– Why do cockroach die belly up?

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Instead of lying on their bellies.

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Someone asked this not so long ago. The top comment said something along the lines of that it’s not that hey die belly up. It’s that just when they are belly up they are very likely to die of starvation.

They walk on their legs, and there is plenty of space under eat them, so their centre of weight is quite high. If they flop on their back while in the grass or a carper or whatever, they can use their legs to grab something around them and position themselves correctly. But if they die on a flat surface, like an asphalt road, there is nothing they can grab, and so they die.

Edit: found the post/comment I mentioned

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