The cockroaches are prevented from escaping the farm by a moat filled with fish.
Posted on 09/18/2020 3:16:25 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The cockroaches are prevented from escaping the farm by a moat filled with fish.
Do cockroaches swim? I just swatted a small cockroach outside my house last night.
Very interesting...
Swim? Shtt, they scuba!
What happens when these cockroaches learn to fly?
I could possibly see this as a method of converting biomass into eventual animal feed. But is that cost effective at all on anything but a large scale?
I’ma go ahead and put that in a doubtful category.
The ones in Charleston, South Carolina already know how to fly. I lived there for a few years after being (honorably!) discharged from active duty in the Navy. I never did get used to them. They are called Palmetto Bugs down there.
kinda like the Rand story about the peasant that raised cats and rats fed the rats to the cats, skinned the cats for their pelts and then fed the cats back to the rats...
I would ask my neighbors if they mind if I raise cockroaches commercially but they are out of town this week. Besides, they never asked me if it was OK they raised bees:)
There’s a farm for Democrats?
Yes,they have them in Mobile, AL too. It’s a scary thing to have one of them charge at you.
I thought that’s why we have flying pigs
When I was in the Navy down at Cecil Field in Florida, I woke one night in my barracks when I heard a slight scuffing noise and thought “What the hell is that?”
I turned on my light to find the biggest roach I had ever seen, scurrying across the deck. Without hesitation, I leaped out of my rack, grabbed one of my black boondockers, and ran straight at the thing trying to smash the thing holding the boot by the tip and using the heel as the hammer.
I smacked at it three or four times, missing with each try, and the thing scurried under the crack at the bottom of the door and ran into the hallway.
Too pumped up, and thinking I would never get back to sleep with a monster like THAT lurking in the barracks, I opened the door and ran after it into the hallway in my white, Navy issue boxer shorts, whacking frantically at this thing.
Finally, I scored a blow, and the beast made a loud sickening crack as the heel of the shoe came down on top of it. I froze, and when I lifted the shoe off of the dead thing (or so I thought) it suddenly took to flight!
It scared the crap out of me! I didn’t even know those things had wings and could even fly, but what was more unsettling was the fact that it seemed to be about the size of a softball as it took to the the air, wings beating like mad.
A big, wing-beating thing the circumference of a softball!
OK... I’m never eating anything produced in China ever again, LOL!
Okay that there was funny!!!
But they can’t do the backstroke.
No. Just no! :)
We have them in Charlotte. Huge, fast and they fly like kamikazes. Good news is they can only live inside for a day if you miss catching them.
Yes, we bug spray like crazy.
China probably got the idea after putting piranhas in moats around Uyghur re-education camps.
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