This ones not trying very hard to do the backstroke.
Posted on 09/18/2020 3:16:25 PM PDT by nickcarraway
so these cant fly over the moat....?
Ironically, this is the same method that they use to keep viruses from escaping from the Wuhan-Fauci Bioweapons Lab.
Look up Palmetto Bugs - southern US. Cockroaches that fly.
Thanks God.
I might get a desk made in China (Not if it says China) but we’re not eating/drinking anything from China.
Not as easy as it sounds.
Lots of masks and PPE gear come “shipped from California”. See Amazon. My bet? Chinese.
cockroaches can also fly - I don’t see how a moat is going to prevent that
What an episode! I could imagine every scene. You’re a good short story writer.
“But they can’t do the backstroke.”
Not true!. There’s one doing the backstroke in your water picture above!
This ones not trying very hard to do the backstroke.
Super interesting. On a slight different note, but still insect related, I recently found out that the subterranean termite queen lives 20-50 YEARS! She is so fat and filled with eggs, she can’t move and if she needs to move for some reason, the other termites roll her to the new location.
There is a lot about insects we don’t know such as how they communicate. There are some that believe termites can teleport. humm...
Thanks-I can only imagine how insane that would probably look to someone who looked down that corridor that night...crazy man in boxer shorts!
See video (1:52): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru_EiJgTodQ
It’s a metaphor
Why one should never eat food packaged in china
What do you do with the 20 tonnes of cockroach poop every day?
...I smacked at it three or four times, missing with each try...
Yep, those things have evasive maneuvers honed over a hundred million years of evolution or something. You never get them on the first encounter. There's always a chase...
So, without taking my eyes off it, I groped for a magazine or ANYTHING I could whack it with. This was a killable bug. No mercy. I roll up the magazine, creep over and...WHACK! I MISSED the damned thing, when I was trying so hard not to miss. And then, don't I lose sight of it, and cannot find it. I had to get a BIG flashlight and hunt for it. After 15 minutes, I saw it again, and...WHACK! Don't I miss it AGAIN! It drops to the floor and disappears. SHIT.
Now, this is a MAJOR, DEDICATED bug hunt. I look for twenty minutes with no success, swearing and muttering the whole time. My wife is in the next room and thinks I have lost my mind.
Finally, with a sick feeling, I have to give up. As I put down the magazine, I feel something crawling on my leg, inside my pants. I roll my eyes at myself and tell myself "Get a grip. You are just feeling itchy, there is nothing there."
Then, a few minutes later, I feel something again, and I grit my teeth and silently say to myself "Good God. THERE IS NOTHING THERE, knock this crap off and get a hold of yourself."
As I am telling this to my wife, I feel something and "ARRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHH! THERE IS SOMETHING THERE!" I rip off my pants, and sure enough, that damned big ugly bug had flown UP MY FRIKKING PANT LEG!
I know the old saying about keeping enemies close, but this was ridiculous. I then spent the next fifteen minutes hunting it down, and DID NOT MISS again.
I’m surprised there’s that much ‘restaurant’ waste. I would have guessed ‘ground up political prisoners or concentration camp Muslims’...
Yep, palmetto bugs. Out in Palm Springs they’re called date palm beetles — and they’re huge.
LOL — I salute your proactive measures to secure the perimeter even if it did manage to “get inside the wire” so to speak for a short time...
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