ID Please

[Bird Man]

I found this little thing in my room today. I hope it's not one of those roaches that will take over my home. If it even is a roach, looks like one to me, I just got new neighbors and they may have brought friends.

 

[Widowman10]

found yourself a roach...

don't know the species though, looks like the common pest ones i kill when outside my wonderful CO...

 

[Bird Man]

That's what I'm fearing, I saw another one outside today as well. It got squished too.

 

[Bird Man]

Found another one in my room today, any idea if these pose a threat? They look like they could get into my KK's and in with my T's.

 

[cacoseraph]

when i lived in an area that was over run with german roaches i was actually pretty afraid of that happening


some roaches (namely, the pesty ones) are so tough and adaptable that they can adapt around pesticides and so tough that i wouldn't be surprised that they can live with shocking levels of disease and parasitism

what i was afraid of is them vectoring nasty stuff to my bugs... i mean, my neighbors chose spraying raid over not leaving food and stuff everywhere so i was fairly confident that the roaches that would try to scav in my apartment almost certainly had some kind of pesticides on them sometimes






what makes it worse is that some of our pets are so long lived they have the potential to accumulate high levels of toxin over time... not to mention the stuff roaches eat and where they go makes them little crap magnets so they are just prime for helping our long lived pets bioaccumulate bad stuff