i hope there will be... there should be a worldwide "pest-control project"... hehehehehe
2007-01-28 01:21:48 · 16 answers · asked by mic 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Read this. I don't think the cockroach is going anywhere for a while;
Cockroaches are notoriously hardy animals. Radiologists have found that the lethal radiation dose for a human is approximately 800 rems (where the typical lifetime exposure is about 16 rems).
However, the lethal dose for an American cockroach is 67,500 rems and for the German cockroach it is between 90,000 and 105,000 rems. For this reason, and their ability to bury themselves underground, cockroaches could be one of the few species to survive a nuclear blast. However, they would not necessarily inherit the blasted remains of cities: cockroaches need more heat than is naturally available in the wintertime of temperate areas.
Cockroaches can survive on very little food; it has been discovered that cockroaches will eat the glue from the back of stamps.
It has also been attested that cockroaches can survive for at least seven days, sometimes a month without a head.
This is due to four reasons;
one being that a cockroach breaths through spiracles instead of an airway in its head like every insect,
two that cockroaches do not control breathing with their brain,
three that a cockroach does not need food often,
four a cockroach does not need blood in the same way humans do.
What is more, experiments have shown that headless cockroaches can be conditioned to avoid electric shocks more quickly than cockroaches that have their heads.
2007-01-28 01:25:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that cockroaches are one of the bugs that have lived since after the dinosaurs. So they seem to adapt to any thing, envirmental, poison, and weather.
they will be here long after all of us....
maybe they will run for
President of the U.S.....
after all there are no good choice today,
we are in need of a president that is
adaptable
2007-01-28 01:30:29 · answer #2 · answered by Wicked 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cockroaches were here before you and I were. They're probably asking "Will there ever be a day when all people will be extinct"?
2007-01-28 01:25:49 · answer #3 · answered by no name brand canned beans 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
as a matter of scientific fact the only thing that survives in a nuclear war is a cockroach...
so worry about our existence
2007-01-28 01:26:18 · answer #4 · answered by @ 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nah! I dont think so. They are too many and are spread in too many places to get extinct. And you cant go to people's houses and kill cockroaches.
2007-01-28 01:31:13 · answer #5 · answered by pellmell 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probbably not. When I think of cockroaches I think Metaphorically of Lawyers. Lawyers will never go away.
2007-01-28 01:27:02 · answer #6 · answered by Kangolman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NEVER!!!. Just like everything else in life that is vile and nasty, it breeds rampid,is indestructible and there is always some circumstance that keeps it around
2007-01-28 01:38:59 · answer #7 · answered by cdl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
without cockroaches, the food chain will be messed up
2007-01-28 01:25:10 · answer #8 · answered by 12Grey14 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They will still be here long after the nuclear bombs have gone off. They will live forever.
2007-01-28 01:27:39 · answer #9 · answered by couchP56 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never, for they are chosen to stay till all are extinct.
2007-01-28 01:26:10 · answer #10 · answered by George Manheaven 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋