One for the insect guys in hotter climates

[colpol]

Currently on holiday. Villa in lanzarote & captured this on our kitchen floor 2 nights ago. Been here a week & this the only one we’ve seen. Place is pretty clean/ tidy

Trying to pin down what it is. My other 1/2 thinks it’s just a grasshopper & I’ve not said anything to change her mind but some google searching shows it could be an American Cockroach ?? Realise if there’s one there’ll be more …..

Are these common enough in warm climates ? Should we be flagging up to rental company ? All foods either in fridge or stored in containers & I’m emptying the bins each night to be on safe side




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[TheVTCGuy]

Yep, I’m pretty sure that is the good ol American Cockroach. When I was in flight school in Pensacola Florida they grew as big as our airplanes.

[330ci]

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[Blansky]

Originally Posted by TheVTCGuy

Yep, I’m pretty sure that is the good ol American Cockroach. When I was in flight school in Pensacola Florida they grew as big as our airplanes.

Didn't you used to fly them???

[MrGoat]

You’re fine. If you’ve only seen one in a week chalk it up to him getting inside under a door or something.

The cleanest most germaphobic homes I can imagine in Florida get a roach or two here and there.

You should kill it though.


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[Letsgodiving]

La Cucaracha

[Trailboss516]

I'd be burning the place down and moving to the Arctic

[77T]

Looks like a common field cricket. Wrong head for it to be a roach species.

If it isn’t producing sound, then the female of the species.

Perhaps slip a piece of paper underneath and escort the little visitor across the lane, or street, or avenue to be freed on his own recognizance.


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[CTech]

That looks like an Asian or German cockroach, quite different from the American cockroach and very common in the Canary Islands.

This link shows one:

https://twitter.com/optimisticcoder/...59981038985217

and this is another photo of a similar Asian cockroach:

[TheVTCGuy]

Sadly, if the bomb ever goes up, and we nuke the Earth, those cockroaches will become the dominant life form, (they are very resistant to radiation).

[RichardBartlett]

I live in Tenerife. cockroaches are very common and nothing to be worried about.
go to Mercadona and buy a spray
our complex is regularly fumigated but you can never totally irradiate them

they don't hurt or kill , but for some reason they just give people the creeps

[colpol]

Thanks for the replies
First cockroach ever seen - gives me the creeps

Slid a piece of paper underneath the glass at the time & flicked it over the gate to the street.

[minute_man]

Originally Posted by colpol

Thanks for the replies
First cockroach ever seen - gives me the creeps

Slid a piece of paper underneath the glass at the time & flicked it over the gate to the street.

Consider yourself lucky! It's harmless but not a pleasant company nonetheless. May well be a passer-by or member of a colony. Good riddance but I'd let the rental company know anyway.

[Mifune]

you can cook those and eat them... just sayin

[Chewbacca]

It’s a Santa de la Paña Blanca cockroach. Seen many. One of my companies manufactures the insecticide that kills them. It’s in Venezuela.

[TNT009]

Call in the Green Berets!

[Old Geezer]

It's ethnicity may be undetermined but yeah, that's a cockroach. Your other half might not appreciated if it decided to fly when she came into the room so good job getting rid of it.