Cockroach

Dung beetles are insects.

You cockroach!

Is it safe to eat cockroaches?

And cockroaches, as anyone who's tried to get rid of them knows, have become really immune to the poisons that we're using.

I'll guarantee you of that. You see that cockroach?

There's so many cockroaches around...

The most terrifying living being, the praying mantis.

You'd have to spend half the night shooting' cockroaches.

This poison is very effective in getting rid of roaches.

She's changed, she's changed for sure.. Damn girl

You disgust me but I don't like squashing bugs.

This lovely creature is an Asian cockroach.

When you touched the cockroach leg, what did it feel like?

Got any oil or butter in this cockroach trap?

The cots are only 50 centavos a night.

She's like a cockroach what turned into a butterfly!

I have no idea of what comes next, so I just used robotic and natural cockroaches as the future, as a little warning.

And this is a spearing mantis shrimp, or stomatopod.

And if folding a single praying mantis from a single uncut square wasn't interesting enough, then you could do two praying mantises from a single uncut square.

But if you are naughty and idle... you shall sleep in the kitchen amongst the black beetles ..

Professor, tell me what all these spiders, bisons and mantises mean.

And mantis shrimp are called mantis shrimp after the praying mantises, which also have a fast feeding appendage. And I started to think, well, maybe it will be interesting, while listening to their sounds, to figure out how these animals generate very fast feeding strikes.

When you touched the cockroach leg can you get the microphone for him?

You get a folded shape in this case, a cockroach.

I'm passing some cockroaches around. Take a look at their feet.

No problem for the cockroach they can grow them back, if you care.

This was how mantis shrimps make these very fast strikes.

I bet my friend 100 that he wouldn't eat a live cockroach. I lost!

So you're looking at roughly one percent of the brain of a cockroach.

Where everything was displayed in poorly labeled roach proof bins.

This is a death's head cockroach. This is an American cockroach you think you don't have in your kitchen.

It's what made you smack your baby brother, stamp on a cockroach, scratch your mother.

Maybe we could give it to our curator and see if he'd be brave enough to touch the cockroach.

This is a recording I made of a mantis shrimp that's found off the coast of California.

They were often kept three to a cell, sleeping on the floor, struggling with cockroaches and suffering poor hygienic conditions owing to lack of water.

You can do another experiment where you can take a cockroach with a foot, and you can remove its foot.

So, actually, I started working on what's called the mantis shrimp a few years ago because they make sound.

Or is it the amplified sound of a synapse firing in the brain of a cockroach?

So, mantis shrimp come in two varieties there are spearers and smashers.

People tap in and they have thieves who are called grillos or crickets, and they steal the electrical power and wire the neighborhood.

And what you're seeing here is a bait box with a bunch of like the cockroaches of the ocean there are isopods all over it.

So this is a mantis shrimp. There are the eyes up here, and there's that raptorial appendage, and there's the heel.

And what he showed in mantis shrimp is that they use what's called a catch mechanism, or click mechanism.

Now, this is pattern thinking. That praying mantis is made from a single sheet of paper no scotch tape, no cuts.