In a video shared to YouTube, Matthew Frye, an entomologist with New York State Integrated Pest Management says that cockroaches “aren’t actively looking to get into a human ear. In general, a lot of the time that an organism would crawl into an ear is because they’re looking for a dark, protected place.”
Unfortunately, though, he adds that cockroaches are probably the most common pest to wind up in people’s ears.
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According to the Canadian government website, cockroaches generally don’t tolerate the cold very well, so (thankfully) they are not as prevalent in Canada as they are in other parts of the world.
We’re not totally in the clear, however — they do warn that the pests have been found in buildings as far north as Nunavut.
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