Do you believe they were created?
Actually, roaches are very smart. They have a mushroom body. I used to feed one sugar every night. It would run away when someone came into the room, except with me.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockroachwikipedia said:An inexpensive roach trap can easily be made from a deep smooth-walled jar with some roach food inside, placed with the top of the jar touching a wall or with sticks (outside the jar) leading up to the top, so that the roaches can reach the opening. Once inside, they cannot climb back out. An inch or so of water or stale beer (by itself a roach attractant) will ensure they drown. The method works well with the American cockroach but less so with the German cockroach.[37] A bit of Vaseline can be smeared on the inside of the jar to enhance slipperiness. The method is sometimes called the "Vegas roach trap" after it was popularized by a Las Vegas-based TV station. This version of the trap uses coffee grounds and water.[38]
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Some of the earliest writings about cockroaches encouraged their use as medicine. Pedanius Dioscorides (1st century), Abu Hanifa ad-Dainuri (9th century), and Kamal al-Din al-Damiri (14th century ) all offered medicines that either suggest grinding them up with oil or boiling them, and Lafcadio Hearn claimed[39] that in the 1870s many New Orleanians had great faith in a remedy of boiled cockroach tea
:shrug:Tashja said:Do you believe they were created?
We had the large cockroaches in the Arizona desert. I've seen the smaller ones in Los Angeles. If you're a good housekeeper and you have roaches, it means that your neighbors aren't.The only place I've seen roaches was when I was stationed in Kentucky.
Yes. Roaches are icky but harmless except from a general public-health perspective. But ticks transmit Lyme disease. I pull one off one of my dogs every couple of weeks. I assume that I examine them often enough that even if the tick has Lyme, it hasn't been on long enough to transmit. (24-48 hours depending on who you ask, but by then they're kind of swollen from eating blood.) I get one on me about once a year.The only bug I despise more is the tick, another resident of Kentucky.
There are several species of large, clumsy flying insects called June bugs so you may have had a different kind than the ones in Arizona. We used to make a little leash out of thread, put it around their neck, and fly them in circles like toy airplanes.The June bug was also another that I came to know while stationed there.
I don't know about flesh-eating cockroaches, but what about cockroach-eating humans?
Tragic consequences in this case, sadly.
We had the large cockroaches in the Arizona desert. I've seen the smaller ones in Los Angeles. If you're a good housekeeper and you have roaches, it means that your neighbors aren't.
Yes. Roaches are icky but harmless except from a general public-health perspective. But ticks transmit Lyme disease. I pull one off one of my dogs every couple of weeks. I assume that I examine them often enough that even if the tick has Lyme, it hasn't been on long enough to transmit. (24-48 hours depending on who you ask, but by then they're kind of swollen from eating blood.) I get one on me about once a year.
There are several species of large, clumsy flying insects called June bugs so you may have had a different kind than the ones in Arizona. We used to make a little leash out of thread, put it around their neck, and fly them in circles like toy airplanes.
Cockroaches,
what good are they? Why did they have to be "created"? How could someone eat them!? I think I heard somewhere but I could not find it. Is there flesh eating roaches? How do they survive so dang much? An why oh why did there have to be flying cockroaches!? They are gross. Are they not? How do you view them? And they are every where on Earth!