Allie Ward

They are packing some pretty weird looking asymmetrical heat.

And now you know why there's so many of them.

They're out there making love.

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All right, let's scuttle into the mailbag and eat some envelope glue, even though these questions were submitted by patrons electronically via patreon.com slash ologies, which you too can join for $1.

But yeah, moving along, how do they move along?

Patrons Dr. Lena Carpenter, Rosie Clark, Indy Pepper, Chris F. wanted to know.

Let's actually talk about locomotion because Marissa...

Asher, wanted to know, why are they so bad at walking?

The size freaks me out, but more than anything, the way they stumble around depletes all my bravery when it comes to trying to kill the things.

And others wanted to know why they're so fast.

Eva Berger says, I grew up in Georgia and I swear cockroaches fly.

My question is, can they really fly or do they just glide?

So yeah, why are they bad at walking, good at running?

Are they flying?