I am terrified of cockroaches. They seriously gross me out. It’s something about the way their antenna wiggle about, and that scuttely noise they make when they move. Plus there’s something unnatural about a creature that can survive for a week without a head.
Yes that’s right, cockroaches can live for up to a week without a head. Fact number one. Their brains are not stored in their head; instead a cockroach’s brain is scattered throughout its body. The headless cockroach will eventually die from dehydration.
Fact number two. There are over 4,500 different species of cockroaches. Some of these species have been traced back over 200 million years. That’s 200 million years worth of freaky antenna waving and creepy scuttleing noises.
Number three. Cockroaches leave chemical traces in their poop which attracts other cockroaches. So if you find one cockroach in your house, then you know that there’s got to be others. That one cockroach you just found has been graffiti-ing your house with faecal invitations to all its mates.
Here’s a fact that I know you’ll find interesting. Female cockroaches only need to mate once in order to lay eggs for the rest of their lives. It may be because I am exceedingly immature, but I can’t hear this fact without thinking up sleazy cockroach pick-up lines.
Some more disgusting facts. Cockroaches can hold their breath for forty minutes. They shed their skeleton instead of their skin, and they have a second set of teeth located in their digestive systems which helps them to digest food.
A cockroach could out-survive you in almost any situation. If you’re not afraid of them, you should be.
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