Cockroach? Does Ireland have cockroaches?

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

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

Plenty of cockroaches here.

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

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

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.

Plenty of them inhabit boards.ie

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

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.

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.

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.

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...