CoCkroaCh You open your cupboard and reach in for a packet of pasta –
uurrrrggggh! It’s CRAWLING with cockroaches! Cockroaches (or “roaches”) are insects that look similar to beetles. Like mice, they love sharing our homes and our food. They often make people jump, shudder, or run screaming from the room! But how revolting are they, really?
Disease sPreaDers
Cockroaches do some really disgusting things. They can spread dangerous disease germs. And if there’s a big cockroach infestation, they can also give off a vile smell, which comes from cockroach poo and dead cockroach bodies. Yuck!
sPeeDy-CraWlies
Cockroaches can run really fast – and this may be one reason why people find them so unnerving. A cockroach can skitter across your floor at 5.6 km/h (3½ mph). Considering how small a cockroach is, that’s like a human running at more than 300 km/h (190 mph). And even weirder, to reach their top speed, some roaches stand up like humans and run on their hind legs.
photo credit to pixabay.com
CoCkroaCh You open your cupboard and reach in for a packet of pasta –
uurrrrggggh! It’s CRAWLING with cockroaches! Cockroaches (or “roaches”) are insects that look similar to beetles. Like mice, they love sharing our homes and our food. They often make people jump, shudder, or run screaming from the room! But how revolting are they, really?
Disease sPreaDers
Cockroaches do some really disgusting things. They can spread dangerous disease germs. And if there’s a big cockroach infestation, they can also give off a vile smell, which comes from cockroach poo and dead cockroach bodies. Yuck!
Cockroaches do some really disgusting things. They can spread dangerous disease germs. And if there’s a big cockroach infestation, they can also give off a vile smell, which comes from cockroach poo and dead cockroach bodies. Yuck!
sPeeDy-CraWlies
Cockroaches can run really fast – and this may be one reason why people find them so unnerving. A cockroach can skitter across your floor at 5.6 km/h (3½ mph). Considering how small a cockroach is, that’s like a human running at more than 300 km/h (190 mph). And even weirder, to reach their top speed, some roaches stand up like humans and run on their hind legs.
photo credit to pixabay.com
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