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4 unusual facts about Cockroach


Between Angels and Insects

Cockroaches appear on several occasions, even coming out of Jacoby Shaddix's mouth when he screams.

Competitive eating

In October 2012, a 32 year old man, died while competitively eating live roaches and worms in a contest to win a ball python.

Pigment dispersing factor

Using liquid chromotography in conjunction with several biological assays, PDF, was also isolated in the insect Leucophaea maderae, a cockroach.

Scooby-Doo! Music of the Vampire

After solving the mystery of a Cockroach Monster that terrorized a factory, Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy, and Scooby decide to take a much needed vacation.


B. giganteus

Blaberus giganteus, the giant cockroach, one of the world's longest roach species

Chemistro

During the Shadowland storyline, Chemistro was seen as member of Flashmob (a group of former opponents of Luke Cage consisting of Cheshire Cat, Commanche, Dontrell "Cockroach" Hamilton, Mr. Fish II, and Spear) when they confront the new Power Man on the rooftop.

Darin Morgan

Morgan wrote two additional episodes of The X-Files, the absurdist cockroach invasion story "War of the Coprophages" (originally aired on January 5, 1996) and the famously convoluted "Jose Chung's From Outer Space" (April 12, 1996), as well as contributing an uncredited rewrite to "Quagmire" (May 3, 1996).

Dinotefuran

Dinotefuran is an insecticide of the neonicotinoid class developed by Mitsui Chemicals for control of insect pests such as aphids, whiteflies, thrips, leafhoppers, leafminers, sawflies, mole cricket, white grubs, lacebugs, billbugs, beetles, mealybugs, and cockroaches on leafy vegetables, in residential and commercial buildings, and for professional turf management.

Eublaberus

Eublaberus distanti (Kirby, W. F. 1903): The six spotted cockroach or Trinidad bat cave cockroach

Fine Arts Films

Shinbone incorporated the talents of some of the original cast, including Eddie Bracken as Archie the cockroach, Carol Channing as mehitabel, and John Carradine as Tyrone T. Tattersol.

Insect Fear Film Festival

These have included insect invasions, as exemplified by The Naked Jungle and The Swarm, metamorphosis, cockroaches, mosquitos, and entomologists themselves.

Laboulbeniomycetes

Herpomyces periplanetae is a very widespread parasite on the antennae of adult cockroaches in the genus Periplaneta, like the common American cockroach, Periplaneta americana.

Lucihormetica luckae

Lucihormetica luckae is a species of giant cockroach (Blaberidae).

Michael Allen Austin

Martina the Beautiful Cockroach, by Carmen Agra Deedy (Peachtree Publishers, 2007) ISBN 978-1-56145-399-3

Pogona

Crickets are the most popular insects fed to bearded dragons, but they can also be fed other insects such as black soldier fly larvae, locusts, superworms, waxworms, silkworms, butterworms, grasshoppers, hornworms, and even some varieties of roaches.

Roach bait

The active ingredient Fipronil .05% disrupts the insect central nervous system, leading to the cockroach’s death in 6 to 24 hours.

Saltoblattella montistabularis

Saltoblattella montistabularis or leaproach is a new species of cockroach, from the Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa, discovered in 2009.


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