CC, do you have the flying kind of cockroach? In Florida here in the States, they call them palmetto bugs but they are definitely roaches. When I traveled around Japan in 86, I stayed with some friends who had vastly impressive roaches. They were HUGE. I made a deal with myself---I could live with it as long as I never woke up with one on my face (sleeping on a tatami mat gets your face damn close to cockroach crawling range). And I never did. Although I used to hear one of the friends, Thomas, thundering through the apartment in the middle of the night going after the roaches with his tennis racket.

So do yours fly in WA, or spin around, or do other such tricks?