Before you squash that cockroach...

[Generex]

Cockroachs can get lonely, apparently

Maybe it didn't need its own thread (Sorry about that), but i find this bbc article fascinating. They make decisions, socialize with eachother, share information, and even recognize family members. Its also interesting that their kind of a egalitarian species, a bit like a democracy if i understood the article correctly.

At any rate, I'll be a bit more hesitant to kill one the next time i see one...

[The Philosophical Yak]

Awww thats so sweet <3
I never squash them anyway but xx

[New England and The Maritimes]

I never squish roaches. I unleash a chemical holocaust on them down to the 7th generation.

[Old Vester]

They're learning? Crap.
We must introduce liberal and conservative cochroaches into the population so they'll stop advancing and fight amongst themselves while we prepare the bug bombs.

[The Philosophical Yak]

I never squish roaches. I unleash a chemical holocaust on them down to the 7th generation.

BUT THINK OF THE CHILDREEEEEN!!!

[Desperate Measures]

They're just trying to win our sympathy...

[New England and The Maritimes]

I never squish roaches. I unleash a chemical holocaust on them down to the 7th generation.

BUT THINK OF THE CHILDREEEEEN!!!

I have backup reserves of insecticide just in case any survive. I'm always thinking of their children.

[Liriena]

I'm sorry, but my love for non-human species has two exceptions: mosquitoes and cockroaches.

For those two, there's only one commandment in my book:

GENOCIDE THEIR EXOSCHELETIC ASSES.

[Wisconsin7]

The only thing I need from the BBC is for them to keep pumping out episodes of Doctor Who.

I kid, I kid. This is actually interesting.

[Straight From Above]

I'm sorry, but my love for non-human species has two exceptions: mosquitoes and cockroaches.

For those two, there's only one commandment in my book:

GENOCIDE THEIR EXOSCHELETIC ASSES.

Exoscheletic Asses would be a great band name.

[The Philosophical Yak]

BUT THINK OF THE CHILDREEEEEN!!!

I have backup reserves of insecticide just in case any survive. I'm always thinking of their children.

Hehehehee

[The Blaatschapen]

Cockroachs can get lonely, apparently

Maybe it didn't need its own thread (Sorry about that), but i find this bbc article fascinating. They make decisions, socialize with eachother, share information, and even recognize family members. Its also interesting that their kind of a egalitarian species, a bit like a democracy if i understood the article correctly.

At any rate, I'll be a bit more hesitant to kill one the next time i see one...

Soon they'll develop cockroach puppy eyes and we'll be left completely defenseless against them.

[Liriena]

Cockroachs can get lonely, apparently

Maybe it didn't need its own thread (Sorry about that), but i find this bbc article fascinating. They make decisions, socialize with eachother, share information, and even recognize family members. Its also interesting that their kind of a egalitarian species, a bit like a democracy if i understood the article correctly.

At any rate, I'll be a bit more hesitant to kill one the next time i see one...

Soon they'll develop cockroach puppy eyes and we'll be left completely defenseless against them.

[Jenrak]

Like radical extremists just because it can talk, share, and lives with family does not mean it has a soul.

[OMGeverynameistaken]

Too bad they didn't evolve adorableness along with intelligence.

[Cetacea]

"an emerging property of swarm intelligence".

=> Be Very Very Afraid

[Hardened Pyrokinetics]

Yeah, well, I've been lonely since I was five and constantly stepped on.

Cockroaches can get launched to the moon for all I care. One at a time.

[Maurepas]

I never squish roaches. I unleash a chemical holocaust on them down to the 7th generation.

Yep, Cockroaches are kill on sight.

[Costa Fiero]

Too bad they didn't evolve adorableness along with intelligence.

Meh. They'll just waste it on social media and cheap reality TV shows anyway. They'll soon have beauty competitions, tanning saloons, develop Guido accents......

Fuck. KILL THEM ALL WHILST WE STILL HAVE A CHANCE!!!!

[Cill Charthaigh]

If they love their families so much, why do they scare the living shit out of me and force me to whack 'em with my boot?

[Straight From Above]

If they love their families so much, why do they scare the living shit out of me and force me to whack 'em with my boot?

That's how I feel about mimes.

[The Blaatschapen]

If they love their families so much, why do they scare the living shit out of me and force me to whack 'em with my boot?

That's how I feel about mimes.

But mimes do not exist. Everytime I suspect someone to be a mime I ask them "are you a mime", but they just ignore me.

Or... maybe I do not exist

[Costa Fiero]

But mimes do not exist. Everytime I suspect someone to be a mime I ask them "are you a mime", but they just ignore me.

Or... maybe I do not exist

That's because they're inside a box and you're not.

[Neutraligon]

But mimes do not exist. Everytime I suspect someone to be a mime I ask them "are you a mime", but they just ignore me.

Or... maybe I do not exist

That's because they're inside a box and you're not.

...I thought it was the other way around, they used to be in the box but got out...we just can't find our way out...

[1000 Cats]

I would like to see the original article. News articles tend to exaggerate and oversimplify. I'm wondering what exactly they mean about creating rules, but certainly they can recognize family members, communicate with chemicals, and, though I hadn't really considered it before (I avoid working with bugs) probably do get lonely as social creatures.

But, it's a cruel world out there. I eat cows, shoot deer, I step on ants, I do whatever it takes to kill spiders, and sorry, but roaches in my house are going to learn that roaches ought not to be in my house. I would expect nothing less from them.