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Raid on breeding facility turns up 100,000 black-market cockroaches, including palm-sized hissers

The seizure included dubia cockroaches and Madagascar hissing cockroaches, a larger species that uses a loud hiss as a ...
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Giant, winged and unbelievable: Meet the world’s largest cockroach and where it is found

World’s Largest Cockroach: Megaloblatta longipennis, a true marvel of the tropical rainforests of South and Central America, holds the record as the world’s largest winged cockroach. Scientists have ...
The Hill

Cockroach interrupts State Dept briefing: ‘It’s a rather large one’

State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller momentarily interrupted a press briefing Thursday afternoon when he noticed a cockroach crawling on the wall near a reporter’s head. “I hate to interrupt, ...
New York Post

‘Big’ cockroach crashes State Department press briefing, alarms spokesman in awkward scene

He didn’t mean to bug. An unwanted cockroach encroached upon State Department spokesman Mathew Miller’s press briefing Thursday, prompting him to interrupt his remarks and plot a way to terminate the ...
The Conversation

A large cockroach thought extinct since the 1930s was just rediscovered on a small island in Australia

In 1887, Australian Museum scientists undertook a pioneering expedition to Lord Howe Island, a tiny patch of land off the east coast of Australia. Among their many discoveries, they recorded “a large ...
AZFamily

School’s eclectic assortment of class pets, including a large cockroach

INDIANA (3TV/CBS 5) — Plenty of research shows that therapy dogs provide comfort and reduce stress. A classroom in Indiana just got a new four-legged friend to help students, but you might be ...