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Cockroaches are part of the order DICTYOPTERA and of the sub-order BLATTODEA. They are rather flat insects with quite long antennae and also long spiky legs, boy!! can they move. Most of them have wings but can only fly when temperatures are quite high. Generally speaking, cockroaches are omnivorous, in other words they will eat anything, including each other if there is no other food source available.

Cockroaches are regarded as a primitive insects and fossil species from the Carboniferous period, that's about 250 million years ago, are very like those known today. There are about 3,500 different species of cockroach with the vast majority living in the open and almost never coming into contact with man. The majority of cockroaches are tropical with only a few small species native to our wonderful climate, but those tropical ones which have found their way here, in the last 200 hundred years, are pretty much dependant upon our heated buildings, especially hospitals, laundries and kitchens where conditions are hot and steamy.

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