roaches facts

• Roaches wear their skeletons on the outside of their bodies.

• What if you skinned your knee and white blood came out? If you're a cockroach, no big deal. Cockroaches bleed white blood.

• Roach mouths work sideways.

• The world's largest roach lives in South America.

• Some roaches are tiny and live in ant nests.

• Tropical cockroaches are often brightly colored green, yellow, red.

• If you were to collect one of every species of cockroach found in the world, you'd need a lot of jars to put them in. There are some 5,000 species of cockroaches worldwide.

• Most species of cockroaches live in the tropics.

• Cockroaches have six hairy legs. The tiny hairs found on each leg give them their sense of touch.

• Cockroaches have 6 legs and least 18 knees!!!

• The world's largest roach is six inches long with a one-foot wingspan.

• Cockroach kidneys look like a bunch of writhing snakes.

• Pregnant for life? It doesn't sound like much fun, but some female cockroaches mate once and are pregnant for the rest of their lives.

• Roaches live all over the world, including the North and South Poles. In extremely cold places, however, they survive by moving in with humans.

• No food for a month--not even a crumb? Roaches can go without eating for a month but will only live a week without water.

• It's hard to sneak up on a roach. They have one great big nerve connecting their tails to their heads, alerting them to danger from behind.

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but i just had to post this up cos just reading this makes me squirm