Question

What are the purpose of cockroaches on earth?

Answer 1

Cockroaches are very disgusting insects and I really hate them and had to deal with the cockroaches in a house I used to live in.

The cockroaches were so disgusting and I could never get rid of them that I decided to just burn the old house down to rid the house of the cockroaches.

The house was an old farm house and I had hired exterminators and did everything I could to get rid of the disgusting cockroaches but nothing seemed to help until I burned the house down.

Cockroaches are pretty beneficial to the earth though because they break down organic waste and in the process, they add nutrients to the soil through their waste.

Cockroaches are also food for some mammals and reptiles.

But I can't stand the cockroaches and will get rid of them whenever I see them.

Answer 2

Most cockroaches feed on decaying organic matter, which traps a lot of nitrogen.

In other words, extinction of cockroaches would have a big impact on forest health and therefore indirectly on all the species that live there." In short, we really, really need cockroach poop.

However if cockroaches did go extinct then the earth could get by just fine in other ways.