Are you going to in NY soon?
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Correction: ascended – flying cockroaches are (nearly) here, and they are the mascot this garbage year deserves.
New City is known for many things: its skyscrapers, the Statue of Liberty, Wall Street and more. The latter are perhaps the scariest ones.
According to Accuweather, it will feel like 89 degrees Fahrenheit on Saturday night in New York City. You’re most likely to come face-to-face with one of them.
The article, titled “Roaches Love This Disgusting Heat So Much, It Makes Them Want To Fly”, has sparked a series of additional news stories and panicked social media posts about roaches launching themselves through the air.
DNAinfo reports that the hot conditions outside could inspire the cockroaches that inhabit New York City and other parts of the tri-state to take flight. “It’s nearly like they just glide down”.
DNAinfo reported that high temperatures combined with humidity “encourages” cockroaches to fly. If you’re in NY, imagining that uniquely American nightmare is a huge waste of your time because you could just walk outside and see it IRL.
Of a reddish-brown color, the American cockroach, or Periplaneta americana, is native to Africa, but has lived in the USA since the early 1600s. So it is conceivable that they are more active in this current, very hot summer’. It’s a common sight in the Deep South, where some call the flying roaches “palmetto bugs”.
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The New York flying cockroaches will tend to hide in dark areas such as under or behind furniture, cabinets summits, under sinks and in drawers.
