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Huge roach is captured in Bugbat.

Updated: May 1, 2020

20181213 Dec 13 2018

Everything is bigger in Texas and that refers to our roaches, too. They can be nearly 2 inches long. So I heard an odd sound from one of the bubbat pitchers. I look inside to see a giant roach. It's nearly a third as long as the pitcher, but it's still below the slippery zone, so it's trapped.

(Note the roach was trapped on Dec 13. The video is from Dec 15. That should prove that the roach is trapped for good.)





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Note this is the same bugbat pitcher form 20181212. That poor fly has been fighting to stay afloat while being tormented by blobs for days now.

“How could it get worse?” It asks.

Well it can.

Say a giant roach falls on your head.

DOH!


I had hoped to see what would happen to the giant roach, to see how long it would take to be digested.

But alas, it escaped on Dec 17.

And it had help: ..

Me.

I had been watching it for days now. It wasn’t going to escape. Unless it had help.

I wanted to get a closeup with the pencam. But I got a little too close. I hit it and it used the pencam as an escape ladder. I lost it in the leaves.

Hoist on my own petard

I thought I learned my lesson when i let the ants escape with the pencam



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Here is that poor fly who was under the roach for the last 5 days.

He’s still hanging on, but it doesn’t look good.




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Dec 24 2018


Blobs attack!

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This poor fly was already having a bad time before the roach. It was fighting blobby mites in the previous post.


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