Cockroaches are out and about! Here are 10 facts about the creepy crawlers that you may not have known.
- Crushed cockroaches can help ease a sting when applied to the wounded area.
- Cockroaches have white blood.
- Roaches primarily come out for water, not food.
- Cockroaches can live a month without food, but only a week without water.
- A roach can live a week without a head. It dies after a week due to lack of water.
- A cockroach that has just shed it’s skin is white and has black eyes. It takes 8 hours to reproduce the skin layer.
- Laboratory female roaches are able to reproduce without aid of a male. They produce all female offspring.
- Cockroaches thrive in all conditions. They can live in the arctic as well as the desert.
- Contrary to popular belief, cockroaches can bite. The larger roaches have even been known to bite humans.
- Roaches don’t only live in dirty homes. Roaches can live in the walls of clean homes but they have larger colonies in less clean homes because there is a bigger food supply available.