Cockroach? Does Ireland have cockroaches?

glitterIsland · 01-05-2022 11:40pm #1

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 · 01-05-2022 11:45pm

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 · 01-05-2022 11:48pm

Any pictures?

glitterIsland · 01-05-2022 11:52pm

It's on its back, struggling upside down

glitterIsland · 01-05-2022 11:55pm

It turned around onto its legs

EmmetSpiceland · 02-05-2022 12:01am

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

02-05-2022 12:03am

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 · 02-05-2022 12:12am

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 · 02-05-2022 12:46am

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

sam t smith · 02-05-2022 12:48am

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

vafankillar · 02-05-2022 1:38am

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 · 02-05-2022 10:18am

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 · 02-05-2022 10:20am

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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 · 02-05-2022 10:21am

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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 · 02-05-2022 10:25am

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Plenty of cockroaches here.

fryup · 02-05-2022 11:11am

and here...

Captain Barnacles · 02-05-2022 11:17am

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

lawred2 · 02-05-2022 11:24am

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grim

fryup · 02-05-2022 11:40am

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

Sephiroth_dude · 02-05-2022 11:52am

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

BrianD3 · 02-05-2022 11:56am

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 · 02-05-2022 12:07pm

they're more prevalent in the east esp in Dublin

Donald Trump · 02-05-2022 12:12pm

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 · 02-05-2022 12:14pm

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 · 02-05-2022 12:18pm

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 · 02-05-2022 5:35pm

Saw a Cockroach on RTE the other evening

Think Paul Murphy was the name

enfield · 06-05-2022 2:33pm

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 · 06-05-2022 2:34pm

Quite a few hanging around this site

Chris_5339762 · 06-05-2022 2:44pm

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 · 06-05-2022 2:45pm

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🤣 .

Senature · 06-05-2022 3:27pm

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...

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