Why do cockroaches exist at all?

Cockroaches have a serious public relations problem. There is almost no man in this world who does not despise this creeping chick. But this is OK because Mother Nature loves the cockroaches. After all, mothers are the best, are not they?

In this special edition of DNews Sarah Money responds to a question posed in Reddit about what the cockroaches have for the nature. It turns out that these insects perform several key functions.

First, people perceive cockroaches as home-grown pests. In this world, however, there are about 4500 different types of cockroaches, and 99.7 percent of them live far away and are almost entirely independent of humans and their garbage. In some environments, cockroaches are the role of pollinators for various plants and flowers. It is their eating habits that make them so useful.

Cockroaches can and would eat almost anything. At home, they make their living with the residue of your soap and even glue. Among nature, they are capable of crushing plant parts that are generally ineligible for eating for other animals. Stools play a key role in the carbon cycle in many different ecosystems. By breaking down and throwing things that nobody else wants to eat, they return carbon back into the soil.

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