r/florida • u/[deleted] • 12h ago
Advice Please help
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u/bronk3310 12h ago
You spray weekly inside? Lol
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u/TeddyFreshhh 10h ago
I do too sometimes but mostly outside because when it rains the spiders start going to town and insecticide doesn't work on spiders unless you spray them directly.
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u/spooky_diplomat 10h ago
Spiders are the ones you want around, they eat the other bugs. Some of y'all didn't grow up watching The Lion King to understand the circle of life and it shows. . . Snakes and spiders eat the bugs that you're spraying for stop spraying spiders and you won't have to spray for the other shit
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u/The1Dango 11h ago
Don't spray chemicals in your living space, definitely not weekly. Just put down food grade diatomaceous earth inside in the crevices. It works mechanically on any arthropod as long as the dust is dry.
This is florida and there are bugs, everywhere. I just had a jumping spider hatch out 100 spiderlings in my truck day before yesterday. I just used coaxed them out with a feather duster. We have over 30 species of native roaches and almost all require extensive deep leaf litter to survive. Sweep the sidewalk so they aren't making a home of it. I would highly recommend against this state if you aren't okay with dealing with bugs in some capacity daily. Personally Im moving wolf spiders or brown recluses back outside daily with the occasional jumping spider. In the 30+ years I've lived here its roaches, lizards, spiders, or fire ants.
Also, cedarwood and rosemary are the smells they dislike the most. 5% cedarwood is lethal to spiders and ticks.
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u/OwnCompetition7617 11h ago
Thank you for the advice, I'm not scared or anything of bugs 🤣 they're just disgusting and I would rather not have them around my house than "just deal with it" however, I do agree I spray chemicals too much
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u/Remus2nd 10h ago
If I were you I would buy a broom for outside work and sweep it uo and throw it out. I wouldnt leave that much debris at my place
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u/armaespina 12h ago
Buy a ton of boric acid from Publix, put it in every corner of your cabinets and of your home.
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u/StevenMC19 10h ago
Diatomaceous Earth does wonders for me. I love that stuff. It gets a bit dusty after application, but a wipe down and vacuum after a day and I'm good for a long time.
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u/Amardella 10h ago
Just make sure it's food grade and not the kind you put into aquarium filters. That stuff gets in your lungs like asbestos.
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u/Woodenjelloplacebo 11h ago
So many cool bugs in Florida and so many dumbasses trying to kill them because their scared…
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u/OwnCompetition7617 11h ago
If you think bugs that walk on and eat spoiled food, other dead bugs, and shit is cool you might have the problem
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u/Woodenjelloplacebo 11h ago
Understanding ecology and how each species and subspecies work in concert to form a perfectly functioning environment isn’t the problem…. Humans are…. Rather than look at the purpose of that living thing, you chose fear
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u/OwnCompetition7617 10h ago
What purpose do roaches have?
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u/Amardella 9h ago
If insects and microbes didn't eat that stuff it would just lie there forever. You'd be wading through leaf litter up to your waist. Fruit lying on the ground. Excrement just sitting there. I assume you'd prefer that.
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u/OwnCompetition7617 9h ago
Many other insects eat decomposing fruit, many other insects also eat or use fallen leafs however almost all of them are more clean than a cockroach
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u/Amardella 9h ago
I hardly think that one insect eating the same rotten stuff is cleaner than another, but you just go on living your life in fear of 80% of the biomass of the planet. You seem to be so obsessed with anything you see as "unclean" that it's affecting your ability to live a normal life. Everything rots in the end and something has to eat the remains. Even eagles are scavengers when it suits them.
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u/OwnCompetition7617 8h ago
You seem to be the only one obsessed with something... I went outside to smoke, saw bugs, went back inside did work and played video games my day was good
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u/piggy_trot 7h ago
Doesn't make you any less stupid for not understanding how the world works or thinking one bug is "cleaner" than another.
Get off Reddit and go learn about nature.
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u/The1Dango 9h ago
So, I breed native roaches. They are very useful at breaking down organic waste such as leaves or fruit. They cannot eat mold and that will kill them. Springtails however will readily eat mold but cannot process organic waste. Wood is broken down by others such as isopods. The resulting frass (insect poop) is then broken down again by baby roaches. The resulting "waste" is taken along mychorrizal pathways into plants. Those plants grow and produce fruits which we consume or let spoil. The roaches eat the waste leaves and fruit and... life goes on.
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u/Agile-Pay-211 12h ago
They aren’t cockroaches but I don’t know what they are other than some winged bug. Maybe start spraying outside? Below is a photo of a cockroach kindly named a Palmetto bug.
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u/Subietoy78 11h ago
You left out the fact they fly directly at your face in the dark and sound like a small bird.
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u/Sparkling_Darkling 12h ago
Those have to be German cockroaches
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u/RestlessChickens 12h ago
Asia wood roaches look very similar to German roaches and live in leaf litter. I couldn't make out an identification in the video but German roaches can't survive outside like that and Asia wood roaches that get inside cannot survive
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u/OwnCompetition7617 12h ago
If they're German roaches and outside does that mean there a big problem?
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u/RestlessChickens 12h ago
No, German roaches cannot live outside, it's not German, they would die quickly and not be established in any noticeable population
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u/RestlessChickens 12h ago
If bugs outside bother you, FL - or anywhere subtropical - is not for you.
Edited to add: bugs that live in leaf litter are not infestors and infesting bugs aren't hanging out in leaf litter like a burglar waiting for a chance to break in