Cockroach armies are rising with the skyline

Prof.Badass

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/cockroach-armies-are-rising-with-the-skyline-1860974.html

INCREASING numbers of apartment blocks are becoming infested with cockroaches.
And residents of individual apartments who call out pest controllers to deal with the problem may only succeed in pushing the cockroaches onto their neighbour's property. That, in turn, often results in the original apartment being re-infested shortly afterwards.
The Irish Independent has learned of at least four apartment blocks in both Dublin and Cork that have been entirely treated this year. It is understood that these treatments have cost between €5,000 and €15,000.
"It is fair to say that there has been a significant increase in treatments on apartment blocks," Brendan Ryan, director of the Irish Pest Control Association (IPCA), said yesterday.
"Apartments are particularly susceptible because of the warmth they offer first off, and because the pest can move indiscriminately from one to another very easily."
Anecdotal evidence from pest controllers puts business from cockroach infestations at between 5-7pc of overall business. However, that rises to 45pc in some instances.
"I'm not sure that cockroaches are on the increase so much as the locations in which they are nesting are becoming more difficult to treat," Fergus Reynolds of Skillnet, which trains pest controllers, maintained.
While cockroaches have been in Ireland for hundreds of years, according to experts they have become increasingly common in the past 20, largely due to increased travel to and from Ireland.

TheZohanS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw_zUUE4BE0

unreggd

TheZohan wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw_zUUE4BE0

That's just wha ye need on a Sunday mornin!

Biggins

unreggd wrote: »

That's just wha ye need on a Sunday mornin!

LOL

I heard a few times that if the world ever ends, these buggers will out live us all!
Now if they can just let us in on their secret!

galwayrush

Half an hour gone and nobody posting about welcoming our new overlords.:eek:

That was a good thing.:cool:

galwayrush

Biggins wrote: »

LOL

I heard a few times that if the world ever ends, these buggers will out live us all!
Now if they can just let us in on their secret!

Insects, all they live for is food and insect sex, no materialistic distractions.;)

Biggins

galwayrush wrote: »

Half an hour gone and nobody posting about welcoming our new overlords.:eek:

That was a good thing.:cool:

New overloards?
I suspect they've been quietly running things all along.
They are just making their presence more know now. Coming out with a vengeance!

RUN WHILE YE CAN!!!!!

galwayrush

Government to announce cockroach property tax,:eek:

paddyland

Biggins wrote: »

I suspect they've been quietly running things all along.

You can say that again... This government are quite a bunch of cockroaches all right, and they are a stubborn bunch of survivors too... Now what can we spray on them to get rid of them???

Ghost Train

These kind of over the top headlines bug the hell out of me

Overheal

I turned off the lights to watch a movie and one of the cheeky bastards fiddled out from under my dresser. Boxed him in with some lamps and must have sprayed the ****er with 5 times his mass in roach spray - and he still took 10 minutes to die.

DigiGal

Ghost Train wrote: »

These kind of over the top headlines bug the hell out of me

hehe I see what ya did there...very nice