One of the things I like doing most is getting rid of bugs. Today Leah called me into the bathroom sounding very worried: she could see a blurry oval shape (her eyes aren't so good without glasses). Anyway, this is what I found:
That's right, a big ugly
huhu beetle cockroach! After
wondering what to do, I eventually managed to capture him in a chinese food container (note: this was harder than it sounds. He was very quick, and would go running at the mere sight of the container. Luckily I think the camera flash stunned him so I took a few (bad) photos before I got the container on).
We took him down to the bushes outside our apartment and released him, so it all ended well after all.
For the rest of the pictures, head over to
Flickr.
UPDATE: turns out it's not a
huhu beetle, it was a
cockroach. So, instead of saving a native bug, I saved a pest. Awesome. Thanks Tom.
4 comments:
Wow, I'm impressed you didn't just kill it. You're a better person than I. That thing is freaky!
Killing it was certainly on the cards, and if I had known it was a pesky cockroach, I probably would have :(
Holy fuck that's a huge as cockroach.
Didn't think they grew that big in Auckland ...
That is a typical Aussie cockroach, probably came over for a driving holiday.
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