What happens when these cockroaches learn to fly?
The ones in Charleston, South Carolina already know how to fly. I lived there for a few years after being (honorably!) discharged from active duty in the Navy. I never did get used to them. They are called Palmetto Bugs down there.
I thought that’s why we have flying pigs
When I was in the Navy down at Cecil Field in Florida, I woke one night in my barracks when I heard a slight scuffing noise and thought “What the hell is that?”
I turned on my light to find the biggest roach I had ever seen, scurrying across the deck. Without hesitation, I leaped out of my rack, grabbed one of my black boondockers, and ran straight at the thing trying to smash the thing holding the boot by the tip and using the heel as the hammer.
I smacked at it three or four times, missing with each try, and the thing scurried under the crack at the bottom of the door and ran into the hallway.
Too pumped up, and thinking I would never get back to sleep with a monster like THAT lurking in the barracks, I opened the door and ran after it into the hallway in my white, Navy issue boxer shorts, whacking frantically at this thing.
Finally, I scored a blow, and the beast made a loud sickening crack as the heel of the shoe came down on top of it. I froze, and when I lifted the shoe off of the dead thing (or so I thought) it suddenly took to flight!
It scared the crap out of me! I didn’t even know those things had wings and could even fly, but what was more unsettling was the fact that it seemed to be about the size of a softball as it took to the the air, wings beating like mad.
A big, wing-beating thing the circumference of a softball!
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.