Almost everything eats roaches. They aren’t poisonous, they are slow moving and they can’t fly. Anything that eats insects eats roaches: any vaguely insectivorous bird, bats, rats, mice, humans, frogs, lizards, salamanders, cats, dogs, stoats, foxes. spiders, centipedes, tiger beetles and so on and so forth.
Basically, if an animals is even vaguely inscetivorous, it will eat roaches.
Sharks hunt seals exactly the same way. Seals have a really vicious bite, so sharks attacking seals make one rushing attack, and then swim away and wait for the animal to bleed to death. The reason so many humans* aren’t* eaten is because the body is recovered before the shark has the opportunity.
Ask yourself this: if sharks are simply biting and then realising the human doesn’t taste good, why are there so few accounts of bodies washing up on beaches? Basically if a human is attacked by a shark, they are either returned to shore within a few minutes, or they are never seen again.
The night I discovered that was one of the worst nights of my life. Few things will reduce you to a puddle on the floor like being alone in a strange land with a house seething with roaches that occasionally dive bomb you.
The right cat can take care of a roach problem. I lived in a tropical, roach infested climate and had a cat that would come eat them on command (“Cat, come here. Kill!”)
Oh, I’m quite sure. But that tiny scorpion vs. a giant centipede and in a fixed fight? Sure anything’s possible. A puppy is stronger than a lion too as long as the puppy gets the cub at 2 weeks old and someone has declawed the cub before filming an entertaining fight video. In my unfortunately extensive experience with tropical scorpions anyway, his tail would have actually been stinging the centipede instead of laying there paralyzed and only trying to use his pincers. Considering they also added ridiculous sound effects to that video I’m taking a guess it was produced for entertainment and not documentary purposes. My guess is the scorpions stinger was damaged before the camera started rolling.
In Texas we had flying tree roaches, 2 inches long and they would dive bomb right for your face if threatened. The old joke is Texans wear boots with pointed toes to kill those things when they run into the corner.
If you’re a bug or any other critter that it can catch, it’s a locomotive with a mind of its own, poison claws, and a serpentine body with lots of legs for wrapping you up and tying you up. If a centipede is on your trail, your best chance of survival is to be somewhere else.
Bugs are a huge problem in the laudromat I go to, because nasty people bring them in with their clothes. The attendant stopped me from killing a centiped the other day because “they usually hide and they kill and eat the roaches.”
How in the love of fuck does anything like that ever evolve? That single Wiki article has done more to make me believe in a creation deity than decades of persecution. And for the record I name that deity: Cthulhu
Another vote for chickens. They will grab a large bug and body-slam him on the ground, repeat until he stops wiggling, and then crunch him down with every sign of enjoyment.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Organization. Generally they taste the person, but don’t finish him off when they discover it isn’t a seal or their normal prey. (Though I think maybe tiger sharks will.)
Exactly–it’s just that these aren’t natural prey, and I don’t necessary agree that fish don’t like to eat roaches. In any case, I can’t see why a fish would deliberately want to eat metal “knowing” it’s metal.
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.
Coworker tried it and she said it was fantastic. Seldom saw the lizards (though you had to be careful with putting on shoes) and the roach population plummeted dramatically.
Some how I managed to get roaches in my garage. Totally grossed me out. Someone suggested putting some lizards in there. So I sent the kid out with a coffee can and we dumped them out on the garage floor. Unfortunately, my dog decided that lizards were simply a hoot to play with and kill. Ultimately I ended up with a bunch of dead lizards dragged in through the doggie door and a 100 bill from the exterminator.
