Hey, to be fair, the first time I saw a palmetto bug, I screamed, too. Of course, in my defence, I was seven years old at the time. Those are the official Florida Man of insects.
You could saddle those darned thangs and ride ‘em!
If you ever wind up down under you might see the Australian huntsman spider, a/k/a the giant crab spider in your hotel room. Unlike most of the wildlife down there, these spiders are harmless, but who cares. They are from 9-12 inches across and are quite common.
Palmetto bugs. When we lived in AF housing on the beaches in Florida, we caulked everywhere to keep them out.
Then we would find little granules of caulk where they had chewed their way back in.
Finally had to stuff steel wool into the openings, they couldn’t chew through that.
“ Hey, to be fair, the first time I saw a palmetto bug, I screamed, too.”
I saw my first Palmetto bug last week. It was on my screened window. I thought that is the biggest roach I have ever seen and sprayed it with RAID. It flew off. Scared me big time knowing there are flying roaches.