Many are worried about the question of where the cockroaches have gone. By turning on the light in the kitchen, people no longer see insects hurrying away. Nobody fumbles around the trash can. The owners carelessly, out of habit, leave a bowl of cookies on the table. And some have even almost forgotten what these insects look like.
Finally, the pests that carried a bunch of pathogenic microbes into human dwellings no longer bother. But something prevents people from rejoicing and enjoying freedom, strange doubts plague them. Can a person feel completely safe in buildings, from where even insects leave? This question has been asked more and more often lately.
Indeed, maybe all this is not good? After all, cockroaches, who are masters of survival even in adverse conditions of existence, could not go anywhere without a good reason.
Scientists are puzzled, psychics are puzzled, disinfectants are bored. There are a lot of explanations for this phenomenon, and some of them are quite unexpected ...
Let's take a closer look at the suggested explanations.
The cockroaches couldn't stand the electromagnetic radiation?
One of the most reliable explanations for why cockroaches disappeared is the constant high-frequency electromagnetic effect on them in human dwellings. Residential buildings and institutions are crammed with a variety of equipment. When working, it forms an electromagnetic field, which creates unfavorable conditions for the life of cockroaches.
Here are the devices that researchers are ready to name the culprit behind the death of cockroaches:
- Cell phones.
- Microwaves.
- Computers.
In recent decades, such devices have become part of our life. The issue of their safety for humans and animals is still being discussed, and there are more and more arguments about the harmful effects of radio frequencies every year.
Scientists suggested that the Prussians, with their inherent sensitivity, were the first to react to electromagnetic radiation, so they left the cities, left the high-rise buildings in which they were so comfortable before.
It was noticed that for some reason there are no cockroaches in those regions where the previous GPRS and GSM standards are in effect. These include Russia and most of the countries of the Near Abroad.
Food quality
Increasingly, the media are bringing scary facts about the quality of food to their audiences. There are rumors about biologically active substances that can completely destroy the human immune system. Examples of harmful food additives used in baking and food preservation are given. Journalists argue that humanity is slowly but surely destroying itself. Why did the cockroaches leave? Yes, they simply could not stand the diet that the population of our country has been following in recent years. But is it really so?
Specialists in sanitary and epidemiological surveillance are skeptical about this version. First, one should remember about food quality control, which is carried out by the state. Secondly, cockroaches are remarkable for their vitality and are able to survive in the most unfavorable conditions. It is not for nothing that huge funds were allocated for the invention of more and more poisons - the Prussians instantly adapt to the poison and do not react to it as before.
Are GMOs to blame for the death of cockroaches?
People are worried for a reason, where did the cockroaches go, because they ate our supplies? Increasingly, genetically modified foods began to appear in the human diet. Is this what is designed to save humanity from hunger or what will ultimately destroy it?
More than one large-scale experiment in reputable laboratories is devoted to the study of the safety of GMOs (genetically modified organisms, primarily for agricultural purposes). And the first results are not comforting.
Most experts sound the alarm. Missing cockroaches? This is a trifle compared to the consequences of interference with the genetic code. They are difficult to predict. All links of the food chain suffer: an insect that has tasted a product of genetic engineering, a duck that ate an unfortunate insect, a mammal whose victim was a bird.
Unfortunately, while the harm of this or that product is proven, more than one generation of people will suffer. Researchers are convinced that cockroaches have disappeared as a result of systematic food poisoning from the human table. I wouldn't want to be the next victim.
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Created the perfect insecticide that kills cockroaches
People who are tired of fighting unpleasant synanthropes want to believe that cockroaches have disappeared forever. Probably, the workers of the disinfection stations began to work perfectly and, armed with a powerful insecticide, rid the apartments of insects, just as doctors defeated smallpox through vaccination.
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That is why there are no cockroaches in Moscow. Chemicals for a long time and often to no avail were scattered and sprayed by people in their own homes, but the moment came when new advanced technologies made it possible to create drugs that are many times more effective than the previous pesticides.
This is what worries skeptics. Insects sooner or later adapt to any poisons, and it is highly doubtful that certain unique insecticides capable of finally destroying them already exist. It looks like the cockroaches just gave us a break.
Science does not stand still. Despite the successes achieved, scientists are preparing for the next stage of the battle with insects. The new weapon, according to their calculations, will lead to the fact that cockroaches living in human dwellings will finally die out completely.
High Hope's Medium Is A Virus - the causative agent of a deadly infection, fortunately, exclusively among cockroaches. It attacks the cells of their digestive tract. Before the insect dies, it has time to transmit the infection to a heap of its relatives. Then people will finally stop wondering where the cockroaches have gone.
Plastic and linoleum were too tough for cockroaches
We ourselves are to blame for the fact that the cockroaches disappeared somewhere. No one can argue that the appearance of modern apartments is significantly different from the conditions in which people lived 20-30 years ago.Paper wallpaper was replaced by plastic panels, and the owners began to hide the wooden floor under a polyvinyl chloride covering, they also learned how to make furniture from artificial materials imitating wood or stone.
Not every citizen of average income will afford expensive repairs using natural raw materials. This led theorists to the idea that it was the excess in the room of synthetics, which often had a pungent odor, that was the reason that the cockroaches left in an unknown direction.
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And one more thing: Do not write off the chalk from cockroaches Mashenka - it really works, we checked it during the experiment ...
Facts confirmed by statistics
At the beginning of this century (2000-2001), there were many reports of the disappearance of arthropod pests. Similar phenomena were observed in Russia and some European countries. Several applications were received from companies that sell insecticidal preparations. Their profits fell by about 50%.
Entomologists noted that the parasite population recovered over the next 10 years. New species have appeared that people have not previously met. The list included exotic species.
For about 7 years, the Prussians have been absent in almost all apartments of multi-storey buildings in St. Petersburg.
The main reason for the disappearance of domestic cockroaches is human well-being. This reason was noted by researchers. As soon as human well-being improves, then the number of arthropod pests decreases. Indeed, in this case, more effective chemicals are used.
Cockroaches could not stand the competition
The fact that the Prusak gradually ousted the Black Cockroach from human buildings has been known to entomologists for a long time, and they easily interpret this fact. Fertility, rapid maturation, caring for offspring allowed the red cockroach to prevail over its black brother.
But the question of why the Prussians themselves disappeared from the apartments remains open. Could these peaceful creatures eat each other? Cannibalism is not alien to cockroaches. However, it is not so widespread that a whole nosological category of insects ceased to exist. Yes, and, as a rule, flawed individuals are eaten, or clutches of eggs recklessly left in a conspicuous place.
But cockroaches have another rival, claiming the same habitat, - a domestic ant. Some seriously believe that this creature, much better organized and, like the Prussians, omnivorous, has a better chance of winning the competition.
Natural rivalry in the animal kingdom is an integral part of life, a way of regulating the size of a population, the basis of evolution. But still, this is not a very convincing argument explaining where the cockroaches have gone.
Biological version
There is a theory that the Prussians left human habitation, unable to withstand the competition. So, for example, it is known for sure that black cockroaches do not withstand competition with red ones and leave the premises when the Prussians appear.
But who could compete with the ubiquitous Prussians? Perhaps these are house ants - insects with a higher organization and a clear hierarchy of society.
Is the disappearance of cockroaches a harbinger of an economic crisis?
What were the Prussians afraid of? After analyzing the current situation, scientists from different countries came to an unexpected opinion: the cockroaches felt the approach of the economic crisis that broke out in 2008.
This bold conjecture of entomologists is indirectly confirmed. Recently found a huge thriving colony of cockroaches in the Indian state of Goa. No financial cataclysms affect this territory, which is probably why insects live there so freely.Now we know where the cockroaches have gone.
Cockroaches completed their mission on Earth and left
Perhaps the most incredible version of where and why the cockroaches disappeared was put forward by ufologists. They are sure that these insects, living side by side with humans for thousands of years, are space spies. Pretending to be stupid creatures, they were able to obtain comprehensive information about the life of Homo sapiens, penetrating into the most intimate corners of our life, without needing either passports or passes.
The cockroaches disappeared because now their honorable mission has been completed, they were able to safely leave our homes and return to their planet. Only it is unlikely that someone will provide undeniable evidence incriminating cockroaches in espionage.
Cockroaches will definitely return
It would seem that the cockroaches have nowhere to disappear. Either they were frightened by the bell ringing of the restored churches, the high noise level of megacities, the roofing felts were killed by the E450 food additive, or they flew to their planet - no one knows for certain.
Where did the cockroaches go? This is certainly not the most terrible problem that should worry humanity. According to biologists, the number of insects is characterized by undulating fluctuations. This is a natural process.
And, finally, the most important thing that is designed to reassure suspicious people: it seems that soon a slightly different question will stir up the Internet: why cockroaches have appeared again. Information about their "safe" return to apartments and cottages has already appeared.
They are no longer hindered by renovation, an abundance of mobile phones and modern poison, they are still ready to eat food from our table, including GMOs. No need to be surprised, because cockroaches have proven their ability to adapt more than once ...
Someone's news that the cockroaches have not disappeared anywhere, if not please, then comfort. But you need to think about something else. Will the current stasik, as before, be peaceful and fearful, or will people have to deal with a mutant - brave, wiser, resistant to poisons, capable of gnawing the skin of sleeping people at night (there is a lot of evidence that cockroaches do this).
Be that as it may, but a new stage of the struggle for the freedom of the home from insects has begun.
Where did the insects go
Cockroaches are frequent inhabitants of living quarters, they can live in different rooms, but their favorite place is the kitchen.
They crawl in corners, behind baseboards, on dishes, under wallpaper. At night, they start activities, spread infection, spoil food. And from just their appearance it becomes uncomfortable.
However, under the influence of certain conditions, insects can disappear forever. They can leave en masse, which can cause some concern.
Because of this, many often have questions - where did the cockroaches go, is it possible to live in conditions from which even these dangerous parasites fled. After all, something influenced their disappearance, the parasites will not just leave the place of residence.
The mass extinction may be related to the conditions of human well-being. The higher the standard of living, the more funds are spent on disinfection and insecticides.
With a normal income, it is possible to purchase drugs that can quickly kill parasites. But in apartments with poor conditions, many insects are often observed.
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