Bugs

Unfortunately, cockroaches don’t understand the concept of boundaries. They enter all areas, cracks, and even appliances when they invade your home.

It is common to find these cockroaches lurking around your kitchen counter, as well as trying to enter your microwave. This raises the dilemma: how to get roaches out of a microwave.

• It’s best to use bait or dust traps to lure cockroaches out of the microwave
• It is important not to cause damage to your microwave while getting rid of roaches
• Deep clean the microwave thoroughly to remove any leftover food or grease

Cockroaches are nasty pests that tend to be attracted to food. They ignore areas that smell fresh and lack traces of food.

Here’s how you keep roaches out of a microwave.

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Cockroaches are a common frustrating household pest. They sprint around our homes without an invitation.

Housecats are often fascinated by the scurrying nocturnal buggers, and sometimes chase them.

Therefore, in hopes of killing two birds with one stone, the question arises: do cats kill cockroaches?

• Cats don’t shy away or back down from cockroaches
• Cats are mesopredators and prefer to hunt down and kill sneaky pests
• However, cats don’t consider cockroaches their first food preference

Now you know that cats have the habit of hunting down cockroaches and then killing them. They aren’t going to get rid of a roach infestation, but that’s a help!

Let’s dig into it.

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If you’re making a list of the most hated insects, cockroaches are likely to be among the top 5. These deep brown creatures with spikey legs and flappy wings cause the hair at the back of our neck to rise by a mere sight.

The automatic response once we see these creatures is to wish for them to stay as far as possible from us. The twisted part of our minds still poses the pressing question: can a cockroach get inside your body?

• Cockroaches are nocturnal creatures
• They prefer dark and warm places and dislike light
• Cockroaches prefer to enter earholes and can slip into your ear canal

We understand that reading these three facts is rather alarming and horrifying, to say the least. Yet, don’t fret too much over it!

Although there have been cases of cockroaches entering earholes and setting up camp, these cases are rare.

You can avoid ending up in a situation like this through basic precautions.

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One of the best talents that cockroaches possess is that they hide well. If you plan on engaging in a ‘hide and seek’ game with them, you don’t stand a chance! These creatures are capable of tucking themselves into furniture, walls, and even inside your electronics.

This makes it hard for you to find and kill them because you can’t spray an insecticide can on your Xbox. So, to kill them, you first have to lure them out of hiding. This poses the important dilemma: how to lure a cockroach out of hiding.

• You can use bait, sticky traps, or DIY lures to get cockroaches out of hiding
• Commercial bait traps lure them out and kill them in one strike due to their high-grade poison
• You can use jars, soda bottle traps, or anti-roach cookies to lure these mini-monsters out

There are many ways of luring these unwanted pests out of their hiding spots. Let’s look further into the different methods that we can approach.

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Imagine this: casually sprawled across your couch on a lazy Saturday afternoon, you spot a cockroach running through your living room as if it owns the place. Your first instinct would be to crush it.

Naturally, you’d expect a trail of red blood oozing. However, the sight is borderline yellow-white and transparent. This poses the question: does a cockroach have red blood?

• Cockroach’s blood is creamy, whitish, orange, yellowish, or entirely colorless
• The color of a cockroach’s blood varies depending on its gender and stage of development
• A cockroach’s blood is never red because it does not contain hemoglobin

This might be news to you, but cockroaches don’t have red blood. They continue to make it a point to be as different from humans as possible (which is a good thing)! Their behavior, coping mechanisms, survival instincts, and bodily functions are widely different.

As if that wasn’t enough, the color of their blood is also backed by an entirely different story.

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Cockroaches are prone to evoking feelings of fear and disgust within us. Thus, our body naturally comes up with various coping mechanisms to deal with those feelings at the sight of these deep brown, spikey-legged creatures.

One of these coping mechanisms is to trap them in a jar, hoping they’ll suffocate to death. This leads to the question: how long can a cockroach live in a jar?

• Cockroaches can hold their breath for up to 45 minutes
• A cockroach can survive in an air-tight container or jar for up to 3-5 days
• It may eventually suffocate after numerous attempts at escaping

This clarifies one thing: your wish to kill a cockroach by trapping it in a jar will eventually come true.

However, you’ll have to be patient to get the required results. Until then, you’ll see the cockroaches slamming into the jar’s walls. They are attempting to break free from their glass jail.

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The common perception of cockroaches is that they are disgusting, brown creatures. They run around the room in pursuit of finding shelter and food, and lay their eggs to spawn more roaches.

Their behavior does not particularly signify intelligence. They aren’t able to outsmart traps.

These bugs don’t seem like the most loyal bunch of insects. Yet, the perception of them being a dumb species remains. Their way of adapting to the environment makes us a question: are cockroaches intelligent?

• Cockroaches have a bundle of complex nerves that pose as a type of brain
• Cockroaches have a technical brain
• Some parts of their brain exist throughout their bodies, while the central part of the brain is in their head

One fact about cockroaches that remains consistent is that they are highly evolved.

These creatures know how it’s done and adapt to changes. This allows them to communicate, learn, and even make memory-based decisions.

The interesting bit is that cockroaches do show subtle signs of intelligence. In fact, they’re reading this article right now! Ok, maybe not. But roaches definitely possess an intelligence of a sort.

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We are sure that the disgust for cockroaches is mutual among most human beings. Over time, we have evolved in a way that makes us hate cockroaches.

Thus, seeing their deep brown bodies and spiky legs is enough to send us to a crazy place. This is why we all look for ways to keep these creatures as far away as possible. This poses the pressing question: will leaving a light on prevent cockroaches from invading?

Here’s what we know:

• Cockroaches are nocturnal insects, i.e., the light keeps them away
• Light is not enough to send them out of your home
• They tend to find dark hiding spots within your house

Our core defense mechanism at the sight of a cockroach is to run off. Our mind tells us that we don’t wish to be in this situation again, so we look for the easiest solution.

This is where turning on the light switch seems like the perfect idea.

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If you’ve ever used the weapon of a shoe or wiper to crush a cockroach and noticed that it released its eggs while dying, you’ve come to the right place.

The common belief suggests that pregnant cockroaches release their hundreds of eggs when they are being killed.

Due to this fact, some offer the advice to catch, not kill. But this is completely unnecessary. The pressing question remains: do cockroaches lay eggs when they die?

Here’s what we know:

• Killing a pregnant cockroach causes its eggs to die too
• Eggs let out by the cockroach will not hatch in the future
• These eggs will not have a high chance of survival

Rarely, some of these eggs may survive depending on your chosen method to kill the cockroach.

If you used insecticide spray to spray your roach, it is more likely that the eggs will survive. This is if they haven’t been disposed of.

On the other hand, if you crush the eggs, they will also reach their end before having the chance to hatch.

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Yes, we want them gone. But the humanity within makes us feel even for cockroaches when they struggle after being sprayed.

Interestingly, there’s been a debate on whether cockroaches feel pain in the first place. Yet, their act of writhing around after being sprayed, and eventually flipping over to die poses the question: do cockroaches feel pain when sprayed?

Here’s the general understanding at this point:

• Cockroaches are not prone to feeling pain in any sense humans might recognize
• Cockroaches squirm and twist due to nociceptive pathways causing behavioral changes
• Their reaction to spraying merely reflects physiological patterns void of pain symptoms

We’re aware that finding out about the inability of cockroaches to feel pain may have come off as a surprise to you.

Well, let’s dig deeper into this fact, shall we?

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