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Wednesday, April 13, 2005
all about roaches...
was msn-ing with jaclyn earlier in the morning, talking about lizards and cockroaches, which spurred me to do a little research on these infernal pests...
so here i present some facts about cockroaches that you may or may not know :)
1. roaches have 2 brains (so do many other insects btw) - 1 in front, the other behind (abs area to be exact). the behind one controls the roach's escape reflex. the hairs on the hind ends actually feels for moving air to alert if a predator is nearby. if yes, the back brain will trigger the legs to carry it swiftly away. the front brain is thinking of sex mostly btw, ;p
2. roaches prefer 25-30 degrees celcius. so if you want your room rid of them, a good bet is to keep your room below 25 degrees, and they will probably move out of your room to your kitchen or something... hehe
3. largest known cockroach is 6 inches long. somewhere in america... i think... ;p
4. a cockroach can live for 30 days with its head cut off. this is because it doesn't need the head to breathe (it uses its body); it doesn't have blood pressure, so it won't die of excessive loss of blood; 1 day meal can last it maybe 30 days. so basically, it will only stand around for these 30 days doing nothing until it dies, or in the meantime if they get infected with mold or bacteria, they will die sooner.
5. lobsters are termed roaches of the sea, because, like their land counterparts, they eat anything and everything organic... sort of like cleaning up the sea bed...
6. roaches tend to be active only for 4 hour stretches in late late nite. the reason why you see cockroaches active other than that 4 hour-period is due to over-population - meaning they have to come out earlier to get food, as the period is not enough for all cockroaches to get food altogether... (now you know how over-populated singapore is with regards to cockroaches! eww..)
view the source for more details on your frenly neighbour!
btw, haven't seen any cockroaches in japan yet.. hehe... good good...
p/s: i prefer to think of this 'research' as gaining some GK rather than chiak zhua-ing
ok it's gross and i am boliao by posting this on my blog. guess what? you are right on both accounts :)
posted by winz at 2:01 PM
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2 Comments:
How about some research on the other topic of your discussion - lizards. :P
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Anonymous, at
4:15 PM
yes yes i just might do it.. maybe in the afternoon! hahaha
By
winz, at
11:41 AM
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