Talk:Madagascar hissing cockroach

message: "They are unable to hurt humans in any way". Perhaps this statement should be modified, it's quite a bold statement.  Let's say someone saw one and was so scared, they ran off a cliff and died.  OK, that's indirect.  But what if the sight of a cockroach scared someone so much they had a heart attack and died.  Hmm.  OK, I've got a good one.  One crawls into a guy's mouth and gets stuck in his throat, causing him to choke and die.  There.  This proves it's a bad statement. -Jaardon (talk) 21:03, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: 88 is missing the point. Jaardon is absolutely right in that such a universal statement is most likely false.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.113.25.252 (talk) 06:07, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, while it's true that they do not bite, their thorny legs can actually scratch hard enough to draw blood if they try to escape (especially when handling large males).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:1205:507B:4DE0:218D:EAD4:876:B61C (talk) 13:35, 12 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  '''Bold''' Statement 

message: This needs to be dissected, edited and pasted into this article. pschemp | talk 20:07, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Nope, sadly it is not a hoax, I recall seeing that on the tv news. Húsönd 14:01, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Info from main Cockroach article

message: Someone Please Change the Picture to http://www.crossroadsranchandrodeocompany.com/mediac/450_0/media/Madagascar_Hissing_Cockroach03.jpg  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.120.66.56 (talk) 19:21, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Can Someone Please Change the Picture

message: Article says "As in some other wood roaches ..."I just made wood roach redirect to Cryptocercus.The usage of the term "wood roach" for Gromphadorhina portentosa would appear to be a different or wrong usage. Comments? -- Writtenonsand (talk) 21:40, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Wood roach"? 

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message: The line: "Raw cockroaches contain a mild neurotoxin that numbs the mouth and makes it difficult to swallow" does come from the listed source Andrew Zimmern's field guide to exceptionally weird, wild, & wonderful foods : an intrepid eater's digest  but I have been unable to find any other sources for this so far, and a novelty book is probably not the world's best source on the chemical composition of a cockroach. Multilocus (talk) 19:39, 22 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Any sources on the cockroach neurotoxin?