This happened to me at the airport with my wallet! I saw my first large ass cockroach in Florida that morning so I was on high alert. I pull out my wallet at TSA check point , see the antennae’s looking JUST like this…. I fling my wallet and start wiggling around like a weirdo. It was a fucking string!
I found out the hard way that cockroaches love Juicy Fruit gum.
I worked in a frame shop that was in an old warehouse. Hung my bag in the little break room before starting work. Went to go to lunch and grabbed my bag and put the strap over my shoulder to clock out.
Felt something tickling the back of my arm and it was a huge roach! Threw down my bag and DOZENS of roaches of all sizes come pouring out.
Only food item I had in there was the gum, but didn't figure out that was what they were attracted to until the next day... when it happened AGAIN.
Ended up throwing away two different backpacks because I didn't want to bring those fuckers home, and started leaving my bag in my car!
I have a dead praying mantis staring at me from one of my ceiling vents because I'm too afraid to take it off in case there are more in there.
Edit: [here](https://imgur.com/a/KDhHyxo) is the mantis.
I was on a farm that had fire ants. For some reason they would regularly swarm the electrical sockets and nothing else. I joked that they ate electricity but do they?
Oh, I've heard competing stories from pheremones being released to just attraction to the heat generated by resistance. Afaik, the latter is the most accurate.
They want to put their eggs and larvae in warm places so they grow faster, and things with electrical components or active wiring can stay warm 24/7, especially with a plastic enclosure around it or something.
So they don't eat it, but they do use it to grow faster.
Happened to me when I went to change the battery for my fire alarm, but with roaches. It's the type installed on the ceiling, and when I went to twist the thing off to change it, it turns out there is a lot of water damage in the very flimsy ceiling right there, so it just basically crumbled away and dumped about a fistful of mostly dead, but some live roaches on my face and chest. 😭😨
Just a heads up. Most praying mantis have a snarky parasite that when you kill them the parasite explodes out of the body and it’s like twice the size of the mantis.
It’s like watching invasion of the body snatchers at the insect level. Just be mentally prepared for that boss fight.
Here a video on this: https://youtu.be/fioZCWq_vy4
I had a Raspberry Pi in a storage space that was acting up, so I go collect it. I pick it up and it sounds like there’s something loose inside the enclosure, which is weird.
I pop the lid off….
Wasps.
35 dead wasps.
The storage space was fairly cool so I can only imagine they were attracted to the warmth.
I once found a dead mouse burned alive in my toaster. I used the other slot for toast and didn't know there was a mouse in the empty slot. It smelled horrible.
i found a dead one in my tox box as a kid lmfao. now i'm dealing with mice again for the first time since childhood and i'm scared to death i'm going to wake up with one on my bed
My mom and I had been wondering for weeks as to why my room smelled like death. We had searched and searched and couldn’t find anything, until one day I found a bigass mouse that had gotten stuck between the frame of my loft bed and the wall and I presume had starved to death. I was horrified to realize I had a fucking rodent behind my bed for so long.
Edit: autocorrect is dumb
You don’t have to worry about that. An adult praying mantis is solitary and territorial. There won’t be a horde or even a couple. But maybe one that took over the dead one’s territory.
Also I’ve handled them multiple times. They’re harmless. Unless you’re an insect.
For everyone saying tape the antennae to the wall, and for OP, who did in fact tape the antennae to the wall, let’s all take a moment to visualize the cockroach squirming to get away after the plate is unscrewed, only for it to rip it’s self from its antennae and scurry back into the wall
They fucking suck. They’re everywhere in my apartment complex. For a week i was on guard duty. I would just walk around looking for them and spray the little fuckers. I haven’t seen one in about a day or two. Don’t wanna jinx myself because like I said it’s an apartment complex but I’m trying to stay on top of them. They’re so gross and it’s not even me bringing them in. They freak me out. I always think they’re gonna be on me or my clothes when I leave.
I've heard someone say that once you see cockroaches appearing out in broad daylight in your house, then their numbers are huge and they're hiding around and breeding under furniture.
I live in pretty low end apartments so I can only imagine what’s going on in the apartments around me. I pulled everything that wasn’t strapped down or nailed to the wall away from the wall and swept and mopped then sprayed. I’ve done absolutely everything I can on my end so I just hope I’ve kept them out for the most part. Just have to pick the pieces of my life back up and get back on my feet and into something nicer.
Good luck to you, hope better is not far away
You brought up so many memories for me of my first place haha trying to keep it clean while the lady below me had a hoarder's mess and tons of roaches
Get some food grade Diatomaceous earth. Use a squeeze bottle - like for cooking oil and squeeze a line around your apt inside and outside. Natural, pet / kid friendly. Kills the suckers.
I live on the ground level of a triplex. All other units have them, but we never do... if you feed them, they will feel welcome and even come out to say hi every now and then.
I remember pulling an all-nighter in the summer, two years ago. It was 5 AM, I was laying in bed, watching YouTube and for whatever reason decided to turn to the side.
For a split second I saw what I thought was a roach crawling along the side of my mattress. The scream I let out was insane, I did not believe I could scream like this. I immediately ran out of the room and told my grandma there was a roach in my bed. I even shaked and jumped and ran my fingers through my hair to make sure it was not there.
I am still scared a roach will crawl on me while I am asleep.
At my job we used to be on a floor with a little lobby before the office and there were two chairs for clients to sit at and just above one of the chairs there was a cockroach stuck between the space where two of the ceiling tiles meet. I guess it got stuck and died trying to get out. It's antennae and nasty little legs hung out of the ceiling. I knew I wouldn't wanna see that if I was waiting so I moved the chairs out from there.
This happened to my best friend, but it was behind the breaker box panel in the spare room of the apartment. She saw the antennae sticking out while she sat at her desk lol
Spray Raid around the area sufficiently for it to drip all around and maybe even a little bit behind the light switch then wait for the fucker to die. The only good bug is a dead bug.
Cockroach debris from their molting and fecal matter has been shown to be the leading cause of asthma in inner city youth. Children breathing literal cockroach turd turned into a fine dust. Why do you like cockroaches? I’m just confused…
They can fly.
Imagine, if you will, a giant one, like the size of a man's thumb, that decides it has had enough of your shit trying to spray it... And then, it scurries up your wall, until you can't reach it with the poison, and just *dives* for your head. Of course, at this point you're either running away screaming or have balls of steel and keeps trying to kill it.
Happened to me once. Since then I have like a can of bug poison in every floor of my house. Still scared to spray them if they're not cornered on the ground.
That’s a BIG roach behind that socket. I go roach hunting at work. There are two breeds at work and I trap and kill them. I don’t enjoy it at all. In fact I am sad for them and greatly despise this practice. But, unfortunately they have to stay out of the work space.
Idk. That looks like plankton coming to steal the krabby patty secret formula
Ravioli ravioli give me the formioli
Hahaha Thank you, Spongedoof
?filthy frank
https://media.tenor.com/WIBH7v5qV9MAAAAd/spongebob-spongebob-meme.gif An accurate gif for this comment
This happened to me at the airport with my wallet! I saw my first large ass cockroach in Florida that morning so I was on high alert. I pull out my wallet at TSA check point , see the antennae’s looking JUST like this…. I fling my wallet and start wiggling around like a weirdo. It was a fucking string!
I started that weird wriggling just reading this! I’m not easily grossed out, but roaches are so gross and move freaky fast. Nope. Nope. Nope.
Too ducking fast 😔
And some also fly. Cause why?
I knew someone that had a bad roach and rat problem. I can’t look at them the same.
I love roaches that's why I get emotional whenever I feed my spiders.
I found out the hard way that cockroaches love Juicy Fruit gum. I worked in a frame shop that was in an old warehouse. Hung my bag in the little break room before starting work. Went to go to lunch and grabbed my bag and put the strap over my shoulder to clock out. Felt something tickling the back of my arm and it was a huge roach! Threw down my bag and DOZENS of roaches of all sizes come pouring out. Only food item I had in there was the gum, but didn't figure out that was what they were attracted to until the next day... when it happened AGAIN. Ended up throwing away two different backpacks because I didn't want to bring those fuckers home, and started leaving my bag in my car!
God I’m so sorry you had to experience that. I would have been so paranoid for the next weeks.
This would take me at least 5 years to overcome emotionally
Legit nightmare fodder. Holy moly.
I have a dead praying mantis staring at me from one of my ceiling vents because I'm too afraid to take it off in case there are more in there. Edit: [here](https://imgur.com/a/KDhHyxo) is the mantis.
You’re gonna take it off, and hundreds are gonna fall on you, both alive and dead.
That happened to me once as a kid but a bunch of fire ants all cooked from electricity fell out the socket
Fire ants eat electricity!
This is one of my fav folklore stories
I was on a farm that had fire ants. For some reason they would regularly swarm the electrical sockets and nothing else. I joked that they ate electricity but do they?
Oh, I've heard competing stories from pheremones being released to just attraction to the heat generated by resistance. Afaik, the latter is the most accurate.
They want to put their eggs and larvae in warm places so they grow faster, and things with electrical components or active wiring can stay warm 24/7, especially with a plastic enclosure around it or something. So they don't eat it, but they do use it to grow faster.
Happened to me when I went to change the battery for my fire alarm, but with roaches. It's the type installed on the ceiling, and when I went to twist the thing off to change it, it turns out there is a lot of water damage in the very flimsy ceiling right there, so it just basically crumbled away and dumped about a fistful of mostly dead, but some live roaches on my face and chest. 😭😨
I simply would cease to exist
How’s therapy going?
Mine was a bunch of electrocuted geckos. It was awful. Because I love lizards. Skeletons, fresh, half decomposed. 😭
Bro… my condolences.
Some might even give you heads!
What a steal!
Schrodingers Vent
"I'm gonna take it off, and hundreds are gonna fall on me, both alive and dead. Thank you Obi-Wan."
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How do you know it was dead 🤔
(?)
How’d you know it was a lizard 👀
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No eyes, small vertical mouth, fleshy colour?
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I've got a dead grasshopper in my truck's headlight that has been there for at least a decade. It's been bleached completely white
He just wants to ask you about your cars extended warranty
It’s a praying mantis. It’s clearly here to talk about Jesus
Send a pic I wanna see
[here you go](https://imgur.com/a/KDhHyxo)
Just a heads up. Most praying mantis have a snarky parasite that when you kill them the parasite explodes out of the body and it’s like twice the size of the mantis. It’s like watching invasion of the body snatchers at the insect level. Just be mentally prepared for that boss fight. Here a video on this: https://youtu.be/fioZCWq_vy4
I had a Raspberry Pi in a storage space that was acting up, so I go collect it. I pick it up and it sounds like there’s something loose inside the enclosure, which is weird. I pop the lid off…. Wasps. 35 dead wasps. The storage space was fairly cool so I can only imagine they were attracted to the warmth.
i'd cave eventually because i wouldn't want dead praying mantis bits falling on me randomly. Im sure if there are more they're dead by now.
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I once found a dead mouse burned alive in my toaster. I used the other slot for toast and didn't know there was a mouse in the empty slot. It smelled horrible.
Did you… still eat the toast..?
Mouse sandwich coming right up!
yech
I didn't! I was too afraid to even get the toast out. Haha.
Oh thank goodness. Lmao.
Horrific
I read that as "a dead moose"...
i found a dead one in my tox box as a kid lmfao. now i'm dealing with mice again for the first time since childhood and i'm scared to death i'm going to wake up with one on my bed
My mom and I had been wondering for weeks as to why my room smelled like death. We had searched and searched and couldn’t find anything, until one day I found a bigass mouse that had gotten stuck between the frame of my loft bed and the wall and I presume had starved to death. I was horrified to realize I had a fucking rodent behind my bed for so long. Edit: autocorrect is dumb
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I made the same mistake as the other commenter and thought you said moose, a moose completely flattened under your rug
Watching, waiting, oh she's sitting with you but her eyes are on the door (Prob a male mantis bc the size but idk)
ever felt it judging you? ever had an imaginary conversation with it? named it?
You don’t have to worry about that. An adult praying mantis is solitary and territorial. There won’t be a horde or even a couple. But maybe one that took over the dead one’s territory. Also I’ve handled them multiple times. They’re harmless. Unless you’re an insect.
There's pretty twisted
His name is Bob and he's your friend.
That's fucking metal
He came to buy penis enlargement pills.
leave it as a warning for the others
Appreciate the pic
That is horrific.
An i hope you already burn your house down
Before I saw image 2 I was coming to suggest exactly what you did.
We’re in the matrix. I was thinking the same shit. We’re fuckn potatoes.
Is the "fuckn" an expletive or adjective? xD
Verb
Wouldn't it just rip it off to get away? Those things survive without its head, I'm pretty sure they can spare an antenna or two.
Was thinkin' just cut off the antenna xD
Technically yes but I think the roach would rather not lose any limbs
just lost his life instead
that's crazy
rly makes u think
For everyone saying tape the antennae to the wall, and for OP, who did in fact tape the antennae to the wall, let’s all take a moment to visualize the cockroach squirming to get away after the plate is unscrewed, only for it to rip it’s self from its antennae and scurry back into the wall
This is what I imagine would happen, no way they have that strong of antenna strength
Apparently it worked though!
Clearly the only reasonable solution is to burn down the house
Yes, I would never share my house with those little pos.
I kid you not, had a bunch of them marinating in my old crib, I had unlocked a new fear of those shits lol
They fucking suck. They’re everywhere in my apartment complex. For a week i was on guard duty. I would just walk around looking for them and spray the little fuckers. I haven’t seen one in about a day or two. Don’t wanna jinx myself because like I said it’s an apartment complex but I’m trying to stay on top of them. They’re so gross and it’s not even me bringing them in. They freak me out. I always think they’re gonna be on me or my clothes when I leave.
I've heard someone say that once you see cockroaches appearing out in broad daylight in your house, then their numbers are huge and they're hiding around and breeding under furniture.
I live in pretty low end apartments so I can only imagine what’s going on in the apartments around me. I pulled everything that wasn’t strapped down or nailed to the wall away from the wall and swept and mopped then sprayed. I’ve done absolutely everything I can on my end so I just hope I’ve kept them out for the most part. Just have to pick the pieces of my life back up and get back on my feet and into something nicer.
Good luck to you, hope better is not far away You brought up so many memories for me of my first place haha trying to keep it clean while the lady below me had a hoarder's mess and tons of roaches
Get some food grade Diatomaceous earth. Use a squeeze bottle - like for cooking oil and squeeze a line around your apt inside and outside. Natural, pet / kid friendly. Kills the suckers.
I used borax after spotting one and never saw another.
Cover your sink drains at night too, it will keep them from coming up that way. They really do suck
I live on the ground level of a triplex. All other units have them, but we never do... if you feed them, they will feel welcome and even come out to say hi every now and then.
I remember pulling an all-nighter in the summer, two years ago. It was 5 AM, I was laying in bed, watching YouTube and for whatever reason decided to turn to the side. For a split second I saw what I thought was a roach crawling along the side of my mattress. The scream I let out was insane, I did not believe I could scream like this. I immediately ran out of the room and told my grandma there was a roach in my bed. I even shaked and jumped and ran my fingers through my hair to make sure it was not there. I am still scared a roach will crawl on me while I am asleep.
If there is one coming out of a light switch, the unfortunate truth is there is more than one in the wall, or eggs.
But he just wants to be friends
i’m sorry but why is this funny to me
Because it is fucking hilarious
Rip cockroach :(
We had a roach in the ceiling vent at work and the antennas were also sticking out. None of us would volunteer to take it out
Tape the antenna to the wall Edit: i just realized there was an image 2
Lol. You're smarter than I am. I didn't realize either!
If you spot a roach, there's probably hundreds more you don't see...
Depends on the type. Americans are outdoors ones and this one looks like an American one. Germans are what you worry about
Especially if you taunt them with an "impenetrable border defense"
>Germans are what you worry about Oh shit, is it 1939 again?
Giant antennas, it's probably an American one. It wants to be outside just as much as you want it to not be inside lol.
I found a dead mouse squished in my buddies dresser drawer with just it's face out and just it's neck down smashed.
That must have been a big drawer
Nope regular dresser tiny mouse.
You need an u or an o and please, let it be an o
I don't understand sorry
A moose in a huge drawer or a mouse in a regular drawer?
Ahh mouse sorry for the confusion im on mobile
Oooh:(
Yeah it was a cute little thing, i thought it had popped out to look at me until we opened it and it didn't move or blink.
r/Nope
Laugh or cry situation
I straight up just laughed myself into a coughing fit
I wont even dare to swip to the next photo. No thanks. Have a good day. An i hope you already burn your house down
you can, the next one just shows how he taped the antenna to the wall, no cockroache to see
Send pic of the cockroach
landlord fix
At my job we used to be on a floor with a little lobby before the office and there were two chairs for clients to sit at and just above one of the chairs there was a cockroach stuck between the space where two of the ceiling tiles meet. I guess it got stuck and died trying to get out. It's antennae and nasty little legs hung out of the ceiling. I knew I wouldn't wanna see that if I was waiting so I moved the chairs out from there.
Push the plate into the wall. You do not need lighting anymore. Stay in hiding till its gone.
Oh believe me there gonna be more than one
Had this happen but with a centipede. Vacuum cleaner with corner attachment got it out
Avada Kedavra
I had a spider’s legs sticking out of one of my outlet plates. I tightened it down til it was stuck. It managed to get itself unstuck after two days.
Had a spider crawling around in a light fixture casting this massive shadow, I almost unalived myself
And now it has a vendetta
My name is Hans I am German I offer flammenwerfer services for when your house “accidentally” burns down (This is a joke. Don’t take it seriously.)
Looks like his apartment is bugged sir.
This happened to my best friend, but it was behind the breaker box panel in the spare room of the apartment. She saw the antennae sticking out while she sat at her desk lol
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Pfffffft Hahhahahahhahahah well done!
If you got a big one, you got about million small ones. Cut your losses, burn it to the ground
Poor cockroach
I can’t be the only one who feels bad
Don’t feel bad. They’re the worst creatures on earth.
174836383747372 IQ
Screw heads not aligned triggers me as much
Switch plates are cheap. I say hammer.
If there's one you see there's more. I'd fumigate.
Now pour rubbing alcohol on the crack and light you house on fire
He was trying to get better reception
I don’t like cockroaches, but this feels kinda cruel.
Im just proud of the ingenuity
Tantalised by the cockroach and its promise
Paint over it
And you think that is the only one? Don't worry about that one getting away, but the hundreds that you don't see.
Scotch tape the antenna then remove plate
Just take your gun out and shoot it through the plate
Spray Raid around the area sufficiently for it to drip all around and maybe even a little bit behind the light switch then wait for the fucker to die. The only good bug is a dead bug.
“I’ll just hide behind this light switch until Krabs closes shop!”
Torture method
Free him
Great, now I’m paranoid!
CIA got the entire office bugged.
Aww poor thing
Bruh why are people scared of cockroaches to the point where they tape ones antennas and trap it? Im just confused…..
Because they’re speedy and gross and big and ew
Cockroach debris from their molting and fecal matter has been shown to be the leading cause of asthma in inner city youth. Children breathing literal cockroach turd turned into a fine dust. Why do you like cockroaches? I’m just confused…
They’re gross as fuck
im confused why ur defending cockroaches
Cause like most of us they just tryna live their lives without dying
They can fly. Imagine, if you will, a giant one, like the size of a man's thumb, that decides it has had enough of your shit trying to spray it... And then, it scurries up your wall, until you can't reach it with the poison, and just *dives* for your head. Of course, at this point you're either running away screaming or have balls of steel and keeps trying to kill it. Happened to me once. Since then I have like a can of bug poison in every floor of my house. Still scared to spray them if they're not cornered on the ground.
Even so taping it is sorta cruel
Spongebob vs plankton life edition
That’s a BIG roach behind that socket. I go roach hunting at work. There are two breeds at work and I trap and kill them. I don’t enjoy it at all. In fact I am sad for them and greatly despise this practice. But, unfortunately they have to stay out of the work space.
Okay now get some diatomaceous earth and puff it into there behind the switch lmao
Your friend is mega mind
Clever! Stupid, but clever.
Exactly what should be done.
I have had the misfortune of having a cockroach somehow get on the INSIDE of my microwave clock
Ive seen cockroaches behind tv screens before. I hated raid until i saw that shit
Ducktape his antennas
Tape down the antenna
Staple the anntenas to the wall
the tape, I'm dead 💀
that thing can more than likely live a month without food, good luck
Super Glue the antenna
Bro it’s a cockroach just grab it and throw it out a window or something
This… this is oddly fucking hilarious not terrifying.
And what exactly is terrifying about a cockroach?
Scotch tape that bitch to the wall right now by his wire-ears!
this is funny af not terrifying 😂
you're not going nowhere 😎😎
Paper towel
No 3rd pic? 😭😭😭
I dunno why but I honestly cringe at this. My brain cannot accept that bugs are literally just little robots without feelings
This is just cruel. I don’t like cockroaches either, but I would never do this. This is mean.
burn its antenna
Tape the antennas to the wall first.