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Re:Cockroaches becoming resistant to most chemical insecticides by coldtea on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @08:59AM (#20401503)
Getting much faster, flying, or even human-sized?
Re:Cockroaches becoming resistant to most chemical insecticides by petre on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @09:17AM (#20401630)
We could use Tokkay Gekkos to get them. Then the cockroach problem becomes a gekko problem. Then we use a cat and the gekko problem becomes a cat problem.

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

Re:Cockroaches becoming resistant to most chemical insecticides by goda90 on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @10:20AM (#20402168)
No, that's the beautiful part. When winter rolls around, the cats simply freeze to death.
Re:Cockroaches becoming resistant to most chemical insecticides by wumms on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @03:13PM (#20405371)
Since Skinner recommended gorillas: https://youtu.be/P9yruQM1ggc

... I had to check [0]: at least mountain gorillas can survive temperatures below freezing.

[0] https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/mountain-gorilla

Re:Cockroaches becoming resistant to most chemical insecticides by vingiesel on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @02:47PM (#20405092)
To be followed by a similar article, titled "Cats becoming resistant to most winters"
Re:Cockroaches becoming resistant to most chemical insecticides by gdhbcc on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @09:51AM (#20401910)
Is having too many cats a problem though? Looks more like a bonus to me
Re:Cockroaches becoming resistant to most chemical insecticides by sean2 on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @04:47PM (#20406363)
Yes it is; I think you're thinking about healthy, pet cats. I have a couple, I've also worked with the local cat population control group on the pro-cat side.

Too many cat's is a huge problem. They carry unique diseases, most notably those transmissible to your pet cats. Also, toxoplasmosis gandhi which will kill large mammals in an area, including whales. It also infects humans through under-cooked meat. Cat scratch fever. Cats can also transmit whatever local diseases and parasites other mammals carry, but effectively as they tend to live in large colonies close to humans.

Cats murder your local bird populations, which in my area, includes a number of endangered species. I'm sure in other areas, there might be other endangered creatures cats remove.

And finally, there's the typical nuisances of getting into food stores and trash, dying on motorways, feces accumulation (even before considering diseases), and noise complaints.

Further a large feral cat population creates rabid, cat-hating humans which IMHO is also an issue.

Re:Cockroaches becoming resistant to most chemical insecticides by y4mi on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @10:48AM (#20402472)
To many cats results in no birds, resulting in more flying insects