He feels sorry for them, and instead catches them and places them outside.Of course, he lives out in the country surrounded by rice fields, where he has an advantage I will never have—a resident Huntsman spider in his back garden, nearly ten centimetres across, who takes care of any cockroaches it comes across. As for me, my war against cockroaches has not come without a cost. The other day, doing my regular morning roach motel inspection, I noticed something quite un-cockroach-like stuck in a glue trap.