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Errh, I would hope so.
*ahem* *cough* Kerry *cough*
Shoot, he ought to see what we have in south Georgia- and they fly when excited, too.
If species ever existed without us knowing about them, then did they ever exist?
I think it moved to the jungle after leaving my old apartment.
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Save the endangered Cockroaches!!
Now, I've heard everything.
Good news for roach wranglers!
So biodiversity=wealth??????
These environmental whackos just hate people, regardless of how poor they are---all in the name of environmental religion.
ELF is already engaging in the next crusade.
Uh oh, this sounds like a new liberal ecoradical mantra. We are endangering things we don't even know exist. Now there is an ethic you can get your arms around.
Bring along a pair of your best and pointiest cowboy boots Ping.
"At 10cm (4in) long, the newly-discovered cockroach is believed to be the largest in the world."
Here in Texas we call those "baby" cockroaches
Yes, we must prevent the people who live in Borneo from sharing in modernity.We have to keep them in third world status by cutting them off from their assets and room for growth. We must send the family planners there to sterilize all the women and save pristine Borneo to be a theme park for future generations of environmentalists and Left Elite.
Spray those with starting fluid or wasp-killer with petroleum distillates, and they will die quickly without running around too much. You can smash them, but if you miss they will either take off and fly right at you, or run off somewhere. Then will you have to hunt for them.
Not exactly what I would have had in mind after seeing that roach.....
There are hidden contradictions in the minds of people who "love Nature" while deploring the "artificialities" with which "Man has spoiled 'Nature.'" The obvious contradiction lies in their choice of words, which imply that Man and his artifacts are not part of "Nature" -- but beavers and their dams are. But the contradictions go deeper than this prima-facie absurdity. In declaring his love for a beaver dam (erected by beavers for beavers' purposes) and his hatred for dams erected by men (for the purposes of men) the "naturist" reveals his hatred for his own race -- i.e., his own self hatred.
In the case of "Naturists" such self-hatred is understandable; they are such a sorry lot. But hatred is too strong an emotion to feel toward them; pity and contempt are the most they rate.
As for me, willy-nilly I am a man, not a beaver, and H. sapiens is the only race I have or can have. Fortunately for me, I like being part of a race made up of men and women -- it strikes me as a fine arrangement and perfectly "natural."
Robert Anson Heinlein
Is this actually bigger than the 5" Brazilian whistling cockroaches? A high school kid in town acquired some of those and was raising them a few years ago for some sort of science fair project. A bunch of them escaped and he got some of them back. So far they haven't showed up noticeably in the local fauna but, then, I'm not sure folks hereabouts would notice anything new. I looked at the boy's bugs several times and never heard them whistle.
They've obviously never been to Puerto Vallarta.
I worked with tropical roaches from South America that were about that big.