I have done battle and killed many cockroaches in my New York lifetime. I have never in my life seen a flying cockroach…until today.
My girlfriend nearly jumped off the couch when a cockroach flew across the room and landed right in the middle of the giant Sony LCD on the coffee table.
This was the same roach that tormented us last night. In round one I was unsuccessful. My weapon of choice, any household spray cleaner such as Windex or Fantastic, was still lying on the ground. I leaped into action and grabbed the bottle of Lysol and hit the roach once on the front of the screen. It flew up and over the back of the TV.
With Ayesha yelling visual instructions, I chased the roach around the back of the TV and then the front, getting a few spray shots in each time. Finally, it went to the floor. As it ran towards the corner I got a few direct squirts in to slow it down. A few more shots killed the roach.
Never, ever in my life have I seen a flying roach. I went to Wikepedia, which made no mention of flying roaches.
Has the cockroach evolved?
I recommend Lisa Matsumoto’s book, “How the B-52 Cockroach Learned to Fly” (
