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by Janell Cannon, from Crickwing (2000)

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Little guy greeted me in the breakroom by raising up on its hind legs and wiggling those long slender antennae. What a cutie pie.

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Could you spare a fact about the German roach? Little assholes have invaded my home and I wanna learn about them while they get 'evicted'

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Did you know that the German Cockroach (Blattella germanica) is one of the most prolific domestic pests in the world?

Often identified for its pair of racing stripes, these roaches are smaller and cannot fly but do like cramming themselves into tight spaces. That thigmotactic behaviour combined with the mother roach carrying her ootheca (egg case) until the eggs are about ready to hatch and their quick development to adulthood (egg to sexual maturity in less than 60 days) makes them very difficult to eliminate from a home.

These roaches are renowned for the chemical resilience. Developing alongside humans has helped them get more and more resistant to many chemicals, especially those in typical pest control formulas.

Even though they have an extreme dislike of the cold they like being near us even more. Reports have seen them as far north as Alert, Nunavut, the most northern continually inhabited community on the planet (only July and August average temperatures above 0⁰C).

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guys i knooowwwww german cockroaches are invasive but they’re so damn cute augh

look at these horrible little guys

#out volonteering today and i picked up one of these little guys and one of the volunteer coordinators was like ‘kill it!’ and i really #didn’t want to make a bad impression but i just couldn’t do it man i couldn’t #it was the sweetest little baby ever just scurrying around on my hands #i think my new tactic is. . . just not pointing bugs out #so that people won’t tell me to kill them #it’s our devious little secret #cause like I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW conservation and I KNOW but i’m just the biggest hugest baby ever and I CANT DO IT #bugposting #bug #bugblr #bugs #roach #roaches #invasive species #cockroach #german cockroach #🪳#insects #insectblr

this picture of #her i took at mcr mexico city night 2…,..

woe. roach (Blattella germanica) upon yee.

fun fact: these guys actually couldnt survive a nuke. while they do have relatively radiation tolerance, they aren’t invincible. the heat from the blast itself would kill them👍. they dont do very well in cold climates either.

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Ummm bug or something

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@karltface submitted: Things are getting interesting out here.

I've got a couple false windows this year, most notably Jezebel here (she got her name on day 2 because I caught her with 3 males in her web). She's cleared out over a dozen moths in the space of a few weeks, which hopefully means she's got babies on the way. If they all perform this well, I'll be in good shape.

Max lives by the lamp, and as you can see, also loves moths. They're just terrible this year, for whatever reason.

And finally, this tiny fellow came in with a food shipment at a friend's workplace. I was asked to identify him, and as he's a German roach (and a male, so no risk of infestation), his name is now Oskar, and he lives in a small enclosure in the front room.

Amazingly, he managed to not only escape while I was transferring him into the larger setup, but survive for two weeks in a house crawling with predators (and two cats) before coming out of nowhere on the living room floor and dashing right at me. Ultimate survivor, indeed. I intend to keep him well fed and as happy as I can, then preserve him after death. I'm guessing he has a month or so left. But hey, anyone with sense would've killed him outright, so he's doing pretty well for a warehouse roach.

Is it me, or is he kinda small for his breed?

Jezebel!! Wow I love her. Hope she has one million babies with six different males. I'm glad both she and Max are enjoying a lot of delicious moth snacks. Also happy that Oskar survived and is living a happy roach life in captivity rather than being squished. I can't speak to his size without any sort of size reference, but in general, German roaches are small and males in particular are smaller than females. Plus there's size variation between individuals even in the same species.