They look too big to be powder post beetles. But we had hundreds of them come out from under the ground floor baseboards on a slab on grade house. Then we found a tree stump in the back yard that was riddled with 1/4″ diameter holes occupied by these same bugs. I’ve got my termite guy coming to take a look.
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— J.S.
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German cockroaches, they are not burrowing, the are nesting .
Aka, Wood Roaches.
Parolee # 40835
Don't any tool boxes or lunch box in house or you may take some home with you
la cucaracha la cucaracha la la la la la la la
la cucaracha la cucaracha la la la la la la la
Somwhat off topic but the context of "La cucaracha" is interesting and linked to smoking non-tobacco substances:---------<snip it>-----------The lyrics consist of independent verses, often improvised. It is similar to Yankee Doodle, The Burning of the School or On Top of Old Smoky. One typical verse is as follows: La cucaracha, la cucaracha
Ya no puede caminar
Porque le falta, porque no tiene
Marihuana que fumar.English The cockroach, the cockroach
Can't walk anymore
Because it lacks, because it doesn't have,
Marijuana to smoke--OR-- La cucaracha, la cucaracha
Ya no puede caminar
Porque no tiene, porque le falta
La patita principal.English The cockroach, the cockroach
Can't walk anymore
Because it doesn't have, because it lacks
The principal legIn contexts where the mention of marijuana would be unsuitable, limonada que tomar ("lemonade to drink") or las patitas de atrás' ("its hind legs") are frequently substituted for the last line. This preserves both story and, in the Spanish version, meter.Some say the jape about marijuana was directed at the dictatorial Mexican president Victoriano Huerta (ruled 1913-1914), ridiculed by his many enemies as a drunk and dope fiend who lived only for his daily weed---------<end snip it>-----------
why thank you so much diane, that is great to know! i had no idea, and this is what i love about this forum, it is amazing what you can learn.
i have to confess that although i have heard the song hundreds of times i never knew all the words, not to mention the connection to huerta.
now that you have piqued my curiosity can you give me any hints about where to learn more about the subject? where you you hear that story? i really do love that stuff, the stories behind the old folk song etc.
i am also a student of slang in language, frinstince the different slangs throughout history, early 40's UK the rhyming slang, china plate for mate! (a mate is a friend so you would just call your buddy china instead of mate) and battle and strife for wife which is i'm guessing maybe where battleaxe comes from? etc etc.
Honestly I heard the information somewhere on a radio talk show and googled "La cucaracha" to find the information. There's conflicting info as it's an old folk song and lyrics tend to morph over time. Still, it's an interesting factoid.Diane
My fiance's Honduran, and he has always sung it as "marijuana que fumar". I've also heard it as, "una pata para andar" -- a leg for walking.Rebeccah
Interesting indeed! Thanks!
There was a Bugs Bunny cartoon, with Speedy Gonzalez and his cousin, Slowpoke Rodiguez, who sang that first verse....I was surprised when I heard it.
no way! you mean the sang the whole thing including the marijuana que fumar? wow! that is cool, i'm gonna have to look for that one.
Boric acid...cheap, and only effects the area you put it on. Outside of the gates the trucks were unloadin',
The weather was hot, a-nearly 90 degrees.
The man standin' next to me, his head was exploding,
Well, I was prayin' the pieces wouldn't fall on me.
here in southeastern north carolina, not to far from the coast we are inundated with those things
we usually suck up 5 or 6 a week during the summer (with the vacuum cleaner, get your mind out of the gutter)
Last day I was working in Biloxi they sent us to a house to tear out some water damage. Pulled down one ceiling and several hundred cockroaches fell out. Then tore out a corner of the room and there was a nest with thousands of them.
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable Creature, since it enables one to find or make a Reason for everything one has a mind to do. --Benjamin Franklin
They look like good ole fashioned cockroaches!
Doug
Have your PCO apply 2 oz per gallon of Dursban w/ H20 along the base boards , and shoot the foudation with the same, out doors..then repeat with a liquid sevin out doors, at a rate of 1/100 sevin to water.
This will also kill every honey bee in 2 miles, so don't let him areate it excesssivly, Drill the block cores and inject it.
You got Roaches,,,, German are reddish, Oriental are black, and much bigger,
Dursban LO don't stink, Ficam WP , is good for fleas and Ticks, but they must contact it, where as Durs, is a broad spectrum...
I'd say if you have enough moisture for a roach infestation, you better look around as a given haven that has dampness...German roaches, need a damp eviro to breed, hence that injection of the sevin in the ground source, water table.
What you may have is a Water Table rising, and the critters are bailing out..also, beer cases, and grocery bags,,,this is not a good news, you got roaches.
Look on the bright side, Palmetto Bugs in Fla are as big as my hand.
Parolee # 40835
Yeah, where we found the nest the soil had been mounded up against the outside of the house and the sill was rotted out. You could dig out shovels of dirt from the inside.
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable Creature, since it enables one to find or make a Reason for everything one has a mind to do. --Benjamin Franklin
I was gonna say, reminded me of the palmetto bugs we got. I used granulated sevin as a barrier around my house and repeat after a heavy rain, havent seen one in months. Inside I use Ortho Home Defense. Now what about spiders?-worth exactly 2 cents!
I don't kill spiders, they are natures exterminaters.Parolee # 40835
I'm looking forward to the day when my babies are old enough that I don't have to kill spiders. As it stands, we get black widows in this area, and when I see one near the house, the house gets sprayed. I wish I could order a case of daddy long-legs like you can buy ladybug beetles.
Well, to kill the spiders you get some house centipedes. But unfortunately nothing is fast enough to kill house centipedes, especially the big ones.
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable Creature, since it enables one to find or make a Reason for everything one has a mind to do. --Benjamin Franklin
John,
We call them wood roaches here like Sphere said. Any piece of wood or bark etc left on the ground outside will have them under it before long. They dont seem to bother anything. We get a few in the house once in a while, but I think they get in when doors are opened etc. But if I had as many inside as you seem to, I would definitely be getting ready for the chemical warfare :)
Bill Koustenis
Advanced Automotive Machine
Waldorf Md
ha ha ha baby cockroaches. we paint numbers on their back so we can keep track of them. Had one on the kitcern table, no not one it but moving the table. Those are babies, we get them about three inches long.
Well, the bug guy came and looked at them. They're definitely not any kind of roach, and not any kind of powder post beetle. He took some of them in a bottle to look at under a microscope. I'll let you know when we get an answer.
-- J.S.
This is a good reference for insect identification:
http://www.forestryimages.org/insects.cfm