Cockroaches as pets alive

Cockroaches as pets alive

The cockroach is called the unpopular "cockroach". It belongs to the animal order of the cockroaches with about 4,600 species.

A cockroach can survive nine days without a head. The reason for this: part of the nervous system is in the head, but the brain is in the body. Cockroaches Without a head, their greater concern is to die of hunger or thirstt.

A little knowledge about cockroaches :

Size                       3 mm to 15 cm

Speed                    up to 5.4 km/h

Weight                  not known

Life                       about 18 months

Nutrition               nectar, pollen

Enemies                spiders, birds, mammals

Living space         Worldwide

Family                  Blattidae

Scientific. Name  Leafa orientalis

Characteristics long probes; The brain is in the body

The heaviest cockroach in the world...

... is the Australian big cockroach Macropanesthia Rhinoceros. It lives in South America (Peru, Ecuador and Panama), is up to 8 cm long and 35 g heavy. The biggest or longest is the large cave cockroach Blaberus giantess from Central America. It can be up to 10 cm long but weighs less than the Australian large cockroach.

Tasty Glue

The most favorite snacking cockroaches is the glue that sticks to envelopes, hardcover books and stamps. They also like the sticky fabric in hairspray.

Bouncer Pointless

Cockroaches just come in everywhere. The babies already have a slit of 0.5 mm, an adult cockroach slips through all the openings, which are at least 1.6 mm in size.
Schnellkrabbel-Record holder
The cockroach is the fastest crawling insect and can easily keep up with a fast-going person.
Blubber
A cockroach can hold her breath for 40 minutes.

Cockroaches as a disease carrier

Cockroaches are "taxis" for all kinds of diseases. They transmit germs and parasites and are responsible for many diseases such as worms, Salmonella, mycoses (fungi), gastrointestinal flu, dysentery, hepatitis, yellow fever, typhus, leprosy, tuberculosis, cholera and dysentery. However, cockroaches are basically only dangerous where the hygienic conditions are bad and many pathogens/parasites live.

What if there were no cockroaches?

That would be great! Or? The opposite is the case. Even if cockroaches are considered to be disease carriers and stock pests, most cockroaches are very important for nature. They are a source of feed for birds and small vertebrates. In some countries cockroaches are even appreciated by humans as a protein-rich food source. But there is one more reason: the feces, the cockroaches, is a valuable fertilizer for plants.

Reproduction

Cockroaches get up to 4 times a year boy. Female cockroaches lay between 10 and 90 eggs from which small baby cockroaches hatch within a few days. After a month, they are grown up! But they also only live for up to 1.5 years.


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