> "Nancy2" <nancy-doo...@uiowa.edu> wrote in message
>
> news:68244e90-4001-4925-ad76-517e7665d2f6@c58g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...
> On Jul 18, 3:24 am, "Suzanne D." <sdall...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > So we've had our little problems with giant monster roaches in the last
> > month or two. No biggie. Roaches don't hurt nobody, and these are outdoor
> >Roaches "don't kill nobody?" They may not, but they do carry
> >diseases. Those outdoor ones (probably German roaches) are just as
>
> likely to crawl over your food as not, so I sure would try to get rid
> of them pronto.
>
> Beh, whatever germs may come in with insects and spiders aren't going to be
> worth spreading poison through my house. We get maybe three roaches in the
> house on a good year; this year it's more, but they will stop when the
> weather gets less extreme. (And mantises carry the same germs other bugs
> do, so keeping them would result in the same thing anyway.) We keep the
> spiders around because they stay out of the way and are likely the reason we
> don't have many bugs in the house. The black widows actually had tons of
> bugs in their webs, but the tradeoff for them isn't as good!
> --S.
