Okay, so I live in Wisconsin, and on the Fox River. As of late there have been these bugs in my house, and more particularly in MY ROOM! They look kind of like crickets, brownish-tan, and triangular. They can fly, but they never really seem to. My friend from down the road, who also lives on the river knows what I'm talking about, but friend from the same town, not by the river doesn't, so I assume they come off the water. This was verified at the YMCA when a lady told me that she knows the bugs and she lives on the water (next town over from me) and that she heard they came in through the pipes...? I don't know, but they're creepy and freaking me out because I do not like killing things and I hate feeling like they're crawling all over me! UGH! So, any details on them would be super duper because I don't even know where to begin researching them... THANKS!
2007-02-21 15:23:21 · 4 answers · asked by JessC 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
Ugh, is right. They sound like German waterbugs which are a kind of cockroach. You can use a roach motel to get rid of them or sprinkle boric acid around. We had them at a cabin on a lake we were renting. Our terriers made short work of them.
2007-02-21 15:32:14 · answer #1 · answered by bomullock 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yep. I was told they were waterbugs.
Short of calling an exterminator, I found the only way I could kill them was,... if they were near the sink, I could knock them into the sink and turn really hot water on them.
Very fast critters, very hard to stomp on. And if you do stomp on them, they seem to be able to withstand it.
2007-02-21 15:42:41 · answer #2 · answered by kiwi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You just described a German cockroach.
2007-02-21 15:27:13 · answer #3 · answered by blogbaba 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
coakroaches?
2007-02-21 15:27:36 · answer #4 · answered by ButwhatdoIno? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋