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on water alone or go five months without water. The hardy insect even can live for a few days without its head, tests have demonstrated.
Cockroaches prefer food crumbs and leftovers. They love beer or soft drinks. But in a pinch, they’ll eat anything: the food wrapper itself, soap, glue from book bindings and the pages, TV insulation, even the egg casings from their own offspring.
Marvels of Design
As if this weren’t enough to ensure their survival, roaches are marvels of design engineering. They are brainy enough to learn laboratory mazes and solve problems. They can distinguish light and dark when all five of their eyes have been covered.
Their six legs and flat, oily bodies enable them to escape safely through the smallest opening with incredible speed. The slightest puff of air stirs fine hairs on their antennae, triggering sensory nerves in their legs. The takeoff time of a threatened roach has been clocked at 54lOOOths of a second.
One pair of the insects ma produce 35,000 progeny in a single season. Their natural enemies are centipedes and tarantulas, but few persons care to turn either loose in the house to reduce the cockroach population.
When a Washington radio announcer reported the city’s anti-cockroach campaign, the station was deluged with calls. Listeners offered several suggestions, including the time-honored remedy of setting out a mixture of suga; and baking soda. Roaches eat it and then being hard-shelled creatures, are unable to burp. Instead, they explode.
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