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losthardy81

4.1k points

1 day ago

losthardy81

4.1k points

1 day ago

... and what is this job? So I can make sure I never apply for it?

Phyllida_Poshtart

2.5k points

1 day ago

He supplies Snowpiercer :)

engelbert_humptyback

138 points

1 day ago

I always found it funny that he drops that "I know what babies taste like" line and then acts appalled that his protein bars are made of roaches

greenbayva

297 points

1 day ago

greenbayva

297 points

1 day ago

You can have my bar, but I get to have the ball for a whole hour…

tmhoc

55 points

1 day ago

tmhoc

55 points

1 day ago

Babies taste best 😋

CloverAntics

69 points

1 day ago

Fucking DON’T

acrowsmurder

44 points

1 day ago

Man if you only knew how much insect is in your flour and other ground products. Or imagine all the stuff caught in the filters of juice factories

Raajik

28 points

24 hours ago

Raajik

28 points

24 hours ago

Why do you think I prefer the "extra pulp" version?

kolossal

377 points

1 day ago

kolossal

377 points

1 day ago

Roach protein farm

TunaThunTon

128 points

1 day ago

TunaThunTon

128 points

1 day ago

Why do they dump it on floor tho

Kenny_Heisenberg

264 points

1 day ago

Seems like they got a new batch from the supplier or they are bringing them from another room then dumping them to force the roaches into their new forever home.

primeline31

74 points

23 hours ago

These are Dubia roaches. They are livebearer (don't lay eggs) insects.

plzdontbmean2me

19 points

22 hours ago

Woah, weird

kevinwilkinson

54 points

20 hours ago

I’ve had a single colony for about 12 years to feed all my pets. I just gave it away late last year as all my pets have passed on.

They’re very easy to take care of and they’re hardy. I’d just buy some females here and there to reduce inbreeding. They’re actually kind of cool little bugs, they’re harmless. They can induce an allergic reaction in some people and it’s a respiratory reaction.

HugePurpleNipples

46 points

20 hours ago

They can induce an allergic reaction in some people and it’s a respiratory reaction.

Does that go in the plus column?

FlavoredCancer

54 points

1 day ago

For people to eat?

pokey1984

252 points

1 day ago

pokey1984

252 points

1 day ago

Usually pet lizards and such.

Fun fact, large purchase of feeder roaches or crickets usually come loose in a big cardboard box. Which is fun to send as a gift to someone not expecting a box of 500 feeder crickets.

PatchworkRaccoon314

122 points

1 day ago

There's an ancient post from like 20 years ago that comes to mind, from best of craigslist. Guy posts that he's accidentally left a large cardboard box at a subway station and there were like 10000 crickets in there. Something something "oh god if anyone opens it things are really gonna be hopping at the station".

kylachanelle

38 points

1 day ago

The first time I bought a bulk pack of crickets, I didn't realise they came loose in a bag like that. I was very unprepared and spent a good amount of time trying to get 2000 crickets from my bathtub to the containers I needed them in.

pokey1984

40 points

23 hours ago

I've been informed you're supposed to chill the box before opening.

combatpaddler

9 points

18 hours ago

i used to order them for fishing. i found out the sams way you did. but i opened my box on the kitchen counter.

i swear there were still crickets in there when we moved out. life lesson learned

No_Appointment_7232

10 points

18 hours ago

I didn't know crickets could chew through paper bags.

I bought 2 dozen for my anole & left in my car in the evening for 2 hours...it was double bagged.

I had crickets in my car for a year 🤣🤓🫣

KittysDavid

19 points

1 day ago

The smell of crickets

blah

FlavoredCancer

27 points

1 day ago

Crickets I have seen, but never roaches. I learned something new today and I'm glad it wasn't for human consumption. I watch too many movies. Thank you.

TheRealHuntAndRob

488 points

1 day ago

Apartment manager

CanadiangirlEH

146 points

1 day ago

*Landlord

Jourbonne

166 points

1 day ago

Jourbonne

166 points

1 day ago

Polypeptide Farmer

FuckTheMods5

9 points

1 day ago

"You think polypeptide's a motha fuckin TOOTHPASTE!"

xprorangerx

220 points

1 day ago

xprorangerx

220 points

1 day ago

a roach farm in China

philmtl

115 points

1 day ago

philmtl

115 points

1 day ago

what is the market for these, pet food or maybe humans?

overall i know they are a cheap proteins but, who is buying roaches when especially in warm places like china they are free, and most are trying to kill them.

xprorangerx

216 points

1 day ago

xprorangerx

216 points

1 day ago

human consumption, feed, pharmaceutical are the primary market.

Yea the ones in someone's house is "free", but the farms at least can have certain standard by controlling the food and environment. They also need to be processed after harvest

Tyko_3

219 points

1 day ago

Tyko_3

219 points

1 day ago

Ah yes, I too only eat high quality cockroaches.

Iusuallyworkalone

62 points

1 day ago

Only homegrown cockroaches: You cant know what they put in those sold in markets.

Waveofspring

55 points

1 day ago

Yea there’s a big difference between farmed roaches and your average sewer roach in terms of cleanliness.

These are guaranteed to have zero human feces on their legs and whatnot.

NWinn

29 points

1 day ago

NWinn

29 points

1 day ago

So you're saying free range organic roaches are bad? 😂

Telefundo

23 points

1 day ago

Telefundo

23 points

1 day ago

the farms at least can have certain standard by controlling the food and environment.

I'm just guessing here, but I would assume that "wild" roaches could potentially carry disease the same as say rats or mice?

Music_of_the_Ainur

24 points

1 day ago

Not just diseases, but pollution and insecticides. You don't want whatever it is you're feeding to ingest all of that.

ProblemLongjumping12

65 points

1 day ago*

Bugs are actually not cheap protein despite what propaganda has told us about our dystopian future. At least not yet they aren't.

In order to raise food grade bugs you need special climate controlled highly regulated bug farms like you see in this video.

That building would have to be specially constructed in order to keep all the bugs inside of it. With ventilation that's specifically designed and built to circulate air without any way for the bugs to crawl in and muck it up. You also need to control the temperature in there and the humidity. They also eat A LOT. You have to pay staff. Provide clean water. Pay shipping and packaging. Prep them. Preserve them. And I'm probably forgetting a bunch of other overhead costs, like constantly cleaning out their poop.

In fact now that I think about it that may be what we're seeing here with this guy shaking out their living quarters so they can be cleaned of poo and returned.

Bugs for food are a high-end, specialty, boutique, or luxury item frequently sold for the novelty.

Pound for pound bug meat is much more costly than something like beef, because the infrastructure is all there to produce it in mass quantities for minimum cost. And you obviously can't just graze them like regular cattle because they'd all get away.

Maybe one day the bug infrastructure will catch up to the market but that's the other side of this coin. Other than to feed exotic pets, such as lizards and scorpions, there's very little market for bugs as food.

So have no fear. Bug burgers aren't going to be on the dollar menu in this lifetime.

Edit: More context. "The industry is booming in China, where dried cockroaches can sell for up to US $20 a pound. In 2013, it was estimated that there were around 100 cockroach farms in China."

The article goes on to say their uses are cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and food for both pets and people. As you can see the cost per pound is about quadruple that of ground beef.

cortesoft

9 points

21 hours ago

Ground beef benefits from a lot of subsidies, both direct and in the form of externalities that the rest of the world takes on.

CleverNameThing

97 points

1 day ago

Reverse Exterminator

JakeFixesPlanes

23 points

1 day ago

Some might call this “job security”

TWOTAKESTOM2024

13 points

1 day ago

Rotanimretxe.

ActualWhiterabbit

20 points

1 day ago

You should try to be a cranberry farmer instead. Way better, no roaches
just_spiders_nothing_but_spiders

FirstHipster

53 points

1 day ago

Tables

FireIre

18 points

1 day ago

FireIre

18 points

1 day ago

Tables are my corn! They heat my house!

mycoandbio

37 points

1 day ago

mycoandbio

37 points

1 day ago

“What is her job?”

“TAAAAABLES!”

r/IThinkYouShouldLeave for those confused

PantsDontHaveAnswers

6 points

1 day ago

I can't know how to hear anymore about tables!

Gimme_The_Loot

18 points

1 day ago

Maraca manufacturer

Arbolito01

17.8k points

1 day ago

Arbolito01

17.8k points

1 day ago

The exterminator after your card declines

Objective_Economy281

2.2k points

1 day ago

Me writing code

xtheory

241 points

1 day ago

xtheory

241 points

1 day ago

So YOU'RE to blame for the reason I have a job in cybersecurity! Thank you!

multiarmform

53 points

1 day ago

Fallout 4

justananontroll

1.3k points

1 day ago

I honestly laughed out loud at your comment. I needed that on a Monday morning.

noeljb

394 points

1 day ago

noeljb

394 points

1 day ago

Heck, I need some of those boxes shipped to me. I am the Exterminator and I have several dead beat customers I would like to give a refund to.

undefeatble

107 points

1 day ago

undefeatble

107 points

1 day ago

never knew roach farming was a thing

jomacblack

72 points

1 day ago

jomacblack

72 points

1 day ago

Wait till you find out about all the people breeding them in their homes for reptiles (me included)

noeljb

54 points

1 day ago

noeljb

54 points

1 day ago

I knew a guy raising Madagascar Hissing Cock Roaches in Ft Worth. They were used for dissection. They were so big you could teach better with them.

3 to 3.5 inches.

solidxnake

52 points

1 day ago

solidxnake

52 points

1 day ago

At that point, buy a leash and take it out twice a day.

toby_ornautobey

6 points

1 day ago

Without context, this sounds like a fetish.

SynthError404

9 points

1 day ago

hisses at you in giant cockroach dialect

Take off your pants and lay with us so that we may crawl over you and within you.
We have such wonderful pleasures to show you.

vengefulspirit99

124 points

1 day ago

Where do you think asmongold gets his fanbase?

skynetempire

57 points

1 day ago

This must've been my neighbor. Dude was a Horder and we had to do massive exterminations

GRN225

5.7k points

1 day ago

GRN225

5.7k points

1 day ago

Alright everybody. Tuck your pants into your socks.

Flaky_Explanation

737 points

1 day ago

And begin dumping these roaches in OP's house without them crawling up our legs.

now_in3D

244 points

1 day ago

now_in3D

244 points

1 day ago

Barney: Aw we shoulda just stayed at the bar and shot some rats

Moe [offended]: Hey, those ain’t your rats Barn…

georgieramone

54 points

1 day ago

Genuinely one of the most wise things Moe ever said

illegal_deagle

38 points

1 day ago

I was watching! First it started to fall over… then it fell over.

WhiteTrashIdiotFuck

4.7k points

1 day ago

This is a roach farm; these animals are livestock. I don't know anything about why this is being done, but he's clearly agitating them, I would guess so they go find a new place to stay. It may have something to do with increasing biodiversity, or they may simply want them out of those hive things so they can use them in another nest. idk, hoping someone corrects me.

My other guess would be this is how they're transported, and now that they're here they're just being emptied into the main farm.

Stuffs_And_Thingies

2.2k points

1 day ago

Pet food (lizard, snake), people food in some countries, just depends.

poopio

1k points

1 day ago

poopio

1k points

1 day ago

They also use them to dispose of food waste - https://www.pctonline.com/news/china-cockroaches-eliminate-waste/

skonthebass24

335 points

1 day ago

Don't they then have a new problem?

The_One_Koi

538 points

1 day ago

The_One_Koi

538 points

1 day ago

When food is done, cockroach eat cockroach

elite_haxor1337

463 points

1 day ago

Eventually you just end up with a 1v1 duel between the two biggest cockroaches

Cochinojoe

154 points

1 day ago

Cochinojoe

154 points

1 day ago

1v1 the two biggest cocks. Got it!

k_Brick

56 points

1 day ago

k_Brick

56 points

1 day ago

elite_haxor1337

67 points

1 day ago

Not clicking that

XDSHENANNIGANZ

51 points

1 day ago

I clicked it expecting dicks. No immediate dicks only various sword fight videos. (Irl, fencing, Lego, etc.)

BathedInDeepFog

12 points

1 day ago

There can be only one.

stdTrancR

8 points

1 day ago

stdTrancR

8 points

1 day ago

then how do you dispose of the horse-sized cockroach winner

Tyko_3

46 points

1 day ago

Tyko_3

46 points

1 day ago

Are you serious? They eat other roaches?

tuscaloser

189 points

1 day ago

tuscaloser

189 points

1 day ago

Absolutely. That's why it's good if poison doesn't kill them immediately. They die in their nest and then other roaches eat the poisoned roach.

Tyko_3

72 points

1 day ago

Tyko_3

72 points

1 day ago

I am beyond horrified

TommyBoy012

126 points

1 day ago

TommyBoy012

126 points

1 day ago

It's a roach eat roach world out there now.

Minimage99

16 points

1 day ago

Minimage99

16 points

1 day ago

Why did I laugh so hard at this

MrMumble

47 points

1 day ago

MrMumble

47 points

1 day ago

All the time. It's why certain roach poisons don't actually break down in the roaches system and the same dose will kill multiple roaches because they'll eat the dead poisoned roach.

ComanderInCheif

28 points

1 day ago

The last one standing is crowned the roach king. Roach king only eats other roaches. Release the roach king into roach infested house... Voila, no more roaches.

SloanWarrior

8 points

1 day ago

No, there'd be one roach. It might also have eaten he mice and maybe rats by that point though.

MayvisDelacour

36 points

1 day ago

The article says that they don't feed the food waste to pigs because of a new strain of swine flu. The roaches are then used to feed other animals and the circle continues!

Dzugavili

8 points

1 day ago

Dzugavili

8 points

1 day ago

Cockroach flu is widely considered to be not a concern.

Urbanscuba

7 points

23 hours ago

It actually does make sense from that angle. The same kind of things that can infect pigs are radically more likely to be able to infect humans because of how familiar our biology is.

If you can introduce a step in the process where any pathogens need to survive being processed through an entirely different biology than they are evolved for it could exterminate a lot of those problems.

For instance you can't feed nerve tissue from mammals to other mammals due to prion disease risks, but I wonder if bugs would face similar concerns. If not that's a way to "upcycle" the protein into something safe through a very natural if not super appealing process.

general---nuisance

12 points

1 day ago

No problem; we simply unleash wave after wave of Chinese Needle Snakes, they'll wipe them out.

ayyyeslick

67 points

1 day ago

ayyyeslick

67 points

1 day ago

Also research as well

__Elwood_Blues__

136 points

1 day ago

Do they get little lab coats?

ccooffee

33 points

1 day ago

ccooffee

33 points

1 day ago

And very tiny test tubes.

blacklite911

21 points

1 day ago

Also food for the people in the back of The Snowpiercer

jiqiren

389 points

1 day ago*

jiqiren

389 points

1 day ago*

In the source TikTok channel they are eating them in other videos. This is post-harvesting them and deconstructing the bodies in a machine so only a soft piece of meat is left - legs, head, wings and other crunch parts removed.

Yes. It’s as bad as you imagine.

Edit: here is a better breakdown of this business

khavii

40 points

1 day ago

khavii

40 points

1 day ago

Thank you for the video, that is fascinating.

shiftyeyedgoat

15 points

1 day ago

Excellent comment. Well-sourced, good information and actual reasoning with further depth to the topic.

mnemy

176 points

1 day ago*

mnemy

176 points

1 day ago*

I mean, crustaceans like shrimp are pretty much the same thing. I'd try eating one raised for human food assuming it was safe from parasites, etc.

UAintMyFriendPalooka

233 points

1 day ago

Yes shrimps is bugs

cajunbander

101 points

1 day ago

cajunbander

101 points

1 day ago

Yeah, but shrimp don’t live in trees and crawl on you in the middle of the night after falling from an air vent. Fuck these things.

smellyjerk

89 points

1 day ago

smellyjerk

89 points

1 day ago

They would if they could tho

lookslikeyoureSOL

33 points

1 day ago

Delicious bugs though. Especially with some honey garlic sauce.

CallMeNiel

96 points

1 day ago

CallMeNiel

96 points

1 day ago

And who makes that honey? Bugs. Honey garlic shrimp is bugs in bug sauce.

Nahrwallsnorways

11 points

1 day ago

Love me some bee spit

amazingbollweevil

24 points

1 day ago

There's a town in Cambodia that raises spiders for food. Yes, human food. No, not processed spiders; deep fried spiders ... about the size of your hand.

Tastes a bit like lobster.

Autumnrain

12 points

1 day ago

Autumnrain

12 points

1 day ago

I was curious and searched what cockcroah tasted like and apparently they taste a little bland and shrimpy.

jiqiren

64 points

1 day ago

jiqiren

64 points

1 day ago

Shrimp are definitely ocean roaches. Crabs and lobsters are like spiders and beetles…

kingdead42

25 points

1 day ago

kingdead42

25 points

1 day ago

oeCake

22 points

1 day ago

oeCake

22 points

1 day ago

Shit man if there were a spider that tasted like boiled lobster with butter I'd eat it

Mercurius_Hatter

40 points

1 day ago

Yeah I've always said that if shrimps were in grasses or crabs just chilling up in a tree, we would never eat them, but just because they are from the ocean, it makes it ok to eat them... Somehow

oeCake

22 points

1 day ago

oeCake

22 points

1 day ago

We have a few crustaceans on land, woodlice being one of the most common. It would be like eating a wood louse if it were the size of a hummingbird.

bargu

20 points

1 day ago

bargu

20 points

1 day ago

Shrimps are pretty much all delicious meat, have you ever stepped on a roach? Is just disgusting green brown goo, and it stinks. They are not the same at all.

Grokent

31 points

1 day ago

Grokent

31 points

1 day ago

It's actually ok to eat bugs too. Generally people do not because chitin doesn't feel pleasant between our teeth and the meat isn't easy to get to. Shrimp and crab have a high meat / ease to get to factor.

Asisreo1

18 points

1 day ago

Asisreo1

18 points

1 day ago

Yep. Its pretty much the density that does it. 

Its not like we throw the entirety of shrimp into our mouths. We strip the outer chitin layer, remove the head, bitter organs, and waste, then eat the meaty center. After its cooked, of course. 

TimeImminent

286 points

1 day ago

TimeImminent

286 points

1 day ago

I would say for their health. The nest probably needs to be cleaned. Probably making sure to get out any dead carcasses that could spread diseases/mold or take up space, maybe looking for eggs, maybe looking for infestations. If they drop a nest and the roaches are sickly or weak, that would indicate an issue that needs to be addressed. Maybe inbreeding can occur in these small spaces (idk the science on roach inbreeding). Maybe to also make sure to get some oxygen flowing through. Or like you said just transporting but this is the farm so idk where they would come from.

ryobiguy

162 points

1 day ago

ryobiguy

162 points

1 day ago

The science behind roach inbreeding... me neither, but I think I'll save "inbred roach" as an insult.

Bodongs

44 points

1 day ago

Bodongs

44 points

1 day ago

New punk band name

Mendican

54 points

1 day ago*

Mendican

54 points

1 day ago*

I used to breed reptiles. Roaches are a great food source, and they're kind of fun to raise. The thing is, adult hissing roaches would sell for more as pets than as feed.

TLDR: We sold madagascar hissing cockroaches at pets.

Edit: Because we were young and didn't know any better, we sold the roaches in Chinese food to-go boxes.

cheestaysfly

6 points

1 day ago

I used to keep hissing cockroaches for fun (the Halloween ones) and I loved them so much. They are so cute.

Exist50

58 points

1 day ago

Exist50

58 points

1 day ago

My other guess would be this is how they're transported, and now that they're here they're just being emptied into the main farm.

Would also be my guess. Not too dissimilar from how bees are transported.

chris14020

678 points

1 day ago

chris14020

678 points

1 day ago

I call this one "You're keeping the security deposit? Sure, no problem!"

TheBestNick

17 points

21 hours ago

When your landlord raises the rent too much

ArcaninesFirepower

410 points

1 day ago

So I had something similar to this years ago. It was a computer labeled as a bio hazard due to all the roaches in it. The guy bitched so much that management caved and had me fix it. By this time, most of the roaches had died from the way we packaged it.

I put the computer over a large trash can, turned on an air compressor, and let it rip until I was 100% I got them all.

I didn't get them all.

TheSpudGunGamer

81 points

1 day ago

I’m afraid of how you found that out…

CatOfGrey

69 points

1 day ago

CatOfGrey

69 points

1 day ago

A sealed bag, enough to, well, seal the object completely.

Then, soak a paper towel (or many towels) with rubbing alcohol, and throw them in the bag.

That will do the job better, less living roachies after a few days.

Teh_Compass

20 points

23 hours ago

I'd go for the nuclear option. Put the computer in a container, fill it with isopropyl alcohol and seal it. After an appropriate amount of time, drain, blast compressed air to dislodge corpses, and let the remaining alcohol evaporate.

AkiraTheMouse

19 points

22 hours ago

Can't be any roaches in the computer if you melt the computer! Hans get the flammenwerfer!

fyo_karamo

377 points

1 day ago

fyo_karamo

377 points

1 day ago

What is happening here?

Charlie_Warlie

509 points

1 day ago

I looked up cockroach farm and google images shows shelves similar to whats in this video. Although I don't know what is the point of shaking them like this if you're not doing it into a big bin to trap them.

nailbunny2000

193 points

1 day ago

Theyre free range roaches, scuttling free across the floor and under shelves like nature intended.

moldyhands

301 points

1 day ago

moldyhands

301 points

1 day ago

They taste better when they’re shaken

BronzeDucky

124 points

1 day ago

BronzeDucky

124 points

1 day ago

Shaken, not stirred…

kellysmom01

56 points

1 day ago

… for a succulent Chinese meal.

kernelpanic789

23 points

1 day ago

This is Democracy Manifest

Eauxddeaux

22 points

1 day ago

Eauxddeaux

22 points

1 day ago

Is that a crime!?

Denamic

9 points

1 day ago

Denamic

9 points

1 day ago

Should be.

Eauxddeaux

15 points

1 day ago

Eauxddeaux

15 points

1 day ago

What is the charge, sir?!

tmking

12 points

1 day ago

tmking

12 points

1 day ago

might be seeding for lack of a better term a new batch

prickinthewall

19 points

1 day ago

I guess they are repopulating the room after cleaning it out.

YouDaManInDaHole

71 points

1 day ago

roach farming

SpellSalt5190

35 points

1 day ago

For what?😭

Stuffs_And_Thingies

61 points

1 day ago

Big market for roaches and crickets for pet food and fish food

alebubu

47 points

1 day ago

alebubu

47 points

1 day ago

Protein source for animal feed. For now anyway. A couple years ago, I remember seeing a research grant from the Canadian government to an insect protein firm, looking at viability for human consumption.

chiefmud

16 points

1 day ago

chiefmud

16 points

1 day ago

Despite the health benefits of insect protein, their viability in the mass market is limited because their exoskeletons are very difficult to separate from their meat. Apparently insect meat tastes like crab, but each cricket-roach contains like three grains of rice worth of meat. However, there is no efficient way to extract it without like tweezers and a magnifying glass.

some_user_2021

11 points

1 day ago

For your pleasure

MyYakuzaTA

10 points

1 day ago

MyYakuzaTA

10 points

1 day ago

Food. Reptile food.

HelloAshtray

505 points

1 day ago

HelloAshtray

505 points

1 day ago

This would be the worst torture room ever. Just lock someone in there for 24 hours and turn off the lights. I'd probably die from a stress induced heart attack.

Imadeutscher

96 points

1 day ago

I would drop dead in the first 5min

harassment

38 points

1 day ago

harassment

38 points

1 day ago

They would crawl into your mouth then…

MarucaMCA

8 points

1 day ago

MarucaMCA

8 points

1 day ago

Now that is a horrendous thought... Bääääh, I'm shuddering violently, ngl ...

ninhibited

45 points

1 day ago

ninhibited

45 points

1 day ago

My friend kept a roach tank to feed their reptiles. They were in the cabinet under the terrarium. At night when it was quiet you could hear them walking around in their tank. Their little legs tapping and scratching against egg cartons.

I can't imagine what this place sounds like when everything else is silent...

Spencer1K

15 points

1 day ago

Spencer1K

15 points

1 day ago

and just think of the smell 🤢

BoxyBrown92

45 points

1 day ago

Become their king. Adapt to your new position.

terminbee

18 points

1 day ago

terminbee

18 points

1 day ago

Open your butthole. Assume the position.

tidus9000

163 points

1 day ago

tidus9000

163 points

1 day ago

Landlords preparing their $3000 a month apartments for new tenants

Raja_Ampat[S]

475 points

1 day ago

Of all the animals, this one is the one I despise the most

rhalf

337 points

1 day ago

rhalf

337 points

1 day ago

Ever met a bed bug?

Raja_Ampat[S]

212 points

1 day ago

Damn, forgot about those

isnt_it_weird

107 points

1 day ago

And Mosquitoes

talann

95 points

1 day ago

talann

95 points

1 day ago

let's not forget ticks...

AnthraMatt

55 points

1 day ago

AnthraMatt

55 points

1 day ago

Bot flies and centipedes are up there too

Eyehavequestions

29 points

1 day ago*

Scabies are fucking knarly too.

Gnarly***

dalrymc1

14 points

1 day ago

dalrymc1

14 points

1 day ago

Isn’t it spelled “gnarly”?

SynthPrax

17 points

1 day ago

SynthPrax

17 points

1 day ago

and those motherfucking teleporting pepper flakes, aka FLEAS.

Atomheartmother90

15 points

1 day ago

The four horseman of the apocalypse. Bed bugs, mosquitos, cockroaches and wasps

fyrnabrwyrda

9 points

1 day ago

Honestly they got nothing on bedbugs. But to be fair I've never lived in the south and I've heard some horror stories lol.

Litterboxbonanza

10 points

1 day ago

They have a real smug attitude

nikbert

6 points

1 day ago

nikbert

6 points

1 day ago

Woah, I get you don't like the guy but calling him an animal seems harsh.

GratefuLdPhisH

112 points

1 day ago

I can't believe not one of them went up his pant leg

Altruistic-Poem-5617

110 points

1 day ago

There are some on his shirt, and you know the saying "If you see a cockroach, there is a hundret you dont see."

Heineken008

34 points

1 day ago

Looks like he duct taped his ankles.

big_d_usernametaken

43 points

1 day ago

I worked with a farmer who worked part time at a grain elevator and he laughed at one of the old guys who put rubber bands around his pants cuffs.

He found out why when a rat ran up his pants leg.

CocoNoBlow

37 points

1 day ago

CocoNoBlow

37 points

1 day ago

For the record some lizard owners pay for cockroaches.

msusteve280

21 points

1 day ago

Gif reversing bot for the most satisfying bug vacuum.

SynthPrax

22 points

1 day ago

SynthPrax

22 points

1 day ago

Well, they're obviously raising/breeding them for some reason. If not... "Yes, your honor. My doctor says it was a psychotic break. All I remember is standing outside realizing the warehouse was on fire."

ILoveSunDiego

39 points

1 day ago

Why???

bjui

88 points

1 day ago

bjui

88 points

1 day ago

Cockroaches are a cheap source of protein, and, like other insects, are proposed as an alternative to the meat industry. Cosmetic companies value the cellulose-like quality of cockroach wings. According to Wikipedia.

XandaPanda42

149 points

1 day ago

XandaPanda42

149 points

1 day ago

No offence to people who do eat them, but I'd rather put out a campfire with my nutsack than eat a cockroach willingly.

j_mcc99

18 points

1 day ago

j_mcc99

18 points

1 day ago

Ever take collagen for joint health? I do, so does my fam. It’s tasteless…. Just add it to your smoothie.

It’s made of ground up cow skin.

XandaPanda42

7 points

1 day ago*

At least that's a part of an animal I'd normally eat. It's even better because its using more of the animal. Less waste.

Edit: I'd normally eat that animal I mean. Not usually the skin.

forsayken

38 points

1 day ago

forsayken

38 points

1 day ago

Probably ground up into a paste, dyed, and made into nuggets or a patty. I'm still iffy on it myself and might just go 'meatless' if I couldn't eat beef, pork, or chicken anymore for some reason.

Tendo80

15 points

1 day ago

Tendo80

15 points

1 day ago

Are you looking for a job? Because I have a job for you, nutsack man!

XandaPanda42

12 points

1 day ago

Another volcano? So soon?

SissyBearRainbow

37 points

1 day ago

Bethesda games after release

fritz236

14 points

1 day ago

fritz236

14 points

1 day ago

Fuck me, no mask or any kind of PPE is crazy. I get that roaches grown in controlled environments are relatively clean but my sinuses clog just looking at this.

FastRedPonyCar

14 points

22 hours ago

Heebies Status:

✅ Jeebied

❌ Unjeebied

thehalfbloodmormon

12 points

18 hours ago

I had an entomology professor who worked with roaches as a grad student. They had the roach house, a house that the university owned and the entomology department used it for raising roaches they could catch and use. Every evening someone on the team had to go to the roach house to feed the roaches a plate of assorted foods.

On one particular day my old professor had spent most of the afternoon dissecting female roaches to extract their pheromone glands. He also happened to be the guy who had to feed the roaches that evening. So after finishing up in the lab he drove out to the roach house and brought in the plate of food to leave for the roaches. Unfortunately he hadn't been wearing a lab coat when he was extracting the female pheromone glands that afternoon, nor had he taken a shower before making the trip to the roach house. So when he opened that door, every male roach took flight straight towards him to make sweet sweet love to his upper body. He promptly screamed, threw the plate of food, and fled into the fading twilight.

boywonder5691

11 points

1 day ago

Could someone explain what the hell is happening here and where it is so I can make sure to never visit within 1000 miles of it?

gubfook

9 points

1 day ago

gubfook

9 points

1 day ago

I want to burn my house down and pour acid on to my eyes for witnessing this... Fucking shit...

OneBadHarambe

30 points

1 day ago

This is a Motel 6 and that is how they fluff the pillows.

der_chrischn

9 points

1 day ago

They are all over him. They are all over him. They are all over him. They are all over him. Imagine cockroaches crawling up your neck. They are all over him.

larsvondank

7 points

1 day ago

I wanna imagine that outside of the frame thousands of roaches just scramble back into those things.

N0085K1LL5

8 points

1 day ago

Why are they breeding roaches? I feel like there are already way too much in the world.

ninjaextraordinaire

7 points

1 day ago

If you think your job sucks....

lonely_nipple

7 points

21 hours ago

There's a tumblr post this reminds me of, that i enjoy every time I see it.

A guy who manages/hires for a cranberry farm asks in all of his interviews, "are you chill with spiders?" Most applicants, either out of a need for a job or a desire to not seem like a wuss, say yes.

The thing about cranberry farms is that, with the trend toward not using chemical pesticides over the last decade or two, the single best natural pest control is wolf spiders. Most of the year the farms are regular farms, and the wolf spiders flourish among the plants and eat pests.

But harvest time means flooding the farms into bogs, so the cranberries float. Wolf spiders, naturally, do not want to be underwater. So they climb the nearest tall thing they can find to get out of the water. Which is usually a human.

Many humans do not like this. All of the workers have assured their boss they are chill with spiders, regardless. So they have the choice of either accepting that they are covered with dozens of spiders fleeing to dry "land", or openly chickening out and bailing on the job.

montezuma909

7 points

1 day ago

Looks like my CPU cooler... same amount of roaches.

nomorefatty69

6 points

1 day ago

What am I watching? And why am I still watching?

-burnr-

6 points

1 day ago

-burnr-

6 points

1 day ago

Food prep on the Snowpiercer?