Miami, Tampa among the most roach-infested areas in the country [View all]

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They flock here like retirees. You see them in the kitchen, the bathroom, hanging out under the palm tree next to the lanai. They fill their little motels to the max, no vacancy.

Cockroaches.

Eek!-Blech!-Gross! … Oh dear lord there's another … maybe it's just a palmetto bug … cockroaches (scientific name, from the Latin for "horrific insect.&quot . The big kind and the little kind. The red ones and the brown ones. The ones with all the legs and the ones with tiny wings, too. Tampa Bay's got 'em in abundance.

So much that the U.S. Census Bureau in its latest American Housing Survey found that Tampa and Miami are among the roach-iest metropolitan areas in the nation. More so than New York or Houston.

"At some point you're going to have them," said Carol Brown, general manager at Chet's Termite and Pest Management. "It keeps us in business."

The climate also draws a bevy of other insects, which provide a food source to omnivorous roaches.

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