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by dillon » Fri Jun 28, 2019 1:14 am
Speaking of bugs, certain euphemisms for bugs bother me, especially for cockroaches. And here I'm speaking of the huge mahogany-colored American cockroach, which may be over an inch and a half long, and not the little brown German cockroach that you northerners know. In the southern coastal region some North Carolinians call them "water bugs" and South Carolinians call them "palmetto bugs." They are neither. They are fu--in' COCKROACHES! The best thing about the American roaches is that they move slow, and when you whack one with a flip-flop, the guts tend to remain inside the bug. The little German roaches, however, always make a gooey mess, and are darn-near impossible to hit with anything. BTW, the reason roaches can evade being smushed are the nearly invisible, hair-like cilia that cover their exoskeletons. When an object, like a shoe, is hurtling toward them, the hair-like cilia detect the direction of the air currents generated by the attempted swat, and the bug flees away from the moving air. That's why a dust-buster is the perfect cockroach capture tool. They will run right into one.
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