Are these anything like June Bugs? The giant flying things I usually found squished by cars under the streetlamps?
Waterbugs? shudder did not click that link. I still remember sticking a long metal pole into the deepest part of the creek and pulling it up to see one of those horrors scrabbling up the other end. Dropped that pole in a heartbeat into the creek. YUCK!
No, June Bugs are a tiny delight that only fly into your hair as you go into your home because they hang out by your porch light. They are beetles and not stong fliers. Cockroaches/palmetto bugs are monsters that will fly at you when you least expect it.
Yeah, that’s what we call a Roach here in Georgia. They’re common, fast as hell, and will scare the crap out of you if they take to the air. They don’t do that as often as they run.
They don’t like light and are rather skittish, in my experience.
These aren’t afraid of the light,they come bumbling out of the dark,waving their feelers at me going “Hihihihi - 'bout time you got here” They’d wag their tails if they could… Makes me sorta feel bad to flyswat them … but not too bad
Ugh! Water bugs are indeed from hell! I’ve only ever encountered them swimming in the pool, at night usually. Makes me leap out like a rocket!
We’ve got those huge roaches here in TX. They would come in under the door between the garage and the house. My cat got to where she would lay in the dark hallway by herself on roachwatch. She’d leave a body part as proof of her ferociousness on the floor in front of the toilet. I guess she knew that’s the first place I’d go in the morning. Then we had a bad drought a few years ago, had to cut 3 huge pines out of the yard and now don’t see them much at all. Although I did have one fall down the fireplace (yes the flue is closed) and get in a couple weeks ago.
When I was a kid we had a very wooded driveway and you couldn’t walk out there barefooted in the dark else you’d step on some and it was disgusting! And walking on the deck walkway to get into the hot tub at night was bad too. They hung out under there and would pop up right where you’re about to step, ew. So I’d sprint from the hot tub to the back door.
One time in the kitchen I was showing someone this old wooden spice rack my mom got in Germany that had a little drawer on the bottom. I opened the drawer and at eye level, out popped a huge roach flapping its wings ready to take off. We both screamed and ran full speed around 2 corners and down this long hallway towards the livingroom. Halfway there, I turned around to see if it was safe yet, still running, and I kid you not that mf was only about 2 feet behind us chasing us all the way into the livingroom! They come after you like a fighter pilot! I kind of lose all memory of the events after that. Someone killed it I’m sure. But I wasn’t getting near it.
I don’t feel the same squeamishness about Junebugs except I wish they could see where they’re going and fly straight. It’s like a bunch of stumbling drunks bumping into you! They’re actually coming out kind of late here this year. Or maybe we just don’t have as many of them this time. They usually start in May.
When I was a kid my brother and I would tie a thread around a Junebug and let them fly around and around our heads… Harmless and the toads thought they were tasty
They sometimes act that way when they are about to shuffle off this mortal coil. The other 700 of them in your house hit the deck when you turn your lights on. 
Ah, Hell
I was working a contract at DHS HQ in DC a few years ago, very old building. Those damn things were always in the bathroom, and they would try to crawl up your leg if you were sitting on the toilet.
I had one come under the stall and I stamped my foot at it to make it run away, a few seconds later, it comes back and I killed it.
Later, I mentioned to someone that I thought it was trying to climb up onto me, and one of the guys in the office said it most definitely was.
He said that he was reading the paper in there, and felt something on his thigh, freaked out, swatted at it, and it fell into his pants that were down around his ankles.
He didn’t explain what he did next, but I’m sure it wasn’t pretty.