With happy sternness, we men and women of the twenty-first century cast a jaundiced eye on romantic Wordsworthian fictions. We understand nature's random, anarchic, and lethal power. The roaches covered the floor, thousands of them, and they were dying all over me. I leapt up screaming, my shout open throated and horrified. THE WEB Nature has its own plan for world domination.
Salon reports on the bug's life.
To hear an adult cockroach hiss, visit Cockroach Information. As for Goff's A Fly for the Prosecution , it's hard not to start out loving a book that uses an image of two intertwined maggots as a design element. Ah, if only maggots were enough. Goff is a forensic entomologist in Hawaii. Isn't it pretty to think so.