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Originally Posted by jimjamuser
I have NEVER seen a roach or a rodent in our house in ten years of living here and we sometimes leave some crumbs in the kitchen. The pesticide people come at least twice a year. Long ago, when I lived in a rental apartment complex in Miami, I did see roaches sometimes and they can get bigger than northern roaches ( 2 and 3 inches and will fly right into your face sometimes). Not normally a problem in The Villages.
..........Florida does have more insects in general than up-north. At a museum, I have seen Florida beetles as big as 2 feet long. have NEVER seen anything that big in person. In Miami, I once saw a small beetle with 2 glowing spots on its back that looked like 2 tiny headlights. And that is true and I was NOT smoking anything. I have always wanted to ask an insect biologist about what could possibly be the evolutionary advantage of an insect having glow spots on its back? Seems like it would be more often eaten or smashed because of glowing.
......Also because Florida has a lot of insects, what I refer to as chameleons often come into your house and die and shrivel up, they are everywhere. They should be the official Florida living creature.
........Florida is unique in many ways!
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When our home in Sarasota was being built, we paid to have tubes run through all of the walls with the end of the tubes being accessible from the outside wall. Pest control would come and spend time pushing pesticide into those hoses, supposedly treating all of the internal spaces. Looking back on this, I find it kind of hard to believe. There really is no way to prove it, short of tearing open a wall (which I am considering as I write this to solve my curiosity.