Salted Cockroaches are said to have an agreeable flavour which is apparent in certain popular sauces.
Two Cockroaches had their palps (maxillary and labial) removed; two others had the antennæ removed.
Among these mesozoic Cockroaches are some of very peculiar aspect; one, Blattidium (see figure of B.
The observation of live Cockroaches has satisfied us that the palps are constantly used when the Insect is active, whether feeding or not, to explore the surface upon which it moves.
It is an obvious objection that Cockroaches and other Insects in which the rectal bands are well developed do not take water into the intestine at all.
A third distinction between palæozoic and modern Cockroaches is found in the veinlets of the anal area.
Now there are a considerable number of winged insects--cockroaches and grasshoppers for example--in which the observable changes are also comparatively slight.
Cockroaches are cannibals, practically and by profession.
That cockroaches are cowards, no one, I suppose, will think of disputing.
Mephistopheles, as the captain not inaptly called him, knew me, however, and took his cockroaches from my hand, although perfectly frantic when any one else went near him.
Cockroaches are of two principal kinds--the small, nearly an inch long; and the large, nearly two and a half inches.
There were swarms of cockroaches and rats on board; the cockroaches huge beasts, three times the size of those that overran the kitchen at home; the rats seeming as large as the rabbits he had been wont to shoot on the farm.
The cockroaches themselves were invisible; only the little flames they carried could be seen, which seemed to be all alive.
He drew out the bag from under his bed, took the cockroaches one by one, and by means of a short, sharp needle fastened a little wax taper on the back of each.
He went down into the cellar, which, communicating as it did with a baker's next door, was full of cockroaches drawn thither by the smell of the sacks of flour.
It was very active at night, giving vent at intervals to a hoarse cry, like the suppressed bark of a dog, and scampering about the room after cockroaches and spiders.
Cockroaches swarm everywhere; but the fire-ant is, for its size, probably the most terrible of created beings.
The Ampulex compressa, which drags about the larvæ ofcockroaches into which it has implanted its eggs, belongs, to the same family.
The floor was dirty, the mattresses only a little less so, and cockroaches scurried for cracks.
He made quick little rushes, but the cockroaches always escaped.
Grown accustomed to the candle light, the cockroaches came out of their cracks and scurried across the floor.
Whenever we take up a paper or a book, we are sure to find two or three cockroaches under it--not such cockroaches as you may see in England, but great ones three or four inches long.
A drove of cockroaches scuttles wildly over my warm mattress as I arrive.
The mate appeared, drove off the cockroaches cheerfully, examined the sandwiches for inconspicuous deer, opening each to make sure, and then muffled himself with one.
But a rat came and bothered me, and shortly afterward a procession of cockroaches arrived and camped in my hair.
The sun was paying its brief morning visit to the kitchen and pantry when she reached there, but a few cockroaches scuttled away before her and made her utter a hysterical little scream.
She had never there and had paid no attention whatever to Louisa's complaints that the kitchen and Servants' Hall were small and dark and inconvenient and that cockroaches ran about.
But to go out of one's room in the horrible stillness and creep downstairs, having to turn up the gas as one went, and to face the basement steps and cockroaches scuttling away, would be even more impossible than to starve.
She shed tears and choked as she described her journey into the lower regions and the cockroaches scuttling away before her into their hiding-places.
More than that, numbers of other cockroaches came to see what was the matter; and they never left off coming.
Mrs. Burton was not at all afraid of the bulls, but when some cockroaches invaded her apartment she got on a chair and screamed, though even then they did not go away.
The cockroaches were fed once a week or so to the giant crab spiders.
Field Work Notes: Spiders These days most of us use Baygon or some other synthetic poison to control cockroachesand other pests.
A few rolls of paper can be placed vertically inside the box for the cockroaches to climb on.
At the end of the course, I practically prepared a vermi-bed and also ate a few earthworms and cockroaches for experience!
There were also cockroaches bred in buckets with rolled cardboard in the centre and broken biscuit pieces thrown in the bucket.
Dr Vijayalakshmi has been doing research on rearing spiders as a biological weapon for controlling cockroaches and her workplace is full of spiders of various types, all in bottles, and bred under her supervision.
It only makes cockroachesor pests immune or resistant to such poisons.
I remember the cockroaches of the old Albion--they were so tame that they would eat out of your hand.
The blackbeetles were first, and had possession of underground London, but the cockroaches followed, disputed the right of territory, and thus the war began.
The latest reports from the seat of war assert that the cockroaches are victorious all along the line as far as Regent's Park.
Yet sailor superstitions are as hard to kill even in these gorgeous up-to-date liners as it is to exterminate the rats in the hold or the cockroaches in the larder.
Then again another acute and startling outbreak, a swift upgrowth of monstrous weedy thickets, a drifting dissemination about the world of inhumanly growing thistles, of cockroaches men fought with shot guns, or a plague of mighty flies.
Ralph would have enjoyed this time much but for the pest of cockroaches which now swarmed over them and their belongings.
It only struck me that cockroaches are a peculiar kind of pets, but it is every man's own business if he chooses to let them sleep in the folds of his shirt.
We will try to preserve the skins of one or two with carbolic powder, though I fear that your friends the cockroaches will get at them.
All night, fleas and cockroaches disputed with us for its possession, and we rose in the morning, unrefreshed, to a day's ride in the rain.
The conditions of the steamer were unchanged, but they had grown familiar to us, and even the cockroaches no longer intimidated me.
In India we had escaped insects and reptiles; we were very fortunate also in Burma, with only a few singing lizards in Ceylon; but on this steamer the cockroaches which appeared at night were marvellous in size and blackness.
It was very active at night, venting at frequent intervals a hoarse cry, like the suppressed barking of a dog, and scampering about the room, to the length of its tether, after cockroaches and spiders.
There was a break in the wall of his closet; the plaster had fallen away, and a chink allowed the cockroaches from his room easy access to the closet of the adjoining room.
If Mrs. Hinkley noticed him, she said nothing; perhaps it was not a part of her professional policy to draw attention to cockroaches on the premises.
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