Why Cockroaches Are So Hard To Kill

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  • čas přidán 30. 04. 2018
  • Cockroaches are one of the most widespread and resilient creatures on this planet. They are practically everywhere around us, hiding in the walls, sewers, and perhaps your cupboard. They are also one of the most hated creatures by humans. If you are like most people, you will become determined to kill all of the roaches when you see them in your house. Despite such hatred towards them, how do cockroaches manage to thrive all around the globe?
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    You might not want to think about this but over 3,500 species of cockroaches live on this planet.
    The good news? Only about 30 of those species have adapted to live around humans.
    The bad news? 30 species of cockroaches can live around us!
    Roaches are one of the most common pests in the US. So, it's no surprise that humans are always trying to kill them. But no matter how many times we stomp them, squash them, and bomb them with toxic chemicals, these pesky pests always seem to pop up time and time again. So what's going on?
    Let's take a closer look at the roach you probably know better than you'd like: Periplaneta Americana. AKA: the American Cockroach.
    But this name is misleading. This guy is actually from Africa, not America. It made its way to the US by infesting boats in the 16th century. And has been spreading to almost every corner in the world ever since.
    Turns out, it's one of the largest species of cockroach around. But that's not the only big thing about it. New research has revealed that it has a massive genome - one of the largest of any studied insect!
    And many of these genes are exactly what make this roach a master survivor. Let's start with its genes associated with something called chemoreception. That's how roaches smell and taste their environment.
    Turns out, they're actually way better at sniffing out and eating food than most other insects. The American roach has 154 olfactory receptors for smell and 544 gustatory receptors for taste - more than any other insect on the planet!
    As a result, these cockroaches are not picky eaters. Sure, they like cheese, meat, and sugar like the rest of us. But they'll also go for things like cardboard, book bindings, human toenails, rotting meat, blood, excrement, and even each other.
    That's right, these roaches have been known to eat other dead or crippled cockroaches - all in the name of survival. It sounds gross, but this diverse diet makes it easy to find a meal just about anywhere, even if it's poisonous to most animals.
    This roach has a bunch of genes called cytochrome p450s, which help it withstand poisonous chemicals like peppermint. These genes code for detoxification enzymes, which keep the insects safe.
    On top of that, this roach has a super-strong immune system that seeks out and kills harmful microbes and fungi, making the most unsanitary environment look like a 5-star hotel to the American cockroach.
    Not gross enough, yet? Well consider this: cockroaches can live for nearly a week without their heads.
    Yeah, that's not a myth. They don't have a highly-pressurized network of blood vessels like humans, so they don't bleed out. Instead, their necks actually seal off the opening.
    They can't regenerate a whole head, but roaches do have an impressive set of regenerative superpowers. For up to the first two years of its life, the American roach goes through a series of regenerative molts as it matures into an adult. During a single molt stage, it can replace lost limbs. And over a series of molts, it can regrow antennae and even its eyes.
    Roaches may be hard to kill, but there's an easy way to help keep them clear of your kitchen - Cleanliness!
    A roach won't just survive in unsanitary conditions but actually enjoys it. Its heightened senses mean it actually relishes rotting food.
    So, store food in airtight containers, cover trash bins, and keep your basement dry. It might also be smart to plug holes in your walls, unused electrical outlets, and especially drains since - get this - roaches can use your plumbing to climb from sewers to your bathroom sink.
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  • @localextremist2839
    @localextremist2839 Před 5 lety +7299

    We're Men.
    *UNTIL THE ROACH FLIES.*

  • @lance1804
    @lance1804 Před 4 lety +3479

    Everyone gangster
    *UNTIL THE ROACH STARTS FLYING*

    • @interstellar_hamster6250
      @interstellar_hamster6250 Před 4 lety +91

      When I was 5 a cockroach tried to fly on me so I hit him with my pillow

    • @lance1804
      @lance1804 Před 4 lety +108

      joan rodriguez Das some horror movie shit right there

    • @borishd6848
      @borishd6848 Před 4 lety +28

      Im warching this video in 2.40am
      Cuz i had a war in my house betwen me and cockroach☠😵

    • @funnymeme1847
      @funnymeme1847 Před 4 lety +17

      @Boris HD I bet you Hiroshima’d them

    • @xTheParadox99
      @xTheParadox99 Před 4 lety +1

      Meme Explorer evritim

  • @gavalant366
    @gavalant366 Před 2 lety +307

    It's even more scary when they seemingly have the power to teleport. You see it, run out of the room, grab your swatter or pesticide, come back, and it vanishes without a trace.

    • @sheenuh916
      @sheenuh916 Před rokem +14

      STOP THIS IS HAPPENING TO ME RIGHT NOW I’M LITERALLY DREADING IN BED THINKING IT’S GOONG TO CRAWL INTO IT

    • @SuAmazing
      @SuAmazing Před rokem +2

      @@sheenuh916 It happends to me once
      i though that was a ghost cockroach
      after got killed, i ended up searching for 'ghost cokcroach' on google XD

    • @songlee1253
      @songlee1253 Před rokem +7

      They are really good at hiding once they feel scare and pretty fast

    • @Mia-pp1hi
      @Mia-pp1hi Před rokem

      This happened to me it was in the closet it was there looked away for 1 second JUST 1 and it be gone and ill desribe what i did when i noticed it had wings 😱😭😓😈💣💥🏠

    • @vinceallermo9634
      @vinceallermo9634 Před rokem

      Literally cockroaches are disappearing when i get the spray but a month later i found a hole near my plants and there are like 5-8 cockroaches once i sprayed the holes

  • @He1IoDev
    @He1IoDev Před 3 lety +317

    You kill the weak ones, the stronger ones live on and evolve into even stronger roaches...

    • @optiTHOMAS
      @optiTHOMAS Před 2 lety +28

      Yep! It's like they evolve and get immune to things! I absolutely hate roaches, man! They're impossible to get rid of and the ones I've had before had no fear at all! The most ballsy and brave roaches ever! Usually roaches run for their life, but these didn't care one bit for their safety and would be risk takers for stuff! Crazy stuff, man!

    • @blucolife
      @blucolife Před rokem +2

      At my local hardware store, the garbage bins had small roaches, I once pour Clorox and saw all of them crawling out at the same time. A few days later, I tried a roach killer with boric acid, it took three days for all of them to die, but now I haven't seen a single one again. Maybe the war against roaches is unwinnable, but we need to keep fighting them!

    • @digify4394
      @digify4394 Před rokem +1

      You need to be persistent against them... they're tough little bastards.They live for 5-7 months if I remember correctly on average. Which means over the course of years, several generations would have passed and already developped new immunities.

    • @Dyinchugnan969
      @Dyinchugnan969 Před 3 měsíci

      @@digify4394I’ve detained a couple for questioning but these fuckers won’t crack

  • @russt8163
    @russt8163 Před 5 lety +11455

    I once laughed at a cockroach that fell on it’s back.
    It got up, turned around to face me and then I saw the most traumatic thing that happened in my life.
    *It flew at me*

    • @untitled6148
      @untitled6148 Před 5 lety +877

      Lol thats what u get #CockroachRevenge

    • @shannon9164
      @shannon9164 Před 5 lety +1262

      Once when I was a kid I made myself eye level with one so that I could see it up close. *It charged at me like a raging bull*

    • @randomguy8895
      @randomguy8895 Před 5 lety +195

      Holy Frick.... You Oki ;-;

    • @randomguy8895
      @randomguy8895 Před 5 lety +130

      @@thecloverboi ;-; Oki

    • @lightningstudios113
      @lightningstudios113 Před 5 lety +242

      Thecloverr oh yea
      I fed my cockroach to a spider

  • @Hip.Hip.Hurray
    @Hip.Hip.Hurray Před 6 lety +5758

    It's all fun games until it starts flying.

    • @kaijumaster3847
      @kaijumaster3847 Před 6 lety +91

      abhinav singh Roaches In The Middle East Can't Fly

    • @adrianaguayo1540
      @adrianaguayo1540 Před 6 lety +140

      abhinav singh omg I live in Texas and idk how but I a couple nights back I've seen a roach flown past my dad and hit a light on the wall. Lmao. Those things are disgusting and shocked me the first time I see they could fly. Are they everywhere!?

    • @Azuzu_Komagome
      @Azuzu_Komagome Před 6 lety +13

      It glide said misaka and only lift itself a few feet adds misaka

    • @brandoncalderon2190
      @brandoncalderon2190 Před 6 lety +11

      double ayyee believe it or not yup they're everywhere, they might be under your bed feeding on anything that's definitely not clean

    • @Azuzu_Komagome
      @Azuzu_Komagome Před 6 lety +22

      I was trying to kill a cockroach once and it start flying I ran out of the room said misaka

  • @Epic-bro
    @Epic-bro Před 2 lety +163

    "Never Knew Oggy having a Hard time Killing them"

  • @rosevampire3755
    @rosevampire3755 Před 3 lety +447

    I’ve never seen one because I grew up in England but my mum grew up in Australia with them everywhere. When my dad stayed in Australia with my mum there was a cockroach, he was on the table and said “oh shit I’m so glad it can’t fly”
    Then. The. Wings. Opened.

  • @robloxdoorsfan8343
    @robloxdoorsfan8343 Před 4 lety +2266

    Cockroach: *Everything that kills me makes me feel alive.*

  • @reaper6995
    @reaper6995 Před 4 lety +2745

    THANOS couldn’t even snap them out of existence.

    • @tsingleton1686
      @tsingleton1686 Před 4 lety +9

      Lamo

    • @LFTRnow
      @LFTRnow Před 4 lety +73

      He killed half but they doubled in population again within days.

    • @aGamerDiary
      @aGamerDiary Před 4 lety +17

      @@LFTRnow he should've snapped all of them

    • @corny7743
      @corny7743 Před 4 lety +3

      0_0

    • @alphaapple1375
      @alphaapple1375 Před 4 lety +7

      Does anyone know that when humans become extinct, cockroaches will survive the post-apocalyptic world? This so happens because they survived an extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs.

  • @MsLatte-gi2om
    @MsLatte-gi2om Před 3 lety +107

    Roach: * hard to kill *
    My big bro: * Uses roach spray and a cigarette match * *BEGONE*

  • @katscuriosities358
    @katscuriosities358 Před rokem +43

    Scary roach story.....One time, I was sitting in my living room when I noticed a HUGE roach on the wall....I was PETRIFIED. I could not get to the door (I was going to go outside until my husband got home) I have a bad fear of roaches. I decided to make my move.
    I dashed past it, and it reacted by unfolding these paper like wings and FLEW right at me. It was as if he KNEW I was scared and was trying to terrorize me. I ran down the hallway and toward the bathroom (thinking a turn into another room would throw him off)....OH no....This monster followed me, still flying and made a hard turn into the bathroom!!!!
    I jumped in the shower and closed the curtain....and this thing started flying into the shower curtain over and over. Just crashing into it, he wanted to get on me so badly. I stayed in the shower for over an hour in a fetal position, until my husband came home. We searched the whole house but he was hiding. I could not sleep for nights!!! It was really traumatizing! TRUE STORY.

    • @weezo123
      @weezo123 Před 3 měsíci

      I was just chilling drinking milo in my kitchen one night, and i see the devil right in front of my eye flying around… I had to get my chair to fight back against these spawn of the devil… i couldn’t open a door as it was too far and the roach was in the middle, and my only hope was it would stop terrorizing me while i fought back. Thankfully it didn’t go for my drink, I finished it, went back to the bed full in the stomach and full of fear…. In a pretty short space, it was hard to just dash past such a thing in the very middle… i wouldn’t even dare go out that night to pee…

  • @rain-dy9sw
    @rain-dy9sw Před 4 lety +1250

    I’m more scared of cockroaches, then my fathers belt

  • @YL0F
    @YL0F Před 5 lety +1392

    These roaches can still survive when thanos snaps his fingers

  • @iSaintRichie23
    @iSaintRichie23 Před 2 lety +97

    My landlord tried to convince me they were beetles. I told her that I wasn't comfortable having beetles showing up in my kitchen and living room late at night. Pest control comes by every 4 months to spray the property. I will never forget the joy and disgust after that first visit.
    My roommate and I counted 30 dead roaches in the backyard, 10 dead ones inside, and over 50 in the basement. Now I see maybe 2-3 dead ones in total after every visit.

    • @digify4394
      @digify4394 Před rokem

      good luck and stay clean! They can very easily spread. There were thousands at mine as things got out of control very quickly!

    • @toxicdino8676
      @toxicdino8676 Před 9 měsíci

      Beetles are closer to something like wasps iirc

    • @nsf001-3
      @nsf001-3 Před 2 měsíci

      My mom rented a house when I was about 11. We moved in and the first night I was playing my PS2 and turned and saw this black bug crawling on the wall next to me. Then I saw one in my bathroom. Mom said the owner said they were "waterbugs". We ended up moving out a week later. In case anyone didn't know: "Waterbug" is just another word for cockroach

  • @chibiicherries0321
    @chibiicherries0321 Před 3 lety +47

    this made me look everywhere in my room for a roach

  • @Angelinasedits
    @Angelinasedits Před 3 lety +994

    When they get smacked, *they respawn.*

  • @berniebandz1393
    @berniebandz1393 Před 5 lety +902

    Anybody else feel itchy while watching this...

    • @guinevereml4854
      @guinevereml4854 Před 5 lety +1

      Me

    • @brendanmaher2002
      @brendanmaher2002 Před 5 lety

      No no legs for you that's the most played out comment in the world anything to do with bugs

    • @jemmocortes3017
      @jemmocortes3017 Před 5 lety +1

      I feel itchy reading your comment.

    • @SabNik
      @SabNik Před 5 lety +1

      Even though I’m not even from the USA I steel feel weird watching this

    • @gabehouari9583
      @gabehouari9583 Před 5 lety

      @JR 14 LMAO IKR

  • @RameshKSingh-gp2mx
    @RameshKSingh-gp2mx Před 2 lety +34

    "Ghosts are the scariest"
    Cockroach:

    • @nsf001-3
      @nsf001-3 Před 2 měsíci

      Cockroaches are scarier because they actually exist

  • @crispywhitebattery5310
    @crispywhitebattery5310 Před 2 lety +179

    “And it’s been spreading to every corner of the world”
    COVID: Finally a worthy foe

  • @justthinking650
    @justthinking650 Před 3 lety +2795

    meanwhile in roachube: why humans are so unfriendly

    • @pythondrink
      @pythondrink Před 3 lety +43

      😂😂😂

    • @soludiiy
      @soludiiy Před 3 lety +168

      @Grab That Free Stuff Imagine being so dirty, a roach cleans itself after you touch it

    • @justthinking650
      @justthinking650 Před 3 lety +28

      @@maybealexa5216 ok calm down

    • @justthinking650
      @justthinking650 Před 3 lety +14

      @@maybealexa5216 ok

    • @ADeeSHUPA
      @ADeeSHUPA Před 2 lety +1

      @@soludiiy まテ오

  • @davidrukodaynyy1141
    @davidrukodaynyy1141 Před 5 lety +361

    They respawn

  • @docker4671
    @docker4671 Před 2 lety +22

    i have 2 roach colonies for feeding my many tarantulas and can confirm roaches are fascinating creatures that are surprisingly aware of danger and have a ton of survival tactics that you can't ever conceive how they learned of them

    • @yelloe
      @yelloe Před 2 lety

      Yeah true. I learned more about them from an infestation I had

    • @gohan41
      @gohan41 Před rokem +1

      facts, they automatically hide when they see you getting a swatter

    • @Worldaffairslover
      @Worldaffairslover Před 8 měsíci

      Most sane Australian

    • @nsf001-3
      @nsf001-3 Před 2 měsíci +1

      They probably learned them by being around for 400 billion years

  • @KiaraWilliamsX
    @KiaraWilliamsX Před 3 lety +68

    I’ve seen a roach hover over another dead roach body and I literally thought because of how close they seem as a group that it was mourning😂😂😂 sometimes to bodies would come up missing..now I know why

  • @farhan546
    @farhan546 Před 4 lety +790

    Cockroach : Can live nearly a week without a head
    Chickens : *HOLD MY HEAD*

    • @simmeondillon6471
      @simmeondillon6471 Před 4 lety +20

      Chickens only live a few minutes without a head

    • @bodvarson1933
      @bodvarson1933 Před 4 lety +40

      Only one chicken survived for year without a head. They die pretty quickly every other time.

    • @powerhauz1469
      @powerhauz1469 Před 4 lety +11

      It's supposed to be the opposite. Chickens die quickly.

    • @weird_personfranzi6552
      @weird_personfranzi6552 Před 4 lety +12

      One time a chicken without a head was trying to kill me

    • @lgbtqiarights
      @lgbtqiarights Před 4 lety +4

      Dublers your comment irritates me so much

  • @kingofthejofundies9080
    @kingofthejofundies9080 Před 5 lety +426

    *Stomps on a roach*
    *Leaves to get tissue to pick it up*
    *Roach is gone*

    • @Isabel-bz8rl
      @Isabel-bz8rl Před 5 lety +41

      Ikr that happened to me once I literally almost shit my pants 😂😂

    • @douglasjamal2906
      @douglasjamal2906 Před 5 lety +19

      I started crying like "mahn y you guys don't wanna go to cockroach hell 😖😖 thought y'all liked rotting flesh😖"

    • @joksizantos7520
      @joksizantos7520 Před 5 lety +10

      😂😂😂 MAKE A BOOK ABOUT THIS

    • @Isabel-bz8rl
      @Isabel-bz8rl Před 5 lety +5

      Joks izSantos attack of the squished cockroach

    • @infraredviewer
      @infraredviewer Před 5 lety +1

      Crush the head and they won't escape. Pic nic day for the ants… yay!

  • @juancastano9533
    @juancastano9533 Před 3 lety +43

    In order to kill the enemy effectively, I must learn more about them

  • @rexproductionz
    @rexproductionz Před 2 lety +26

    I live with cockroaches as roommates so I figured I needed to watch this

  • @ryanklinkerman5180
    @ryanklinkerman5180 Před 5 lety +2559

    They can survive a nuclear apocalypse but they can’t survive a shoe

  • @Alkalus
    @Alkalus Před 4 lety +1274

    Cockroaches: Atom bombs don’t do shit to us...
    Shoes: Helo

    • @2001CusinartToaster
      @2001CusinartToaster Před 4 lety +33

      Alvin Wu dad belt: I going to end this whole man career

    • @starboiklem8381
      @starboiklem8381 Před 4 lety +22

      50 newborn coachroaches of the dead roach: Allow us to introduce ourselves

    • @k.c4178
      @k.c4178 Před 4 lety +1

      starboi klem lmfao it really be like that 😔

    • @unclekanethetiberiummain1994
      @unclekanethetiberiummain1994 Před 4 lety +6

      @@starboiklem8381 50 newborn shoes of the dead shoes: You've yeed your last haw...

    • @roarrrist
      @roarrrist Před 4 lety

      Beeeg Yosh • 696 years ago you cant kill roaches with a belt wtf 🤔

  • @pycanthusderossi4665
    @pycanthusderossi4665 Před 3 lety +58

    I lived for a few years in a college dorm that was seriously infested with cockroaches. It was manageable during most of the year but before vacations when most other guys would go home earlier, all the cockroaches would migrate towards the few rooms that still had human inhabitants. I had to get used to feel them crawling on my face while in bed, it's a slightly cold feeling.
    A funny event with them was when a colleague used my microwave but didn't care to clean it or at least close the lid and two days later the same guy decided to use it again to heat his soup. He saw some weird smelling smoke when opening the lid and said that his soup tasted like that smoke a bit but was good. He threw up when he saw the burnt cockroaches in the oven.
    The most funny was when we found some poison that actually worked against them, some neurotoxin. The second day after applying it, hundreds of roaches with lost sense of direction and no fear would walk all over the room in broad daylight, it scared one of my roommates badly to wake up with that sight, which woke me up, it was a weird sight. Third day they were all gone and it took a year until I saw another cockroach in that room and even that one probably got lost somehow.

  • @bunnybro5977
    @bunnybro5977 Před 3 lety +15

    I hope whoever did the sound design for this video had a pleasant night's sleep

  • @Al-ok1lj
    @Al-ok1lj Před 4 lety +1209

    If I see a roach, I lock myself in the room with it. I arm myself with a slipper and Raid. Only one of us will come out of that room alive.

    • @serillian6742
      @serillian6742 Před 4 lety +156

      Its been 3 weeks, I assume the roach won?

    • @ahhwe-any7434
      @ahhwe-any7434 Před 4 lety +23

      I wanted you to be extra before I got done reading. I thought you were gonna say something like ,"w/ my armor, oxygen mask, & inspector gadget shoes" or something.

    • @haikaljamaludin8412
      @haikaljamaludin8412 Před 4 lety +16

      Aight im out this room is yours now mf cockroaches

    • @arpitsrivstva
      @arpitsrivstva Před 4 lety +1

      @@serillian6742 lmao rofl

    • @godlyness3780
      @godlyness3780 Před 4 lety +14

      Yeah, Raid is so reliable. Download RAID:Shadow Legends for free💥

  • @futureboy6036
    @futureboy6036 Před 3 lety +2516

    Me: tries to kill a roach
    The roach: starts flying
    Me: burns the house down

  • @allrounder7048
    @allrounder7048 Před 3 lety +14

    Whenever I see a cockroach in my room, I just run out of my room 🙂

    • @playagrymm
      @playagrymm Před 2 lety +1

      Its going to get lost in your room though and one day you might wake up with it in your mouth

    • @weenis3746
      @weenis3746 Před 2 lety +1

      Bro one fell from my roof and landed on me killed it because it disturbed my mass effect romance with tali and my last save was 2 hours before that convo 😔😔

  • @montaser9985
    @montaser9985 Před 3 lety +13

    Cockroache: what kills me makes me stronger.

  • @asurvivor3846
    @asurvivor3846 Před 3 lety +1221

    At 1:30 AM: My energy is 0.08% and i'm going to sleep (:
    Me: see cockroach on my bed.
    My energy: 100%.

  • @gorb2518
    @gorb2518 Před 5 lety +680

    Me: sees roach
    Mom: Why the heck is the military here?

  • @Random_Critter
    @Random_Critter Před 2 lety +10

    Sees a roach: they can’t hurt me
    It crawls on me: screams of satan come out of me*

  • @xie83
    @xie83 Před 3 lety +48

    I heard they can survive a nuclear bomb. And since I have the wildest imagination, I imagined gathering a bunch of them and make 'em a shield.

    • @GR-rx7zq
      @GR-rx7zq Před 2 lety +7

      They can't survive the blast. Only higher radiation

  • @illhavetokeepthisthingasan3828

    I have no problem killing it until that shit flies..

    • @carlab2626
      @carlab2626 Před 5 lety +27

      DastiN jeez good thing we don’t have them where I am. Sounds like that childhood nightmare that haunted you and prevented you from sleeping lmao *flashbacks*

    • @kaleighbeaulieu
      @kaleighbeaulieu Před 5 lety +13

      DastiN yess i have to ditch my whole house

    • @wordfromzic
      @wordfromzic Před 5 lety +25

      I have no problem with killing them till u wake up in the middle of the night and see one on your wall

    • @kairiley8520
      @kairiley8520 Před 5 lety +1

      DastiN same

    • @thebIacktortoise
      @thebIacktortoise Před 5 lety +6

      DastiN yeah if it does
      goodbye life

  • @SnivyDoll
    @SnivyDoll Před 5 lety +1355

    They'll be nerfed in the next update.

  • @YosepRA
    @YosepRA Před 2 lety +5

    I swear I always have a boss battle while wearing a proper roach-killing gear whenever a roach starts to fly.

  • @GallingEssay
    @GallingEssay Před 2 lety +4

    "Roaches lived for so long"
    Slippers: I'm gonna end this man's whole career.

  • @homersimpson6585
    @homersimpson6585 Před 5 lety +1365

    I once killed a flying roach I still feel like a king and superior than others

  • @serenityj3222
    @serenityj3222 Před 4 lety +1630

    I used to hate cockroaches but
    After watching this video
    I HATE THEM MORE

    • @ari2607
      @ari2607 Před 4 lety +6

      serenity J ME TOOOOO

    • @Mei-jr9xp
      @Mei-jr9xp Před 4 lety +5

      You never learn to love em’

    • @fanneartist6308
      @fanneartist6308 Před 4 lety +4

      Sameeeee

    • @bxnnel
      @bxnnel Před 4 lety +1

      Yep

    • @jhonny8056
      @jhonny8056 Před 4 lety +6

      You should have said I used to hate cockroaches but After watching this video
      I DESPISE THEm

  • @mistersilentboi
    @mistersilentboi Před 2 lety +6

    No wonder why my soul leaves my body when I see roaches in the toilet.

  • @dazaixerxes4909
    @dazaixerxes4909 Před 2 lety +4

    as a french person, i've never seen one in my life, but now i just learn (thanks to the comments) that it can fly.
    I'm living in the fear to face one now.

  • @Wylde_
    @Wylde_ Před 4 lety +1538

    Cockroaches are so damn hard to kill mainly because they can dance

    • @ville9880
      @ville9880 Před 4 lety +38

      *i* *was* *waiting* *for* *this* *comment*

    • @Wylde_
      @Wylde_ Před 4 lety +8

      @@ville9880 I see.

    • @Chromeno
      @Chromeno Před 4 lety +30

      *autotune intestifies*

    • @Wylde_
      @Wylde_ Před 4 lety +7

      @@Chromeno *Yes*

    • @shitsalad5029
      @shitsalad5029 Před 4 lety +14

      Mwa mwa mwa skidi sitttu do

  • @jean-ql9vf
    @jean-ql9vf Před 5 lety +779

    *sees the cockroach*
    *gets the broom*
    *then the cockroach dissapears*
    *moves out the house*

    • @facilityguard970
      @facilityguard970 Před 5 lety +11

      Min Min you should burn it entirely

    • @user-Jay178
      @user-Jay178 Před 5 lety +1

      Yeah

    • @manictiger
      @manictiger Před 5 lety +2

      Sees gigantic wolf spider
      Gets glass jar
      Gigantic wolf spider disappears
      Shrug, go back to whatever I was doing
      You just have to realize that there's nearly no chance they will go near you.
      They hid because they want to get away from you.
      Also, that wolf spider will eat the real pests-- the ones that put the holes in your clothes.
      I rather appreciate that part of the deal.

    • @myakhlom3960
      @myakhlom3960 Před 5 lety +3

      *cockroach appears when you are done unpacking*

    • @juicyjayification
      @juicyjayification Před 5 lety +3

      It's his house now

  • @ViGiYT
    @ViGiYT Před 2 lety +6

    "Why cockroaches are hard to kill?"
    Meanwhile my grandmother: *squash*
    Yes, this is a real story, my grandma once go outside and she saws a cockroaches, then without thinking more, she proceed to steps on it BAREFOOT

    • @kashvisharma2913
      @kashvisharma2913 Před 2 lety +1

      🐜 ewww…😂🤦‍♀️😎

    • @chicken3571
      @chicken3571 Před 2 lety

      I saw a grandma that just killed the roach in 1 hit without hesitation and fear. why are grandma's so strong

  • @mgcmsn
    @mgcmsn Před rokem +3

    As a child, I loved watching cockroaches. There were quite a few lurking around. For some reason I was not afraid of insects, even thought to become an entomologist. Instead, I became a programmer. Now I'm seeing other kinds of bugs, hehe.

  • @J.coleswrld
    @J.coleswrld Před 4 lety +967

    *Everyone's gangster till they start flying*

  • @CsubAzUrmedve
    @CsubAzUrmedve Před 6 lety +2483

    It's a bad idea to watch this with headphones.

    • @syedafraaz
      @syedafraaz Před 6 lety +20

      hahahah true really really bad

    • @unsaltedsalt1787
      @unsaltedsalt1787 Před 6 lety +13

      and not understand english

    • @kapo7612
      @kapo7612 Před 6 lety

      kaka 06 um hi do one of us know u

    • @kapo7612
      @kapo7612 Před 6 lety +1

      I don't really care about the headphones

    • @kapo7612
      @kapo7612 Před 6 lety

      kaka 06 u said his and winked like u knew one of us

  • @azsegrxdhtfgvijnkomlewrhtg9508

    I've lived in a messy house but I've never seen a cockroach in person. They seem like an absolute nightmare. I see one fly in the house and I'm freaking out. I definitely couldn't live with cockroaches.

  • @paradise1657
    @paradise1657 Před 3 lety +6

    When we go to mars, elon needs to make sure that he is not bringing a new specie of cockroach

    • @dianadelosreyes6901
      @dianadelosreyes6901 Před 2 lety

      Watch the terraformars movie and im 70 percent sure ur going to delete ur comment if u dont, ill give a cookie

  • @brandongabriel557
    @brandongabriel557 Před 5 lety +557

    I am a simple man, I see a cockroach Flies, I run.

    • @______-hg1gy
      @______-hg1gy Před 5 lety +4

      Brandon Gabriel straight up this one time I made my female boss kill a wasp that was in the garage
      She was like "where is it honey?"

    • @ynwk2577
      @ynwk2577 Před 5 lety +1

      cringeworthy

    • @mtraa.942
      @mtraa.942 Před 5 lety +6

      And don't forget to scream to warn the others !

    • @GasolineProductions
      @GasolineProductions Před 5 lety +3

      I had one once, I didn't sleep in my room that night

    • @eaglehunter211
      @eaglehunter211 Před 5 lety +1

      Brandon Gabriel lmao

  • @Rarirama
    @Rarirama Před 5 lety +4570

    Once there was so many roaches in my bathroom that I just got used to them, and now whenever I see one I just say "yo whatsup don't flip flap your wings into me that I won't slip slap my sandals on you, ok?"

  • @natalieeuley1734
    @natalieeuley1734 Před 3 lety +8

    I wish this had gone into more details about evolution. We get that these are the genes that currently help it survive, but why were those genes selected for in this insect rather than others? What were the factors of its original environment that pushed it to evolve such incredible adaptations, and what originally kept it contained when it evolved such incredible adaptations? Most cockroaches are naturally found in caves or leaf litter, but don't have nearly as many chemical receptors as this species, so why this species in particular? It's like only half the story is here 🙄

  • @ameliawilder28
    @ameliawilder28 Před 3 lety +1

    The ones that fly are the worst. And when cockroaches jump too is frightening. I only experienced seeing them when I was little at a school. Never saw one again and I'm so glad. I remember walking down the hall and I spotted a cockroach scurrying and I kept watching it as it entered into a classroom. Probably a good minute later I heard screaming from that class.

  • @jinnmia
    @jinnmia Před 6 lety +296

    Crawling cockroach = Lvl 1
    Flying cockroach = Lvl 1000000000000000000

  • @thunderstruckboys9492
    @thunderstruckboys9492 Před 5 lety +1129

    Who else was moving and twitching the whole video

  • @nathanarmygamingacop1647
    @nathanarmygamingacop1647 Před 3 lety +4

    me:getting my slipper ready
    roach:flies at me
    me:ah shit here we go again

  • @Neptunee1991
    @Neptunee1991 Před 9 měsíci

    We have been finding these bugs in the new condo we bought. We don't ever find a lot of little ones or a lot at any one time in general like infestations I see online, we just see them every few days and almost always in our bathrooms and when we do find them they are absolutely huge adults I never find

  • @jamesburgess2k
    @jamesburgess2k Před 5 lety +341

    This video would've been a whole less creepy if they didn't include the cockroach sound effects in the background

  • @camilaponce9709
    @camilaponce9709 Před 5 lety +526

    Man: they might even climb up ur sink
    Me: seals up sink with cement

    • @PLATESWEEPER
      @PLATESWEEPER Před 5 lety +36

      Not strong enough. Use flex seal

    • @xuchi31
      @xuchi31 Před 5 lety +3

      They might crawl into your mouth when you're asleep.

    • @PLATESWEEPER
      @PLATESWEEPER Před 5 lety +12

      Ei use flex tape on your mouth. They can't break it.

    • @miriambucholtz9315
      @miriambucholtz9315 Před 5 lety

      Once my uncle went to rinse his mouth after brushing his teeth and almost ended up French kissing a giant Palmetto bug. This is just one reason why I use disposable paper cups in my bathroom...

    • @Mari-il4bw
      @Mari-il4bw Před 5 lety +1

      Ei Ewwww no don’t say that I’m about to go to sleep now.

  • @Curypy
    @Curypy Před rokem +1

    Me:gets out my shoe
    Coakroache:umm....we Can talk about this man.

  • @kevinsupreme_ph36yearsago59

    "Why cockroach are hard to kill?"
    The guy who blowtorch a cockroach: Are you sure about that?

  • @oremnir3573
    @oremnir3573 Před 5 lety +233

    Ive never seen a cockroach fly and i never want to.

    • @LilLeanCuisine
      @LilLeanCuisine Před 5 lety +5

      O O same because I think I might actually die.

    • @yoboikamil525
      @yoboikamil525 Před 5 lety +2

      Cuz it will go
      REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE3EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

    • @meesrichters8321
      @meesrichters8321 Před 5 lety +1

      Ive never seen one at all

    • @petfan1383
      @petfan1383 Před 5 lety

      Thanks for the image O_O

    • @yusurkassem4174
      @yusurkassem4174 Před 5 lety +18

      AND YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE ONE ONCE ONE WAS FLYING AND LANDED ON MY ARM I SCREAMED LIKE YOU'VE NEVER HEARD ANYTHING BEFORE I'M LITERALLY STILL IN TRAUMA FROM THAT INCIDENT

  • @sdx3918
    @sdx3918 Před 4 lety +422

    That sound they make when they fly literally kills you inside.

  • @glitch-tv7504
    @glitch-tv7504 Před 8 měsíci

    Legend has it, they survived the meteorite that killed the dinosaurs. Supposedly they’d even survive the end of time.

  • @theaudiotube3293
    @theaudiotube3293 Před 2 lety +1

    Ahhhhhhh!!!! You just reminded me of my worst ever nightmares😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢 now I'm just scared to death if one comes from nowhere

  • @xinbi
    @xinbi Před 5 lety +519

    *I just hate it when cockroaches think their a butterfly* 😒

    • @topyunginjay8907
      @topyunginjay8907 Před 5 lety +6

      Mae Ceez 😂😂😂

    • @TK3TK3
      @TK3TK3 Před 5 lety +15

      Mae Ceez *They’re
      Jacksfilms, we found one for YGS!

    • @hydra__yt
      @hydra__yt Před 5 lety +1

      Turtle King III - King of Gaming
      Too bad he finished that seriess

    • @hageharo5428
      @hageharo5428 Před 5 lety +3

      Mae Ceez They Have Wings

    • @eemotion
      @eemotion Před 5 lety +1

      Mae Ceez I hate it when humans don't know proper grammar. 😒

  • @yolobri5
    @yolobri5 Před 5 lety +3179

    i get the feeling now there is a cockroach on my bed

  • @JekyllandHyde_
    @JekyllandHyde_ Před 2 lety +1

    A cockroach doesn't seem to be a dangerous thing until it starts flying.

  • @t19563
    @t19563 Před 3 lety +2

    Slipper: *Allow me to introduce myself*

  • @Drawmatic
    @Drawmatic Před 5 lety +2354

    Me: **Laughs at roach on it's back*
    Roach: **Starts flying*
    Me: HOLY-

    • @aurus4432
      @aurus4432 Před 4 lety +19

      Creedy your point? It’s the internet there’s going to be some copies stop being butthurt.

    • @ben-dn4sv
      @ben-dn4sv Před 4 lety +1

      @@Drawmatic hehe my man

    • @noddlecak3279
      @noddlecak3279 Před 4 lety +2

      Florida roaches baby

    • @simmeondillon6471
      @simmeondillon6471 Před 4 lety +2

      ....runs out of the house then fills it with tnt.....muhahaha take that roach
      Roach emerges from the flames and flies at u....
      you..you just never die dont u

    • @pee1543
      @pee1543 Před 4 lety +3

      @Chris Jeong you have to get a life. Your wasting your time fixing someone else's mistake dumbass

  • @devosjunior7577
    @devosjunior7577 Před 5 lety +831

    "You are what you eat"
    Eat a roach
    You will be immortal

    • @miabryan7986
      @miabryan7986 Před 5 lety +12

      Devos Junior underrated comment

    • @McdonaldsInFallujah
      @McdonaldsInFallujah Před 5 lety +6

      Some asians eat cockroaches

    • @devincampbell5007
      @devincampbell5007 Před 5 lety +4

      I'll believe that when that includes both eternal youth and being able to live for infinity years without dying of age instead of just invincibility

    • @lqu
      @lqu Před 4 lety

      OOH DAM

    • @theworm8642
      @theworm8642 Před 4 lety +1

      Saitama

  • @Hollowdude15
    @Hollowdude15 Před 10 měsíci

    Nice video man :]

  • @gianinanutshell1166
    @gianinanutshell1166 Před 2 lety +5

    this video inspired me to clean my house every inch of my house every single day

  • @aiedawahab5484
    @aiedawahab5484 Před 5 lety +356

    When they walk they just a normal cockroaches, but when they fly , they become the most grossest alien on the universe that you cant everr found

    • @maclavaitz
      @maclavaitz Před 5 lety +5

      gin chan wait

    • @maclavaitz
      @maclavaitz Před 5 lety +18

      gin chan THEY FLY?!

    • @aiedawahab5484
      @aiedawahab5484 Před 5 lety +40

      WyF De mem lovar hahaha.. Yup, they can fly and trust me it will become your worst nightmare! My sister once become naked when a cockroach suddenly flew into her shirt hahaha😂 damn it.. My eyes

    • @maclavaitz
      @maclavaitz Před 5 lety

      gin chan duuuude

    • @kristalvalenzuela5
      @kristalvalenzuela5 Před 5 lety +26

      gin chan flying cockroaches are what I imagine are in hell. I once opened my garage door and as i was closing it I felt something whiz past me. I looked and there was a flying cockroach. Ugh I’ve never screamed so loud my life😪

  • @zootoo1977
    @zootoo1977 Před 5 lety +290

    **Sees Roach**
    Me : K, You Own This House Now

  • @cat-uq5hw
    @cat-uq5hw Před 2 lety +1

    1:07
    Iceland: I'm bout to head out

  • @dantdmfangamingrich9802
    @dantdmfangamingrich9802 Před 2 lety +8

    “Why are cockroaches so hard to kill”
    Me: Well I just killed one with two 3 year olds

    • @CoreDreamStudios
      @CoreDreamStudios Před 2 lety

      You hit the roach with two 3 year olds? That'll def do it. /s

  • @Smg91340
    @Smg91340 Před 5 lety +322

    I saw one in my cousins house when I was younger I was ready to throw hands until
    *IT JUMPED*

  • @buntysonawane5750
    @buntysonawane5750 Před 5 lety +1932

    Need I mention of how rapidly they reproduce. If you spot a roach, chances are there might be many around hiding.

    • @budkashi6998
      @budkashi6998 Před 5 lety +155

      Bunty Sonawane bro wtf I killed a Roch in my Room yesterday now I'm freaked tf out

    • @Kyo-uz1zi
      @Kyo-uz1zi Před 5 lety +45

      flying turtle rare cases? Bruh a rare case is NOT seeing a roach lurking around mt apartment

    • @localhideout
      @localhideout Před 5 lety +52

      I agree with you actually, it has happened to me so many times that I can't even count.
      So I'm always cautious of it and when I see one, I quickly kill it before it can reproduce.
      I'm not scared of them anymore because I see them too often. Unless, they fly or their really big.

    • @hedylogospothos9206
      @hedylogospothos9206 Před 5 lety

      BUDKASHI 69 roach*

    • @simplysims3574
      @simplysims3574 Před 5 lety +2

      BUDKASHI 69 same. i just killed a baby one i found. theres prolly so many more:/

  • @NightOwlGames
    @NightOwlGames Před 3 lety +1

    Fleas: Hold my beer. if i stand on a cockroach its instantly dead if i stand on a flea it just laughs at me and hops away like nothing happened.

  • @GR-rx7zq
    @GR-rx7zq Před 2 lety +1

    I did renovations on a crack house. It's not just the walls that move...but the floors and the ceiling. It's disturbing when you ask yourself why the lose wallpaper is moving then their isn't A/C but then you realize it's not the wallpaper

  • @cool5451
    @cool5451 Před 5 lety +524

    I was looking a cockroach in they eye,
    I was in a room with 4 grown men.
    One screamed,
    And the roach flew at them.
    We all screamed like girls.
    EWWWWW

    • @dianemanalo165
      @dianemanalo165 Před 5 lety +16

      DarkRevenge7 Stuff 😂 i scream like theres no tomorrow everytime i see a roach :3

    • @OGGProduction
      @OGGProduction Před 5 lety +4

      You can't scream like a girl. I've never seen a girl scream at my school, it's mostly boys 😂😂😂

    • @blackassasin175
      @blackassasin175 Před 5 lety +4

      @ツSimplyAnnie Obviously you haven’t been around them long enough. I have 5 sisters and they scream and drag me around whenever there is a bug in the house.

    • @gotemabk9024
      @gotemabk9024 Před 5 lety +2

      Sounds like women to me

    • @devincampbell5007
      @devincampbell5007 Před 5 lety +3

      Sounds like little girls getting chased by Leatherface

  • @yamin738
    @yamin738 Před 5 lety +682

    It's just a cockroach *but wait until it fly*

    • @frecensentbruh5927
      @frecensentbruh5927 Před 5 lety +27

      Peach Hope lol there is a cockroach flies into my leg and i actually faint its because i don't expect the cockroach flies into me

    • @rainerpampang955
      @rainerpampang955 Před 5 lety +9

      Frecensent The Noob your leg? There was a cockroach flew to my face and i thought i've lost my head

    • @caracallover1266
      @caracallover1266 Před 5 lety +3

      Peach Hope right??!!!😂😂😂😂

    • @mrgears3045
      @mrgears3045 Před 5 lety +4

      My dad as a kid had a cockroach fly to his chest he fricking cried

    • @ha77an5
      @ha77an5 Před 5 lety +2

      Dino King just like me that's happened to me

  • @nationantseu7499
    @nationantseu7499 Před 3 lety

    Me: so you have chozen death
    Cocroach: well, yes but actually no

  • @bloodystring
    @bloodystring Před 3 lety +2

    *we all know the one true invincible roach is the one eating his mini krabby patty in the krusty krab kitchen*

  • @lilratbu5305
    @lilratbu5305 Před 4 lety +384

    ME: *tries to kill a roach but escaped*
    *Buys an airplane ticket*

  • @rachelt4792
    @rachelt4792 Před 6 lety +353

    If I saw a cockroach climb out of my sink, I’d never see sinks the same way again.

    • @Dr.Frasier_Crane
      @Dr.Frasier_Crane Před 6 lety +7

      Rach H I’d leave the disposal on for like a day (if it were the kitchen sink)

    • @lenale9922
      @lenale9922 Před 6 lety +9

      My school's pe locker had to wash the sink but when they turned the water on, cockroaches everywhere

    • @rachelt4792
      @rachelt4792 Před 6 lety +2

      Just another troll same lmao

    • @rachelt4792
      @rachelt4792 Před 6 lety +2

      Lena Le that’s an actual living nightmare

    • @ChillFrost
      @ChillFrost Před 6 lety +1

      Rach H tell me about it! See those overspill holes also in lavatories? If I see two antennaes waving.. it makes me angry 😠

  • @yuurou7927
    @yuurou7927 Před 2 lety

    Once I used a strong chemical for cleaning stains on a huge spider and it dies instantly.
    So I used it against a roach thinking it will do less but probably kill it later, but the spray only grounded the roach, and barely did nothing to it. It still ran full speed and I have to use physical violence.

  • @__Madara__Uchiha__
    @__Madara__Uchiha__ Před 3 lety +3

    Me : sees tittle
    Also me: *evil laugher in flip flops*

    • @vaab5545
      @vaab5545 Před 3 lety

      Ha madara I use my fists and I don't even need to transform

  • @annar5792
    @annar5792 Před 4 lety +2185

    *kills cockroach severing its head*
    *10 minutes later*
    Cockroach: *Turns around headless spreading it's wings*
    me: I'M MOVING

  • @martinb.1324
    @martinb.1324 Před 5 lety +1397

    *See a cockroach*
    *Step on it with sleeper*
    *Roach juice everywhere*
    *Go grab some tissue*
    *Roach body is gone*
    *X-files music plays*

  • @sparklymishy96
    @sparklymishy96 Před 3 lety

    We used to put roaches in tubes of formalin for fun where I used to work. That does the trick.

  • @cameronpena2716
    @cameronpena2716 Před 2 lety

    Roaches be maxed out on poison resistance and survival skills 💀