Roaches as long as your little finger look at us as if meditating a fierce attack, which, if executed, must result in our annihilation.
The cock-roaches hate the light, at least the kind that is most abundant in Britain, (for B.
Unsanitary conditions about the sink not only are unsightly, but attractroaches and breed germs which are a menace to life and health.
Hated to see other roaches mating by the bread-box, perhaps.
The most surprising thing about roachesis that they live several years.
All insects are "bugs" to the vulgar, and even the airy butterfly, creature of grace and light, is put into the same category withroaches and fleas.
In the big nest which I excavated I observed them on the back and heads not only of the large soldiers, but also of the queens which swarmed in one portion of the galleries; and indeed, of twelve queens, seven had roaches clinging to them.
Close examination of some of the craters and volcanic-like cones revealed many species of ants, beetles and roaches searching for bits of food--the scavengers of this small world.
For these pampered, degenerate roaches to find another Atta nest unaided, would be inconceivable.
We have seen how the little blind roaches occasionally cling to an emerging queen and so are transplanted to a new nest.
The strangest of all the tenants were the tiny, amber-colored roaches which clung frantically to the heads of the great soldier ants, or scurried over the tumultuous mounds, searching for a crevice sanctuary.
Several roaches in large cages with material for food and concealment.
When they were done, the aunt said, "Always watch for ants in the pantry, and roaches and water-bugs in the sink.
Roaches come to the sink for food, and you must see to it that they do not find it.
A screen-covered case for spreading-boards is always desirable, as the insects are otherwise very liable to be eaten by roaches or other insects.
Some of the families are attracted to light, as certain of the roaches and green locusts, or Katydids (Locustidae).
The following is said to be effectual: These vermin are easily destroyed, simply by cutting up green cucumbers at night, and placing them about where roaches commit depredations.
What is cut from the cucumbers in preparing them for the table answers the purpose as well, and three applications will destroy all the roaches in the house.
The roaches were still there, and right here a very interesting thing happened.
The first things which I placed in the cage were a number of roaches of assorted sizes.
Phelps (1924) stated "Roaches of different species are rarely found together, although roaches of the same species live together on very amicable terms.
Philadelphia: "The roaches were present literally by the millions.
Both immature and adult roaches are included in this analysis.
All the roaches died after successful inoculation with the Micrococcus.
Collecting and culturing of native wood roaches in Ohio, with some additional notes on their parasites.
Are German and oriental roaches changing their habits?
Gould and Deay stated "American roaches of all sizes live together in perfect harmony.
Roaches and their extermination by the use of sodium fluorid (NaF).
After he had gone the crawling sound of the roaches became audible in the hut, the blowing of the wind over the roof and its knocking against the door in the chimney.
The mother turned about on the bench uneasily; the dense darkness looked straight at her from the window, and the scarcely audible crawling of the roaches persistently disturbed the quiet.
It was like one of the roaches in the storage burrow declaring war on a cook who came in to make the evening meal for Mankind.
A few tumbled bags of food, over which lazy roaches wandered.
One worried about their feelings no more than about those of the roaches scurrying madly about here in the storage burrow.
Of course it had not the least effect, except upon a few roaches which had the misfortune to drink water after eating it, and so got their inwards set in a coating of plaster of Paris.
He gave place to a Norwegian sailor, who had lost half an ear in a drunken brawl, and who proved to be quarrelsome, cursing Jurgis because he moved in his bunk and caused the roaches to drop upon the lower one.
And then, watching his opportunity, he runs in on me and overpowers me and roaches it up some more.
Some say, that Breams and Roaches will mix their eggs and melt together; and so there is in many places a bastard breed of Breams, that never come to be either large or good, but very numerous.
Roaches be accounted much better in the river than in a pond, though ponds usually breed the biggest.
And lastly, let me tell you, the Roach makes an angler excellent sport, especially the great Roaches about London, where I think there be the best Roach-anglers.
Roaches are splendid scavengers, and are a result, and not a cause, of unclean conditions.
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