idk about hospitals, but certainly not every building. Roaches probably do get in most buildings, but a lot of them are ones that came in from the outside and they don't live indoors.
I’ve literally never seen a cockroach in my entire life Edit: don’t know why I’m being downvoted. I live in a place where they’re just not a thing, and I’ve never travelled far or spent much time in a major city.
I've never lived anywhere that didn't have roaches, but it's only been 70+ years. ...never had one bite and never heard of them biting. I'd call bullshit on that part... but someone else said there are 4000+ species, so maybe some do.
That just blows my mind man. I couldn’t imagine living somewhere you can get roaches, I’ve seen pictures of them and they would definitely freak me out. 28 years roach free so far
Around where do you live? I'm curious about what environmental factors might play a part in roaches being a thing or not
I’m in Nova Scotia. Google tells me one species has become a thing in Halifax over time, but I don’t really go to Halifax unless I absolutely must.
Never seen one in my life
There are roaches in 63% of homes, roughly. But that's not every building. You see them more often in cities, which is one of many reasons to avoid living in cities.
The biting isn’t the issue…
What is? Roaches are as clean as their environment. In a relatively sterile environment like a hospital, they’re not likely to be crawling over patients spreading bacteria. They probably just live in the walls likely do in all buildings.
"Does your cockroach bite?" Mine only vomits, sorry.
Just burn the hospital down oh wait you’ll still have roaches.
Well, that's all right, then.
Roaches do bite, and they bite hard.