Man Inhales Cockroach in His Sleep, Has Bad Breath for Three Days
A Chinese man who felt something crawling up his nose one night experienced particularly bad breath for three days before discovering he had a cockroach stuck in his trachea. A 58-year-old man in Haikou, China’s Hainan Province, recently experienced an entomophobe’s worst nightmare. One night, as he was sleeping, he woke up with a strange […]
Pest Control Company Will Pay You $2,000 to Let It Release 100 Cockroaches Into Your Home
A North Carolina pest control company is offering to pay homeowners $2,000 if they agree to let it release 100 American cockroaches into their households so it can test a new extermination technique. If you live in the continental United States and want to make a quick couple of grand, go to The Pest Informer […]
Self-Taught Artist Turns Dead Cockroaches Into Painted Works of Art
Brenda Delgado, a self-taught artist from Manila, in the Philippines, paints dead cockroaches into miniature artworks inspired by classics like Starry Night or Girl With a Pearl Earring. When it comes to unusual art mediums, it’s tough to find something more bizarre than Brenda Delgado’s choice for a canvas. The 30-year-old resident of Caloocan City […]
Man Sees Injured Cockroach on the Street, Takes It to the Vet for Emergency Treatment
A Thai doctor recently took to Facebook to share photos of a rather unusual patient – a cockroach that someone spotted on the side of the road after being stepped on. Last week, Thanu Limpapattanawanich, a veterinarian from Krathum Baen, in Thailand, found himself having to save the life of a very special patient. A […]
Thousands of Cockroaches Released in Restaurant to Settle Debt Dispute
Patrons at a restaurant in Taipei, were recently shocked to see cockroaches crawling all over the place after thousands of them were released on the premises by two masked men. On May 4th, two masked men entered the G House Taipei restaurant holding large bags filled with over 1,000 cockroaches, which they simply released at […]
Couple Change Houses 18 Times in 3 Years Due to Wife’s Fear of Cockroaches
Indian media recently reported the bizarre case of a young couple who has shifted 18 houses in just 3 years, due to the wife’s extreme cockroach phobia. Let’s be honest, few people genuinely like cockroaches, especially the ones they find crawling through their kitchen, but how many people do you know who have moved out […]
Man Complaining of Earache Had Whole Family of Cockroaches Living in Ear Canal
A 24-year-old Chinese man who visited a hospital to complain about sharp pain in his right ear was shocked to learn that he had an entire family of cockroaches living in his ear canal. Identified only as “Mr. Lv”, the young man arrived at Sanhe Hospital, in Guangdong Province, southeast China, last month, complaining of […]
Crazy “Cockroach Challenge” Has People Taking Selfies with Roaches on Their Faces
We’ve seen some crazy internet challenges go viral in recent years, but this latest one takes the cake as the most disgusting of all. The Cockroach Challenge has people putting live cockroaches on their faces, taking a selfie and sharing it on social media. It’s hard to say for sure how and when the Cockroach […]
Cockroach Milk Could One Day Become the Ultimate Superfood
Consuming a fluid secreted by cockroaches may not be everyone’s idea of a balanced meal, but scientists believe that the “cockroach milk” produced by a certain species of cockroaches is one of the most nutritious substances on the planet, and could one day become the ultimate superfood. Unlike most other insects, the Pacific beetle cockroach is viviparous, […]
Man Sprays Insecticide in Ear to Kill Trapped Cockroach
After several attempts to remove a cockroach that had crawled into his ear while he was sleeping, a Chinese man decided to kill the intruder by spraying bug spray into his ear canal. The 60-year-old man from Chengdu told doctors that a cockroach crawled into his ear on February 1st. He could feel it wiggling around […]
Bug Fan Keeps Tens of Thousands of Cockroaches as Pets
Kyle Kandilian, a 20-year-old student from Dearborn, Michigan, has a very unusual hobby – he enjoys raising cockroaches as pets. His bedroom walls are decked with boxes and crates which hold around 200,000 roaches he breeds for fun and profit. Kyle’s passion is probably going to bug a lot of people, seeing as most people […]