Cockroach Facts

In Brazil, louse cockroaches (Nocticola species) have been documented crawling on sleeping children's faces to feed on secretions around their eyes and eyelashes.

Cockroaches can live for 9 days after their head has been cut off.

Children are more allergic to cockroaches than they are to cats!

A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.

There's a phone app called RoboRoach that allows you to remotely control a cockroach through a chip that you to manually implant into the unwitting critter.

The Jewel Wasp injects a drug into a cockroach’s brain, turns it into a zombie, rides it like a horse back to its burrow, and then lets its hatched larvae feed on the cockroaches body from the inside.