Have you ever lived with cockroaches?
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NonePlus!!! No roaches here....
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A cockroach? Also, many beetle like dark and dry places, for example june bugs infest our basement sometimes...
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Actually, I have.  When I was young my Grandfather had a pet squirrel and I tried to reach in the squirrel's cage to pet him and he bit me....stupid squirrel.  : )
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Yes.  I have an irrational fear of snakes.  They terrify me.  I was in high school and in my science class, they had people from the zoo bring in animals.  They brought these snakes that are called worm snakes because they are no bigger than an earthworm.  Well, when they brought them out of their cage, I started to get a little uneasy.  My teacher noticed this and thought he would be helping me by seeing that there was nothing to be afraid of.  He went to put it in my hand and as soon as I touched it, I freaked out and ran out of the classroom.  I wound up having a panic attack because of it.  I highly doubt that I will ever get over fearing snakes.  There is just something about them that scares the living daylights out of me.
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I saw a Ripley's Believe It Or Not episode where a guy in England only ate roaches. It was disgusting. These suckers were huge, but he really seemed to enjoy them.
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No and I never met anyone who does. my son used to eat buggurs I thought that was gross enough
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Yes, hot (preferably boiling) water would indeed kill cockroaches, assuming you could keep them in the water for the several seconds it would take to kill them.\n\nCockroaches, like most insects, have a waxy coating or cuticle on their exoskeleton that aids them in regulating water loss from their bodies.  Because of this, most insects have at least some ability to swim, and cockroaches are no exception.\n\nAssuming you had a captive cockroach and a pot of boiling water, what would probably happen is you would drop the cockroach in the pot, and the cockroach would immediately swim for the edge of the pot, climb out and run away before the boiling water killed it.\n\nShould you be able to contain the cockroach and keep it from getting out, it would indeed die.\n\nWe often use boiling water to kill insects before identification, because the boiling water kills them very quickly, but without deforming or discolouring the insect.
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I liked this quirky little guy in prep school intrigued with animals, reptiles and insects. He would walk around the compound during recess catching lizards and cockroaches, barely socializing with the other kids around him. I liked him tremendously! I know it sounds a tad unlikely considering his 'unusual' pastime. But, when I think about it, I've always been attracted to the unusual...that's just me I guess haha :D
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In some areas, cockroaches are able to live outdoors, and make their way into human habitation from there.  Of the 4000 or so species of cockroach worldwide, only about a dozen are household pests.  Most of them live quiet lives on the forest floor and never bother anyone.\n\nThose few species that do become pests, though, are pretty major pests.  In areas where they cannot live outside, they get into homes by being carried in with contaminated foodstuffs, or even egg cases (ootheca) carried in on clothing or in the cracks of shoes.  Sometimes adults will hitch a ride from one building to another.\n\nAt one time the BioSciences building at the University of Alberta was infested with cockroaches.  After one lab, I picked up my backpack and a bunch of cockroaches ran out of the back pocket (where I had foolishly left an open bag of chips).  I left my backpack outside that night.
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I'd be like, "I change my mind about the pantyhose thing" and put him in a plastic container jar with little air holes on the lid. I'd rattle it a few times a day and throw bugs in there, my weird ex was afraid of cockroaches.
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No but cockroaches freak me out.
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Here's a thought....\n\nAfter Mr. Fly is tired out from a day's work of swarming around and eating from trash bins, dog poop and road kill, he buzzes on over to your house and takes a rest on your kitchen counter - right where you make your PB 'n J.  He visits various other spots in your house - including your shoulder - before finally landing on your ceiling, where you end his life with a swat and thus disperse his microbe-ridden remains throughout your living room.\n\nYet as filthy and annoying as the fly is, I'll take the occasional dirty rogue fly over the persistent cockroach infestation any day of the week.
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Maybe you should move somewhere where you don't have roaches.\n\nGravity. Their backs are heavier.
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i'm afraid or rats and cockroaches. yuck! i almost scare to death when i see rats, and flying cockroches(yeeewww!!!) and i have to check my fingernails, before i go to school three to four times. wierd, eh??
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The Cockroach. It survived the fist ice age.
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The cockroach is an omnivore, that is, it eats everything edible, animal and vegetable. So if we do not move around too much while sleeping they might be inclined to nibble on our earlobes at night. They are rarely aggressive enough to attack us while we are awake. When visiting Tulane University in New Orleans many years ago I slept in a dormitory room and cockroaches were flying down from the ceiling onto my head. I would guess that these large American cockroaches, _Periplaneta americana_, would be capable of taking a good bite out of me.  Only the larger species could take a bite through our skin. Of course the skin of children is much more tender and vulnerable to a roach bite. If the bite becomes infected it is possible for it to leave a scar.
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they can surivive a nuclear blast but not directly in the blast radius of the explosion. but if there were to be a nuclear war were we scorch the sky and we have another ice age then roaches would most likey survive. also a roach can live up to seven days with a decapetated head and still be able to reproduce. genetically roaches can withstand radiation and nuclear fall out because of their years of mutation. this bug was around before the dinasaurs and has adapted tyo every living condition none to man and beast.  therefore making it the most natural surviver in any condition.