Harmful or not ?

[EasternGirl]

Ewww...no way...couldn't do it!

[acovert]

Ew....cockroaches are so gross. I would even take crickets over roaches. Ugh.

[GarterGuy17]

Well the roaches you guys are talking about are fairly big , i'm talking about German cockroaches about 1.3 cm long so they are no tlike the big ones people breed.

[guidofatherof5]

German cockroach - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[acovert]

I was talking about German cockroaches, actually. Or similar ones.
We don't get the big ones around here, typically.
They're disgusting, big or small.

(Although I will admit that I would rather see a cockroach than an earwig)

[EasternGirl]

Ewww...any size roach is gross to me. And earwigs...we get those darn things..they bite! I had one fall off the ceiling and land on my shoulder and bite me once. I also hate silverfish...we get those too. A big problem we've been having the last couple of years is carpet beetles...do you guys know what those are? They are little tiny things...they get on your clothes and eat them. They keep getting in my closets and eating my good sweaters and it's driving me crazy. They destroyed most of my good sweaters this year. If anyone knows a solution to those suckers...let me know. And let us not forget about stinkbugs! Those things are a menace to society...we have had issues with them around here for the past three years! I hate them. I have to put plastic and tape around my windows and air conditioners to keep them from coming in.

[acovert]

Stinkbugs are awful! I don't think we've had any for a while, but there was a time when we got them all the time. Never had carpet beetles, but a quick search on Google recommended vacuuming, washing carpets in warm water, as well as using boric acid as treatments.

We get these weird flying beetle-like bugs. I'm not sure what they are actually called. We don't have them so bad at this new house, but we had them all the time at the old one. We also had problems with aggressive paper wasps and mud daubers. We also had problems 'sugar ants' - those little black ants that love finding any little scrap of food you leave out.

My grandma's house has an infestation of slugs, if that's even possible. Somehow they manage to occasionally get into the house, even into the bedrooms! But the big problem there is spiders and silverfish. I think the silverfish look cool, but I won't touch them. I was the only one who ever saw them because they only come out at night around there.

I am terrified of earwigs. No idea why, but if there's one around I will freak out and make someone get rid of it. I'm ever worse with bees and wasps xD

[kibakiba]

I think stinkbugs are funny little things... They don't smell pretty, but they are fun to watch.
We have agressive house spiders and wasps around here... They make nests right next to our windows, which are open in the summer... And they get stuck in the kitchen... Arg. I hate them.

[GarterGuy17]

Well I might have a small cockroach problem since the building is very heated in the winter , but I don't have any of those things !

[EasternGirl]

Here is the ironic thing about the carpet beatles...we have hardwood floors! Now there is a chance that the pest control guy who told me the little bugs eating my sweaters were carpet beatles was wrong...maybe they aren't carpet beatles. I'll have to google them too.