The resilience of the Cockroach!

[Terry]

Well we've all seen them and no matter how clean you keep the place, the little buggers STILL get in.

I moved into an apartment in Hanoi a year ago. It was brand new and I am the first occupant.
A maid comes 3 times a week (Mon/Wed/Fri) to service the place, cleans, does the washing & ironing and tidies up.

In the corner of the bathroom there is a floor drain and - yes you've guessed it - it's the cockroach front door.

When I got back there last Friday evening after work, I witnessed one of them scurrying off down the drain.
Out came the Cockroach spray and a liberal dose went down the drain after it.

5 minutes later the little critter was on his back on top of the drain cover - legs wriggling.
It died a few minutes later - I thought.

I left it there all day Saturday and Sunday (to make a point to the maid on Monday - today - that she should spray the place maybe once a week as a precaution).

I stayed in all day yesterday working on an assignment on my own - sulking on the occasion of Spurs being dumped out of the CL

Before I went to bed last night it was still reposed on the drain cover - looking decidedly demised.

Woke up this morning and IT WAS GONE.

So - are these bloody things as indestructible as they say they are?
I guess so.

[Big Boy]

I have seen an army of ants carrying a dead one up a wall before.

[dtaai-maai]

I have seen an army of ants carrying a dead one up a wall before.

Bet it was playing possum coz it wanted a lift...

[wpcoe]

Funny you should mention the "missing" dead roach. The other day I found a dead baby gecko in the downstairs bathroom. I kept procrastinating sweeping it up -- I saw it there throughout the course of the day, maybe over 10 hours? Went in there in the evening to remove it, and it was gone!

Are geckos cannibals? Would a larger gecko eat a smaller one?

I have had a history of snakes in my kitchen just on the other side of the wall. I hope to heck they haven't taken residence in the main house!

[PeteC]

.....Are geckos cannibals? Would a larger gecko eat a smaller one?.....

Yes. If you happen to be outside at night near a wall with many of them, you'll see them go at it, and the smaller will usually sacrifice his re-growable tail in order to avoid being completely eaten. The law of the jungle! Pete