LIVE cockroach in Futurelife cereal

[DMNknight]

On leave today, aren't we?

The Ockhams razor being that I have plenty of time?

The simpler answer is, it really didn't take that long to compile as most of the heavy lifting was done in previous posts.
I also have a vested interest in how amazing it is how invested people are in their own cognitive biases.

 

[lumeer]

After them basically telling me it's all fault and they couldn't possibly be to blame I sent them the following mail.

View attachment 573073

It would give some context if you also posted your original email to them, and their response.

 

[wizardofid]

Well I don't know. Found a spider in a packet of Simba crisps once. Was sealed and it was the exact yellow of the crisps. So it's possible for insects to survive as they use very little air but roaches probably don't have a long enough lifespan to survive for months from production to liberation.

I did some reading, apparently most spiders can go without food and water for long periods of time, it depends entirely on the species the length would be different to each specie .A wolf spider need as little as 100 mircoL an hour of oxygen to survive, a sealed cup has about 0.236L of oxygen which means it will have enough air for 98 days and can live without food for at least 50 odd days.

This generally true for species that find them self in extreme habitats.

Even considering all the facts I do have to say I find your story little hard to believe, the packet of crisps had to have a leak, chemicals used in crisps would have sucked the spider dry, nitrogen gas is added to the bag meaning air is removed meaning right after it was sealed it needed to vent the gas immediately and be replaced immediately with the same volume of air.

Chips would have been stale, even with a small leak nitrogen gas would have needed to escape first before air could have entered.

Unless you have physical proof, your story is also pretty much a myth, the way crisps is produce and packaged odds are astronomical, additionally you described it yellow about the same color of the chips. That limits to a select few species and majority of them are garden species and quite large.

So no I don't believe you found a living spider in your crisps a dead one sure but living not a chance....

 

[Polymathic]

View attachment 573677

Explanation 1: Cockroach was introduced into packet by the manufacturing process
Assumptions:
Cockroach lived in a sealed bag without water: False
Cockroach lived in a sealed bag without Air (Oxygen,Nitrogen) : False
Cockroach is not a natural inhabitant of the neighborhood: Questionable
Cockroach had no access into the bag: False
Cockroach cannot climb a cupboard to the height at which the bag was stored at : False

The following is logically obvious:
The cockroach would need air to breathe, water to drink
OP has no stated Entomology degree or education
Access to bag is True. An unsealed box lid is unlikely to present much of a barrier to a determined roach
Opening in bag is big enough to let the roach out, so it was big enough to let it in.
"Surfaces Cockroaches Can Climb. Unfortunately, many of the materials used in home construction — wood, drywall, brick and stone — offer cockroaches plenty of gripping surfaces, enabling them to climb vertically and walk upside down on a ceiling " from a quick google search.

Explanation 2: Cockroach entered the bag after the box was opened and a hole cut in the bag
Assumptions:
Cockroach was able to get into bag through hole: True (evidence in video) and if it came out through the hole, it could go in.
Cockroach was able to climb the cupboard: True

Therefore, the simplest explanation is more likely seeing as the evidence of the assumption is wrong on many levels while the simpler assertions hold to be true.

Remedial action: Suggest OP climb off moral high horse and buy tupperware for sealing opened goods, at the very least get a washing peg.

Dunno, the OP might end up with a protein deficiency if he starts storing his open food packets in containers.