A palmetto bug is a type of species of cockroach. A cockroach by any other name is a cockroach, and they are all over Disney. We stayed at the POR last month in Oak Manor, and there were dead ones on the stairways and on the walkways.
They come in to feed and get water. Once they find a source, they usually come back to that source like ants.
They are so hard to stop because they are prolific breeders. If you have still water i.e. the manmade waterways at Disney, and you have bushes and trees and hot weather, you will have them. You can spray till your arm falls off, but if they need water, they will come into your room. There is just so much Disney can control. That still doesn't make me feel good when there is one right outside my door. I guess that's better than right inside my door. We saw several in the streets at HS this trip.
I did a quick search online to verify that they are a type of cockroach (I knew people would say I didn't know what I was talking about.) and found that they are kind of cockroach and that there is a huge problem with them this year because of the extreme heat and dry weather. You can easily check for yourself.
We live in Georgia, so this is nothing new to us. The best you can do is spray around you doors and windows with repellant, as opposed to insecticide and hope for the best.
I've never had one come in the room that I saw, but I've seen many outside the room. So hopefully, whatever Disney is using is keeping them mostly outside.
We stayed off property, at a nice place, and they had silverfish in the room. When I reported it, they offered to come up and kill them. I told them that I'd already done that.LOL I just wanted to know what they were.
She also offered that they don't bite. Well. That's good to know, now give me another room please.
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