Roaches

watercarving · June 01, 2008, 09:22:13 AM

Opened up the hives yesterday to add some feed and found a roach in each one licking up the sugar water. Is this common?

JP · June 01, 2008, 12:52:01 PM

Quote from: watercarving on June 01, 2008, 09:22:13 AM
Opened up the hives yesterday to add some feed and found a roach in each one licking up the sugar water. Is this common?

Unfortunately, if you don't like roaches, yes.

...JP

Moonshae · June 01, 2008, 05:03:11 PM

I often find them hiding inside the outer cover or on the inner cover. It's a game we play...see if I can stab them before they can run and hide.

bassman1977 · June 01, 2008, 09:57:36 PM

QuoteOpened up the hives yesterday to add some feed and found a roach in each one licking up the sugar water. Is this common?

I have them under every lid.

QuoteIt's a game we play...see if I can stab them before they can run and hide.

LOL! I do this too. And also how fast I can lop the heads of of earwigs and squash spiders.

Speaking of earwigs...we have been light on those this year.

johnnybigfish · June 01, 2008, 11:05:30 PM

yeh, roaches!
I get them in my lids too! I killed one yesterday. They give me the creeps :(
My concern is that i hope one doesnt get on me and come in the house :shock:
I used to work in a pet shop in the '70s. When i would turn on the lite in the back room those creepy buggers would run EVERYWHERE!...Up my legs. up my arms..EVERYWHERE!!! And this really freaked me out!
2 weeks later it was nothing to me for them to be on me like that.
The lady I worked for thought that calling the exterminator to poison them would also make the fish and birds get poisoned. After about 3 months I was talking to a bug killer and he had stuff that he said was safe. :)....He came to the shop, sprayed, and in a matter of days all the roaches were pretty much gone.
But,...I've become soft again...Roaches creep me out!
Ticks dont bother me none though! :-D

your friend,
john

heaflaw · June 01, 2008, 11:21:43 PM

Speaking of earwigs...we have been light on those this year.
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They must have all moved down to NC. My habit is to set the outer cover upside down on the ground, try to kill the 10 or 15 on the inner cover and then try to kill what's left of ones on the outer cover. They are everywhere and not just in the hives either.

johnnybigfish · June 01, 2008, 11:23:58 PM

We dont have earwigs in my area but when I was a kid in Mass. we were always told that earwigs would crawl in your ear and eat your brain! :shock:
your friend,
john

heaflaw · June 02, 2008, 12:14:51 AM

I am smart enough to know that that is not really true, but i'm getting ready for bed right now & I'll probably have nightmares about earwigs. I'll have to put cotton in my ears to keep them out.

watercarving · June 02, 2008, 09:52:16 AM

I thought an earwig was that little tuft of hair that grandpa had growing out of his ear?

bassman1977 · June 02, 2008, 12:29:15 PM

QuoteThey must have all moved down to NC.

Better there than here. :-D

dpence · June 02, 2008, 01:16:07 PM

Quote from: watercarving on June 02, 2008, 09:52:16 AM
I thought an earwig was that little tuft of hair that grandpa had growing out of his ear?

LOL Watercarving....easy now, you know how it is when you get older...hair starts going away in some places and coming out in others....LMAO

Scadsobees · June 02, 2008, 02:13:31 PM

Quote from: bassman1977 on June 01, 2008, 09:57:36 PM
Speaking of earwigs...we have been light on those this year.

Us too. And boy, I'm not complaining!!! :roll:

Sean Kelly · June 02, 2008, 04:41:48 PM

The earwigs have been average for us this year here in the Pacific Northwest. Last year was terrible, they were in everything, all over the house, even found one in my cereal bowl. I hate using pesticides but I hate earwigs even worse, so I sprayed the hell out of my house.
Earwigs only eat wet decaying organic material, like leaves or paper. No danger to the hives or bees or your honey crop, just annoying and gross looking.
Last season, I would take off the outer cover and there would be thousands of these nasty bugs around the edges, just out of reach of the bees. Some would fall in the hive and the bees would go into attack mode. Minutes later there would be dead earwigs on the landing board.

Man I hate earwigs!

Sean Kelly

Rabbitdog · June 02, 2008, 06:38:46 PM

Relax, they're woods roaches not COCKROACHES. They don't want to be inside your house. By the way, if they did ......... they would be! :-D

Kimbrell · June 02, 2008, 10:09:39 PM

A Roach by any other name...
is just as gross!!!

Sir Stungalot · June 03, 2008, 06:56:44 PM

Now, myself, I prefer roasted roaches. Just as I pop the cover off the hive, I give my smoker a good hard coupla' puffs- really heat that sucker up. Then the party starts! I feel very smug as a roast roach falls on the ground. You KNOW your smoker is just right when flames are shooting out the nose of it, kind of like a blowtorch!
In additon to that, I take real delight is squishing SHB...I cary a flathead screw driver in my front pocket just for that. I know in the big picture my little squash/roast parties mean nothing but hey, I take my pleasure where I can find it.

poka-bee · June 03, 2008, 09:42:29 PM

I like your style! I don't think we have either here but earwigs & piss ants are a pain! I am hoping my chix will follow me once they get older while I work on the hives, the bugs are on the inner cover & top so I can just toss em down for my feathered friends..burning things does give you that sense of accomplishment though...when I was younger I set a slug on fire..now I feel bad about doing it but it was fun at the time! Jody

DennisB · June 04, 2008, 12:31:00 AM

Maybe I am a bit behind, but what the heck is an earwig? We have roaches in our area, the big black ones that you find when you open the lid. Back when I was in college (before dirt was around) we used to squish the little brown roaches every time we opened the door of the old house we lived in. The landlord tried a product called chloridane (?) but all it did was make those suckers striped instead of solid color.

Dennis

Scadsobees · June 04, 2008, 10:34:47 AM

This is an earwig.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dermaptera

Those things on their butts are really their devil horns, they just are on the wrong side.

JP · June 04, 2008, 10:48:08 AM

Quote from: DennisB on June 04, 2008, 12:31:00 AM
Maybe I am a bit behind, but what the heck is an earwig? We have roaches in our area, the big black ones that you find when you open the lid. Back when I was in college (before dirt was around) we used to squish the little brown roaches every time we opened the door of the old house we lived in. The landlord tried a product called chloridane (?) but all it did was make those suckers striped instead of solid color.

Dennis

Chlordane, it was taken off the market here in Louisiana, January 1, 1988.

...JP