{"id":1640,"date":"2012-11-21T11:50:12","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T16:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allisonpest.com\/blog\/?p=1640"},"modified":"2012-11-21T11:50:12","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T16:50:12","slug":"cockroach-myth-busted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/21\/cockroach-myth-busted\/","title":{"rendered":"Cockroach Myth Busted!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Cockroaches<\/a> are one of the most feared and hated insects on the planet.\u00a0 It\u2019s not surprising though as cockroaches are known to multiply very quickly and will live in every nook and cranny in a home or business.\u00a0 Cockroaches are known to transmit diseases to humans which make them a particularly dangerous pest to have inside of a structure.<\/p>\n

Cockroaches are known for being stealthy and difficult to kill.\u00a0 A common belief is that if a nuclear war were to occur, cockroaches would be the only surviving life form left on the planet.\u00a0 In an effort to see if this is actually true, \u201cMythbusters<\/a>\u201d ran tests in which they used lethal doses of radiation to see if cockroaches would survive.<\/p>\n

As part of their scientific study, two other insects were also blasted with radiation.\u00a0 Fruit flies and flower beetles<\/a> were also subjected to various doses of radiation to see which, if any, would survive the blasts.<\/p>\n

The interesting news is that all of the insects survived different levels of radiation, except the fruit flies which eventually died from natural causes (did they do a fly autopsy?).\u00a0 Humans that would be exposed to these levels of radiation would be history yet many of the insects survived the radiation blasts.<\/p>\n

The most interesting result however is that despite the thought that cockroaches were the superbug that would inherit the earth in the event of a nuclear war, not necessarily true\u2026or at least they would play second fiddle to another bug that did much better on the Mythbuster tests.\u00a0 As a surprise to everyone, the flower beetles had more surviving members than any other type of insect used in the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cockroaches are one of the most feared and hated insects on the planet.\u00a0 It\u2019s not surprising though as cockroaches are known to multiply very quickly and will live in every nook and cranny in a home or business.\u00a0 Cockroaches are known to transmit diseases to humans which make them a particularly dangerous pest to have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,15],"tags":[25,56],"yoast_head":"\nCockroach Myth Busted! - Allison Pest Control<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/21\/cockroach-myth-busted\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cockroach Myth Busted! - Allison Pest Control\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Cockroaches are one of the most feared and hated insects on the planet.\u00a0 It\u2019s not surprising though as cockroaches are known to multiply very quickly and will live in every nook and cranny in a home or business.\u00a0 Cockroaches are known to transmit diseases to humans which make them a particularly dangerous pest to have […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/21\/cockroach-myth-busted\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Allison Pest Control\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AllisonPestControl\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-11-21T16:50:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.allisonpest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Allison-American-Cockroach.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"back_up\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@allisonpest\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@allisonpest\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"back_up\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Cockroach Myth Busted! - Allison Pest Control","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/21\/cockroach-myth-busted\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Cockroach Myth Busted! - Allison Pest Control","og_description":"Cockroaches are one of the most feared and hated insects on the planet.\u00a0 It\u2019s not surprising though as cockroaches are known to multiply very quickly and will live in every nook and cranny in a home or business.\u00a0 Cockroaches are known to transmit diseases to humans which make them a particularly dangerous pest to have […]","og_url":"http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/21\/cockroach-myth-busted\/","og_site_name":"Allison Pest Control","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AllisonPestControl\/","article_published_time":"2012-11-21T16:50:12+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.allisonpest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Allison-American-Cockroach.jpg"}],"author":"back_up","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@allisonpest","twitter_site":"@allisonpest","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"back_up","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/21\/cockroach-myth-busted\/","url":"http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/21\/cockroach-myth-busted\/","name":"Cockroach Myth Busted! - Allison Pest Control","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/21\/cockroach-myth-busted\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/21\/cockroach-myth-busted\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/www.allisonpest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Allison-American-Cockroach.jpg","datePublished":"2012-11-21T16:50:12+00:00","dateModified":"2012-11-21T16:50:12+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/aa047c69551d6bcf93a19ed154b67d55"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/21\/cockroach-myth-busted\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/21\/cockroach-myth-busted\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/21\/cockroach-myth-busted\/#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/www.allisonpest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Allison-American-Cockroach.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/www.allisonpest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Allison-American-Cockroach.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/21\/cockroach-myth-busted\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Cockroach Myth Busted!"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/","name":"Allison Pest Control","description":"Never Worry About Bugs Again","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/aa047c69551d6bcf93a19ed154b67d55","name":"back_up"}]}},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1641,"href":"http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions\/1641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}