Dr. Dominic Evangelista

They're super fast.

Their legs are just optimized for sprinting, right?

They're sprinters.

And there's some cool like slow motion video on YouTube of,

cockroaches running and how they coordinate their legs and how they move their legs.

And as they find a ledge, they kind of drag their hind legs and their hind legs will latch onto the ledge and they'll flip around and go underneath.

They're agile runners as well as flyers.

So yeah, regarding that, do they fly?

Do they glide?

Both.

Some of the bigger ones are probably not the most

graceful flyers.

They probably flutter a lot and may not be able to gain much altitude, but they do have pretty big wings.

Yeah, we have evidence suggesting that cockroaches can fly multiple miles at a time.

What?

If that freaks out some of the listeners out there, but these are the forest cockroaches I'm talking about.

So the pest cockroaches are not very good at flying.

will flutter.

If you ever want to know if a cockroach is good at flying, just pick it up and throw it in the air and see what it does.

Yeah, absolutely.