But they are a fact of life.
There are a couple of reasonably effective means of dealing with them.
- When you see one, spray it.
This method tends to leave dead cockroaches around the place. - Share your home with skinks.
This method tends to leave dead cockroach legs around the place.
Tip: It's not a good idea to spray a cockroach right before you open a new packet of cereal with all the sultanas sitting at the top looking like little dead cockroaches without legs.
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Didn't you kill the skinks in an overzealous cockroach spraying?
Or are they even more indestructible than cockroaches?
So after the nuclear war, when we all die and cockroaches rule the earth, the skinks will then stage a coup, finally reigning over the ravaged earth, looking down from a pile of cockroach legs.
Apart from one unfortunate skinkicide episode, where I hadn't realised they like to live in mops yet have little appreciation for hot, disinfectanty water, my main concern has been that cockroach spray might make its way up through the food chain.
However, should natural selection decide that skinks evolve an immunity to cockroach spray, then I believe we could eventually breed gigantic mutant skinks to control the cane toad population up north.
Something that worries me, however, is that I never see any dead skinks, or even piles of dead skink legs. I wonder what's eating them...
My dear, the mind absolutely boggles. I advise you to reprimand your staff severely, or even consider discharging them, if they are not capable of dealing with so common a household matter.
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