Hawaii has roaches...

They're not roaches. They're Palmetto bugs--according to my mother who couldn't admit that roaches might enter her house in fla.

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LOL, to tell the truth, I got them illegally....how? Well....I can't say. (Shhhh )

But I got plain sick of crickets, they would get out and chirp in my room. These roaches need a constant 80+ degree temp to live....anything lower and they die.

It sure is a great way to save money, with 6 adult leopard geckos and a 18+ inch bearded dragon!

i had turtles in my room. they hate crickets too and i had crickets running around my room too. my cats loved to chase them... till i got ducks! i'd catch them and quackers would eat them

Uhgggggggg why oh why did I read this post! Now I have the heebiejeebies.

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When I was in basic training way back when, I was on the Ft. Leonardwood base in Missouri. Ft. Leonardwood is far enough South in the state that it is actually at the top of the Ozarks. The Ozarks is one of the mose beautiful places on Earth, but of course with the beauty of nature comes it's wildlife. I remember there being signs up warning us soldiers about what insects to watch out for. They had a picture of a Black Widow, a picture of a Brown Recluse, and picture of a Centipede. I hadn't realized that they were venemous until then (my junior high school was infested with centipedes!), and I remember reading the little warning under each insect and thinking to myself "Geesh, and all I thought I had to worry about were the snakes!" I was in Basic over the Winter, but going into Spring, and when we went on Bivouac (that's where you go camping and practice shooting and digging trenches for warfare, etc), the ground was thawing and it was decently warm out. This one guy, Morales, he ticked off one of the sergeants and he got dropped. Well, I was standing near him, watching him do his push ups when I notices something on the ground, and it was heading right under his face. Morales was good at push ups, and he went low, so low that his face was almost touching the ground, and as I looked closer I realized it was a spider underneath him. I leaned in even closer and saw the fiddle on the spider's back, and I watched the spider rear back into attack mode. Apparently it was quite scared by Morales' push ups. As Morales came up, I stepped my foot underneath him and twisted it into the ground. Morales just froze and looked up at me. I told him it was a brown recluse and all the color drained out of his face. He thanked me and hurried through the rest of his push ups. Over that weekend someone was bitten and ended up at the hospital. There were cranky, cold, hungry spiders everywhere. We saw lots of lizards, field mice, and snakes, but thankfully NO centipedes! One afternoon in our barracks though we saw a roach on the wall big enough to rival a small pony, and we screamed. We didn't have a roach problem really, because there was no food permitted in the barracks, but the mess hall was only about 100 feet away from our back door, and I can only imagine how many were in there!

I have heard that a centipede bite is about the equivalent of a bee sting. I can only assume that the bigger the bug, the more venom, and the worse the effect. My ex is Puerto Rican and lived a number of years there and he used to tell me horror stories about the roaches there and the centipedes, and some sort of centipede or centipede like bug, that will try to burrow under your skin! I don't know if that's an old wives tale or the truth. I just found it super creepy! He said the roaches there were big as cadillacs too. I would assume so since it's a tropical island. I have not yet been to PR, and I'm not sure I ever want to go...

I don't mind the roaches as much as I do the centipedes. That is one big sucka!!!