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When the lights flip on in a room infested with cockroaches, they all jockey for the nearest dark hole. This is because roaches are nocturnal, says Gary F. Alpert, an entomologist who gauges and makes recommendations on University cockroach problems. "If you see them during the day, you know you've got problems," he says...
...German cockroach, blattella germanica, which are colored greenish-gold and grow to be an inch long, is the most common breed in Harvard dining halls, says Alpert. Darker roaches like the periplaneta americana and Oriental blatta orientalis are found outside kitchens in places that includes student rooms, he adds...
Although unpleasing is appearance, the cockroach once inspired a poem from post-modern novelist Christopher Morely...
Alpert sometimes uses "The Cockroach Combat Manual", where Morely's poem was found, for reference, This humorous 180-page paperback cities that cockroach fossils date back 350 million years, But, since no North American have been found, that orgin here is unclear, says Alpert...
...fact, his extensive array of accolades includes the naming of a species of Amazonian cockroach (Schultesia ramundiana) and several tropical plants in his honor...