We've been picking up a weekly box of produce from a local organic farm for about a year now. Pesticide-free, so I've had slugs in my romaine, lady-bugs with my berries, and one time made a broccoli stir-fry with a nice gravy literally swimming with little gnats. I thought it was exciting when a cricket hopped out of my produce box, but this is a little much.
Yep, that would be a cockroach nestled in with my lettuces and green onions. And not just any old roach. This guy is one of the big suckers!
Fortunately my neighbor showed me that a little spray bottle with dish soap and water will do them in (mahalo, Karen and Roger!), so I grabbed this guy with a paper towel and hosed him down, so you get to be the lucky ones to see the photo. I wasn't brave enough to go after him bare-handed like my mother-in-law (who got all tough living in Moscow's roach-infested apartment buildings), but then even she was impressed by these tropical buggas. Some of them are the size of mice! Yikes. Do I ever have incentive to keep a clean house.
Yep, that would be a cockroach nestled in with my lettuces and green onions. And not just any old roach. This guy is one of the big suckers!
Fortunately my neighbor showed me that a little spray bottle with dish soap and water will do them in (mahalo, Karen and Roger!), so I grabbed this guy with a paper towel and hosed him down, so you get to be the lucky ones to see the photo. I wasn't brave enough to go after him bare-handed like my mother-in-law (who got all tough living in Moscow's roach-infested apartment buildings), but then even she was impressed by these tropical buggas. Some of them are the size of mice! Yikes. Do I ever have incentive to keep a clean house.
WOW- makes Shanghai CRs look tame!
ReplyDeletesick! are they going to crawl in our ears when we come visit?
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ReplyDeleteI'll vouch for it--Hawaiian cock roaches are huge!!! They could be the protein in a soup (as Andy said).
ReplyDeleteYou're brave, Kristina. A friend in Hampton, VA used to say, "Oh, Mary, a house just isn't a home without a little family of roaches." You've got a home!!
Wow, I'll have to post more bug entries! We've seriously beat Chinese roaches, too? Nice. I haven't found any in our beds, (just gecko poo) so not to worry Stace). At least we can say that it's a homey sort of place we've got!
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