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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Never had any cockroaches (do they even exist in Germany?) but I have those from time to time in my basement. Not sure what they eat there.

[–] Anticorp 23 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Go to the USA Southern States if you want to see cockroaches. Holy shit, man! The warm weather and humidity are like steroids to them. They get as big as a mouse, and they don't care if you have the cleanest building in the world, they're still going to invade and wake you from your sleep by crawling on your face.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think I'll pass

[–] Anticorp 4 points 6 months ago

Smart choice.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Those American Cockroaches don't breed indoors though. They are transients and are relatively benign compared to the German roaches which will fine the single square mm of your home without pest treatment and then evolve resistance to it.

[–] Fosheze 16 points 6 months ago

They eat anything that is smaller than they are legs included. They'll eat anything from bed bugs to spiders. I even saw one chewing of a wasp at one point.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I mean...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_cockroach

To be fair, they really originated elsewhere, but Germany certainly has cockroaches. I think Germany is probably too cold for them to be a big problem, though.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (3 children)

You mean the climate or, like, emotionally?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

Yes.

[–] captainlezbian 5 points 6 months ago

Climate. Y’all’re only emotionally cold sober

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If anyone understands how to eradicate an entire population of organisms via chemical genocide, it's the Germans.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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Edit: Not associated with lemmygrad or anything in those instances. That was just the instance that sounded most likely to have this community.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Lest we forget

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

wow, TIL. Never seen them.

[–] MeanEYE 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They eat other insects. All of them, not just roaches.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Well, good to keep them around then.

[–] MeanEYE 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Very much so but people often kill them for looking nasty. When in reality they totally depend on humans to survive. And provide nothing else than benefits to us. They need warmth of our homes and very specific climate. They can't survive outdoors.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

i mean, inducing a panic attack isn't very beneficial

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

By their nature they won't actually eliminate an infestation. They are territorial so they won't ever have the population numbers to eliminate populations of other bugs. They are, at best, an indicator that you need an exterminator soon.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I don't think they are an indicator for an infestation. At least not where I live.

[–] Mannimarco 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There's 100% cockroaches in Germany, there is literally a species of cockroach called "german cockroach"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

yeah, they were first believed to have originated from germany; currently science places them as an southeast asian expatriate with a pit stop in NE africa. It's too cold for them to live outside of human settlements in germany, although i'm pretty sure that will change in the next years, and then the name fits at last.