While vacationing in Florida many years ago, we were aghast to fing huge cockroaches in our hotel room at the Palm-Air Lucaya in Sarasota, if I remember correctly. Well we reported our findings to the front desk help, and they were not surprised at all to hear it. They called them "Palmetto bugs". I understand they are prevalent all over Florida and other warm climate areas. I suppose thats what you get at the slum beachfront [:-crazy] a bit unsettling.