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rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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.

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  • rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I think I’ll pass

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    • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Smart choice.

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  • Socsa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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• higgsboson@dubvee.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I mean…

  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.

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  • Slovene@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You mean the climate or, like, emotionally?

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    • pleb_maximus@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yes.

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Climate. Y’all’re only emotionally cold sober

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    • Socsa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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      • PoolloverNathan@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        !holocaustjokes@lemmy.world

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  • rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    wow, TIL. Never seen them.

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• Fosheze@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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• Mannimarco@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  There’s 100% cockroaches in Germany, there is literally a species of cockroach called “german cockroach”

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  • a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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• MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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  • rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Well, good to keep them around then.

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    • Socsa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      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.

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      • rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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    • MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      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.

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      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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• flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Depends what you mean by cockroach. The usual pests are not really around. But there are some smaller ones that are sometimes also found inside the house. I frequently find this one in my home for example, which is really cute <3

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  • rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yes, I know those. They accidentally end up in houses but they can’t survive there, they can only live outside.

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