I woke up this morning to find a huge bug in the shower. I’ve seen one like it in the outside laundry room just a week or two ago and was quite impressed with it then also.
UPDATE – thanks to one of my readers, it has been identified as a peppered roach, or archimandrita tesselata. They are sometimes kept as pets!
What is it??!
It looks harmless, just really big. I didn’t see any stingers or fierce teeth or anything scary, but I’m still not touching it. I scooped it up in a jar and took it outside. It tried to open its wings in the jar, and when I put it on the edge of the patio it ran to the center.
It’s next to a large, heavy duty garden hose here
I managed to get a couple photos outside before it decided to run again. The last I saw it was heading for a dark corner of the laundry room at a surprisingly fast pace.
When we lived in Florida there were those palmetto bugs that look like giant cockroaches. I always knew when one was in the shower when I heard from down the hall “Mommmmmmm help! a BUG!” I think my daughter would have been even less pleased to find one of these in her shower.
Just when you think you’ve seen all the bugs around here, you find a new one to surprise you! As many bugs as there are here though, I doubt I’ll ever see them all.
The Panama Adventure 
Went to the chino store the other day with my egg carton to buy some eggs. Opened the egg carton to put eggs in and inside was a cockroach. Took it outside and dumped it. Never know when you are going to find one!
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We’ve seen an occasional ordinary cockroach here too, thankfully outdoors and not in the house.
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http://www.whatsthatbug.com/category/cockroaches/page/2/
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Great site, thanks! Yep, that’s the bug. Interesting the one there was found close to here, just over the border.
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I read where someone was told they eat other roaches, and scorpions! Cannot validate that info though.
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If that’s the case we should invite them to stick around
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Yikes, the article says they can be 4-5 inches, that is huge! I can see why they would cook and eat the, I guess. We get cicadas here and I’ve heard people roast them to eat.
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Yes, one of the biggest bugs I’ve seen. I’ve heard a lot of bugs are good to eat but I can’t quite get myself there. I’d rather just look at them.
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I live in Texas where everything is “Bigger in Texas”!! Woke up one morning with the biggest cock roach in my coffee pot….not sure how he got in there but it did not end well for him.
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Eeeewww. No, it wouldn’t be welcome in my coffee pot either, or anywhere in my kitchen.
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I can’t imagine keeping a roach as a pet. They have some humungous ones in TX. The first time I took my husband to visit my family there he was so appalled to find a palmetto cockroach in the motel we were staying in that he emptied a whole can of Raid on it. The room was about impossible to stay in with all that bug spray. That was his last trip to TX and he says he’s never going back. We got in the car and he drove all the way to Carlsbad Caverns before he would stop the car. It was the wee hours of the morning by that time. This happened at least thirty years ago and he hasn’t been back. I have to go and visit my family by myself.
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Nah, a roach wouldn’t be my choice for a pet either. That’s so funny about your husband and the palmetto bug. He wouldn’t be able to live in Florida! The worst was when they would fly across the room at night, and you would think they were heading for your face. If that happened to him he wouldn’t stop the car until he got to Wisconsin 😀
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You’re probably right.
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😀
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