# Where are all these damn cockroaches coming from?

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**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [December 13, 2008, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-all-these-damn-cockroaches-coming-from/477009 "2008-12-13T13:35:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![gordon451](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f6c823/32.png) [@gordon451](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gordon451)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-all-these-damn-cockroaches-coming-from/477009/1 "2008-12-13T13:35:00Z")

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Dear Cecil -

in your column [Where are all these damn cockroaches coming from? (January 24, 1975)](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/19/where-are-all-these-damn-cockroaches-coming-from) you state that:

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> Cockroaches don’t normally enter a building of their own volition; they have to be brought in.

Ermmmm… :dubious: No they don’t. Here in Perth, West Oz, the buggers simply fly in. From big distances. On warm nights (20-30 degrees C).

Mind you, these are the American variety, not the little German ones…

Gordon.

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-all-these-damn-cockroaches-coming-from/477009/2 "2008-12-17T07:31:29Z")

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Someone else made a similar statement [in this thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=496908)

Hopefully Cecil will provide a reference, with the new policy.