Pest Control Charlotte NC

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Of all the crazy Valentine’s gifts and posts out there, How can a pest control guy compete? Well I was happy to resign this holiday to the flower puff girls and the chocolate Dips. Especially after our last bust on the 12 worst Christmas Gifts… Definitely leave me out of the Valentine’s scene.

Until I came across this Valentine’s Love Bug Gift idea…

http://www.bronxzoo.com/name-a-roach/

NAME a Roach

Whaaaaat????? You can’t be serious. …but yes they are.

How low can you go?  You realize these are HISSING roaches?  Nothing says I love you more than a little hiss, especially when coming from a cockroach.

How can I sit here and be silent when the Bronx Zoo is making a mockery of Valentine’s Day for me? Sure sure, there’s a donation and it goes to a good cause. But wow?  WOW!  And I thought that dumping my girlfriend prior to Valentine’s day was low… I am sure many a women would prefer to be dumped over this Valentine’s day gift.

In all honesty, Who wants a roach named after them?

On Valentine’s day or any other day of the year? If you want to save this species or learn more about them then go buy one online. Yes, you can buy one online, an for a cheaper price then naming one.

But sticking with this them, without being a hater on Valentine’s day, our top ten picks for Roach Names:

10: Stinky

9: Bill

8: Dopey (as in smoke that roach)

7: Cat Bait

6: Poor boy’s pet.

5: I look like a prune but don’t eat me.

4: Colgate (You are what you eat.)

3: Chicken Soup ( Ask Luke Fender )

2: Splat. ( pest control humor )

1: Vader. “Happy…. <hooohhhpaaaa > Valentine’s Day…

< hoohhpaaaa.. cough> my young padawan.

New York teens working on a DNA science project in New York may have discovered a new breed of cockroaches. The roach investigated during a DNA barcoding survey may represent a new species or subspecies. With the DNA varying from the current DNA barcode by 4% it seems possible that this cockroach could be an undiscovered species. Most DNA’s only vary by 1% and a variance by 4% isn’t just a quantity of 3 steps, but more a variance in scale, like a 1 versus a 4 on the Rickert scale of earthquakes. Officials have yet to determine if this is the case and it may be impossible to actually make a clear conclusion based on one sampling.

Interestingly enough, pests in general have a huge number of un-categorized and therefore “undiscovered” species and subspecies. Arguments about ants, scorpions, and the likes are ever raging. To further complicate things, insects seem to evolve much quicker. So is it really a new cockroach or is this just the 2010 model of the 2005 german roach… and I must say… nice hood.

But as one New Yorker put it… “I am not surprised.”

It seems almost iconic for the dingy dirty filthy New York city to find yet something another new, progressive, hip-hopping, whacked, yet artistic, cesspool creature… AKA Jane Roach #5839

By the way, the roach will go unnamed until they can be certain from a roach specialist that it is indeed a new species.. or at least sub species.