Cockroach? Does Ireland have cockroaches?

glitterIsland

I went to the sink to get a drink of water from the tap and there was a cockroach looking creature in the sink. I went to look for a tub to trap it and it had wings and it started to fly but I managed to trap it.

It was a massive and disgusting creature that I wasn't expecting to see. We are not in the middle of summer yet and we didn't have any big heatwave. I would expect some insects maybe during a heatwave or in the middle of summer but now. It's still early in the year.

Does Ireland have cockroaches?

Horrid thing to see late at night. Or any time of the day for that matter.

Atlantic Dawn

Not very common in the home, mostly imported with wholesale foods and then escape in to the environment.

Annually you would see reports of cockroaches found in food premises shut down by HSE inspections.

sam t smith

Any pictures?

glitterIsland

It's on its back, struggling upside down

glitterIsland

It turned around onto its legs

EmmetSpiceland

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119004133#Comment_119004133

You sure that’s not a May Bug, effendi?

Very commonly reported in apartment blocks, mainly the German cockroach. You can find reports online from mid 2000s onwards. Mainly though to come in from food stuffs and forigen travel.

A zoology lecturer I know has a number of them and other insect species in captivity. The cockroaches were caught in their son's apartment in Galway. He often jokes that when he kicks the bucket that who ever finds his body is going to be more freaked out by his collection of weird insects.

sam t smith

I’ve only ever seen a cockroach once. Was staying in the Boston Park Plaza Hotel, woke up in the middle of the night, went to the toilet and there was a cockroach in the bathroom.

Rang reception and got moved to another room.

corner of hells

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119004202#Comment_119004202

Who got moved to another room? You or the cockroach ?

sam t smith

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119004278#Comment_119004278

Me. Unless he hitched a lift in my luggage unbeknownst to me, in which case both.

vafankillar

it's called a cockchafer, type of flying beetle, came across one a few years ago in work, thought we had imported it from africa or something, never saw or heard about anything like that before in ireland

Hangdogroad

This is something I've wondered about. I've never seen one or met anyone who has. Ireland probably hasn't got the climate for them.

magicbastarder

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yep, and this is the time of year for it - a maybug.

also, i have seen cockroaches in ireland, in the main palm house in the botanic gardens; they arrived in on plants from abroad and because of the climate in the palm house, were doing just fine there. i heard there was an attempt to eradicate them but not sure how successful it was - it's not easy to get into the palm house in the dark.

Riesen_Meal

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Plenty of food closure orders here complain of cockroaches, I remember reading O Brien's in Stephens Green shopping centre was shut down by FSAI due to an infestation of them apparently...

Usually much smaller here than the ones in the likes of Spain etc

apache

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Plenty of cockroaches here.

fryup

and here...

Captain Barnacles

Repulsive things, I have no issues with a large beetle, it just plods along, but the way cockroaches skitter along quickly .... disgusting..

lawred2

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grim

fryup

what's that old adage about them - if there was a nuclear explosion the cockroaches are the only things that would survive😶

Sephiroth_dude

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That statement is true if fallout 3 is anything to go by

BrianD3

I've never seen one, there are some large beetles here though that people can mistake for cockroaches e.g.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2057478914/is-this-a-great-diving-beetle

If there are cockroaches here I'd assume they are small ones and present in a limited number of warm, congegrated settings. I doubt you'll find cockroaches in an average Irish house.

fryup

they're more prevalent in the east esp in Dublin

Donald Trump

Plenty of them inhabit boards.ie

Often come out when their political party of choice (which shall remain nameless) appears in the media

Donald Trump

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119004339#Comment_119004339

cockchafer?

That is what we used to call your sister before she had the braces removed

Ardillaun

Here’s Charles Bukowski’s take:

Cockroach

the cockroach crouched

against the tile

while I was pissing and as

I turned my head

he hauled his butt

into a crack.

I got the can and sprayed

and sprayed and sprayed

and finally the roach came out

and gave me a very dirty look.

then he fell down into

the bathtub and I watched

him dying

with a subtle pleasure

because I paid rent

and he didn't.

I picked him up with

some greenblue toilet

paper and flushed him

away. that's all there

was to that, except

around Hollywood and

Western we have to

keep doing it.

they say some day that

tribe is going to

inherit the earth

but we're going to

make them wait a

few months.

Mad_maxx

Saw a Cockroach on RTE the other evening

Think Paul Murphy was the name

enfield

In ye oldene dayse about 50 years ago mainly around Grafton Street in restaurants they were everywhere. We called the "Steam Flies". You would really only notice them in the kitchens if you turned on the light after it being dark for a long time. I used to spray fly spray over the big refrigeration unit and a mass of them would crawl out and cover the ceiling. They love warm moist places and prefer the dark. Only recently I found out they were also called the German Coackroach. You never seen them in houses, well I never did anyway only in hotels and restaurants. Now in the stores that's where they also love to hide. Remove a box and there they were. We used to get the place fumigated regularly but they always came back. I never got bitten, I don't think they do that.

Whatdoesitmatter

Quite a few hanging around this site

Chris_5339762

Joking aside, yes that is a maybug. Big, stupid things, and appalling at flying. They just crash into everything. Not overly common, but can be shocking because they are as big as a bumble bee and will blindly fly straight into you. Harmless though.

Had a group in my old apartment complex who brought in cockroaches - they got sacks of rice brought in. Through some miracle, even though I saw one cockroach (and promptly dispatched him) they didn't take hold.

sam t smith

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🤣 .

Senature

Must be seasonal? I saw one of these on my garden path this morning, looked like a cockroach to me but my other half informed me it was indeed a Maybug. The clue is in the name I suppose...

Larbre34

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It's an old wives tale. Plenty of physics types have done experiments where they irradiated colonies of cockroaches with gamma rays, which would be emitted from the fallout of a nuclear strike and they died in short order, just like everything else.

But yes, there are cockroaches in Ireland, on a small scale. Could be worse, we don't have cicadas or murder hornets. Those f*ckers are scary.

TheIrishGrover

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119005005#Comment_119005005

Hate them. A friend of mine from Argentina said there is a saying there that roughly translates to something like "Men are manly men until a cockroach flies". I thought that was hilarious.

John_Rambo

Anywhere where it's constantly warm. Apartment buildings and large kitchens. They love grease seemingly.

holliehobbie

When I was a student nurse many moons ago there was an infestation of the buggers. I won’t say where though in case anyone is squeamish.

Goodigal

Plenty of cockroaches in the premises I inspected in Dublin in the last few years. You tap the fridge or freezer motor and the lads drop onto the floor from their lovely warm habitat. Not a very pleasant thing to see!! But I never saw one flying which is a relief because I would have been screeching!

fryup

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you're a health inspector?? any horror stories?

Captain Barnacles

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It needs it's own thread..

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119004122#Comment_119004122

Doesn't look like a cockroach. I used to live in a place where flying cockroaches were common enough... they are misnamed though and should be called 'Tumbling Inelegantly To The Ground While Flailing Around Stupidly Cockroaches'

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119024278#Comment_119024278

Small creatures with the ability to adapt quickly to their changing environment is essentially where that story originated from - assuming there will be pockets of less infected areas post nuclear holocaust, the smaller the animal - cock roaches , ants etc- the better the chances of adapting

Kintarō Hattori

They certainly are in Ireland, though perhaps not so much in the wild. Over a decade ago my partner and I rented an apartment in the New Hardwick on Church Street Upper in Dublin. Not long after moving in we discovered little cockroaches in the kitchen. You'd sit in the living room in the evening and see them moving across the living room floor.

It was an uphill battle to contact the letting agency/landlord to get it sorted. Eventually the pest agency OWL came into the building on a number of occasions to treat it. I got speaking to one of the chaps and he said they were Asian coackroaches and that the building was infested with them, saying that they were in the pipes and once there, you'd never get them out.

The woman who lived in the apartment opposite us had a much worse time and moved out long before we did.

fryup

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

yikes! sounds like a horror story😯

whisky_galore

Something something...the Dail. How unexpectedly witty.

barneyridg

You are so correct he is a cockroach 🪳 of the highest..- he is actually part of the s**m in RTE - Prime Time

kneemos

Used to be Beetles about when I was young. Haven't seen one since forever though.

Graces7

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119005115#Comment_119005115

My toes literally curled up when I saw this...

Many more in deep rural too. Although I very rarely see any " creepy crawlies" in the house... The cats do a great job. If it moves...

easygoing39

Is OliverShultz on crack?? Drags up an old thread to recommend a pest control company in the UK who will never be of any use to the 99% of Boards user's!!

Terrier2023

That is why the Aussies are soo hard on importing seeds and foods to their country as the eggs of insects can be lodged in food stuffs. I worked in food industry importing and often there were exotic ghekkos and lizards that came in in fruit & vegetable boxes you always had to contact dept of agriculture to collect and deal with them. So our need to eat soft fruits etc all year round increases the critters that get into the country.

Bobblehats

Some cockarouch of a main just asked if I remembered polly pocket. Virgin Media ,

CopperFaceZachs

Female cockroaches can fly and there are also transparent cockroaches that live underground, never seen the light of day! and yes, Ireland has cockroaches lol

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