In Floriduh, you have to tie yourself to your bed at night so the Palmetto bugs don't carry you outside and then lock the door.
An interesting thing about Cockroaches--(outside my field of expertise alert) they have two brains, each fed by it's own nervous system. There the brain in its head, and one in the back. This second brain is the terminus of a nerve bundle, the other end of which is connected to air pressure sensors in a small tail-like protuberance at the end of the carapace between the bacfl pair of legs.
Suppose a roach is chowing down on a big meal of human skin cells and fingernail clippings when these air pressure senors detect the motion of your foot moving inexorably downward. The sensors send a signal to the second brain which stimulates the legs into action, propelling the roach across the room, while the brain in the head wonders where the heck his meal went.
They are ubiquitous in South Floriduh, you have them no matter how clean your house. For sport, I hunt them with a rubber dart gun, though a tennis shoe wielded by hand tends to be the most efficient instrument.
SPLATTTT!!!
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