Leigh writes: Me and my friends wanna know if the myth is true or its just an urban legend that cockroachs eggs spread when u squish them with your shoe and you can spread them around where you walk?
Leigh, You and you friends are possibly responding to the urban paranoia about contracting and spreading cockroaches in ones work and home environments. It seems that they are everywhere and if your apartment or home gets infested one can begin to speculate on how those buggers got into your ‘space’. You have correctly identified it as an urban legend. It is highly unlikely that a cockroach egg case (ootheca) would survive a classic smooth leather soled shoe. But who wears smooth soled shoes these days? If an ootheca was lucky enough to lodge itself into the honeycomb of a sport shoe tread and the person took off the shoe in disgust and threw it in the corner, I could imagine the eggs surviving and the brutal attempt to end their young lives might have failed. However the ootheca and contained eggs are huge and mechanically fairly fragile. Any good mashing should kill them all. I am sorry if I have started another urban legend about the paranoia of passing cockroaches with improper foo
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