To move house, as I have a rogue hex bug loose and lost !

[Babieseverywhere]

Help !

Came home from school run after dropping 3/4 children at school, in the quiet I can hear the sound of the Hex bugs.

Located a couple on the battle arena on the dining room and turned the wriggling creepy things off...but I can still hear one and this one is missing. ....loose somewhere on the ground floor.

I have no directional hearing and the toddler is laughing at me refusing to help. I am going to have to move house aren't I ?

[Fizzielove]

Def you HAVE to move!

My FIL dropped one in the air vent in my car, drove me crazy!

[hiddenhome2]

Lol, my real live pet cockroaches escaped when they were babies. I was finding them everywhere!

[Finola1step]

Had one make its way to my foot just the other day. The bugger.

The battery will run out eventually.

[Finola1step]

Pet cockroaches!

[hiddenhome2]

Yes, pets. Don't get me on talking about them as I have Aspergers and become boring if given the opportunity to talk about my animals

[wtffgs]

Hiddenhome, I'm sure you are lovely but please don't ever move with your pets to Yorkshire

[hiddenhome2]

Ha, ha......

[brightnearly]

Hiddenhome, did you name your pet cockroaches?

Trying to think of suitable names and failing...

[sportinguista]

Remember my friends cats 'releasing' all the crickets she had as lizard food from their tank. we were finding them for weeks - cat's thought it was great fun - all these interactive toys!

DS was asking about hexbugs though, I might avoid now as DH will go crazy trying to find them!

[hiddenhome2]

Only one of them has a name. It's the male and he's called Gregor, Greg for short. He has three wives, but they're difficult to tell apart, so I just call them The Ladies.

This is him here, with one of his wives.

[hiddenhome2]

Greg is on the right.

[Pootles2010]

Kafka fan, hidden?

[P1nkP0ppy]

What's a 'Hex bug'?

[MsMargaretCarter]

I have one behind some kitchen cupboards. It only took the battery 30 mins to run out.

[hufflebottom]

Sod that. Prize for the first DC to find them when they get home after school

[sportinguista]

Never thought of having cockroaches as pets, they are truly impressive, DS would love them, but my DH would run screaming like a girl as he does from all other insect life .

[coughingbean]

Greg is very handsome! Are they the hissing kind hidden? I love that sound

[Finola1step]

Now Hidden, they are mighty fine cockroaches. Not the common little blighters that run across your feet when you are doing a work based home visit. Oh no.

[hiddenhome2]

Yes, I love Kafka Pootles

[hiddenhome2]

They are hissers coughing it's only really Greg who makes a noise. Sometimes, they hiss at each other though.

They're very funny and cute and are The Worlds Best Pet! I promote them all the time as an alternative to goldfish for kids.

Good grief, what kind of home visits do you go on Finola?

[coughingbean]

[PantsOfGold]

All our Hex Bugs have disappeared down the same hole in our floorboards. There must be a legion of them down there, roaming around, clacking and buzzing ...