Allie Ward

Letodiologist?

I have heard of some people who live in gecko territories that they bring a few geckos in to gobble up their roaches and spiders.

But you've got to watch out for this because the roaches could be dusted in pesticides.

You could be harming the geckos.

Also, do not go buy a gecko and let it

roam free range or in 10 years I'm going to have to make an episode about out of control invasive geckos because of you.

Now other people swear by rubbing a bar of Irish spring soap along doorways and windows to keep them out.

I've heard borax baits are effective and there's a little syringe of roach bait you can squeeze out kind of like peanut butter in different areas and it's called Advion and

And it has like 15,000 five-star reviews in case you don't want these beautiful city creatures in your houses.

Just dominating.

I mean, it's so interesting that you can go into a forest and just not even have any comprehension of how surrounded by bugs you are.

You can sit on a lawn and not realize how many spiders are right under your butt.

So next time you see a roach, you can think about its relatives, pretend it's just a praying mantis.

just kind of a chubbier praying mantis or rounder praying mantis, and maybe see if you can hold one.

This has been so lovely.

Thank you for letting me ask you so many cockroachy questions.

So ask insect people ill-informed questions if you have to, because that's really the only way to bust some flim flam.

So how do you feel about roaches now?

Do you feel better?

I knew it.