Not So Good...

Kudzu... (Thankfully no kudzu in Texas.)

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Well, after a day with bait trays, I hadn't seen that beast. Then my wife and I took our evening trip to take a walk around the mall, soak up some free KW hours!

Almost arriving there, she dropped down her visor and there it was in front of her! Freaked her out, like it kinda did me too. Luckily, this time I was in a position to pull over and wack it good!

One dead cockroach! Almost certainly the same one based upon size and color. I just reeeeeally hope it didn't lay any eggs...

I'll keep the bait trays up for a while...


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Most of the bug guts ended up on what I whacked it with.


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Wow, I've never seen anything even close to that in nearly 50 years living in Texas, but I can't think why it couldn't happen...

The closest thing to that I'd ever seen to that was, as a kid, after mixing a glass of CoolAid noticing a very-dead cockroach on the bottom of the glass. Presumably it got there hidden in the sugar. I ran away screaming, as I recall!

Usually I just see one scampering across the floor, after I turn the lights on, 3ish times a year -- standard faire. Sometimes they just stand there as if to say, "go ahead, make ... my ... day"!

 

OK, Thai is getting a little freaky: Third cockroach sighting today! So that means there have been at least two for sure.

I called ABC Pest Control, and they said they'll send an inspector this upcoming Wednesday.

Meanwhile I'll replace the bait trays with another brand.

I called the Toyota repair guys and they too had never heard of such a thing!


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Long time ago, I had a girlfriend in the Dallas area who described her cats as "roachers," as opposed to "mousers"!


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Update on the cockroach saga, in case anybody's interested:

Today, Friday, is a week since I last saw one.

This past Wednesday -- a week since I saw the first one -- an inspector from our usual exterminator service came out. He said he expected the call to be about an old pickup truck kept in a side yard, rather than a brand new high-tech wonder kept in the garage. He said to basically just continue doing what I'm currently doing: Lay out bait traps in the places we've seen them (just the front edge of the car). He can't realistically spray anything in the car. His guys did, however, a serious baiting of the garage, and suggested I bug bomb the garage in a few weeks (let the bait do it's thing first).

Googling around, it appears that roaches' eggs hatch in about 28 days and they then take about 105ish days to grow to adults. I guess what that means is that, if I don't see any roaches -- initially very small ones -- in by mid-August, and no roaches at all before late-November, then we're probably OK.

On the other hand, if I do see any, especially small ones, in about a month, then I probably do need to fumigate the area between the headliner and roof, then have the dealer replace the headliner, cleaning the crap out of that area!


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A very efficient design!


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Can any of you clearly see -- or have "exploded view" diagrams to show -- whether there is a hole in the back of the black forward-view camera housing between it and the front edge of the headliner?

It's a pretty tight gap between the two, but when I try to get my fat fingers into that gap, I maybe might be feeling a hole there, perhaps for ventilation of the electronics.

I ask because the first cockroach I saw disappeared into that crack between the camera assembly and the headliner. In the hopefully-unlikely event it laid eggs in a hole into that assembly, I might be able to get the dealer to remove that assembly and vacuum it out less expensively than removing the headliner ($600-$700).


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