# Is there ANYTHING that eats roaches?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 19, 2011, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-that-eats-roaches/596858 "2011-09-19T20:05:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![harmonicamoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/65b543/32.png) [@harmonicamoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmonicamoon)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2015, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-that-eats-roaches/596858/101 "2015-06-01T19:08:53Z")

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I had a squirrel monkey that loved roaches. He would bite off the head, spit it out, then consume the body.

But a zombie roach will always come back. Ya can’t kill them.

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> [@BlinkingDuck](#):
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> When I lived in Southern Georgia many locals actually used lizards (not sure if geckos). They actually had a formula for # sq feet per lizard initially and number to ‘restock’ every 6 months.

Probably [tropical house geckos](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_house_gecko).

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**Post date:** [June 1, 2015, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-that-eats-roaches/596858/103 "2015-06-01T23:08:32Z")

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HUMAN eat roaches, in hard times. Carefully roast them first, after removing legs and heads, so as to kill their MANY parasites, same as with any insect. then rub the remander between your hands and drop the “dust” into your soup/stew. they are great protein. They can actually be 'farmed", if you need the protein.

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