I caught an oriental cockroach

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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The other night I was watching the TV and out of the corner of my eye I saw something moving across the floor. I live in the basement apartment of a house, so the occasional insects are to be expected. At first it looked like a grasshopper, but it wasn’t hopping, and upon closer inspection it was a big ass cockroach. About an inch long, black, not very fast, and apparently, alone.

We’ve been here since November and I’ve never seen one of these in here before, and I looked around (it appears to have come from out of the closet, there’s a sump pump in the floor in there) and didn’t see any more so hopefully this was just a straggler who found his way in.

Anyway, I flicked it against the wall and went into the kitchen, grabbed an empty 8 oz. deli container (like this), went back and scooped him up and snapped on the lid.

Now he’s just sitting on a table and I’m wondering how long it can live in there. It’s been 2 1/2 days so far.

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Have you checked your apartment for high Radon levels???:wink:

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When I worked in a biology lab in college one of the grad students who worked with leeches had a leech in a jar of water on a shelf. She wanted to find out how long it could live without eating or getting fresh air/water. At the time I asked her about it, it had been six months and the leech was still alive.

So basically, you’re gonna want popcorn. Lots of popcorn.

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How do you know it’s oriental? Conical hat?

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I’m afraid to admit it but this made me snigger.

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It crawled out of a chink in the floor.

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I honestly don’t know why I still try to eat or drink while reading these forums.
Oh well… at least my monitor is squeaky clean now that I’ve cleaned off the diet coke.

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We call them Asian cockroaches now.