A plague of flying cockroaches appears to have spread in the city of Larissa, central Greece, with citizens filling dozens of complaints to local authorities in the last two weeks.
According to local newspaper eleftheria.gr, the citizens have seen their homes, businesses and streets inundated by big flying cockroaches.
A resident complaint to local onlarissa.gr and sent also a picture of a flying intruder she had successfully manage to exterminate.
“The situation has reached the limits! We are afraid to open because [doors, windows] they are invading our home. They sit on the screens and there is chaos everywhere! In the [city] center everywhere, in the fortress at night they attack!,” the woman wrote urging authorities to finally take the necessary measures.
Identified as Periplaneta americana (or American cockroach), the pest inundating Larissa is the largest and fastest among common cockroach species and can spread at a rapid pace thanks to its ability to fly.
Argyropoulos told Eleftheria the local authority is doing its best to spray the city’s more than 8,500 grates with insecticides that should help curb the problem, but residents and businesses are also being urged to join the battle by spraying their properties.
