Okay, I know what they say, cockroaches might just survive global nuclear war.

All I know is they are damned creepy and although I know we have them in the north I never saw one until I was in Norfolk, VA, a fitting place for roaches.

This article gave me the creeps.

Silly I know given the state of the world.

Cockroaches hitch ride into US with troops

While they have their backs turned, fighting wars in Asia and the Middle East, it seems that US troops have allowed a counter-invasion of their country by marauding legions.

An infestation of the Turkistan cockroach, which can carry diseases such as typhoid and dysentery, can be blamed on a handful of the insects hitching a ride with soldiers returning from the war zone, experts say. Now the fast-breeding cockroaches, which are adept at dodging pesticides, have spread from California to New Mexico, threatening mayhem further afield as they seek new territory.

"It started with soldiers and equipment coming back from the first Gulf war in the early 1990s, but it's still happening and they're spreading to other areas," said Philip Koehler, a professor of entomology at the University of Florida, Gainesville.

Experts say that the Turkistan cockroach, native to many countries including Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran, is particularly troublesome. Its natural habitat is the desert, of which there are large areas in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. It breeds quickly at room temperature and, according to Koehler, is not timid. "They like to live around the outside of houses, but also to invade them," he said.

While the spread of the Turkistan is his biggest worry, Koehler warned that warmer areas of the US were also under threat from other newly imported species such as the Madagascar hissing roach, the lobster roach and the orange spotted roach. "We have 69 species of cockroaches in the US and 29 of them were brought in from other countries," he said.

No!

I hate those things!

I have a sister living in Corpus Christi, Texas. She saw a cockroach in her microwave, so she nuked it. When the microwave stopped it got up and walked away. She grabbed it with a napkin and flushed it. She doesn't normally have them, but says everyone sees one in their home once in awhile. EEEEEWWWWWWWW!!!!

My ex use to keep some hissing roaches when she taught science.

She turned them over to a fellow teacher who put them in a file cabinet over spring break. After a week they had taken over the file drawer.

terrorist roaches ...i wonder how much bush will allocate to fight them..sure to put our economy in turmoil..perhaps i can get funded to fight them with some of them billions...

OMG...Roaches of Mass Destruction.

Danger!!!!! Will Robinson. Danger!!!!!!!

I don't even want to have thoughts of what that might look like.