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[-] rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 year ago

Never had any cockroaches (do they even exist in Germany?) but I have those from time to time in my basement. Not sure what they eat there.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Go to the USA Southern States if you want to see cockroaches. Holy shit, man! The warm weather and humidity are like steroids to them. They get as big as a mouse, and they don't care if you have the cleanest building in the world, they're still going to invade and wake you from your sleep by crawling on your face.

[-] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Those American Cockroaches don't breed indoors though. They are transients and are relatively benign compared to the German roaches which will fine the single square mm of your home without pest treatment and then evolve resistance to it.

[-] Fosheze@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

They eat anything that is smaller than they are legs included. They'll eat anything from bed bugs to spiders. I even saw one chewing of a wasp at one point.

[-] higgsboson@dubvee.org 16 points 1 year ago

I mean...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_cockroach

To be fair, they really originated elsewhere, but Germany certainly has cockroaches. I think Germany is probably too cold for them to be a big problem, though.

[-] Slovene@feddit.nl 24 points 1 year ago

You mean the climate or, like, emotionally?

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Climate. Y’all’re only emotionally cold sober

[-] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

If anyone understands how to eradicate an entire population of organisms via chemical genocide, it's the Germans.

[-] PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

!holocaustjokes@lemmygrad.ml

Edit: Not associated with lemmygrad or anything in those instances. That was just the instance that sounded most likely to have this community.

[-] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Lest we forget

[-] rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

wow, TIL. Never seen them.

[-] Mannimarco@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

There's 100% cockroaches in Germany, there is literally a species of cockroach called "german cockroach"

yeah, they were first believed to have originated from germany; currently science places them as an southeast asian expatriate with a pit stop in NE africa. It's too cold for them to live outside of human settlements in germany, although i'm pretty sure that will change in the next years, and then the name fits at last.

[-] flora_explora@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Depends what you mean by cockroach. I haven't seen the pests around. But there are some smaller ones that are sometimes also found inside the house. I frequently find this one in my home for example, which is really cute <3

[-] rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, I know those. They accidentally end up in houses but they can't survive there, they can only live outside.

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