Byron Katie

I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn't even deserve a bed to sleep in. And then, one morning, a cockroach crawled onto my leg. I looked at it, and suddenly I awoke from a kind of hypnotic trance in which I had been all my life.

American Author

Sebastian Horsley

You may look back on your life and accept it as good or evil. But it is far, far harder to admit that you have been completely unimportant; that in the great sum of things, all a man's endless grapplings are no more significant than the scuttlings of a cockroach.

British Artist

Wesley Snipes

I've reduced a lot of the stress in my life. I've gotten rid of a lot of things. The light was turned on and a lot of the cockroaches started spinning. I swept them out the door. And sometimes you just have to throw things out because they carry a certain energy.

American Actor

Zachary Quinto

What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me - cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting thing. It has a place in all of our lives. I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.

Norman Mailer

I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.

American Novelist

Shamita Shetty

I am afraid of heights and water, but I haven't been able to shake off my fear of cockroaches.

Brooke Burke

I'm horrified of lobsters. And shrimp and lobsters are the cockroaches of the ocean.

American Model

Willie Davis

If you step on people in this life, you're going to come back as a cockroach.

Athlete

Kevin Owens

Cockroaches can't survive me, and neither can Dean Ambrose.

Canadian Athlete

Liza Soberano

Filipino Actress

Refers to insects, emphasizes the need for removal or extermination in infested areas.

Pest Control

Implicates hygiene problems and potential health risks, often in domestic environments.

Health Concern

Known for resilience, can survive harsh conditions, often mentioned in survival contexts.

Survival Ability

When used for people, it's an insult inferring that someone is repulsive or undesirable.

Insult

In films or books, character depicted as a 'cockroach' is typically villainous or immoral.

Cultural Depiction

Conveys strong emotions of contempt or disdain towards a person, often used in anger.

Emotive Language

 cockroach just uses the antenna to sort of navigate the world right if you look at the antenna sit covered with hairs if you look at each hair it has neurons inside of it what are those neurons telling the brain it's telling it like things that it touches or things that it sort of the chemicals it's almost like a nose that it's sensing back in and so

Making neuroscience...

 Animals follow the unchecked spread of native and non-native plants, venturing into new habitats with the help of our leftover bridges. In general, our infrastructure saves some animals and dooms others. Cockroaches continue to thrive in their native tropical habitats, but without our heating systems,

What would happen if...

 cockroaches are ready to make more cockroaches two months after birth males fondle the antennae of other roaches to determine if they're female or not when he finds a female the male secretes some sticky roach candy on its back raises its wings and offers it to its potential mate

Cockroach Infestation PIPE...

 the emerald cockroach wasp, and it is a truth universally acknowledged that an emerald cockroach wasp in possession of some fertilized eggs must be in want of a cockroach. When she finds one, she stabs it with a stinger that is also a sense organ.

Ed Yong: Suicidal wasps,...

 paralysis the cockroach and then it snakes its stinger into the brain of the cockroach where it has special censors so that it can grope around the brain and find exactly the part that is responsible for generating the motivation for movement.

Zombie Parasites PIPE Nat...

 the results will likely be fatal. Once absorbed, the chemical binds to sodium channel proteins, which help propagate nerve impulses. The pyrethroid keeps the sodium channels open, so the nerves fire repeatedly. And soon, the cockroach dies.

Why are cockroaches so...

 cockroaches two months after birth males fondle the ant any of other roaches to determine if they're female or not when he finds a female the male secretes some sticky roach candy on its back raises its wings and offers it to

Creepy Cockroach...

 to help me out with this. So there we go. This is the first time this has ever happened in the history of mankind. Human beatbox to a cockroach leg. When you guys go back to your high school, think about neuroscience

The Cockroach Beatbox

 you start to kind of respect this very creepy wasp. You see, the thing is that when it attacks the cockroach, it's not just stinging wildly, it delivers two precise stings.

Parasite tales: The...

 and it's just been getting bigger and deeper and steeper and cockroaches love it they're just feeding on all the nutrients of the