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Yes, it definitely can.

When I was little, we had roaches (the small ones). Thousands, maybe millions of them. I slept on the floor, too, very near the kitchen. We had only linoleum on the floor, no carpet anywhere. When the lights would be off for awhile, they would all crawl out from under the fridge, entertainment center, stove, etc.. Some of them would crawl on me. Not a night went by in the warm part of the year that I wasn't brushing off cockroaches.

I remember this game I would play with my friends. We would all take off a shoe, and see who could kill the most cockroaches with it in 10 seconds. It was fun. Sometimes I would win money!

I would brush off maybe 50 cockroaches a night. They didn't scare me, and I didn't mind too much having to brush them off.

One morning, I awoke with something in my mouth, between my cheek and gum, that I thought was a piece of bread from a sandwich I had eaten the previous day. I felt it with my tongue. Felt a little weird...then it hit me. A roach had crawled into my mouth when I was sleeping. It got trapped, and I had apparently sucked all the juice out of his body, leaving only the carcass. I remember the taste as I spit it out: kind of sweet, kind of waxy.

On two different occasions, a cockroach crawled into my ear when I was sleeping, waking me up. Both times, I simply put the dull end of a closed safety pin inside my ear, lightly touching the cockroach. This was enough to convince it to crawl out.

After a few nights of being woken up by cockroaches biting me, I decided to stop sleeping on the floor.