### animal | arthropod | insect:

Cockroach
* All cockroaches lay eggs in clusters, glued together within an ootheca.
* Ask a nonallergic person to spray insecticide and put out roach traps.
* Most cockroaches are inside environments
  - habitats
  - homes
  - nocturnal, and during the day are usually found hiding in crevices
  - omnivores
* Most cockroaches are tropical and sub-tropical in origin, generally live outdoors
  - or sub-tropical inorigin and generally live outdoors
  - avoid light
  - begin life
* Most cockroaches carry diseases
  - virulent diseases
  - depend on food
  - develop into adults
  - drink water
* Most cockroaches eat leaves
  - rubbish
* Most cockroaches enter buildings
  - structures
  - feed on food
* Most cockroaches go through gradual metamorphosis
  - has-part wings
* Most cockroaches have a flattened, oval shape, spiny legs, and long, filamentous antennae
  - antennas
  - developmental stages
* Most cockroaches have distinct life stages
  - habits
  - mandibles
  - origins
* Most cockroaches inhabit areas
  - new england areas
  - niche habitats in forests, caves, burrows, or brush
* Most cockroaches invade attics
  - floors
  - regions
* Most cockroaches live for months
  - weeks
* Most cockroaches live in buildings
  - forests, caves, burrows, and brush
  - groups
  - neighborhoods
  - on floors
  - outside and help to decay organic matter
  - up to years
  - love food
  - pose hazards
  - possess bodies
  - prefer locations
* Most cockroaches produce a secretion or chemical that has a repulsive odor
  - raise cockroaches
* Most cockroaches require food
  - seek food
* Most cockroaches show behavior
  - different behavior
* Most cockroaches survive for months
  - long time
* Most cockroaches thrive in habitats
  - houses
  - walk on legs
* Some cockroaches adapt to environments
  - appear in restaurants
* Some cockroaches are inside forests
  - holes
  - nests
  - wood
  - located in kitchens
* Some cockroaches are located on floors
  - walls
  - avoid poison
* Some cockroaches become adults
  - health problems
  - public health problems
  - bite humans
  - carry antigen
* Some cockroaches cause asthma
  - contain substances
  - defend territory
* Some cockroaches eat insects
  - materials
  - other insects
* Some cockroaches enter houses
  - trees
* Some cockroaches feed on decay matter
  - fruit
  - sewage
  - find places
  - give birth to insects
  - go to water
  - has-part glands
* Some cockroaches have black race stripes
  - elaborate structures
  - insect metamorphosis
  - intelligence
  - muscles
  - partial metamorphosis
  - social structures
* Some cockroaches hide in cabinets
* Some cockroaches live for whole years
* Some cockroaches live in Hawaii
  - bark
  - basements
  - earth
  - gardens
  - moist areas
  - rooms
  - sewers
  - on trees
  - lose legs
* Some cockroaches make chirp noise
  - perform jobs
  - play in wood
  - possess substances
* Some cockroaches prefer conditions
  - temperature
* Some cockroaches produce acoustic sound
  - seek water
  - shed skin
* Some cockroaches spread microorganisms
  - survive weeks
* Some cockroaches thrive in apartments
  - corners
* Some cockroaches undergo distinct phases
* Some cockroaches use chemicals
* also cause asthmatic reactions.
* also have a very good sense of touch
  - hard shells, and are invulnerable to poison
  - live in cracks and crevices
  - love living around old stacks of cardboard
  - play an important role in nutrient recycling
  - tend to remain in areas in which there are high concentrations of the pheromone
* are a consideration only in the inner city and southern parts of the United States
  - group of insects that most commonly lay eggs
  - primary allergen
* are active at night, so daytime observation good sign of a heavy infestation
  - also a major household allergen, especially in inner cities
* are among the most common of insects
  - undesirable insect intruders in the home
* are an amazing group animals, some of which make great pets
  - essential part of the ecosystem
* are an integral part of our ecosystem
  - the food chain
  - ancient and highly successful insects
  - are scavengers
  - arthropods, which means they have jointed limbs
* are attracted to sweet and floury foods
  - the presence of other cockroaches
  - black or brown in colour
  - both predators and prey
  - considered pests in several ways
  - coprophagous, which means they eat their own feces and the feces of other roaches
  - dependent on water, so check for small leaks under the sink and seal
  - disgusting and unsightly
  - easily capable of migrating on plumbing from one apartment to the next
* are easy to manage with baits because most baits are readily taken by cockroaches
  - raise in the lab
  - everywhere
  - extremely fast at reacting to the wind created by any external force
  - featured in literature and songs throughout history
  - filthy pests
  - flat, quick-moving insects that are most active at night
  - good climbers
  - humankind's uninvited, desperately unloved houseguests
  - insects that tend to hide and live in the hiding places filled with dirt
* are located in basements
  - closets
  - cupboards
  - miscellaneous insects, aboriginal in the sense that the young resemble the adults
  - more active before a storm
* are mostly active at night, when they forage for food, water, and mates
  - tropical insects
  - multicolored under ultra-violet light
* are nocturnal and spend their days sleeping in narrow cracks and crevices
  - in small populations
* are nocturnal, hiding during the day and becoming active at night
  - so they avoid light and well-lit places
  - nonspecialized insects, primitive in the sense that the young resemble the adults
  - often pests of homes and apartments and can be difficult to control
  - omnivorous and are nocturnal
* are one of the most successful animals known in the evolution of the planet
  - worst allergens
  - persistent and hard to control
  - pests and poise health risks to people
  - poor fliers and unable to cross large bodies of water
* are primarily carbohydrate eaters
  - nocturnal, so they are sensitive to light
  - tropical insects that travel north in shipments of tropical fruits
  - pure instinct, straightforward sentient machines
  - replusive and objectionable to most people simply by their presence
  - scavengers and feed on stray food particles
  - shy insects and like confined spaces
* are the leading cause of asthma in urban youth
  - incidents in urban youth
* are the most important insect pests in Nebraska households and public places
  - repulsive of all household pests
  - susceptible insect to the nematodes
  - then food for many animals, including some humans
  - tougher
  - undisputedly one of the most hated insects on earth
  - usually flat, with a smooth, waxy tough skin
  - vermins
* are very active and can easily move from one area in a building to another
  - common in warm climates and in homes of people living in the city
  - hardy and resistant creatures
  - well renown for their reproductive success
* arrive in a house or dwelling usually by hitching a ride.
* become torpid when the temperature drops too low.
* becoming increasingly resistant to pesticides is an example of disruptive selection.
* bleed white blood.
* breathe through holes in the sides of their bodies.
* breed in dark, damp places.
* can also trigger allergic reactions in some people.
* can be an asthma trigger
  - present in almost any place inhabited by humans
  - cause childhood asthma
* can contaminate food and transmit disease
  - food, carry disease, and induce allergies
  - crawl into some astonishingly small spaces
* can eat electrical cords, glue, soap, paper, and even weaker cockraoches
  - just about anything, and can survive without food for long periods of time
  - enter small appliances through small holes and cracks and live around the motor
  - even defy the law of gravity and crawl across the wall or ceiling
  - foul food and produce an unpleasant odor
  - hold their breath for up to seven minutes
  - inhabit inside the home, outside the home, or both
* can live a month on the glue from a stamp
  - without food but only a week without water
* can live for about a week after they lose their head
  - over a month without food, but only a week without water
  - weeks without their heads
  - lose their head and continue to live for two weeks
  - only run at speeds up to three miles in an hour
  - run up to three miles in an hour
* can survive for up to a month with their heads cut off
  - on unlikely food sources like shoe polish, paint, and soap
  - swim into a home through sewer pipes
  - t swim but they can come in through sewer pipes if the water has subsided
  - transmit a number of diseases such as gastroenteritis and salmonella
  - trigger asthma attacks
* carry at least two kinds of bacteria that cause food poisoning
  - disease and are a potential health hazard
  - diseases like salmonella
* chase each other in all directions.
* come out at night and use long feelers in the dark
  - of their hiding places at night
* consume all types of human food as well as leather, paper, and bone.
* contaminatefood and leave an unpleasant odor.
* control bodies.
* date back to the Carboniferous period.
* detect approaching threats by sensing changes in air currents
  - the food odor, enter the trap, and become immobilized by the adhesive
* develop from eggs, which are contained inside a capsule
* display their evolutionary superiority over man.
* do have a bad reputation, but most are actually very beneficial insects
  - pose a problem for asthmatics and allergy sufferers
* eat all kinds of food, and sometimes destroy books, rugs and clothing
  - decaying matter
  - everything, especially food rich in carbohydrate and sugar
  - the trap whendetecting the food odor and stick to the adhesive
* escape from light faster if other roaches are present.
* especially like to build their homes in the subterranean areas of bathrooms.
* feed on a variety of foods, with a preference for starchy and sugary material
  - many things including human food, book bindings and fabric
* flying high and crawling on the walls means rain.
* generally forage randomly at night, using their antennae to sense and smell food
  - prefer warm, humid, dark areas
* get their vitamins from bacteria that live in their bodies.
* have a broad, flattened shape and six long spiny legs
  - acinar salivary glands
  - exoskeletons
  - mandibulate or chewing mouthparts
* have six hairy legs
  - legs, two antennae and some have wings
  - the habit of dropping their feces wherever they go
  - three stages of development - egg, nymph, and adult
  - wings, and many of the larger species of roaches are capable of short flight
* hide - their bodies have adapted to squeezing into tiny crevices and cracks
  - during the day in sheltered places
* includes air sacs
  - brains
  - carapaces
  - cell membranes
  - cells
  - corpi
  - cytoplasm
  - faces
  - flight feathers
  - nuclei
  - plasma membranes
  - quill feathers
  - sections
  - skulls
  - thoraxes
  - vacuoles
* incubate their eggs in sacs or capsules called oothecae.
* infest areas
  - dark, warm, damp locations
* invade apartments
* is an insect
* leave a bad odor on food they crawl on.
* like to be touched.
* live all over the world, from tropical areas to the coldest spots on earth.
* live in all types of buildings and neighborhoods
  - dark, moist and warm places, such as gutters and drains
  - groups called aggregations
  - the soil under the houses, around water and sewage pipes, in cesspools, etc
  - unclean conditions, where garbage is open and there is access to food
* love the dark, and they tend to do most of their foraging at night
  - darkness
  - to infest garbage, decaying matter like food or even rotting flesh
  - water, and are attracted to leaky faucets
* naturally gravitate toward areas which are littered with cockroach droppings.
* never have to share their toys or make their beds.
* nymphs undergo a series of molts until they eventually become adults.
* occur throughout the world but are largely tropical.
* often hide in messy cabinets and in stacks of newspapers, bags, and rags.
* plaster their fecal matter to wood or cardboard.
* play an important ecological role.
* practice sexual reproduction.
* prefer areas
  - dark, tight, warm, and moist places
  - different habitats depending on the species
  - moist, warm, dark places typical of many homes
  - to live where there is food, warmth and moisture
* present an array of health issues.
* produce bad-tasting, odorous secretions from various points in their bodies
* pull their antennae into their mouths with their forelegs to remove debris.
* reproduce on an average of four times per year
  - sexually
* require food every seven to ten days but mut take in water every ten days
  - water, although the brown-banded can live for several weeks with minimal water
* roam freely everywhere.
* secrete substances.
  - warmth, moisture and food
* share locations.
* stop to warm themselves in the sun before crawling off in search of food.
* succumb to boric acid when they crawl over treated areas.
* tend to concentrate in certain areas.
* transmit bacteria and viruses.
* undergo egg and nymphal stages before becoming adults.
* usually are nocturnal.
* walking across an area dusted with boric acid pick up the dust on the sticky cuticle.
+ Cockroach, Other: Insects
  * Most cockroaches are omnivores. They are tough, and hard to kill. A cockroach can live for two weeks without a head.