Luckily, roaches don't go out of their way to do this, so it doesn't happen very often. But there are a bunch of other unsavory bugs that will lay eggs all over your body — on purpose.

One female German cockroach can lay around 40 egg cases at once and will lay around 200-250 during her lifetime. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. By signing up you ...

The new species out of China is known to lock its prey away, alive but paralyzed, until its young have hatched.

but they do something no other cockroach does: they give birth to live young. Instead of laying eggs, Diploptera punctata females house their young inside a uterus-like brood sac, and secrete a ...

The debris that accumulates in a drain as well as the dark and sheltered environment creates an ideal breeding ground for sewer cockroaches to thrive and lay their eggs. A common first instinct ...

which targets only cockroaches for its reproductive routine, will sting and paralyze its prey, then use its mandibles to drag it into a nest, still alive, where it will lay eggs on the victim’s ...