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Cockroach Facts Even YOU Didn't Know!
Posted On 10/31/2009 20:08:41 by CockroachMonster

Some random posts from my informative Twitter, found HERE:

- Cockroach ears, called subgenual organs, are located in the knee joints.
- A cockroach breaks wind every 15 minutes - it also continues to release methane for 18 hours after death.
- Male roaches have 3 talon-like genital hooks, the longest of which is designed to clamp onto the female's abdominal tip during mating.
- Attaphila fungicola is a 3/32" long roach which lives in the nests of leaf-cutting ants & feeds on the fungi that the ants cultivate.
- Mastotermes darwiniensis is thought to be the descendant of the wood roach. It exhibits more roach-like traits than any other termite.
- In ancient Greece, physicians routinely mixed cockroach entrails with oil & roses, stuffing the goop into patients' infected ear canals.

As always, correct me if I'm wrong! I've taken most of these facts from respected sources, but some are just from the internet or from books that may be unreliable. You must Follow the Twitter account to read more - I update at least once a week, so this is a very small fraction of the estimated 50 facts so far since May 28th. :)

I try to make sure most of the facts are obscure enough to keep even the biggest proclaimed roach gurus intrigued. This isn't a simple task,  so if you have any roach facts to add, feel free to suggest! I still have mounds of notebooks crammed with roach facts I've accumulated throughout the years, however, so this is something I plan to keep up for a long time to come even without help.

Tags: Cockroach Facts Roach Twitter Blattaphile Trivia



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From: VespidGirl
11/11/2009 17:24:57
Wow... I DIDN"T know that! Awesome!


From: spiderdan
11/02/2009 20:12:17

love the random facts....

how do i follow this twitter account?

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