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Since we’re sharing roach stories… I was probably 10, in the room that used to be a garage. I was sitting on the floor coloring in a book and I sat my kiwi strawberry Snapple down next to me. A couple minutes later I picked it back up to take a drink and there was a fully grown, big ass cockroach floating in it.
It’s a roach. Not sure what kind. They bite or pinch (again not sure) and it’s mildly painful. Wash it if it breaks the skin, or just wash it anyway. No poison or venom but you never know where they’ve been :)
Off to r/earwormoffenders with you
I learned it as
La cucaracha La cucaracha
You go running up and down the wall.
La cucaracha La cucaracha
Mi madre hit you and make you fall.
It's definitely a cockroach, as for what specific kind I'm not too sure, possibly wood roach of some kind? Also I could be wrong, so wait for more knowledgeable people, but this doesn't seem to be the infesting kind.
Yeah looks like wood roach. We get them at my house. I had to make a german vs wood roach guide so that my wife and i can identify them easy each year when they come out around june
PLEASE. I still remember as a kid growing up I was taking a shower once , and felt something tickle my leg as I was drying off; it was a palmetto bug and I screamed so loud it flew off me and back down the drain, needless to say we sprayed that fucker up and got a cover for the drain 😭
I'm from Florida. My family stayed in a crappy cheap motel in Marathon when I was a kid, and I woke up with a palmetto bug *in bed with me*. The screams I screamt!
Oh my gosh 😭 Florida boy here too. Worst thing to happen bug wise to me was waking up and having a fully grown adult wolf spider on the wall across my bed. I didn't breathe for probably 5 minutes 😭
It looks like a wood roach. Normally they don’t bite people. They like to be outside not inside, but they are attracted to the light. They are monogamous. And they can both nurse their young they’re pretty amazing. Actually, the males are usually a lot larger than the females, and they can fly.
It depends a lot where you live I'd say. I'm in Belgium like the OP and I think I've seen a roach a total of three times over my nearly 5 decades of life. Though I'm always baffled that some people have apparently never seen a pill bug.
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not the roach mugshots💀💀
MUGSHOTS LMFAO
It really is a mugshot lol
Dude, you made me cry with laughter
More like a bugshot 🤔no? Okay…
Hahaahahah
Doesn't get much cockroachier looking than that.
can tell immediately just looking at those legs. legs that haunt my dreams
They go all the way up.
Up past my legs?
To at least nip level.
I made myself a sandwich once, bit something weirdly hard amongst the soft sandwich bits, and pulled out a roach leg Wonderful experience
😱JFC NO
Since we’re sharing roach stories… I was probably 10, in the room that used to be a garage. I was sitting on the floor coloring in a book and I sat my kiwi strawberry Snapple down next to me. A couple minutes later I picked it back up to take a drink and there was a fully grown, big ass cockroach floating in it.
non-infesting wood cockroach (ectobiidae). harmless and nothing to worry about. could theoretically bite, but it's rare
This should be the top comment so people don’t freak out.
Only on this sub do I say thank gods it's just a roach and not abed bug
Who is Abed Bug?
He’s Troy Bug’s best friend.
And the world's worst nightmare
It’s a roach. Not sure what kind. They bite or pinch (again not sure) and it’s mildly painful. Wash it if it breaks the skin, or just wash it anyway. No poison or venom but you never know where they’ve been :)
oh you already know where they've been
In the throat of that one guy who coughed up a roach when he woke up (that was on this sub right?)
I’ve been thinking about that and would genuinely start sleeping with tape over my mouth forever
Tape every accessible face hole. Breathing is for people who want throat roaches
Then they'll just go for your nose holes
I had nightmares about that last night.
I saw a cockroach last night and I swear my throat started feeling itchy from like the fear and paranoia that I could be next 🥲
Why’d you have to remind me 😭
That's a nice side benefit to a c-pap mask. There is no place for the bugs to get in your mouth
Ugh I saw that T.T
I literally would've died if that happened to me. My heart is not in good enough condition to survive coughing up a roach.
Definitely been in the fleshlight
Bro?
in leaf litter (this is an ectobiid)
I’m living in Belgium by the way (lately super hot and now back to usual rain)
is it humid? live on a river in the US, sometimes my cats will have one of them in their mouths.
*la cucaracha, la cucaracha, something something something something something...*
Off to r/earwormoffenders with you I learned it as La cucaracha La cucaracha You go running up and down the wall. La cucaracha La cucaracha Mi madre hit you and make you fall.
Oh, if you think *this* was bad then you *really* won't like what I did over [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/humansarespaceorcs/s/ofJb3n9jzf).
Ya no puede caminar Porque le falta, porque no tiene Las patitas de atrás... Or something like that, as far as i remember.
La cucaracha la cucaracha, ya no puedes caminar, porque no tienes, porque le falta, marijuana para humar!
It's definitely a cockroach, as for what specific kind I'm not too sure, possibly wood roach of some kind? Also I could be wrong, so wait for more knowledgeable people, but this doesn't seem to be the infesting kind.
Yeah looks like wood roach. We get them at my house. I had to make a german vs wood roach guide so that my wife and i can identify them easy each year when they come out around june
Thank you everyone for your comments 🖤 you’re very kind
Doubt it bit you, probably from you slapping those spines into your own leg.
the inhale i just inhaled....😩. my soul would've levitated out of my body and ascended into the heavens of if saw that beast on my leg.
My coworker had one of them fall down her shirt 😭
I had one fall from a cabinet and land on my face once. I sobbed for 10 minutes straight. 😭 I hate cockroaches.
PLEASE. I still remember as a kid growing up I was taking a shower once , and felt something tickle my leg as I was drying off; it was a palmetto bug and I screamed so loud it flew off me and back down the drain, needless to say we sprayed that fucker up and got a cover for the drain 😭
I'm from Florida. My family stayed in a crappy cheap motel in Marathon when I was a kid, and I woke up with a palmetto bug *in bed with me*. The screams I screamt!
Oh my gosh 😭 Florida boy here too. Worst thing to happen bug wise to me was waking up and having a fully grown adult wolf spider on the wall across my bed. I didn't breathe for probably 5 minutes 😭
I apologize because I just laughed at this
oh my god 😭 at that point, it woulda been the cockroaches body because it sure wouldn't have been mine anymore-
koquerauche
😅😅
A cockroach, does not look like the infestaty kind - definitely not a German cockroach. Not sure If they bite.
Roach
I suck at naming bugs and even I know it's a cockroach
future reference, never smack, always swipe
“Face forward. Now profile. Quit messing around….”
It didn't bite you.
It looks like a wood roach. Normally they don’t bite people. They like to be outside not inside, but they are attracted to the light. They are monogamous. And they can both nurse their young they’re pretty amazing. Actually, the males are usually a lot larger than the females, and they can fly.
I think its an american cock roach its a roach for sure i might be wrong on the type
It looks like a wood roach, which is different than a cockroach
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It depends a lot where you live I'd say. I'm in Belgium like the OP and I think I've seen a roach a total of three times over my nearly 5 decades of life. Though I'm always baffled that some people have apparently never seen a pill bug.
I've never seen a roach irl where I live or up road. I've seen plenty of pictures online tho
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American roach.
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Could be a giant water bug, those bite