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Cockroaches facts
  • Cockroaches are "hitchhikers". They get transported by human activities and shipped products throughout the world.
  • American Cockroach will stick their eggcase with special glue to places that they believe is safe and as close as possible to food.
  • Cockroaches that live in buildings are mostly scavengers and feed on a wide variety of food.
  • German cockroaches are so successful because they have the shortest period to develop from hatching until sexual matured.
  • Cockroaches bleed white blood.
  • Cockroaches blood sloshes around freely in a body as it has no blood vessels.
  • A cockroach can live a week without its head.
  • The world’s largest roach lives in South America.
  • The world’s largest roach is six inches long with a one-foot wingspan.
  • There are 5000 species of cockroaches worldwide.
  • Cockroaches have 6 hairy legs and 18 knees.
  • Some female cockroaches mate once and are pregnant for the rest of their lives.
  • The roach only dies because without a mouth, it can't drink water and dies of thirst.
  • Cockroaches can run up to three miles in an hour.
  • Young cockroaches need only a crack as thin as a dime (about 0.5 mm wide) to crawl into.
  • Adult male's roaches can squeeze into a space of 1.6 mm.
  • Pregnant  female's roaches need the most space to hide - 4.5 mm.
  • A cockroach heart is nothing but a simple tube with valves.
  • The tube in the heart can pump blood backwards and forwards in the cockroach.
  • The heart can even stop moving without harming the roach.
  • Roaches can live without food for a month, but will only survive a week without water.
  • Most species of roaches live in the tropics.
  • Roaches live all over the world, including the North and South Poles.
  • Cockroaches can withstand temperatures as cold as 32°F  (0°C).
  • Cockroaches can climb walls because they are equipped with a set of little claws on their feet.
  • Roaches use their feelers or antennae, as nose.
  • Roaches have great sense of smell which they recognize family and friends by their distinctive odors.
  • Female roaches attract male roaches by producing pheromones.
  • Pheromones are chemicals that make the female roach smell REALLY good to the male roach.
  • Some female cockroaches incubate their egg cases in their bodies until they are ready to hatch.
  • The nymphs stay with their mothers a day or two after they are born.
  • Male cockroaches transfer sperm to females in a "gift-wrapped" package called a spermatophore.
  • Some males roaches cover their package in a protein-rich wrapping that the female can eat to obtain nutrients to raise her young.
  • Cockroaches are capable of transmitting disease organisms such as the bacteria which cause food poisoning.
  • Many cockroach species are able to fly.
  • Most cockroaches are shiny brown or black.
  • Tropical cockroaches are often brightly coloured yellows, reds and greens.
  • Cockroaches are night-active insects and most live in damp places; most are omnivorous scavengers.
  • Cockroach invades food supplies and emits foul-smelling glandular secretions.
  • Cockroach eggs are encased in capsules called oothecae.
  • The young cockroaches resemble the adults except in size.
  • The large, dark Oriental cockroach, Blatta Orientalis, is a cosmopolitan household species.
  • The smaller German cockroach, Blattella germanica, native to Europe, is the common urban cockroach of the NE United States.
  • Fossil evidence indicates roaches are of extreme abundance during the Carboniferous period, about 350 million years ago.
  • Cockroaches are classified in five families of the phylum Arthropoda, class Insecta, order Blattodea.
  • Roaches are very adaptable insect, surviving where other insects would be extinct.
  • Roaches wear their skeletons on the outside of their bodies.
  • Roach mouths work sideways.
  • Some roaches are tiny and live in ant nests.
  • Many cockroaches can fly and have beautiful diaphanous - or see-through - wings.
  • The tiny hairs found on each leg give them their sense of touch.
  • Cockroaches kidneys look like a bunch of writhing snakes.
  • In extremely cold places, cockroach survives by moving in with humans.
  • Cockroaches have one great big nerve connecting their tails to their heads, alerting them to danger from behind.
  • Roaches have faster reflexes than humans.
  • Roaches can swim and hold their breath for 40 minutes.
  • Roaches outgrow their skeletons.
  • If you see a white cockroach, it has just shed it skin.
  • A cockroach that has just shed its skin is white with black eyes.
  • American cockroaches can run up to three miles in an hour.
  • Male cockroaches weigh less than female cockroaches, and males can fly and flee faster.
  • Cockroaches were carried all over the world in wooden ship.
  • Sir Francis Drake once captured a ship which was overrun with millions of roaches.
  • The H.M.S. "Bounty" was so infested with cockroaches that captain William Bligh disinfected the entire ship with boiling water.
  • The cockroach was once a guest of honor in European homes, and it was customary to release them in new dwellings.
  • Some people develop allergies to cockroaches, including skin rashes and respiratory problems, such as condition similar to asthma.
  • Cockroaches are some of the most primitive winged insects.
  • Soft food moves through a cockroach's gut in 48 hours.
  • Cockroaches are supreme couch potatoes. They spend 75 percent of their time resting.
  • Resting roaches point their antennae up and forward, and at about a 60 degree angle from one another.
  • Cockroaches are primarily nocturnal and will quickly scurry away when surprised by light.
  • The famous Mexican folk song "La Cucaracha" refers to cockroaches and has a dance that mimics people stepping on the bugs.
  • Many popular movies feature cockroaches including Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Men in Black and Joe's Apartment.
  • The English word cockroach is derived from the Spanish cucaracha, meaning "chafer, beetle".
  • Current evidence strongly suggests that termites have evolved, in turn, directly from true cockroaches.
  • A female German cockroach carries an egg capsule containing around 40 eggs.
  • Cockroach development from eggs to adults takes 3-4 months.
  • Roaches have the ability to slow down its heart rate.
  • The cockroach's ability to withstand radiation better than human beings can be explained in terms of the cell cycle.
  • Cockroaches have been shown to make group decisions.
  • Cockroaches leave chemical trails in their faces.
  • Few cockroaches die on their backs in the wild.
  • Cockroaches have 3 stages of development - egg, nymph and adult.
  • All roaches must shed their outer skin by a process called molting.
  • Cockroaches will take walk, spit and defecate on the food.
  • Cockroaches can spread typhoid, gastroenteritis and hepatitis.
  • Blatella germanica or the German Cockroach can live more than 100 days whereas Periplaneta can live up to 3 years.
  • Cockroaches usually explore and wander around often when they are deprived for food.
  • Cockroaches would not like to feed on food that is mouldy.
  • Cockroaches love to hide, concentrate on the cracks and crevices.
  • Cockroaches resting and hiding areas, which are normally cracks and crevices are called "harborages".
  • German cockroaches are so successful because they have the largest numbers of eggs per capsule than other species that infest structures.
  • If a cockroach nymph loses a leg or antennae, a new one will appear with the next molt.
  • Cockroaches are good runners. They are one of the fastest of all insects.
  • Cockroaches are fond of starches, sweets, grease, meat products, cheese, beer, bakery products, glue, hair, dead animals and plant materials.
  • Cockroaches prefer a moist environment, and many species prefer a relatively high degree of warmth.
  • Cockroach adults prefer to gather with others in favorable areas instead of spreading out.
  • Whenever cockroach infestation is established, an unpleasant odour may develop.

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