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Tuesday, 26 April 2011

Amazing facts about cockroach

  •  A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death. 



  • 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
  • The largest roach in the world is the largest body, Macropanesthia rhinocerus from Australia weighing in at up to 50 grams.
  • Cockroaches thrive in all conditions and live in the desert as well as the arctic
  • Most roaches have the ability to fly, but not all do.
  • Fried Cockroaches are common snacks in Cambodia, as are spiders and rats

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