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Wednesday, January 05, 2005

Facts about cockroaches

I was pretty interested about cockroaches after tue internet & web tachnologies lesson.
Learnt some facts with wendy that day about pesticide. Now, i'm going to learn ALL about my enemy. They say, "know your enemy like you know yourself". I'm gonna do that.

Well, look at this shocking fact i got of the internet:
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You've probably heard the story about cockroaches surviving a nuclear war: we die but they live! This is supposed to make you feel better when you have trouble getting rid of these critters.
So, the real truth: radiologists have found that humans can safely withstand a one-time exposure of 5 rems (A "rem" is the dosage of radiation that will cause a specific, measured amount of injury to human tissue). A lethal dose is 800 rems or more (people are exposed to about 16 rems during their lifetime).

Insect researchers have found that cockroaches can tolerate a much higher dose -- really higher! The lethal dose for the American cockroach is 67,500 rems and for the German cockroach it is between 90,000 and 105,000 rems (yikes!). In truth the amount of radiation that cockroaches can withstand is equivalent to that of a thermonuclear explosion. So, show a little respect the next time your chasing one through the kitchen with a spray can in your hand!

source: http://www.ipm.iastate.edu/ipm/hortnews/1996/12-13-1996/bomb.html
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Taken from http://yucky.kids.discovery.com/noflash/roaches/pg000332.html

Roaches By the Numbers
6 -- Number of legs on a cockroach
18 -- Number of knees on most cockroaches (at least!)
40-- Number of minutes cockroaches can hold their breath
75 -- Percentage of time that cockroaches spend just resting (how lazy can you get?)
5,000 -- Number of species of cockroaches worldwide
280 million+ -- Years ago that cockroaches are thought to have originated (during the Carboniferous era)

The Legend of the Headless Cockroach
A cockroach can live a week without its head. The roach only dies because without a mouth, it can't drink water and dies of thirst.

Wanna Race?
Cockroaches can run up to three miles in an hour. (Hey, it's no marathon, but it's not bad.)

Thirsty Critters
Roaches can live without food for a month, but will only survive a week without water.
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Other interesting gross facts taken from http://www.agonys.com/facts/cockroaches.shtml

Cockroaches carry over forty different pathogens, which could potentially be transferred to humans. These include plague, pneumonia, typhoid fever, and possibly polio, hepatitis, and other diseases you don't want to get.
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Cockroach crap is one of the causes of asthma.

After food passes the cockroach's mouth parts, it travels backward and the food mixes with spit before they ingest it.

Cockroaches have teeth in their stomachs.
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Cockroaches are among the biggest contributors to global warming, since they break wind every fifteen minutes. Furthermore, they continue to release methane gas for eighteen hours after they die.
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Ok. that is about all. Too disgusted to carry on my research. Ar ar ar ar ar !!!!

8:26 PM
i spilled milk on the lawn