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...know of families with small children who have been bitten by rats, who live in roach-infested homes, who have been cold long before the fuel crisis. They are in just as much of an emergency," Graham said, before amending the proposal to open up the additional 175 units of public housing for all residents waiting on the public housing rolls...
This sex strategy has been touted as a promising approach in pest control. But the search for the complex roach excitant was a needle-in-the-haystack challenge. For Dutch Entomologist CJ. Persoons, the breakthrough came with new techniques for separating chemicals...
Unfortunately, no amount of synthetic periplanone B is apt to stimulate an entire roach species into extinction. As rueful scientists have found in using pesticides, a few hardy roaches can usually survive a chemical spray because of some lucky genetic abnormality and will then propagate a new generation of spray-resistant offspring. Declares Entomologist Louis Roth, a pioneer in roach research: "The best we can hope for is to reduce their numbers...
Believe it or not, a reduction in roach ranks may be a better solution than extinction. Different roach species figure in the food cycles of lizards and birds. Moreover, loathsome as it may seem, entomologists speculate that roaches may some day be a source of nutrition for humans...
...Despite the name, the German cockroach, Blatella germanica, is probably mostfamiliar to U.S. city dwellers as a kitchen nemesis. The American roach is often found where food is stored...