Re: Things to see, places to stay on Oahu, roaches

Those big roaches could kick a gecko's a$$ any day!! LOL!


----- Original Message -----
From: "cathy carpenter" <cathyc@rnet.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 3:42 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Things to see, places to stay on Oahu, roaches


> Roaches. I just wish the geckos got big enough to handle the really big
> roaches.
> Cathy
> On Thursday, January 2, 2003, at 10:28 AM, Peggy Elliott wrote:
>
> > I used to live in Chicago, and I'll bet she means roaches.
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "David Franzman" <dfranzma@pacbell.net>
> > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 11:33 AM
> > Subject: Re: [CHAT] Things to see, places to stay on Oahu, roaches
> >
> >
> >> Cathy, cockroaches are not native to Hawaii but are the centipedes?
> >> Also
> >> when you said:
> >>
> >> However, you also learned to recognize that if they were big, they were
> >> refugees from outside, and if they were small, they were breeding in
> >> your
> >> house and you had a problem
> >>
> >> Were you talking about the roaches or geckos?
> >>
> >> DF
> >>
> >> cathy carpenter wrote:
> >>
> >>> Almost all homes in Hawai'i are single wall construction (most with
> >>> neither heat nor AC) and when you live there you get used to the
> >>> cockroaches. Of course if I saw one it was DEAD! I even tolerated the
> >>> geckos in the house, because I figured anything that might eat
> >>> cockroaches couldn't be all bad.  (ie. call
> >>> the exterminator!). I received for Christmas one year a book called
> >>> "The
> >>> Cockroach Combat Manual" that told me more than anyone would ever want
> >>> to know about the beasts.  They have even made their way into local
> >>> vernacular: to "cockaroach" means to steal. Now, let me tell you about
> >>> the centipedes: somewhere between 6 - 12 inches long and impervious to
> >>> any insecticide available to the general public - they literally have
> >>> to
> >>> be beaten to death.
> >>> Cathy
> >>> On Wednesday, January 1, 2003, at 02:46 PM, jim singer wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> one of the more interesting things at the national agricultural
> >>>> research center in beltsville is the cockroach house. man, they've
> >>>> got
> >>>> a zillion of different ones from all over the world--some so small
> >>>> you
> >>>> can barely see them, some bigger than you hand.
> >>>
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