Cockroaches, blattodea, are hated because they’re resilient and some thrive in residential settings. If they were easy to get rid of, or lived outside (most actually do), they wouldn’t be so vilified.

Another example of insects hated for their resiliency are bed bugs. But those have even more impact on your life if they infest your house.

The truth is that many types of arthropods have extreme resiliency, but they don’t like to infest buildings, so we don’t really care.

Source: studied entomology