About cockroaches

A meeting with a white cockroach in an apartment is a big surprise for many people: a red-haired insect will surprise few people, but a strange translucent albino can be perceived almost as a mutant that came out of the sewer or became so from the use of pesticides. In reality, everything is not so scary - let's see why domestic cockroaches are sometimes white and how this is explained from a biological point of view ...

Thanks to a very long acquaintance with a person, cockroaches managed to acquire a huge number of various nicknames around the world. Moreover, if in strict scientific terminology each species is most often named depending on the characteristic features of its anatomy, appearance or origin, then the common names of cockroaches sometimes baffle even professional linguists. It is not so easy to explain, for example, the origin of the names "stasiki", "shuriki" and "zhevzhiki". But we will try to shed light on such etymological mysteries...

Few people know that cockroaches do not reproduce as easily as most other insects: the simple egg-larva-adult cycle in the course of evolution has diversified with some features that are not found together in any other group of their close or distant relatives.Therefore, questions often arise about how many cockroaches hatch from one egg and how such eggs generally look. Let's figure it out...

Cockroaches sometimes hide in the most unexpected places. So, for example, you can turn on the light in the kitchen at night and find a pest anxiously crawling out of an unclosed bottle. And you can stumble upon his fellow, quickly running out of the drain hole of the sink or even out of the microwave. But perhaps the most disgusting thing is to notice cockroaches in a breadbasket or in a refrigerator: who knows, maybe these pests recently ran through the sewage in the sewer, and now they are tasting your stocks. At the same time, for many it remains a mystery where cockroaches hide during the day, when, it would seem, the apartment looks like the cleanest place in the world without any creeping living creatures. About where cockroaches can hide indoors, whether they have a nest and how to drive them out of the most secluded shelters - well, we’ll talk about all this further ...

Regular meetings with cockroaches in the apartment bring joy to few people. At the same time, many people reasonably suspect that cockroaches are dangerous not only because they spoil the mood during night meetings in the kitchen, but can also pose a very real threat to the health of the inhabitants of the apartment - for example, being carriers of various pathogens. And this is true: the potential harm from cockroaches to humans can be very significant. Let's figure out what threats these insects pose to humans and why they must be dealt with.

No matter how humorous it may sound, cockroach racing today is a real unrecognized form of gambling like cockfighting and lingonberry picking competitions. Not only do they have their own stars, rules and shadow authorities, but serious money is also spinning in cockroach races. The following article is dedicated to those who consider such entertainment to be the fun of poor students.

No matter how unpleasant cockroaches are in real life, in a dream they can be both harbingers of problems and symbols of quite successful events. Each dream with cockroaches should be interpreted depending on the context. What kind of cockroaches and in what quantities dreamed of depends on what you should count on in the future ...

Many today are interested in where cockroaches have gone in large cities. After all, before they were in almost every house, in every apartment, they couldn’t just disappear for no reason. What are these reasons? There are several hypotheses about this...

What cockroaches look like, many people know. But entomologists are mostly well aware of the features of the appearance of their larvae and the differences between the sexes. It would also be useful for ordinary residents of apartments to get acquainted with the appearance of domestic cockroaches at all stages of development.

Conspiracies have long been popular in Russia, and they were used for almost everything: from illnesses, from failures on the love front, from problems with crops and money.Conspiracies were also used in the fight against insects, in particular, with cockroaches. Each conspiracy has a certain structure, there is also such a thing as "the power of the conspiracy."