- In the 1960s, animal behavior researchers studied the effects of various substances on spiders. When spiders were fed flies that had been injected with caffeine, they spun very "nervous" webs. When spiders ate flies injected with LSD, they spun webs with wild, abstract patterns. Spiders that were given sedatives fell asleep before completing their webs.
- If you place just one drop of liquor on a scorpion, he will instantly go mad and sting himself to death.
- It doesn't sound like much fun, but some female cockroaches can mate just once and be pregnant thier entire life.
- A cockroach can live a week without its head. It only dies because without a mouth, it can't drink water.
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A cockroach has up to 18 knees.
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There are over 5,000 species of cockroaches worldwide.
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Crushed cockroaches can be applied to a stinging wound to help relieve pain.
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What if you skinned your knee and white blood came out? If you're a cockroach, no big deal. Cockroaches bleed white blood.
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The world's largest roach is six inches long with a one foot wingspan.
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Cockroaches are used in sauces, condiments and as appitizers; and are a delicacy in many countries.
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Dry, powdered Oriental Cockroaches make a dandy diuretic. They are also good fried with garlic for indegestion.
- The cockroach was once a guest of honor in European homes, and it was customary to release them in new dwellings.
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For those who think nothing good ever comes from cockroaches, during the Vietnam War, the U.S. used cockroaches to detect farmers who were doubling as Communist guerrillas.
First, suspected Vietcong guerrilla meeting places were sprinkled with synthetic female cockroach pheromones.
Then, questionable Vietnamese farmers were made to walk slowly past cages containing male cockroaches. If a farmer had visited the meeting place earlier, the female scent on him would make the male cockroaches react.
- In Brazil, there's a species of cockroach that eats eyelashes, usually those of young children while they are asleep. The hungry little insect is attracted to the minerals and moisture from the tear ducts—but that's not the only moisture they like to devour.
