Can Cockroaches Fly?
A few nights ago, I had a cockroach in my bedroom. It was about the size of an egg. I yelled so loud, I scared roommates. One of them came to save the day and catch him, but it was a fast little bugger and got away. I bravely stayed in my room, and about a half hour later I thought I saw a flash out of the corner of my eye. I didn't think much of it, until I saw two very long antennae peering at me from behind my laptop screen. I screamed again, and Sarah came running in. The creature scurried along the top of my laptop screen, and Sarah tried to catch him, but he was too fast. She hought she had lost him inside my desk (AHHHH!!!). Suddenly, the insect FLEW across the room onto my closet door, and again onto a pile of clothes. Sarah eventually got it onto the floor, whapped it with one of my shoes, and took it away in a plastic bag. I thanked her profusely, even though I felt a little guilty that I let her kill it. Now I ask again: was that a cockroach? Can cockroaches fly?
posted by LizeCR @ 9:32 AM
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Actually, I'm an entomologist with the City Department of Pest Control (a division of Sanitation) and the only roach that can fly (that would be found in Manhattan) is the Oriental cockroach (Blatta Orientalis). Honestly, if you saw it in that draw, or any other spot in your room, you must check for eggs immediately. The Oriental Roach is known for quickly finding a spot for its eggs and then flying away to confuse would-be predators. Their eggs are encased in capsules called "oothecae," which the female deposits in what she deems to be a safe place. The eggs, some two to four thousand of them, hatch 4-6 days later. Use of a spray insecticide is not enough. The shells are very hardy. You must remove them by hand and dispose of them. www.nyc.gov/sanitation/pest_control/infestations.html
That link is out of date. Thanks for trying to scare me!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periplaneta_americana
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blatta_orientalis
And read this: I am familiar with waterbugs (another name for Blatta orientalis-this was definitely not one of those!)
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palmettos fly and they are in GA but they have migrated to NY and PA
that's not true coz i know all cockroaches can fly depending on the environment. i've lived with them since when i was a kid and studied them. small, big, all can fly but especially the big ones does it most. i'm in high school but i know how they behave. they also can lay as many eggs depending on the mating. what is entologist anyway coz i've never had of it. try again next time. bye. wanna contact me. 319-351-3182.
all this cockroach talk is making me hungry. mmmmmmm cockroach
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I just found your page after a very similar incident. I was just on my desktop computer in my Queens NY bedroom. I've been here a year and have never seen a roach in my little 4-unit building. Out of the corner of my eye I saw what looked like the biggest roach I've ever seen climbing up my vertical blinds. I'm a dude, but I practically screamed- not because of facing the bug, but at the thought that I could be infested (I'm a neat freak and germophobe). I scrambled to turn on the light and find something I didn't care about splattering with bug guts to kill it with. As I approached it, it surprised me by 1) not moving nearly as fast as a roach does, and 2) FLYING a short distance (which I didn't know roaches did here). I swatted it, but the blinds it was resting on didn't provide a strong surface to crush it against so it fell behind my furniture. Now I'm just waiting and wondering if that was really a roach. It was colored like a roach but it's sheer size, flight and mantis-like head and arms are making me wonder. Did you find out anything certain about roaches flying, and is there anything that looks like one but isn't?
I believe they can fly. Also, waterbugs are very similar (see comment string).
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ohio apartment cockroaches can fly too! until you stamp on them! you'll be pleased to hear i'm stil alive and well though! if you have any further problems i suggest use of the foot or a phone directory! if in doubt splat it!!! :-)
could cockroaches be evolving? I've lived in places before apartment complexes and what not where no matter what you couldn't get rid of them. We weren't infested but definitely saw one or 2 a month. They were small so even though they were nasty I wasn't totally grossed out. Now I'm in a house been here almost 2 years. Last month I brought home a bunch of stuff from wal mart and then saw this mammoth roach on the wall. It looked like a roach with wings only I have never seen them that big except at the zoo. Yesterday came home with more stuff from wal mart supersize paper towels to be exact and again another mammoth flying roach. This time in my bathroom where I store the paper towels. I just called the Orkin man there's no way I want to see another one of these ever. I'm so disgusted. One common theme I have seen online is that the sprays don't work. These suckers will be gone.
I moved into a small 2 bed apartment in London about 6 months ago, and encountered the first roaches I had seen in the UK.
After looking them up I figured they were the German variety, let off a couple of insecticide smoke bombs in the rooms that I had seen them in, and for the most part haven't seen any since. (I anticipate seein the occasional one as, for all I know they are living in a neighbouring apartment but I repeat my smoke bomb treatment every 2 months and it seems to discourage them at least).
A few nights back I spotted what looked like a slightly fatter one, I wouldn't say BIGGER cause it was about the same length, but a little bit wider. It was crawling along the wall in my living room, which has pretty high ceilings (18 foot or so) and had gotten pretty high up.
I'm pretty merciless with these things, so grabbed a newspaper and went to blat it, but it was just too high out of my reach and when i swatted, it fell down.
Then.... then, buzzed and floated, pretty gracefully i gotta say, down to land directly on my chest.
When I swatted it off, it glided back and landed on me again a few inches lower. (Before promptly meeting it's maker and having the splat mark thoroughly washed over to get rid of any eggs)
I don't think they can FLY, it looked a lot like the movement of a may-bug or a bumble-bee that can't quite lift it's own weight with the wings. But I guess I have now seen cockroaches.... gliding.
The last place I lived had a serious issue with bed-bugs. Vampiric little parasitic bar-stewards, gimme flying roaches any day. Gross yes, but at least I'M not their dinner.
I just had a run in with a huge flying cockroach (or whatever it may have been), I took a few photos, I'm in Brooklyn but when I lived in Manhattan in the L.E.S. I had a run in once during the summer as well; I feel as if I've only seen these suckers during really hot summer days....
this is an actual working link to the NYC Department of Health and Sanitation: http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/ehs/ehscroach.shtml#oriental
The big waterbugs are a fact of life some places. They're less something that infests, but rather they're like hobos who just pass through. A good mouser cat or dog are better deterrents, as they roflmao at most roach poison.
I just caught what I believe to be an American Cockroach. As I was moving in to swat it, it FLEW all around the room. I had no idea they could do that. I captured it under a cup and slid a sheet of paper under the cup and transported it to the freezer. When it dies I want to get a better look at it and maybe cast it in resin.
Bed-Stuy Brooklyn NYC here. Forgot to mention.
I saw a flying roach last night :( It was at least 2" long and 1" wide....TERRIFYING! It certainly didn't help that my boyfriend was even more scared then I was :( Moving on I live in Brooklyn, NY and we've never seen roaches in our apartment or the building....I found it really odd that one of this size would just appear! The only place I could think it may have come from was the laundromat where we drop our clothes off as we had just picked them up last night! We were able to kill the roach but should I be worried about an infestation??
Just saw one in Gilbert AZ (sky view ranch complex) .. We're headed to the third floor and half way up I see a few dead roaches, but then one stood out moving, I quickly stopped and then it lifted up and started flying directly at me! My wife was behind me walking up the stairs, I almost ended up knocking her down just to get out the way of the roach. I yelled "move move get back!!" almost midnight at the time.
I think my house is infested with cockroaches. I'm not even sure what kind, but what I'm hearing is that they can fly. I live all the way in Canada and not ever have I've seen a cockroach in my home until this summer. But since I don't know if it is even one, I'm hoping it isn't...
In Asia, Malaysia, penang, where I live, there also have cockroach. I called it asian cockroach. It is brown-dark red colour, slightly smaller than europe roaches. They can also fly but they rarely fly. There is very less percentage to see them fly. But they don't fly very high and long. They are very smelly and iritating!
there was no lights on in the house but the tv and the laptop that i was on and i herd something on the wall that sounded like a beetle but was a roach a big long one. i screamed theres a roach flying and my grandma thought i was crazy.
I'm in queens. I just went to the kitchen to get some juics and saw a waterbug fly out and land on the wall. My broom broke days ago so I had nothing to kill it with. I use a small drying cloth. I knew it wouldn't kill but daze it enough for me to but it flew in front of me for a few seconds while I swatted at it. It landed on the floor and It grabbed with the towel while it was scrambling around confused. I put it in the toilet and flushed it down. That sucker was huge. I have no idea where it came from. All open windows have screens. Except the living room window with the window fan. But i've had an infestation of roaches and now spiders for the longest. I hate bugs. I keep killing them but they keep coming back.
I found myself reading this after my second encounter with a small flying "house roach." Here in Texas it is not uncommon at all to b "attacked" by the large flying ones as so many of u have, especially before/after rain. We refer to them as tree roaches. Well unfortantely I have been infested b4 by average looking, small (reg. size) roaches a few times, in Cali as well. I had never ever seen them fly til now. First a few wks ago, then again tonight. I am at work (both x) and I think I see moth, I watch it, when it lands it looks like every other little cockroach Ive ever seen, was so freaky/shocking. Im begining to think they ARE evolving. This is a bar and they come out to spray monthly, n this is a new thing. Im fairly baffled by this lol. Grew up in apartment complexes, seen lotsa roaches. Its so discusting to me.
actually, in my room sometimes I see some small cockroaches scurrying around. luckily the small ones don't fly though. would be freaked out (a bit) if they fly too. damnn.
use insecticide on these nasty pest, they will turn over on their back and die quite instantly, though could still struggle a bit. What annoys me most is how roaches could even get in when I shut my door and windows in the night. Then the thought of where they had been crawling about had me clean the whole floor.
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