Can a cockroach live without its head?

[My Pillow ®, Muh Bee-auhtch ™ 'n Muh Dick Ⓤ]

It could potentially live up to one month without its head, provided that it’s not infected by bacterium, virus or get eaten by predators. One of the reasons is that it does not require the brain to control the breathing process at all. A cockroach breaths through spiracles, which can be found in each segment of the body. The spiracles then deliver air to each body cell through tracheae (a set of tubes).

Aside from that, cockroach doesn’t have blood pressure like we do, so cutting off its head doesn’t make it bleed to death, and their necks would seal off just by clotting. A cockroach doesn’t need much food to survive and a meal they had one day would be enough for them to last for weeks, since it’s pretty much doing nothing without its head. Another fun fact, a decapitated roach head can wave its antennae for several hours, and last even longer if given nutrients and refrigerated.

[My Pillow ®, Muh Bee-auhtch ™ 'n Muh Dick Ⓤ]

NO prolly not! News outlets are reporting that due to the extended heat wave and high humidity in the region, cockroaches in NYC may soon develop the ability to fly.

Yes, let's all take a moment to imagine that scene, shall we? Millions of cockroaches, spreading their wings and TAKING FLIGHT.

Good lord, this is horrifying, but at the same time, I can't help but be impressed. What happens when there's a cold snap? They learn to make fire?

All I know is, in my next life, I'm coming back as a cockroach. They're unstoppable.

http://yaktalk.blogspot.com/2016/08/is-there-nothing-cockroach-cant-do.html

https://www.terminix.com/pest-control/cockroaches/facts/

http://www.pestworld.org/news-hub/pest-articles/fascinating-cockroach-facts/

How to get rid of and raise cockroaches http://www.pestworld.org/media/561505/istock_000001216734small_roach-broom-2.jpg?width=670&height=802

This last site is more paranoid and hateful anti-cockroach http://stoppests.typepad.com/ipminmultifamilyhousing/2012/02/if-you-see-cockroaches-during-the-day-the-infestation-is-bad-sample-newsletter-article.html

[jazee...@gmail.com]

On Saturday, March 11, 2017 at 2:40:38 PM UTC-5, My Pillow ®, Muh Bee-auhtch ™ 'n Muh Dick Ⓤ wrote:
> It could potentially live up to one month without its head, provided that it’s not infected by bacterium, virus or get eaten by predators. One of the reasons is that it does not require the brain to control the breathing process at all. A cockroach breaths through spiracles, which can be found in each segment of the body. The spiracles then deliver air to each body cell through tracheae (a set of tubes).
>
> Aside from that, cockroach doesn’t have blood pressure like we do, so cutting off its head doesn’t make it bleed to death, and their necks would seal off just by clotting. A cockroach doesn’t need much food to survive and a meal they had one day would be enough for them to last for weeks, since it’s pretty much doing nothing without its head. Another fun fact, a decapitated roach head can wave its antennae for several hours, and last even longer if given nutrients and refrigerated.

Wow, just discovered the cure for ugliness. Give ugly people roach DNA, then lop off their heads. Anything can be achieved through science. I believe the brain is not where thought comes from, I believe it exists to control thought. Thought is instinctual, almost spiritual, cloudlike, existing beyond the physical form, and the brain is used to control it. That is why when we die our bodies undergo tremendous pain they never knew when they were attached to our heads. Without the brain to control the body it is free to feel horrific pain that it could never have endured while attached to the neck and head. Oh my God it's going to be awful when we die and our bodies for the first time get to feel what pain is like when it is not controlled by our brains!

TJ

[jazee...@gmail.com]

Funny how you say a cockroach can live without it's head for a month or more because just today while walking down a rural road I passed a human head swarming with a massive variety of insects, mostly ants and flies, but lots of cockroaches too - and none of them had heads. I don't think they were there so much for the human head meat as much as out of envy because even though they can live without one for a long time doesn't mean they don't miss having it.

Heads up!

TJ

[OllieN...@aol.com]

Someday we will all be just a head.

[jazee...@gmail.com]

On Tuesday, March 14, 2017 at 7:22:40 AM UTC-4, OllieN...@aol.com wrote:

> Someday we will all be just a head.

and if Henry Fonda has his way it will be one big head, the head shared by all of us, the head that will be all around in the shadows, wherever a cop is beating on a guy or kids are happy cause they're hungry and they know dinner is on the table. Yes indeed, we are all one big head, and one day it's going to explode, it's fragments zooming out into space creating new universes over and over again deep into infinity for ever and ever amen.

TJ

[OllieN...@aol.com]

Yep so true.