Dr. Dominic Evangelista

Eventually they'll find food.

We can keep the floors clean and clean up after ourselves, but eventually they'll find some kind of food, whether it's like

the glue holding a book binding together or just dead skin.

They can't survive just on that stuff, but they could eat anything for the most part.

They seem indestructible because we try to get rid of them and they just won't go away.

They need us, those pest cockroaches.

They probably need us because the American cockroach, our classic pest cockroach, is pretty much everywhere, but it's not out in nature for the most part.

Really?

Yeah.

It's sticking to human habitations.

Yeah.

So this was a little bit debated.

The American cockroach probably came from Africa, somewhere in Africa.

The German cockroach, I think, is from Southeast Asia.

And we think that they've probably been with us for a very long time.

Unfortunately.

Yeah.

I mean, I don't like pest cockroaches either.

I was doing field work like two years ago and I was in a very bad hotel and

And I got woken up in the middle of the night because there was a cockroach biting, like, my lower back.