10 Facts About Roaches

Cockroaches are out and about!  Here are 10 facts about the creepy crawlers that you may not have known.

1. Crushed cockroaches can help ease a sting when applied to the wounded area.
2. Cockroaches have white blood.
3. Roaches primarily come out for water, not food.
4. Cockroaches can live a month without food, but only a week without water.
5. A roach can live a week without a head. It dies after a week due to lack of water.
6. A cockroach that has just shed it’s skin is white and has black eyes. It takes 8 hours to reproduce the skin layer.
7. Laboratory female roaches are able to reproduce without aid of a male. They produce all female offspring.
8. Cockroaches thrive in all conditions.  They can live in the arctic as well as the desert.
9. Contrary to popular belief, cockroaches can bite.  The larger roaches have even been known to bite humans.
10. 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.