Dr. Dominic Evangelista

Yeah, it's ethanol.

Grab them, stick them in a vial of ethanol and try to ignore the screams in your brain.

Well, other than the drinking their pee thing, which is the best fun fact, the thing that I think is best or most important about them is their ecological importance.

Cockroaches are so abundant in tropical rainforests.

Now, they're not as abundant as like ants, wasps, but each individual cockroach tends to be larger.

So they end up having a lot of biomass.

which means that they're probably super important prey items for birds, small lizards, other insects.

So people don't like cockroaches in your houses, but cockroaches as a whole are hugely important to certain ecosystems.

In fact, there's some studies showing that the largest proportion of animal biomass in tropical rainforest canopies are cockroaches.

Yeah.

Yeah, they're just in every little crevice and doing everything you can possibly imagine.

Yeah, absolutely.

You're welcome.

Thank you, Allie.