I see these leggy boys in my basement all the time. Wolf spiders, leggy boys, and me are allies. I often have to save the spiders from my cats. Damn things suck at not dying to cats. Never seen my cats kill one of these tho.
Hahahaha. Jeez I hope not. I love the little guys but I’d flip the fuck out. I drop them down into my basement, usually never see them again tho sometimes they make their way up to the main house.
see, jumping spiders understand this. they recognize that we’re effectively gods and their lives are entirely in our hands, so they damn well stand still and try to look non-threatening.
At least they have the decency to try to look cute! House centipedes just come right out with “You can hate me but you’ll never catch me fuckers!” as they damn near burn a track into the floor
To be fair, they really originated elsewhere, but Germany certainly has cockroaches. I think Germany is probably too cold for them to be a big problem, though.
They eat anything that is smaller than they are legs included. They’ll eat anything from bed bugs to spiders. I even saw one chewing of a wasp at one point.
Very much so but people often kill them for looking nasty. When in reality they totally depend on humans to survive. And provide nothing else than benefits to us. They need warmth of our homes and very specific climate. They can’t survive outdoors.
By their nature they won’t actually eliminate an infestation. They are territorial so they won’t ever have the population numbers to eliminate populations of other bugs. They are, at best, an indicator that you need an exterminator soon.
Go to the USA Southern States if you want to see cockroaches. Holy shit, man! The warm weather and humidity are like steroids to them. They get as big as a mouse, and they don’t care if you have the cleanest building in the world, they’re still going to invade and wake you from your sleep by crawling on your face.
Those American Cockroaches don’t breed indoors though. They are transients and are relatively benign compared to the German roaches which will fine the single square mm of your home without pest treatment and then evolve resistance to it.
yeah, they were first believed to have originated from germany; currently science places them as an southeast asian expatriate with a pit stop in NE africa. It’s too cold for them to live outside of human settlements in germany, although i’m pretty sure that will change in the next years, and then the name fits at last.
Depends what you mean by cockroach. I haven’t seen the pests around. But there are some smaller ones that are sometimes also found inside the house. I frequently find this one in my home for example, which is really cute <3
Why are people afraid of house centipedes? They already ARE cute! It’d be one thing if they were at least somewhat willing to bite you, like some spiders, but they won’t. They’ve got the best eyesight of any centipede, which inadvertently gives them really cute little eyes too.
For me, they manage to trigger the “SNAKE!” and “SPIDER!” panic responses simultaneously. The rational part of my brain likes them, the instinctual part tells me to smash it with a rock
The reasoned par of my brain wholeheartedly agrees with you, and when I can convince myself to do so, I let them vibe. Unfortunately the reasoned part of my brain is powerless to stop the fight or flight response that happens when [spindly-legged creature] crosses my field of view. It simply happens.
If reasoning alone could overcome an otherwise unreasonable physiological response, then allergies wouldn’t exist.
They creep me the fuck out. I know they’re harmless and beneficial to have but when I turn on my bathroom light and see one on the wall above my toilet I have to get rid of it. They’re literally the only bug that freaks me out, even roaches aren’t that bad to me.
Pish, ladybugs. Not even a true bug. They only look cute so they can let you know that they’re toxic. And if you try to bother them they’ll start bleeding from the knees. They’re lucky most of their food is a pest.
I have a super old house that has these in it, along with spiders and other various creepy crawlies (nothing dangerously venomous in the area, save one spider species I’ve never seen, which only produces mild tissue necrosis).
I really don’t mind them -certainly not enough to do anything about them- and the cats like chasing them in the middle of the night, so whatever.
But man, on the rare occurrence I go to the bathroom in the middle of the night and see one in the red light of the nightlight, skittering across the wall with a quickness, scares the bejesus out of me. Every. Damn. Time.
Literally never, no. Occasionally they hang from their silk and get close, but not super often.
But my spiders know me. They see me every day and know I’m not gunna bother them even if I see them (I even talk to them sometimes) so they give me a wide berth as well. They mostly hang out where I can’t (or won’t) reach, which works for me. Only downside is cleaning up webs a few times a year.
What kind of spiders are crawling on you? That’s pretty unusual from what I understand, unless they just blow down on their silk or whatever? Or maybe you have a lot more spiders than I do and they just hide better ;)
Had a spider bro in my bathroom for a month, one day he disappeared. The very next night I woke up to him crawling on my face. It was unfortunate for us both.
I think the spiders here hide well, so the ones I spot are the risky ones that don’t mind scuttling over me.
Huh. Ngl, that’s super weird, but I’m sorry that’s your experience, because this harmony thing I’ve got going on is pretty sweet, and I wish it for everyone. Tho the random bumblebee that finds her way to my living room 2-3x/yr perplexes me…
PSA for people with cockroach problems: Diatomaceous earth is a lifesaver! Non toxic, (also a good fertilizer for the garden) and keeps working until it gets wet.
What is it? fossils of diatoms in a chalky-powder what do you do with it? Sprinkle (dusting) into hard to reach areas (think behind & under kitchen equipment, drawers, along baseboards)
what it does is sticks to anything with an exoskeleton & dehydrates them…they die.
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