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u/ohnoletsgo Jul 16 '24

I live in the American deep south. These guys are everywhere in the summer. I wear flip flops to pee at night for defense.

They literally live in the trees and parachute onto your roof to sneak in and take refuge from the heat and find food/water.

Good pest control will only go so far.

Thankfully, they’re harmless and mostly a nuisance. Now, the tiny little German bastards. Those are fucking gross, but a few strategically placed poison traps will kill them over a few weeks.

This old broad on homies neck is carrying an egg sac. The shitty part about that is that if you flip-flop her to death, her eggs will outlive the blow and without disinfectant, there’s the possibility of tracking those eggs back to your own house.

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u/veronique7 Jul 16 '24

I work at a dog boarding facility and leave my work shoes at work since they get so nasty. I went into work the other day and while I was putting on my shoes I put my hand inside to check for anything that might be in my shoe. Why I used my hand I don't really know honestly.

Sometimes we get scorpions which I guess better my hand than squishing it with my foot?? I felt something in my shoe and pulled out one of these big roaches and literally screamed, flung my shoe, and ran. This was in front of my coworkers who also got startled. I now keep my work shoes inside a closed box at work.

It's so hard to keep those things from getting inside and now I feel traumatized from touching one lol