interesting post like it and upvoted!

good man! although you should see the cockroach i saw this morning! scarey!!! but i didnt kill it ;-)))0

I'll have to work on that one 😉

Sometimes we have a cockroach in the house. It's inevitable when you live in the tropics. I simply pick them up with my hands and put them outside. In the beginning that was a bit creepy but they don't bite. They are actually closely related to the praying mantis and nobody seems to fear those. 
Thank you for creating more awareness for this harmless critter.

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I just scream like there is no tomorrow when I see them. Don't get me started on the flying ones. Those are my nemesis.

If you put it like this, yes it sounds like we're being unfair to the poor creature.
I think this phobia goes back a long way and it comes from the cockroach being associated with filth and disease (wrongfully or not!).

I was always mystified by the ones who came all the way up to our forth floor apartment. I would ask my mom why didn't they go to the second or third floor instead of climbing all those steps!

That point about generationally healing those fears is very valid!  Thanks for sharing.

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In my home town many cafés, restaurants (even the very posh ones) have a cockroach problem due to our hot springs and so did we in our anarcho café.
So one of my friends studied the subject a bit and came to the conclusion that in terms of hygiene regarding food, flies are actually much worse because they spread germs and disease. So cockroaches don´t really pose a problem, people just think they are unhygienic and spread disease, maybe because they look a bit nasty.
I have to admit though, when I met my first big **flying** cockroach in the Philippines, flying almost in my face, I was also a bit shaken.

Wow, I'm really surprised by this, I would have said it would be spiders!
I mean some countries have some poisonous ones, so a very valid reason to not like them!
Maybe it's because I live in the UK and we don't have cockroaches, so I'm oblivious to the fear of them.

I've wondered about fears, spiders in particular. So many people are afraid and where does this come from? Seems like it is in our DNA or some mind matrix that gets passed through the generations!

Very informative about all the good that cockroaches do. I still hope I don't encounter one when on holiday! :)

@bubke you are such a wonderful man.  You are right, most people hate the cockroach, I guess because the are everywhere.  In Hawaii we call them the B-52 bombers because they are so huge and they fly at you.  But now, every time I look at a cockroach, I will think of you!  

You do bring up very valid points of what they do.  It is good to know.  How big are your cockroaches?  Ours are about 1 3/4" to 2 inches".  They are huge and can fly all around.  Sometimes they hit you in the face or arm and are very hard and prickly.  In Hawaii, we grow them big and huge.

Hope you are doing well.  I actually learned sometime from your post.  Take care Bubke!  :D

Yuck! I upvoted even if I saw that photo haha. They are the enemies of the world, aren't they? I have a phobia of these little creatures now and really bad experiences with them. Sometimes, I am just imagining things now. They can also fly like a butterfly, but they are nothing more but a cockroach. I actually lived in one of the coldest places just to avoid these pests.

Ok no more war with them! My pet tarantulas love them, but the clean ones lol.

Thanks for the inspiration, I might post about this soon!

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Very nice post @bubke, i might look different to cockroaches now.

Nice post @bubke . I've got nothing against any creatures and wouldn’t kill anything just for being ugly - especially if it's basically harmless.  Cockroaches are actually quite amazing and beautiful if you look at them a certain way, though I still don't really like to handle them. I think the reason people have a reaction of disgust (which is not the same as fear, which is what people feel when they see a spider or snake, for example) is that  cockroaches live in dirty places - drains, bins etc.. It's one thing having them in your compost pile, another having them running all over your kitchen.  Same as worms. Good to have loads of worms in your compost, bad to have one in the  apple you're eating - but half a worm in your apple is even worse!

aww you are so sweet. :) Do no harm. I didn't know all of those fun facts about Cockroaches. Thanks for that.

Such a refreshing take, @bubke. They watch the dawn, you know. If they can. The head to an east-facing window and stare at the sky......I guess that's what they're doing anyway....seen it in the UK and here.

I am not disgusted by them. Only bugs I don't like are the ones like ticks, fleas, mites and stuff that might try and live off of my body!

Even then I don't ever try and eradicate them, just protect my self and home from their infestations. 

Thanks for sticking up for the cockroaches, live and let live I say. Humans have a major superiority complex and whether they realize it or not it is killing them. 

Humans desperately need to re connect with life and nature. Harmony is the key. 


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Just looove your post!

I'm sitting in my bed now and I'm looking on the floor at my trap for cockroaches. I stay in a rented apartment and I can't deal with all these problems. But it's something different that I want to tell you here...

Yes, I have a few cockroaches and e live in peace :)))

The trap is for catching them, but not o kill them, it s a plastic cup from icecream! I have skills to catch them with a paper towel and than put the cup over it and get him out safe :))

Now please don't imagine I have a colony of living bugs here, but they have to live somewhere...

:))

I'm not brave but I surely respect life in all it's ways...

Keep up the good work!

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All right, ok. Just don't do a post on spiders.

Thank you for this post! 

I have some questions.
How do you clean the compost bin, and how do you extract the compost?
I mean, what happens then with the animals living there?
Does the compost stink less because of cockroaches eating things?