Here’re some interesting facts about roaches and termites I ran across.
About the length of a AA battery, the American cockroach is the largest common house cockroach.
It eats just about anything, including feces, book binding glue, and other cockroaches, dead or alive.
It can live for a week without its head.
It has extraordinary healing capabilities, cut a leg off, and it’ll quickly regenerate a new one.
It can fly short distances and run as fast as the human equivalent of 210 miles per hour, relative to its size.
It’s genome is larger than ours.
And finally, termites evolved to cooperate through a sophisticated division of labor long before other insects like ants and bees did.