Answered Jun 9, 2017 ยท Author has 193 answers and 67.8k answer views. No. Not at all. Not even a scratch. Source: http://cubcrafters.com/topcub. See this plane? This is a piper cub. If you were to throw the poor cockroach out of the window, it would fall like 1.5 meters (4 feet). If the plane's flying, that's a whole other story. read more
I figured somewhere, someone had attempted to answer a question like this, so I went Googling. I was right. Nancy Miorelli has a very thorough write up about whether or not cockroaches will splat when falling from high places. The TL;DR answer is, no. To solve this, I took two approaches. read more
Roaches eat everything from plant matter to people food, dead skin cells, garbage and even feces, but their high metabolism turns this appetite into one of the most telltale signs of roaches: a considerable amount of roach droppings. read more