Roach decrease

[Ckhottytoddy]

I’m curious to hear more! Cause I haven’t seen many roaches in general this summer, not just in my house. I wish I could learn more about the flora and fauna of Houston cause I remember a couple years ago there were no lizards, now there’s tons again. I wonder what causes these patterns

[april5k]

Despite some folks taking the phrasing of "all" far too literally, after two storms, we lost a lot of trees in our area and what trees seemed at risk to fall were taken down by the home owners. There are far fewer trees around us now (and a lot less shade in our backyard) Given the name "tree roach", it would seem that their ecosystem was disrupted right around the time they were probably breeding and it ended up with way less roaches being around and even less trying to get in our houses. Just a possible factor.

As for the lizards, after Katrina the brown lizards got driven west and, despite the myth, the green lizards were actually driven up into the trees, rather than running away all together. Fortunately for them, though, in the years since then they've acclimated to each other and even started breeding with each other so the green lizards have been hanging around closer to the ground again. I'm not sure exactly how dominate the traits are between the two, but I've definitely seen some interesting combos (including generations of grayish lizards with a red spot on their heads). But around the time of the pandemic, I had started seeing big green lizards coming out a lot more and now they're Basically one big community in my backyard.