Say you're in the bathroom and you see a cockroach on the ground. Its tentaces are waving in the air and you feel like a cowboy in the wild west as you stare at the glossy body of the insect. What do you do?
My dislike of cockroaches is only second to my dislike of spiders. But I can't help wondering if we should do it just because we can.
For those of you who either leave the room quickly or immediately pick up the nearest shoe to chase it down, there might be something immensely more effective coming to the market soon.
It turns out, men and cockroaches have something in common: they'll both do anything for sex! Some cockroach scientists (imagine having that job) have finally been able to synthetically manufacture the sex pheromone that attracts the males within 9 seconds. Apparently they will drop everything and even risk their lives just to get some action!
If this synthetic pheromone is as successfuly as they think we just might be rid of those pesky little roaches in our homes.
The only question is, what would it be like without them? We don't always think about the impact these little creatures make in our lives, but besides being disgusting and very unsanitary... what role do they play in how our cities look today? (They eat almost everything, if there aren't around to eat those things, would anythign be different?) Would their absence give rise to something even worse? Will killing off all the males be the trick to destroying this species?
If cockroaches could write novels, they may have already predicted this day and the killer machine that would destroy half of their popularion!
My dislike of cockroaches is only second to my dislike of spiders. But I can't help wondering if we should do it just because we can.
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