If we could eradicate the cockroach, that is, completely wipe them out, how would it affect our eco-system?

Question

How would it endanger the earth?

Answer 1

By the poison you used to kill them! Or you are planning to invent an automatic cockroach killer shoe?

Cockroaches are harmless... ugly but harmless.

Answer 2

it wouldnt...i dont think theyre useless and they scare the living **** out of me

Answer 3

you would be knee deep in left over food .........     they are natures clean up crew and very nessacary to the whole world

Answer 4

Then NOTHING would be alive after they Nuke the Planet!

Answer 5

Actually species are killed out world wide yearly and it has not really caused too many problems so if all 5,000 breeds of cockroaches were gone I don't think anyone would miss them.It would not endanger the earth at all,it would change some other animals eating habits for awhile they would adapt.

Answer 6

Cockroaches help to get rid of garbage, and they're food for other animals, so it would be bad to wipe them out. But I definitely don't want them in my house!

Answer 7

yes, everything on earth is connected in a food chain. obviously, some types of animals eat cockroaches and without them they'd probably die out. and also cockroaches probably feed on pests that would multiply out of control without them

Answer 8

it would not have much of an effect,roaches have evolved to the point that they are more of an indoor pest than an outdoor pest.Look up NOTHING feeds on the German or brown banded roaches they are a structural pest.They carry many disease's dangerous to man.Unfortunately anything strong enough to kill them would do untold harm to the environment but if you could magically make them disappear  no tears would be shed and i make my living killing them as an exterminator

Answer 9

Seen as a disgusting, troublesome pest, few if anyone see any positve reasons for their existince.  SO we probably wouldn't really know what kind of affect it would have until affter their anillation. Which by then if there were any positive reasons for their existince, it would be too late to do anything about it..

Answer 10

Everything is there for a reason.  It would be impossible to determine all the side affects of exterminating all cockroaches.  The good thing is that they are so adaptable that it would be pretty much impossible.

Answer 11

Not much i dont think.  I mean what do they do to help.

Answer 12

There would be nothing left to repopulate the Earth in the event of a world wide nuclear holocaust. Other than that, I can't think of anything negative that would occur.

Answer 13

everything here for reason even them nasty bugs