Farmer's Helper: the Flying Cockroach

Loathed by homeowner and restaurateur, the lowly cockroach is gaining some respect in the agricultural community.

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Robotic Bugs Mingle With Cockroaches

Tiny robots programmed to act like roaches were able to blend into cockroach society, according to researchers studying the collective behavior of insects. Cockroaches tend to self-organize into leaderless groups, seeming to reach consensus on where to rest together.

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Show Tests Roaches' Radiation Resistance

Would cockroaches survive a nuclear holocaust that killed everything else? That question is being tested this week at the nearby Hanford nuclear reservation by a team from the "Mythbusters" show on the Discovery Channel, which expects to air the episode in about four months.

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A frightened 3-year-old Roxbury boy left alone with his 2-year-old sister in a roach-infested house of squalor set off into the night to locate his mother, only to be rescued by a good Samaritan as he was about to cross busy Shawmut Avenue, police and neighbors said.

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A bug bomb blast is to blame for a house explosion in Lebanon that sent at least two people to the hospital Thursday morning. The explosion happened at a home in the 1100 block of Lehman Street (see interactive map below).

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t's hard to figure whether an Amtrak traveler should be repulsed or relieved to learn that the railroad company recently issued an internal bulletin detailing the "Cockroach Cleanout Service" for its rolling stock.

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Reports of a domestic disturbance brought police to an apartment at 638 North Spaulding Saturday. Once inside, they found a home with no food, heat or running water. The house also was filled with roaches and rats.

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Experts said lizard owners are now feeding their pets roaches -- which are less smelly and expensive than the normal reptile fare, crickets -- and some of those insects may escape and thrive in Florida's humid climate.

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Two men were arrested after 10 children were found living in a home with feces and urine on the floor and cockroaches crawling over mattresses...

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Officers checking the home of Debra Chappell and James Seevers in Leesburg found the couple and a 2-year-old living in the home described as not being fit for animals. The police report about the house reads like a horror novel...

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Update: Please Fix My Door & Get Rid Of The Roaches

***PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY ... and to all those activists out there calling Campus Square Apartments in Denton, TX thank you!

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Neighbors in Lake Worth are disgusted by a house that is overrun by roaches and rats. They were there by the hundreds, everywhere, crawling over the entire outside of the house, as well as the inside.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Manhattan restaurant that unveiled a record-breaking $25,000 dessert last week has been forced to shut its doors temporarily due to an infestation of mice and cockroaches.

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Cockroaches and learning

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Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not

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Cockroaches, soot bite the dust

THIS morning I discovered the source of mysterious dirt in my former abodes. Meanwhile, something else filthy worldwide had miraculously disappeared here.

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"If an insect is going to crawl into your ear while you're sleeping, it will most likely be a cockroach, according to the South African Medical Journal.

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