CATDOLL : CATDOLL: What eats cockroaches? Can I keep them alive? (What eats cockroaches? Can I keep them alive?)

1. What kind of spiders can eat cockroaches?

The white-fronted stilt spider, also known as the giant crab spider, can often be seen indoors and outdoors. It specializes in preying on cockroaches and is the largest species of spiders that move indoors. It is a wandering spider that does not weave webs. It has a white horizontal band on its forehead, hence its name. It is distributed in many places in the north and south of my country. This spider is generally active at night, and its main activity areas are kitchens, bathrooms and other places where cockroaches often appear. There have been media reports that when this type of spider is the most ferocious, it can catch 20 cockroaches within 6 hours at night, which can be regarded as one of the animals that are beneficial to humans.

2. Is it efficient to keep a white-fronted spider at home to eat cockroaches?

The white-fronted stilt spider is a non-toxic spider. Even if it is bitten, it will not cause serious harm. It does not make webs. It mainly survives by preying on cockroaches, flies, moths and other insects. It can be considered a beneficial insect. It has a large appetite and can prey on multiple cockroaches continuously. If you let the white-fronted stilt spider live in your home, it will kill cockroaches naturally. The white-fronted stilt spider is easy to raise artificially. It not only eats cockroaches, flies, moths, but also eats small insects such as crickets. It has a good hunger tolerance and can be fed only once or twice a week. Of course, if conditions permit, it is better to feed it every day.

3. What is the correct way to raise cockroaches at home?

1. Insulation: Use greenhouse box cultivation method to maintain the temperature environment at 28-33℃ throughout the year.

2. Water conservation: Water is more important to cockroaches than food. Cockroaches will die if they are deprived of water for 2 days during the nymph stage. Therefore, water should be kept in the tank at all times.

3. Ensure food supply: In order for cockroaches to grow quickly, become strong and have strong reproductive capacity, the feed in the trough must not be cut off, especially at night, they must be allowed to eat enough.

4. Moisturizing: The relative humidity of the environment in which cockroaches live should be above 70%. If it is too dry, spray some water.

5. Keep quiet: Keep cockroaches away from noise and avoid human disturbance.

6. Keep dark: The place where cockroaches are raised should be dimly lit, and they should be raised in a dark room and dark box.

7. Prevent pesticide damage: Cockroaches are very sensitive to many pesticides such as pest control spirit, trichlorfon, dichlorvos, malathion, etc. It is forbidden to use pesticides in places where bees are raised.

8. Disease prevention: Disease prevention includes preventing cockroaches from getting sick themselves and preventing cockroaches from becoming hosts for other pathogens. Pay attention to the environment and food hygiene of cockroaches.

9. Prevent natural enemies: Rats, bats, ants, etc. all eat cockroaches. Pay attention to prevent natural enemies from invading during the breeding process.

4. What animals eat cockroaches? Can they be raised at home?

The natural enemies of cockroaches include spiders, scorpions, centipedes, ants, toads, lizards, geckos, etc. There is a bird commonly known as cucarachero, which also preys on cockroaches.

In addition, cats, monkeys, and mice also prey on cockroaches and are their natural enemies. Although biological control is an effective way to eliminate cockroaches, cats are probably the only ones that can be kept at home. Although cats eat cockroaches, it is difficult to catch them. If your home is infested with cockroaches, it is recommended to use cockroach medicine instead of raising some strange creatures.

5. I want to raise a toad to eat cockroaches. Is there anything I should pay attention to?

Note the size of the toad.

Toads are too small to eat cockroaches. Only adult toads can eat cockroaches.

Toads will enter a dormant period in winter due to the low ambient temperature. When breeding them, you can appropriately increase the temperature of the breeding ground in winter to prevent the toads from dormant.

When raising toads, you also need to do a good job of disease and pest prevention. The chance of them getting sick is relatively low, but you need to pay special attention to pests, especially rats or snakes.

6. What pet is best at eating cockroaches?

Spiders, toads, mantises, chickens, ants, lizards, and other carnivorous animals generally eat cockroaches. Cockroaches are omnivorous insects that generally like to hide in very humid, hidden, narrow corners or crevices. They are more sensitive and more difficult to catch.

7. What animals eat cockroaches? Can you raise them at home?

Cats will catch them for fun but won't eat them. Guinea pigs eat cockroaches but they are too slow to catch them. Frogs eat cockroaches and are their natural enemies, so they're not that difficult to raise.

Cockroaches refer generally to insects belonging to the order Blattodea. About 4,000 species have been discovered. Among them, there are dozens of species that invade human homes and several species that are kept as pets and used as pet food. The vast majority of species can only be seen in the wild, mountain streams, forests or insect museums.

The most common cockroaches in the home include the American cockroach, Australian cockroach and the short-winged cockroach, which are about 5.0 cm (1.2 in) long; the smaller ones include the German cockroach, Japanese cockroach and Asian cockroach, which are about 1.5 cm (0.59 in) long. Cockroaches in tropical regions are generally larger.

Household cockroaches are generally nocturnal and afraid of light, while wild cockroaches have positive or negative phototropism depending on the species.

8. Which animal is safest to eat cockroaches?

The white-fronted stilt spider is an expert at eating cockroaches. It is harmless to humans and you can raise one if you are not afraid of it.

2. Geckos will squat outside the cockroach nest and kill the cockroach immediately if it dares to come out.

3. Keep a cat and feed it less food every day. This way, when the cat is hungry, it will have the energy to catch cockroaches to eat.