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Well cockroaches fly, so there's that.

• jessaustin 8y ago
  It seems that's not their first option, though? I lived over the boiler room as a freshman in college, and they came looking for warmth on a regular basis. My roommate and I would sit around in our underwear with the windows open. (Like I said, it was hot. Probably not the case anywhere else in Boston in the winter!) We got to the point we could squash the bastards from afar by tossing textbooks like frisbees. Not one roach ever took to the air to avoid his fate... Now I'm really wondering. In what circumstances does a cockroach fly?
  • Avshalom 8y ago
    "Palmetto Bugs" tend to take flight a lot... I think. Definitely some roach in Florida flies a lot, which has a habit of freaking transplants out, but I just checked the internet and it implies they don't fly much. So maybe it's American cockroaches that fly and the German Cockroach (the stereo typical roach) that doesn't...
  • gomox 8y ago
    Not all cockroaches fly. It's likely you had the wrong type (or thr right one, if you don't love roaches flying into you).