Posted by Els on 12/02/07 19:32

dorayme wrote:

> There are lots of very small lizardy thngs in my garden, called
> Skinks, but rarely see them in the house. They sure like ants.
> They are not very big (pencil thick and half as long and I would
> not think they would be a match for cockroaches. Have you ever
> seen how huge some of those big black cockroaches are*?

No idea about the Australian ones, I mean, you call your grasshoppers
kangaroos, but I've seen plenty of big ones, yes. One day in Dahab,
Sinai, we were at this 'restaurant' (read: outdoor lazing area with
food served) where all of a sudden a couple of hundreds of them just
barged in, running over one of the 'walls' (50cm high tresholds more
like). Never saw people stand up so quickly :-)

> ------------
> * Have lost the url for where someone actually has beautifully
> caught them and painted their backs? Saw it ages ago when looking
> into this business of traps.
>
> I did see just now:
>
> http://jafabrit.blogspot.com/2006/04/cockroaches.html

Those aren't caught though, they're rubber ones :-)

> (there is nice song that suddenly starts so turn speakers down if
> you don't like surprises like this...)

Thanks for the heads up - muted my sound before clicking :-)

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